Revenge Greatest Served Chilly: Sandeep Dikshit Loses New Delhi Seat Whereas Making Positive AAP Would not Win Both – News18
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Sandeep Dikshit, son of former Delhi chief minister and Congress stalwart Sheila Dikshit, completed third within the race however acquired his revenge by consuming in to Kejriwal’s votes which subsequently resulted in BJP’s Parvesh Verma win.
Congress chief Sandeep Dikshit and AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal (File)
The Bharatiya Janata Get together (BJP) clinched the bastion of Delhi after 27 years, defeating Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Get together (AAP). BJP’s Parvesh Singh Verma proved to be big slayer who defeated the AAP supremo from the New Delhi meeting constituency. Nevertheless, this time, Congress’ Sandeep Dikshit did a Faisal (in reference to Bollywood Gangs of Wasseypur) factor and took ‘maa ka badla’ from Kejriwal.
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Sandeep Dikshit, son of former Delhi chief minister and Congress stalwart Sheila Dikshit, completed third within the race however acquired his revenge by consuming in to Kejriwal’s votes which subsequently resulted in BJP’s Parvesh Verma win within the tight contest.
Verma defeated Kejriwal by a margin of 4,089 vote. In the meantime, Dikshit managed to get somewhat over 4,568 votes and completed a distant third. So, if the AAP and the Congress had contested this election collectively, Kejriwal would have doubtless scored a slim victory. However that was to not be.
The consequence in the end introduced it to a full circle because the AAP supremo, who had gained widespread recognition by defeating Sheila Dikshit from the celebrated New Delhi meeting constituency, misplaced his seat after over a decade.
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Within the 2013 Delhi polls, Kejriwal, who was using excessive on recognition after the India In opposition to Corruption motion, jumped into the ballot enviornment and contested towards Dikshit. The AAP chief trumped the three-term Chief Minister by over 21,000 votes, successfully ending her political profession, and emerged as a large slayer. The AAP’s 2013 victory additionally eliminated the Congress from energy.
Kejriwal retained the seat in 2015, defeating the BJP candidate with a margin of over 31,000 votes, although his victory margin to 21,000 votes within the 2020 polls.
12 years later, AAP’s nationwide convener has been defeated by Parvesh Verma, son of former CM Sahib Singh Verma. For Sandeep, this election was private, lastly a possibility to reclaim household’s misplaced legacy.
BJP delivered a powerful defeat to the AAP within the Delhi Meeting elections on Saturday. It’s poised to kind a authorities in Delhi for the primary time since 1998, with the newest Election Fee tendencies displaying the saffron social gathering forward in 48 of the 70 meeting seats and AAP in 22.
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The most important blows to the AAP got here as social gathering supremo Arvind Kejriwal and former Deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia misplaced from their seats – New Delhi and Jangpura – respectively, to BJP’s Parvesh Singh Sahib and Tarvinder Singh Marwah.
Congress, which had dominated the nationwide capital for 15 years beneath Sheila Dikshit, was nowhere near the competition.
