Kejriwal loses New Delhi seat

way2barak February 8: In a big blow to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), party convenor and former Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal lost the New Delhi seat to Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) Parvesh Sahib Singh. Senior AAP leader and former deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia conceded defeat from the Jangpura seat, losing to BJP’s Tarvinder Singh Marvah by over 600 votes. With trends for all 70 assembly seats declared, the BJP is set to stage a solid comeback in the national capital with lead in 47 while the AAP is ahead in 23 others.

Following his win against AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal, Parvesh Verma, while congratulating the people of Delhi, said: “The darkness went away, the sun rose, the lotus bloomed. Delhi has chosen development. This victory is of Delhi’s faith, This victory is for the future of Delhi. Congratulations to all the people of Delhi for this new dawn of Delhi!”

In another big setback for AAP, MLA Saurabh Bharadwaj, contesting against BJP’s Shikha Roy, lost by a margin of over 3,000 votes.

In Deoli, Prem Chauhan of AAP is leading Lok Jan Sakti Party’s Deepak Tanvar by 32,119 votes after 18 rounds of counting. In Chattarpur, Kartar Singh Tanvar from BJP is leading by 4,275 votes after Round 21 against Brahm Singh Tanwar from AAP. Satish Upadhyay from BJP is leading in Malviya Nagar by 1,971 after 14 rounds against Somnath Bharti.