Hauz Khas saw a 32.9 per cent voter turnout, which is a drastic fall from the 45 per cent turnout in the last Assembly elections. Nangloi Jat saw a 40.1 per cent turnout, which is lower than the average polling of 50 per cent in the area. Delhi's Chief Electoral Officer O.P. Kelkar said that elections in both constituencies were ``peaceful''.

While throughout the day both the Bharatiya Janata Party and Congress accused each other of bogus voting, the Election Commission did not receive any complaint till late in the evening. Four polling stations in Nangloi were identified as hyper-sensitive and eight as sensitive. There are, in all, 158 polling stations in the constituency which has an electorate of 1,45,257. No polling stations were identified as sensitive in the posh Hauz Khas constituency which has 106 polling booths for an electorate of 1,09,546. The lowest polling of about 12 per cent was recorded in Gulmohar Enclave's polling booth number 35, where out of 1,088 votes only 169 were polled.

Gautam Nagar in Hauz Khas remained tense, beginning with an early skirmish between the two parties claiming that bogus voters were being brought in from outside. But normalcy was restored when veteran BJP leader Mewa Ram Arya along with Pawan Sharma and Congress leaders Ram Vir Bidhuri and Parvez Has-hmi reigned in their respective groups.

At 12.30 p.m., polling booth number 81 A polled 145 of the 829 votes. At 4.50 p.m., the same booth polled only 285 votes of the total 829 votes. Congress candidate from Hauz Khas Kiran Walia said: ``Most of them were daily wagers who did not get time to vote''.

At Central School in the IIT campus, Congress MLA Naseeb Singh succeeded in kindling a flare-up between workers of the two camps by insisting that he was sitting in polling booth number 50 as polling agent for an independent candidate. When asked how a Congress MLA could do this for an independent, he clarified that he was actually the polling agent for Congress candidate Kiran Walia. Former Chief Minster Sushma Swaraj said that a complaint would be lodged with the presiding officer about the confusion. Polling was disrupted for about half-an-hour. In another incident at DAV School in Yusaf Sarai, a woman BJP worker was allegedly manhandled by an unruly mob when she was going to vote. Former Food and Supplies Minister Purnima Sethi said: ``The BJP voters were being prevented from voting''.

In Nangloi, former chief minister and BJP strongman from outer Delhi, Sahib Singh Verma, alleged that his party workers were attacked by Congress workers. The electoral office, however, said no official complaint had been received by it regarding these incidents. Twenty three people were rounded-up as a precautionary measure.

A photographer with ANI was involved in a skirmish with the police after he tried photographing a rigging operation in the area. Around 100 people from both parties voted repeatedly after removing the indelible ink with the help of a whitener freely available at the stationary shops. Mundka, predictably, had the highest voter-turnout of about 45 per cent. Urban areas like Paschim Vihar had the lowest turnout with as less than 25 per cent voters turning up.

Incidentally, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, who did not go to Lahore ostensibly because she could not leave her party headless during the two by-elections, could not visit either of the constituencies today.