India, Feb. 6 -- Several prominent political leaders and bureaucrats in Delhi came out in the early morning hours to vote and motivate others to vote in the assembly elections.

First citizen of the country, President Droupadi Murmu, cast her vote at the polling station in Dr Rajendra Prasad Kendriya Vidyalaya inside the Rashtrapati Bhavan complex. Vice president Jagdeep Dhankhar was among the first few voters, and he said that the voting process was the "oxygen of democracy" and that India's use of technology in the polling process is "appreciated throughout the world". Chief of the Army Staff General Upendra Dwivedi and Chief of the Naval Staff Admiral Dinesh Kumar Tripathi also voted in the city.

Lieutenant governor VK Saxena and his ...