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Lok Sabha poll results: BJP leads on 6 Delhi seats, Congress on 1
BJP led comfortably in North East, North West and East, while the remaining seemed to be relatively tighter contests, with margins of just a few thousand votes.
: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was leading in six of the seven Lok Sabha seats in Delhi at 10am and Congress was leading on the Chandni Chowk seat, early counting trends on Tuesday showed.
At the Chandni Chowk seat, Congress veteran Jai Prakash is leading with 4,293 votes against BJP’s Praveen Khandelwal. All other six seats are being led by the BJP candidates.
Delhi has seven Lok Sabha constituencies, all of which the BJP swept in 2014 and 2019 Lok Sabha polls. This is the first time the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and Congress are jointly fighting under the Opposition’s INDIA bloc banner. The Congress is contesting the Chandni Chowk, North East and North West Delhi seats and the AAP is on New Delhi, South Delhi, West Delhi and East Delhi seats.
AAP has kept the focus on its campaign on the arrest of Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal under “Jail ka Jawab Vote Se” campaign and BJP focused on the developmental projects carried out by the central government in Delhi and alleged corruption cases against senior AAP functionaries.
A keenly watched contest is North East Delhi seat where BJP’s Manoj Tiwari is contesting against Kanhaiya Kumar from Congress. Barring North East, all other six sitting MPs have not been provided a party ticket by the BJP. In North East, Tiwari currently has a lead of over 18,715 votes over Kumar.
Even as the BJP led comfortably in North East, North West, South and West with margins of more than 18,000-20,000 votes, relatively closer contests are being observed in New Delhi and South Delhi. In New Delhi, BJP’s Bansuri Swaraj, daughter of former external affairs minister Sushma Swaraj, is leading with just 3,721 votes. In East, BJP’s Harsh Malhotra is leading with 8393 votes.
