Delhi Election Results: AAP's Top Leaders Arvind Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia Lose, Atishi Wins

In a major shock to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), its top leaders Arvind Kejriwal and Manish Sisodia lost the Delhi Assembly elections while the BJP made a huge comeback in the national capital.

Mr Kejriwal, the former chief minister who contested from the New Delhi assembly constituency, lost to BJP's Parvesh Verma by over 4,000 votes while his former education minister Mr Sisodia was defeated by the BJP's Tarvinder Singh Marwah in Patparganj by a margin of around 600 votes.

The silver lining for the AAP was Chief Minister Atishi's victory against the BJP's Ramesh Bidhuri from Kalkaji. She won by a margin of over 3,500 votes while the Congress' Alka Lamba came a distant third.

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Another senior leader, Delhi Health Minister Saurabh Bharadwaj, lost by over 3,000 votes to the BJP's Shikha Roy in the Greater Kailash constituency.

His cabinet colleague Gopal Rai defeat the BJP's Anil Kumar Vashisht by nearly 19,000 votes in Babarpur, while Durgesh Pathak, AAP candidate from Rajinder Nagar, lost to the BJP's Umang Bajaj by around 1,200 votes.

In Okhla, AAP's two-time MLA Amanatullah Khan secured a third term by defeating the BJP's Manish Chaudhary by a huge margin of nearly 24,000 votes.

AAP leader Satyendar Jain, who is out on bail in a money laundering case, lost to the BJP's Karnail Singh by nearly 21,000 votes in Shakur Basti.

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Avadh Ojha, who was among the AAP's high-profile recruits ahead of the elections, also tasted defeat in his electoral debut. The popular civil services exam tutor lost to BJP's Ravinder Singh Negi by over 28,000 votes in Patparganj, the former seat of Mr Sisodia.

AAP's Somnath Bharti, a candidate from Malviya Nagar, lost to the BJP's Satish Upadhyay.

Delhi had voted on February 5 to elect its members to the 70-seat assembly, the results for which were declared today. The BJP won 48 seats and AAP 22 while the Congress failed to open its account.

Conceding defeat, Mr Kejriwal told his supporters in the evening that the AAP will play the role of a constructive opposition and continue to serve the people. "We will always be there for people because we did not enter politics for power but because we see it as a means of helping people. I congratulate AAP workers for fighting the elections well and working hard," he said in a video message.