In Delhi, BJP Leads On All 7 Seats, Heartbreak For INDIA Bloc

The BJP, which won all seven Delhi Lok Sabha seats both in 2014 and 2019, won all Lok Sabha seats in the national capital yet again.  

Bansuri Swaraj, late BJP leader Sushma Swaraj's daughter, is making her electoral debut in this general election. Ms Swaraj, 40, won against her AAP rival Somnath Bharti in the New Delhi seat.

Arvind Kejriwal-led AAP, which rules the national capital, is in a 4:3 seat arrangement with the Congress as part of the INDIA bloc taking on the BJP. 

The AAP that contested East Delhi, West Delhi, New Delhi and South Delhi seats could not win any seat. Its vote share, however, was 24.14 per cent as compared to 18.2 per cent in 2019 polls. The AAP's vote share was 33.1 per cent in 2014 general elections but it lost all seven seats that it contested.

Kanhaiya Kumar, who lost the last Lok Sabha election from Begusarai in Bihar, is up against BJP's two-term MP Manoj Tiwari from North East Delhi. Mr Kumar, former student union president of JNU, lost to Mr Tiwari, a popular Bhojpuri actor.

The Congress that failed to win any seat out of three contested by it in Delhi, lost its vote share by over three per cent as compared to 2019 Lok Sabha elections.

Delhi Congress chief Devender Yadav, in a statement, accepted the verdict of the voters and promised that the Congress will strengthen its cadres at the grassroots level, and come back forcefully to regain its old glory in the national capital.

A total of 162 candidates contested the elections held during the sixth phase on May 25, according to official data.

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