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In the run-up to the polls, the BJP had claimed to person nominated implicit half-a-dozen Purvanchalis portion sources successful the AAP said it had fielded implicit 10 candidates. (Image: Bhupendra Rana)
Despite focussing connected Purvanchali-dominated during campaigning for the Delhi Assembly polls, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and BJP shared the honours successful the seats dominated by the community, winning 5 seats each adjacent arsenic Bihar-based NDA allies, the JD(U) and LJP (RV) tasted defeats successful the seats they contested.
Purvanchalis, who hint their origins to Bihar and Uttar Pradesh and relocated to the superior successful hunt of jobs, are seen to beryllium a ascendant unit in constituencies similar Sangam Vihar, Deoli, Ambedkar Nagar, New Delhi, Burari, Kirari, Babarpur, Malviya Nagar, Karawal Nagar, Laxmi Nagar but are seen to person a beingness successful astir each the 70 constituencies of Delhi.
The BJP, which had won Karawal Nagar and Laxmi Nagar successful 2020, retained the 2 seats portion wresting Malviya Nagar, New Delhi and Sangam Vihar from the AAP, which saw its tally successful the portion autumn from 8 successful 2020 to five.
The biggest setbacks for the AAP came from the New Delhi and Malviya Nagar seats. In New Delhi, AAP nationalist convenor and erstwhile Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal mislaid to the BJP’s Parvesh Verma by implicit 4,000 votes portion successful Malviya Nagar, erstwhile Delhi BJP main Satish Upadhyay defeated ex-minister Somnath Bharti by a constrictive borderline of 2,131 votes.
Another low-margin spot was Sangam Vihar, wherever AAP sitting MLA Dinesh Mohaniya mislaid retired to the BJP’s Chandan Kumar Choudhary by a slender borderline of 344 votes.
The AAP defeated the BJP successful Ambedkar Nagar, Kirari and Babarpur portion it trumped NDA allies, the JD(U) and LJP(RV) successful Burari and Deoli, respectively.
In the run-up to the polls, the BJP had claimed to person nominated implicit half-a-dozen Purvanchalis portion sources successful the AAP said it had fielded implicit 10 candidates. Both parties had besides made respective promises to the assemblage portion accusing each different of mistreating the community. The BJP besides deployed its leaders from Uttar Pradesh and Bihar to run successful the superior successful a bid to woo the community.
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During campaigning, a ample conception of Purvanchali voters had indicated their enactment to the NDA claiming a “double-engine government” conscionable similar successful Uttar Pradesh and Bihar would assistance make basal infrastructure successful their constituencies.
Lalmani is an Assistant Editor with The Indian Express, and is based successful New Delhi. He covers authorities of the Hindi Heartland, tracking BJP, Samajwadi Party, BSP, RLD and different parties based successful UP, Bihar and Uttarakhand. Covered the Lok Sabha elections of 2014, 2019 and 2024; Assembly polls of 2012, 2017 and 2022 successful UP on with authorities affairs successful UP and Uttarakhand. ... Read More
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