BJP bags five seats, AAP six in Delhi; Parvesh Verma claims victory over Kejriwal
The saffron party is poised to form a government in Delhi after 26 years, with the latest Election Commission trends showing the BJP ahead in a further 43 of Delhi's 70 seats and AAP in 16.
PTI

NEW DELHI, 8 FEB
The BJP won five
seats and AAP six in the Delhi Assembly election, according to the latest EC
data.
The saffron party is
poised to form a government in Delhi after 26 years, with the latest Election
Commission (EC) trends showing the BJP ahead in a further 43 of Delhi's 70
seats and AAP in 16.
Former deputy chief
minister Manish Sisodia has conceded defeat to the BJP's Tarvinder Singh Marwah
in Jangpura while the saffron party's Parvesh Verma claimed to have defeated
AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal in the high-profile New Delhi seat.
Verma -- the son of
former chief minister Sahib Singh Verma -- told reporters that the credit for
his "victory" belonged to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the people
of Delhi.
However, the EC is
yet to declare the winner from the New Delhi seat.
The Congress is set
to draw a blank for the third consecutive assembly polls.
AAP's Virender Singh
Kadian won the Delhi Cantt seat by 2,029 votes while Kuldeep Kumar defeated his
closest rival by a margin of 6,293 in Kondli.
The Kejriwal-led
party's Sahi Ram won from Tughlakabad by 14,711 votes, Mukesh Ahlawat from
Sultanpur Majra by 17,126 votes, Jarnail Singh from Tilak Nagar by 11,656
votes, and Imran Hussain from Ballimaran by 29,823 votes.
The BJP's Rekha Gupta
won the Shalimar Bagh seat, defeating her AAP rival by 29,595 votes, while
Manjinder Singh Sirsa emerged victorious from Rajouri Garden by 18,190 votes.
Tilak Ram Gupta won the Tri Nagar seat by 15,896 votes, Umang Bajaj from Rajinder Nagar by 1,231 votes, and Chandan Kumar Choudhary from Sangam Vihar by 344 votes.
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