New Delhi: Almost all Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) heavy weights including its National Convenor Arvind Kejriwal, former Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia and minister Saurabh Bharadwaj faced crushing defeats in the crucial Delhi assembly elections for which votes were counted on Saturday.
BJP’s Parvesh Verma turned out to be the giant slayer by defeating former Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal by a margin of over 4,000 votes from the New Delhi assembly constituency.
Sisodia lost to Tarvinder Singh Marwah of the BJP by a margin of over 600 votes Bharadwaj was humbled by BJP’s Shikha Roy with a 3188-vote margin.
The silver lining for AAP was the victories of Delhi Chief Minister Atishi and minister Gopal Rai.
After a snake and ladder game In Kalkaji, Atishi defeated her nearest rival BJP’s Ramesh Bidhuri with a margin of 3521 and Gopal Rai won the Babarpur seat by over 18994 votes.
Prominent BJP candidates who won their seats are Kapil Mishra from Karawal Nagar, Manjinder Singh Sirsa won from Rajouri Garden, Rekha Gupta from Shalimar Bagh and Mohan Singh Bisht from Mustafabad, the constituency which recorded the highest voter share.
Kailash Gahlot, who switched party and joined BJP ahead of the election won the Bijwasan seat, while his party colleague Satish Upadhyay won from Malviya Nagar by upsettng another prominent AAP leader and former Delhi minisrwe Somnath Bharti by nearly 2000 votes.
Other prominent BJP winners were Raj Kumar Chauhan from Mangol Puri, Vijender Gupta from Rohini, Karnail Singh from Shakur Basti, Ravinder Singh Negi from Patparganj and former Cogngress man Arvinder Singh Lovely from Gandhi Nagar.
At per the ECI data, BJP has already won 40 seats while, it was leading in eight seats. The AAP meanwhile has won in 17 seats while leading in five seats. The Congress meanwhile, faced the same fate of zero account in the elections.
BJP garnered a vote share of 45.89 percent, AAP obtained 43.55 percent votes and the Congress could get 6.35 percent of the votes. UNI
