The Aam Aadmi Party has been in power in the national capital for a long time. The AAP has 62 MLAs in the 70-member assembly. Despite this, the BJP has won all the seven Lok Sabha seats by a huge margin for the third time. The alliance candidates were defeated in the constituencies of 44 AAP MLAs. Of the four AAP candidates, three are sitting MLAs, but two of these three lost to BJP candidates in their own assembly constituencies. The BJP-led National Democratic Alliance won only 18 of the 70 seats in Delhi.
Kuldeep Kumar is an MLA from Kondli. He received 57,985 votes. BJP candidate Harsh Malhotra got 59551 votes. BJP candidate Bansuri Swaraj got 43623 votes, while Malviya Nagar MLA Somnath Bharti got 39700 votes. Only Tughlakabad MLA and Lok Sabha candidate Sahi Ram Pehalwan was ahead of BJP candidate Ramvir Singh Bidhuri by about 5000 votes.
Similarly, AAP candidate from West Delhi Mahabal Mishra lost to BJP candidate Kamaljeet Sehrawat by over 15000 votes in Dwarka, the assembly seat of his son and AAP MLA Vinay Mishra. Kuldeep back in Sisodia's seat Kuldeep Kumar is the AAP candidate from the East Delhi constituency. Of the 10 Lok Sabha seats in the state, seven are held by the AAP and three by the BJP.
Many of your big leaders are MLAs from here. But Kuldeep lagged behind in those seats. Former Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia is the MLA from Patparganj, but here Kuldeep was behind the BJP candidate by 29199 votes. In Shahdara, the seat of Delhi Assembly Speaker Ram Niwas Goel, Kuldeep was trailing behind the BJP by 19610 votes. Only Okhla and Jangpura seats were won by BJP candidates. He was ahead of the BJP candidate by 73,818 votes in Okhla. In Jangpura, he was ahead by 2491 votes.
Mahabal lost his son's seat. AAP's Mahabal Mishra is contesting from the West Delhi seat. We have 10 MLAs here. Mahabal Mishra's son Vinay Mishra is the MLA from Dwarka. Despite this, Mahabal is behind the BJP candidate by 15000 votes. The BJP is leading in two out of the 10 seats.
The Congress was ahead in only four seats. In North East Delhi, Congress candidate Kanhaiya Kumar is leading over BJP's Manoj Tiwari. Out of the 10 assembly constituencies in the constituency, 7 are represented by AAP MLAs. The BJP has three. In the Muslim-dominated areas of Babarpur, Mustafabad and Seelampur, Kanhaiya Kumar got a huge lead. BJP's Manoj Tiwari is leading in Burari, Timarpur, Rohtash Nagar, Karawal Nagar, Gheda and Gokalpuri.
South Delhi BJP's Ramvir Singh and AAP's Saheeram Pehalwan are contesting from Badarpur and Tughlakabad respectively. The party has nine MLAs in the 10-member assembly. Significantly, Sahi Ram has got an edge over the BJP candidate in three assembly seats here. Other seats were lost.
Somnath backward in his own area BJP's Bansuri Swaraj and AAP's Malviya Nagar MLA Somnath Bharti are contesting from the New Delhi seat. There are 10 Lok Sabha seats in the state. Saurabh Bhardwaj is a minister in the Delhi government. However, Somnath Bharti was ahead of the BJP in only three assembly constituencies. Bharti himself lost from his Malviya Nagar seat. Arvind Kejriwal is the chief minister of Delhi. In his seat, Bansuri is trailing behind Bharti by about 3000 votes.
The bad state of Chandni Chowk. There are 10 Lok Sabha seats in the state. However, the AAP-Congress alliance candidate JP Agarwal was trailing behind the BJP's Praveen Khandelwal in only three assembly segments. Agarwal is leading by 15378 votes from Chandni Chowk, 47613 votes from Matia Mahal and 28894 votes from Ballimaran.
Same is the case with North West Delhi. The party has nine MLAs in the Assembly. He is a BJP MLA from Rohini constituency. BJP candidate Yogendra Chandolia is trailing behind Congress candidate Udit Raj by about 9000 votes from Sultanpur Majra, the only assembly segment out of 10 assembly segments. Yogendra is leading on other seats. In this seat, the BJP got more than one lakh votes in Rithala, Bawana and Kirari.