Who is Parvesh Verma? BJP giant-killer defeats AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal in New Delhi bastion

New Delhi election results 2025: Parvesh Verma of BJP defeated AAP's Arvind Kejriwal in the Delhi assembly election. Verma has previously served as an MP.

New Delhi election results 2025: Parvesh Verma of the Bharatiya Janata Party turned out to be a giant-killer in the Delhi assembly election, as he defeated Aam Aadmi Party national convenor Arvind Kejriwal from the New Delhi constituency on Saturday, February 8.

BJP candidate from the New Delhi assembly constituency Parvesh Verma submerges a cut-out of AAP national convener Arvind Kejriwal in the Yamuna River to protest over the issue of cleaning the Yamuna. (HT Photo)

AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal was trailing Parvesh Verma by 4089 votes in the high-profile New Delhi seat after 14 rounds of counting.

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Who is Parvesh Verma?

• Born on November 7. 1977, Parvesh Verma attended Delhi Public School in RK Puram and then went to Delhi University’s Kirori Mal College. He also received a master of business administration degree from the Fore School of Management.
• Son of former senior BJP leader and Delhi chief minister Sahib Singh Verma, Parvesh Verma comes from one of the most influential political families in the national capital. His uncle, Azad Singh, was the mayor of the North Delhi Municipal Corporation and contested the Mundka Vidhan Sabha constituency on the BJP ticket in the 2013 assembly elections.
• Parvesh Verma himself was first elected to the Delhi assembly in 2013. He contested from the Mehrauli constituency then and defeated his Congress rival Yoganand Shastri, the incumbent Delhi Vidhan Sabha speaker at the time.
• Parvesh Verma won the 2014 Lok Sabha elections to become an MP from the West Delhi constituency, which he retained in 2019. Verma did not contest the 2024 elections.
• As a member of Parliament, he has served as a member of the Joint Committee on Salaries and Allowances of Members of Parliament and a member of the Standing Committee on Urban Development.
• In the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, Parvesh Verma defeated his Congress rival Mahabal Mishra by a margin of 578,486 votes. Verma not only broke his own record but also set a record as the candidate with the highest victory margin in Delhi.
• Known for his controversial remarks, Verma was banned for 24 hours by the Election Commission of India during the 2020 assembly election campaign after calling Arvind Kejriwal a "terrorist.”