North East Delhi Winners Full Listing: Kapil Mishra Amongst BJP’s 3 Winners, AAP Baggage 2 Seats – News18
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The BJP received Karawal Nagar, Mustafabad and Ghonda meeting constituencies whereas the AAP was victorious in Seelampur and Gokalpur
Former AAP MLA Kapil Mishra joined the BJP in 2019. (Picture: PTI/File)
The BJP received three out 5 of the meeting constituencies in riot-hit North East Delhi, with former AAP MLA Kapil Mishra registering a robust win in Karawal Nagar. The AAP received the remaining two seats – Seelampur and Gokalpur – within the district because the outcomes of the Delhi meeting elections have been declared on Saturday.
Mishra joined the BJP in 2019, and his controversial speech in February 2020 was blamed for being one of many triggers to the communal violence following clashes between supporters and opponents of the Citizenship (Modification) Act, or the CAA.
The BJP received the Karawal Nagar, Mustafabad and Ghonda meeting constituencies, whereas the AAP was victorious in Seelampur and Gokalpur. Karawal Nagar has been a BJP stronghold since 1993, apart from the 2015 election that Mishra received because the AAP candidate. This time, Mishra obtained a couple of lakh votes defeating the AAP’s Manoj Kumar Tyagi by a margin of 23,355 votes.
Bisht, who contested from Mustafabad this time, received the seat with a complete of 85,215 votes. He’s a five-time MLA from Karawal Nagar, having received from the seat first in 1998. He had additionally received the seat within the 2020 polls.
Seelampur was retained by the AAP for the third time in a row. Incumbent MLA Abdul Rehman, who was contesting on the Congress ticket this time, misplaced to Chaudhary Zubair Ahmad.
Zubair Ahmad is the son of Chaudhary Mateen Ahmad, who represented Seelampur from 1993 to 2015 — first as a Janata Dal candidate, then as an Unbiased and later as a Congress chief. His son received a complete of 79,009 votes, defeating the BJP’s Anil Kumar Sharma by a margin of 42,477 votes. Rehman got here in third with a complete of 16,551 votes.
Right here’s an inventory of the winners from North East Delhi district:
| CONSTITUENCY | CANDIDATE | PARTY | NO. OF VOTES |
| KARAWAL NAGAR | Kapil Mishra | BJP | 1,07,367 |
| MUSTAFABAD | Mohan Singh Bisht | BJP | 85,215 |
| GHONDA | Ajay Mahawar | BJP | 79,987 |
| SEELAMPUR | Chaudhary Zubair Ahmed | AAP | 79,009 |
| GOKALPUR | Surendra Kumar | AAP | 80,504 |
