New Delhi, Feb 8: The BJP has secured a majority in the Delhi Assembly elections, winning 38 out of 70 seats, according to the Election Commission.
The saffron party is also leading in 10 seats, while the Arvind Kejriwal-led AAP has secured a total of 17 seats and is leading in five more, the EC data showed.
AAP’s top leaders, including national convenor and former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia, Saurabh Bharadwaj and Satyendar Jain, have lost their elections.
Kejriwal lost the high-profile New Delhi seat to BJP’s Parvesh Verma by a margin of 4,089 votes.
The Bharatiya Janata Party is poised to form a government in Delhi after more than 26 years, with the latest EC trends showing the BJP leading in 48 out of Delhi’s 70 seats, while AAP is ahead in 22.
Former Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia conceded defeat by 675 votes to BJP’s Tarvinder Singh Marwah in Jangpura.
Parvesh 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.(PTI)
