Aam Aadmi Party's 'giant killers'
Arvind Kejriwal's year-old Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) made a spectacular electoral debut in Delhi and won 28 of the state's 70 seats, just four behind the BJP, which is on top.
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Arvind Kejriwal's year-old Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) made a spectacular electoral debut in Delhi and won 28 of the state's 70 seats, just four behind the BJP, which is on top. We take a look at some of the candidates who overcame their more fancied rivals.
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Arvind Kejriwal defeated three-time chief minister Sheila Dikshit in her constituency by 25,000 votes.
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Ashok Kumar Chauhan from Ambedkar Nagar upstaged Congress veteran Prem Singh, who has not lost any elections from this constituency since 1958 and has won a record 10 consecutive terms from the same constituency.
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Saurabh Bharadwaj beat BJP's Ajay Kumar Malhotra, the runner-up, and Congress' Virender Kasana in the Greater Kailash constituency.
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Surendra Singh, a former NSG commando from Haryana who fought terrorists during the 26/11 attacks, defeated BJP's Karan Singh Tanwar by 355 votes in the Delhi Cantt constituency.
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25-year-old Prakash Jarwar from Deoli defeated BJP's Gagan Rana and Congress MLA Arwinder Singh.
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