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#DelhiAssemblyPolls2025 : Delhi Backs Modi Guarantee, BJP Returns To Power After 27 Years, AAP Swept Out
Bharatiya Janata Party returned to power in Delhi after 27 years to sweep away the Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party with a two-thirds majority on the back of a hyper localised campaign
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The Bharatiya Janata Party returned to power in Delhi after 27 years to sweep away the Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party with a two-thirds majority on the back of a hyper localised campaign and Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘AAP-da'(disaster) blitzkrieg.
Adding to the ignominy of the AAP that was battling 10 years of anti-incumbency was the shocking defeat of former chief minister Arvind Kejriwal himself and other top leaders including his close aide and former deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia, Somnath Bharti and Saurabh Bhardwaj.
Chief Minister Atishi, an academic and unlikely politician, weathered the storm to retain Kalkaji seat.
The BJP won 48 of the 70 seats at stake and the AAP was way behind with 22, according to the Election Commission website.
The elections were largely seen as a bipolar contest between the AAP, which made a determined bid for a fourth term, and the BJP. While the AAP had 62 members in the outgoing house, the saffron party had just eight legislators.
The Congress, which had ruled for 15 consecutive years under Sheila Dikshit from 1998, came a cropper in the assembly elections failing to get even a single seat for the third straight time.
Its candidates suffered crushing defeats with a majority of them even losing their deposits.
The only consolation, however, was a slight improvement in the party’s vote share, with leaders proclaiming that they would win back the trust of the people and exuded confidence of forming its government in 2030.
An early one segment lead in Badli was soon lost and the party, now a pale shadow of its glorious past under late chief minister Sheila Dikshit, failed to open its account once again.
Her son Sandeep Dikshit finished third in New Delhi segment where Bharatiya Janata Party’s Parvesh Sahib Verma defeated Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal by over 3000 votes.
While Verma polled 25057 votes and Kejriwal 22,057, Dikshit gathered just 3,873, in a shock culmination of the Sheila Dikshit legacy. Sheila Dikshit was the chief minister of Delhi for three terms.
A majority of Congress candidates lost their deposits and only three of them managed to save them.
