NEW DELHI: Driving on the wave of latest successes in Maharashtra and Haryana meeting elections just some months in the past, the Bharatiya Janata Occasion (BJP) registered an enormous win within the Delhi meeting elections. Arvind Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Occasion suffered an embarrassing loss as most of its heavyweights misplaced the competition.
Here is a take a look at high 10 winners and losers of Delhi meeting elections
DELHI ELECTION RESULTS: WINNERS
1. PM Modi and BJP
The BJP, below the management of Prime Minister Narendra Modi swept the Delhi meeting elections with a cushty majority.
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This victory marks the third main electoral success for the BJP within the final 4 months after profitable the states of Haryana and Maharashtra. With this, the 27 years exile of the BJP in Delhi additionally involves an finish. This main win additionally signifies approval by the center class to Modi authorities’s massive tax reduction within the Union price range 2025 final week have gotten the approval of middle-class customers.
With this, PM Modi but once more proves to be the star campaigner for the BJP.
2. Parvesh Verma
In a high-stakes battle for New Delhi meeting seat, BJP chief Parvesh Verma emerged as a large slayer by defeating former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal by 4,089 seats.
Son of former CM Sahib Singh Verma, Parvesh was was entrusted to tackle Kejriwal who has held in to the seat final thrice. In 2013, Kejriwal had emerged as large slayer by defeating then CM and Congress veteran Sheila Dixit.
After dethroning the three-time CM, Verma can be in now a robust contender for the highest publish.
3. Tarvinder Singh Marwah
BJP chief Tarvinder Singh Marwah emerged as one other large slayer as he defeated former deputy CM and AAP senior chief Manish Sisodia. Marwah defeated three-time MLA Sisodia to win Jangpura seat by 675 votes. Sisodia had switched seats from Patparganj to Jangpura this time hoping for a cushty win.
Marwah, who was in Congress for a very long time and elected three-time MLA from Jangpura, had switched to BJP in 2022 after complaining of not getting time with Sonia and Rahul Gandhi for a gathering.
4. Atishi
Because the heavyweights of Aam Aadmi Occasion fell one after the other, Atishi stood tall and gained the Kalkaji meeting seat. In a high-stakes contest, Atishi gained by 3,521 votes defeating BJP’s Ramesh Bidhuri and Congress’s Alka Lamba.
“I thank the folks of Kalkaji for exhibiting belief in me. I congratulate my crew who labored in opposition to ‘baahubal’,” Atishi mentioned.
“We settle for the folks’s mandate. I’ve gained nevertheless it’s not a time to have fun however proceed the ‘conflict’ in opposition to the BJP,” the 43-year-old mentioned.
Her victory is a standout for the AAP as its high leaders Arvind Kejriwal and former Delhi deputy CM Manish Sisodia misplaced their constituencies.
With the defeat served to Arvind Kejriwal and Manish Sisodia, Atishi might now additionally take cost because the chief of opposition in Delhi meeting.
5. Sandeep Dikshit
The Congress chief might have misplaced the competition at this time however he certainly has emerged because the ‘Baazigar’ of this ballot season. Son of veteran Congress chief and three-time CM Sheila Dikshit, Sandeep obtained his final revenge in opposition to Arvind Kejriwal at this time.
Although he didn’t win the New Delhi seat, he managed to eat in to Kejriwal’s votes that finally led to the AAP chief’s defeat.
It was a matter of status for Sandeep, who was lastly given a ticket from New Delhi, his mom’s bastion, which had been the stronghold of Kejriwal since 2013.
DELHI ELECTION RESULTS: LOSERS
6. Kejriwal
It is no shock there. The one on the high of this checklist is AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal. The politician, who rose to energy as a anti-graft crusader discovered himself embroiled in corruption instances.
After strolling out of jail on bail, Kejriwal resigned from the highest publish searching for validation from the general public of Delhi. The union territory, nonetheless, refused to present the stamp of ‘Mr Clear’ to Kejriwal.
The AAP suffered a serious blow this election and now must take a look at methods to reinvent itself.
7. Manish Sisodia
The previous deputy chief minister of Delhi and second-in-command of AAP, Sisodia, additionally confronted defeat in opposition to BJP candidate Tarvinder Singh Marwah within the Jangpura constituency.
Having beforehand served as a three-term MLA from Patparganj in east Delhi, he selected to contest from Jangpura on this election.
Following his arrest in 2023 over alleged corruption within the liquor coverage case, Sisodia was imprisoned for about 18 months till he secured bail. Just like Kejriwal’s stance, he declined to simply accept a governmental place previous to receiving the “folks’s verdict”.
Delhi, nonetheless, determined to present him one other probability this time.
8. Aam Aadmi Occasion
After governing Delhi for a decade, AAP confronted vital anti-incumbency and misplaced the election to BJP. That is the primary time since its inception that AAP won’t maintain energy in Delhi.
With the Delhi loss, AAP is now in energy solely in Punjab. With this, the nationwide enlargement plan of the get together has hit a roadblock.
The get together will now should regroup and reorganise itself because it now sits in opposition in Delhi.
9. Congress
The Congress get together has recorded its third consecutive clean within the Delhi meeting elections, marking a stark distinction to its earlier dominance when it ruled the capital for 15 consecutive years from 1998 to 2013.
Delhi’s citizens has persistently rejected the get together in three successive meeting elections.
After snapping alliance with AAP for Delhi elections, Congress mounted an assertive marketing campaign with former get together president Rahul Gandhi spearheading the criticism in opposition to Arvind Kejriwal.
Regardless of these efforts, the get together did not safe any constituencies in Delhi. Their sole minor consolation lies in attaining a modest enchancment in vote share, rising by roughly 2% from its earlier determine of lower than 5% within the 2020 meeting elections.
10. INDIA bloc
Omar Abdullah’s X publish captured the temper of INDIA bloc at this time — ‘Aur lado aapas mein’. The jibe got here as AAP and Congress fought in opposition to one another which finally benefitted BJP.
With the bitter and ugly struggle and AAP’s eventual loss in Delhi, the main target now turns to if it is an finish to INDIA bloc.
The AAP defeat additionally comes as an embarassment to Trinamool Congress and Samajwadi Occasion who actively campaigned for AAP in Delhi.
Notable point out: Rahul Gandhi
Whereas Congress might haven’t been in a position to open its account in Delhi as soon as once more, Rahul Gandhi can’t be put within the checklist of losers. Rahul, who personally took cost to dent Kejriwal’s picture through the election marketing campaign, was profitable in his mission.
The defeat additionally limits AAP throughout the INDIA bloc who had the potential to problem Congress’ place as a nationwide get together. The Delhi blow additionally provides Congress a little bit immunity throughout the bloc the place allies SP, TMC, Sena (UBT) selected Kejriwal’s get together over Congress.
