The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) won four districts and Congress one in municipal elections announced Wednesday. The BJP went blank.
Voting took place in two districts, Rohini-C and Shalimar Bagh (north), in the North Delhi Municipal Corporation (NDMC), and three districts, Trilokpuri, Kalyanpuri and Chauhan Banger, in the East Municipal Corporation of Delhi (EDMC) on February 28. The electoral participation was 50.86%.
AAP retained two seats, Kalyanpuri and Trilokpuri, and Rohini C, who was with BSP but was vacated when his councilman won an MLA election on an AAP ticket, won. The Shalimar Bagh neighborhood, previously in the hands of BJP, also won.
Dhirender Kumar won the Kalyanpuri district by 7,043 votes; Trilokpuri’s Vijay Kumar defeated BJP’s Om Prakash by a margin of 4,986 votes; Sunita Mishra of AAP defeated Surbhi Jaju of BJP in Shalimar Bagh neighborhood by 2,705 votes; and Ram Chander of AAP defeated BJP candidate Rakesh Goyal by 2,985 votes in Rohini C.
The most surprising result was that of Chauhan Banger, where Congressional candidate Chaudhary Zubair Ahmad defeated Mohammad Ishraq Khan of the AAP by 10,642 votes.
Senior Deputy Minister Manish Sisodia, in a tweet, congratulated party workers on the victory and said that people were fed up with the BJP and that he would include Arvind Kejriwal’s honesty and work policy in MCD polls next year.
BJP Delhi chief Adesh Gupta said the party would do some introspection on what caused the losses. “There were already four AAP seats, but losing Shalimar Bagh was discouraging,” he said.
Gupta added that there was enough time to improve the party’s performance before the 2022 municipal elections.
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