BJP's Parvesh Verma emerges giant killer by defeating Arvind Kejriwal; Manish Sisodia also loses in Jangpura

After choky fights, AAP National Convenor Arvind Kejriwal and erstwhile Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia mislaid from the New Delhi and Jangpura Assembly constituencies respectively, connected a time which saw the ruling party's rout successful the city.

Talking to mediapersons, Sisodia congratulated Tarvinder Singh Marwah of the BJP and conceded defeat. In the past circular of counting, Sisodia was trailing by 572 votes.

After beating Kejriwal, BJP's Parvesh Verma spoke to Home Minister Amit Shah implicit the phone. His triumph borderline implicit Kejriwal was astir adjacent to the astir 3,000 votes garnered by Congress campaigner Sandeep Dikshit.

The BJP leaders remained tightlipped astir its Chief Ministerial campaigner aft the enactment achieved a bulk with implicit 45 seats successful a 70-member Assembly which has 36 arsenic the bulk mark.

Sisodia, described arsenic the encephalon down the AAP's acquisition revolution, had shifted to the Jangpura spot from Patparganj from wherever helium had won the 2020 election.

Earlier, arsenic the Election Commission trends indicated a BJP bulk successful the Delhi Assembly elections connected Saturday, a pall of gloom descended implicit the AAP's bureau portion celebrations broke retired astatine the BJP headquarters.

Other AAP leaders Satyendar Jain and Saurabh Bharadwaj were besides trailing.

Earlier successful the day, Chief Minister Atishi exuded assurance successful the AAP's instrumentality to powerfulness and called the predetermination a conflict betwixt bully and evil, portion Bharadwaj predicted that the AAP would triumph astatine slightest 40-45 seats.

Reacting to the trends, BJP MP Manoj Tiwari said: "We tin spot the blessings of the radical of Delhi. We are assured that the tally volition stay the aforesaid till the end."

An off-shoot of an anti-corruption run of Anna Hazare successful 2011, 'Brand Kejriwal' proved to beryllium 4th clip unlucky aft winning 3 successive Delhi Assembly elections.

The AAP's 4th effort astatine capturing the 'Dilli Darbar' failed amid a beardown anti-incumbency, mediocre show of MLAs, and the enactment chief's increasing religion successful turncoats from different parties.