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Kapil Mishra was up of his AAP rival by much than 44,000 votes aft 17 of 24 rounds of counting. (X/Kapil Mishra)
The BJP is starring successful 3 of the 4 constituencies successful Northeast Delhi, which was the epicentre of riots 5 years ago.
The highest leads among these were successful Mustafabad and Karawal Nagar, wherever the BJP fielded five-time MLA Mohan Singh Bisht and Kapil Mishra, respectively, with Mishra starring his AAP rival by much than 44,000 votes aft 17 of 24 rounds of counting portion Bisht led his AAP rival by implicit 27,000 votes. Mishra’s pb is the highest truthful acold crossed each 70 constituencies.
On February 23, 2020, Mishra successful his arguable code gave an ultimatum threatening to region those protesting connected the roadworthy against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act successful Jaffrabad. The code was blamed for being 1 of the triggers of the communal unit that ensued pursuing clashes betwixt supporters and opponents of the CAA. At slightest 53 radical were killed and scores of others were injured successful the riots.
Throughout the campaign, the BJP steered wide from mentioning the riots, with the lone notation coming from Union Home Minister Amit Shah towards the extremity of the campaign. Targeting the AAP astatine back-to-back nationalist meetings successful Mustafabad and Karawal Nagar, Shah, connected February 1, raked up the 2020 riots and accused the AAP of dragging the Capital done the violence.
Shah added, “After the enactment of the BJP authorities successful Delhi connected February 8, each Rohingyas and Bangladeshis volition beryllium selectively expelled.”
Seeking to emphasise that it was clip to escaped Delhi from “AAP-da”, oregon disaster, Shah besides sought blessings astatine the area’s Prachin Shiv Mandir and Hanuman Mandir aft which helium asked the radical to escaped Delhi of liquor mafia and “close down the scamsters’ businesses” by rooting retired “hardcore corrupt” individuals.
However, among the Muslim electorate successful these areas, the arrests made pursuing the 2020 unit and assorted cases linked to the riots were portion of the discussion, particularly pursuing the introduction of erstwhile AAP person Tahir Hussain, who was successful jailhouse aft being arrested successful a UAPA lawsuit for his alleged engagement successful the riots. This time, it was the AIMIM that fielded him.
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Apart from Bisht and Mishra, sitting BJP MLA Ajay Mahawar was successful the pb successful Ghonda excessively by implicit 20,500 votes. Only Seelampur, among the riot-hit constituencies, was the exception. There, the AAP’s Chaudhary Zubair Ahmed led the BJP by implicit 32,000 votes. The lad of Congress stalwart Chaudhary Mateen Ahmed, Zubair switched to the AAP pursuing the announcement of the Delhi Assembly elections.
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