In all this political high-drama, the voters were not perturbed with very few turning up to cast their votes till mid-day. The Election Commission gave a verdict of ``peaceful polling'', except for one incident in which BJP leaders objected to Congress MLA Naseeb Singh's presence as a polling agent for an independent candidate at the Central School polling station in the IIT campus.

The Nangloi election is crucial for both Sahib Singh and Sajjan Kumar who have been sidelined in their own parties. While the former chief minister accused the Delhi Police of conniving with the Congress MLAs to rig the polls and discourage genuine voters from voting, Sajjan Kumar claimed that Verma slapped a sub-inspector for stopping bogus voters.

Sajjan Kumar did not give the name of the SI, whereas Sahib Singh named three police officials Inspector A.S. Yadav who was on duty in St Mark's School in Pashim Vihar, SI Dinesh Kumar and ASI Jai Bhagwan in Rajdhani Park, for harassing voters and stopping them from casting their vote.

He even claimed that Congress MLAs were themselves involved in casting bogus votes: ``After casting a bogus vote, Congress MLA Mukesh Sharma flaunted the ink mark to me. They were openly rigging the polls with help of certain police officials.''

The BJP Delhi chief Mange Ram Garg feebly put in: ``We are going to win both the seats.'' The DPCC president and Chief Minister, Sheila Dikshit, who had a quiet day at her Old Secretariat office, refused to make any comments.