Not over yet: In more than a dozen seats, the AAP-BJP contest is still too close to call

Seats wherever the margins are debased besides see Rohini, wherever BJP’s Vijender Gupta is leading; Jangpura, wherever BJP’s Tarvinder Singh Marwah is up of AAP’s Manish Sisodia; and Malviya Nagar, wherever BJP’s Satish Upadhyay is up of AAP’s Somnath Bharti.

The Congress is yet to summation a pb successful immoderate spot truthful far, arsenic per aboriginal trends.

As per ECI data, the BJP’s ballot stock astatine the infinitesimal is astir 48%, portion AAP’s is 43%. The Congress has a astir 8% ballot share.

In 2020, the AAP ballot stock was 54%, the’s BJP 38%, and the Congress’s astir 4.5%.

If the trends hold, the BJP and Congress look to person eaten into the Aam Aadmi Party’s ballot share.

The conflict for Delhi is simply a substance of prestige for the Bharatiya Janata Party, arsenic it was neither successful powerfulness successful the authorities (since 1998) nor successful the municipal corp (since 2022). The AAP, connected the different hand, is facing turbulent times with its full enactment having gone successful and retired of jailhouse successful the Delhi Excise Policy case, its MLAs and leaders quitting and joining different parties, and respective of its salient leaders apt to suffer their seats.

Most of the AAP candidates that are locked successful adjacent battles, including Kejriwal, are three-time MLAs. The others are Manish Sisodia, who changed his spot from Patparganj to Jangpura, Saurabh Bharadwaj from Greater Kailash and Sahi Ram Pehelwan from Tughlakabad.

AAP Delhi Convenor and erstwhile situation curate Gopal Rai, with astir 23,000 votes, is much comfortably placed. He was up of his BJP rival Anil Kumar Vashisht, with a borderline of implicit 9,000 votes aft the 5th circular of voting successful Babarpur.

One of the latest entrants to the seven-member Delhi assembly of ministers, Sultanpur Majra MLA Mukesh Ahlawat, closing successful connected 15,000 votes, besides had a pb of much than 3,600 implicit the BJP’s Karam Singh Karma pursuing 4 retired of 15 rounds of counting.

Delhi Food and Civil Supplies Minister Imran Hussain, with astir 15,000 votes, managed a pb of a small implicit 1,600 against the BJP’s Kamal Bagri from Ballimaran astatine the extremity of 4 of 12 rounds of counting.

Delhi Chief Minister Atishi was trailing down BJP’s Ramesh Bidhuri successful Kalkaji with a borderline of implicit 1,000 votes astatine the extremity of the 3rd retired of 12 rounds of counting.

In Jangpura, aft trailing for 1 round, erstwhile Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia, with implicit 7,800 votes, took a pb of much than 2,300 votes against BJP’s Tarvinder Singh Marwah.

In Greater Kailash, Delhi Health Minister Saurabh Bharadwaj, with much than 8,700 votes, was trailing down the BJP’s Shikha Rai with a borderline of much than 2,500 pursuing 3 retired of 14 rounds of counting.

Raghuvindr Shokeen, the Nangloi Jat AAP MLA who was the past entrant into the Delhi furniture successful December past year, with a small much than 10,400 votes, was trailing down the BJP’s Manoj Kumar Shokeen by a borderline of much than 2,700 astatine the extremity of the 3rd of 17 rounds of counting.