Delhi election results 2025: How are star candidates faring?
The Hindu
Early trends suggest BJP is likely to form government in Delhi, as top leaders of Aam Aadmi Party fail to win their constituencies. Congress yet again gave a dismal performance in the State Assembly election.
Arvind Kejriwal, former Delhi Chief Minister and leader of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), is trailing behind Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate Parvesh Sahib Singh in the New Delhi constituency. Congress candidate Sandeep Dikshit was third in the constituency and has conceded defeat.
Delhi Assembly election 2025 results: LIVE updates here
The 2025 Delhi Assembly election results are slowly trickling in, as the BJP crossed the majority mark, maintaining a comfortable lead over AAP.
The Hindu takes a look at some key contestants of the 2025 Delhi Assembly election.
Chief Minister Atishi is leading in the Kalkaji constituency by a narrow margin over BJP candidate Ramesh Bidhuri, and Congress leader Alka Lamba is a distant third. Mr. Bidhuri is a former MP, who made headlines in 2023 after he used crude and communal slurs against Bahujan Samaj Party member Kunwar Danish Ali on the floor of the Lok Sabha. He did not contest the 2024 Lok Sabha election.
AAP candidate Manish Sisodia conceded his defeat from the Jangpura constituency to BJP candidate Tarvinder Singh Marwah in the Delhi elections. Mr. Sisodia was the Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi until February 2023. He spent 17 months in prison without trial for money laundering charges linked to the Excise Policy. He was granted bail by the Supreme Court in August 2024.
Kapil Mishra, yet another firebrand BJP leader who was formerly with the AAP, is leading in the Karawal Nagar constituency by a significant margin. Mr. Mishra won the 2015 Delhi Legislative Assembly election from the same constituency for AAP and was subsequently inducted into the Cabinet as the Water Resources Minister but sacked in 2017 for “anti-party activities”. He joined the BJP in 2019 and was appointed vice-president of its Delhi unit four years later. He gained notoriety after allegedly making hate speeches in the run-up to the north-east Delhi riots in February 2020, which claimed over 50 lives.
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