The Aam Aadmi Social gathering’s decade-long stint in energy in Delhi ended on Saturday, with the get together profitable 22 seats within the capital’s 70-seat meeting – 14 in need of a majority.
The Congress failed win seats for the third time in a row. But it surely undercut the Arvind Kejriwal-led get together in precisely 14 seats, costing the state ruling get together dearly.
The Bharatiya Janata Social gathering gained all of the 14 seats, with a victory margin in every of the constituencies was decrease than the votes polled by the Congress in these segments.
This comes simply 9 months after AAP and the Congress took on the BJP within the Lok Sabha elections in Delhi as a part of the Opposition’s INDIA alliance.
The BJP gained 48 seats within the Delhi meeting and can kind the federal government within the union territory after 27 years.
The 14 seats the place the Congress obtained essential votes consists of three high-profile seats that AAP leaders misplaced to the BJP – former chief minister Arvind Kejriwal from the New Delhi seat, former deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia from Jangpura and minister of well being Saurabh Bhardwaj from Larger Kailash.
Kejriwal misplaced in his constituency by 4,089 votes to BJP chief Parvesh Verma, whereas the Congress’s Sandeep Dikshit obtained 4,568 votes. Sisodia misplaced his seat by 675 votes to Tarvinder Singh Marwah, with Farhad Suri of the Congress profitable 7,350 votes.
Different constituencies the place this sample performed out have been Malviya Nagar, Nangloi Jat, Mehrauli, Kasturba Nagar, Timarpur, Trilokpuri, Badli, Madipur, Chhatarpur, Sangam Vihar and Rajinder Nagar.
In Kasturba Nagar, the Congress candidate, Abhishek Dutt, secured 8,402 extra votes than AAP’s Ramesh Pahelwan. The BJP gained the seat.
| Constituency | AAP shedding candidate | Margin of Loss | Congress votes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 New Delhi | Arvind Kejriwal | 4,089 | 4,568 |
| 2 Jangpura | Manish Sisodia | 675 | 7,350 |
| 3 Larger Kailash | Saurabh Bharadwaj | 3,188 | 6,711 |
| 4 Malviya Natar | Somnath Bharti | 2,131 | 6,770 |
| 5 Trilokpuri Nangloi Jat | Anjana Parcha | 392 | 6,147 |
| 6 Nangloi Jat | Raghuvinder Shokeen | 26,251 | 32,028 |
| 7 Badli | Ajesh Yadav | 15,163 | 41,071 |
| 8 Madipur | Rakhi Birla | 10,899 | 17, 958 |
| 9 Kasturba Nagar | Ramesh Pahelwan | 19,450 | 27,019 |
| 10 Chhatarpur | Brahm Singh Tanwar | 6,239 | 6,601 |
| 11 Sangam Vihar | Dinesh Mohaniya | 344 | 15,863 |
| 12 Rajinder Nagar | Durgesh Pathak | 1,231 | 4,015 |
| 13 Mehrauli | Mahendra Choudhary | 1,782 | 9,338 |
| 14 Timarpur | Surinder Pal Singh | 1,168 | 8,361 |
Congress politicians have been fast to level out the harm they inflicted on AAP. Because the outcomes unfolded, Amitabh Dubey, who’s accountable for the the get together’s analysis and monitoring, tweeted, “These pointing the finger at Congress ought to bear in mind who arrogantly determined to interrupt the INDIA alliance and struggle alone first.”
Final week, Scrollhad reported {that a} part of AAP voters in Delhi have been drifting to the Congress get together. This was seen amongst Hindu voters, however extra acute amongst Muslims, who stated that the AAP management had not spoken up towards anti-Muslim hate crimes.
Issues started to bitter between the alliance companions within the run as much as the Haryana meeting elections in October 2024. The 2 events couldn’t attain a seat-sharing settlement and contested towards one another, with the AAP profitable extra votes than the Congress’s shedding margin in not less than 5 seats within the state.
Two months later, Kejriwal dismissed an alliance with the get together within the Delhi polls. “There is no such thing as a risk of any alliance with Congress,” he had tweeted.
