BJP wins Delhi Assembly elections after 27 years; Kejriwal, Sisodia, Jain all lose their seats

New Delhi: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has secured a decisive victory in the Delhi Assembly polls after nearly three decades, crossing the majority mark and defeating the incumbent Aam Aadmi Party (AAP).

Results declared so far for 68 out of 70 Assembly seats show that BJP has won 47 seats and is leading in 1 seats, while Aam Aadmi Party has bagged 21 seats and is leading in 1. The third contender and the biggest opposition party in the country, Congress, has been wiped out.

On the BJP side, the prominent winners include Parvesh Sahib Singh from the New Delhi Assembly seat, Vijender Gupta from Rohini, Kapil Mishra from Karawal Nagar, Tarvinder Singh Marwah from Jungpura, Manjinder Singh Sirsa from Rajouri Garden, Arvinder Singh Lovely from Gandhi Nagar, Shikha Roy from Greater Kailash, and Harish Khurana from Moti Nagar. Other BJP winners are Kailash Gahlot from Bijwasan, Karnail Singh from Shakur Basti, Neeraj Basoya from Kasturba Nagar, and Umang Bajaj from Rajinder Nagar.

Meanwhile, AAP National Convenor Arvind Kejriwal, senior leader Manish Sisodia, Satyendar Jain, and Saurabh Bhardwaj all lost from their respective seats. Two prominent AAP candidates who won from their constituencies are incumbent Delhi Chief Minister Atishi Marlena, who won from Kalkaji, defeating BJP’s Ramesh Bidhuri, and Gopal Rai, who won from the Babarpur Assembly seat, defeating BJP’s Anil Kumar Vashisht.

In by-elections, BJP’s Chandrabhanu Paswan has won from the Milkipur Assembly constituency in Uttar Pradesh, defeating Samajwadi Party’s Ajit Prasad by a margin of over 61,700 votes. Counting of votes for the by-election in the Erode (East) Assembly constituency in Tamil Nadu is in progress. Chandirakumar V. C. of Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam is leading in the seat. DeshGujarat