Ending a 27-year wait, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday returned to power in Delhi with a massive twothirds majority, bringing the curtain down on the Aam Aadmi Party’s 10-year rule. With one result yet to come in the 70-member Assembly, which had gone to the hustings on February 5, the BJP has already picked up 47 seats – touching a two-thirds majority.
The AAP, on a dismal day when many of its stalwarts including party National nding a 27-year wait, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Saturday returned to power in Delhi with a massive twothirds majority, bringing the curtain down on the Aam Aadmi Party’s 10-year rule. With one result yet to come in the 70-member Assembly, which had gone to the hustings on February 5, the BJP has already picked up 47 seats – touching a two-thirds majority. The AAP, on a dismal day when many of its stalwarts including party National On the other hand, Kejriwal in a video message conceded defeat and vowed to play the role of a constructive opposition.
The former Chief Minister said, “I humbly accept the mandate of the people and also congratulate the BJP for their victory. I hope the BJP will fulfill all the promises they have made for which the people of Delhi have voted them”. The BJP previously won the Delhi Assembly polls in 1993 but lost power to the Congress in 1998, and since then has been in the opposition in the prestigious Union Territory, which comprises the National Capital Region. In today’s vote count, BJP’s Parvesh Verma turned out to be the giant slayer by defeating former Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal by a margin of over 4,000 votes from the New Delhi Assembly constituency.
A mong other AAP bigshots, former Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia lost to Tarvinder Singh Marwah of the BJP by a margin of over 600 votes, while incumbent Minister Saurabh Bharadwaj was humbled by BJP’s Shikha Roy with a 3188-vote margin. The silver lining for AAP was the victories of Delhi Chief Minister Atishi and Minister Gopal Rai.
- FINANCIAL NEWS
