AAP national covener Arvind Kejriwal scored a comfortable victory against BJP's novice Sunil Yadav from New Delhi Assembly seat. BJP had made tall claims that Yadav will unsettle the applecart of Delhi Chief Minister as mood of the people against him was against. Kejriwal proved skeptics wrong and won by 21,697 votes and retained his seat third time in a row.
New Delhi seat holds the distinction of returning Sheila Dikshit and Arvind Kejriwal for three consecutive terms as chief minister. Only exception being the former Indian cricketer Kirti Aazad who had won this seat (then known as Gole Market) on a BJP ticket in 1993 by defeating Congress's BM Bhama.
As the poll campaign gathered pace, Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) termed Arvind Kejriwal a 'poster boy' by fielding Sunil Kumar Yadav against and started calling him New Delhi 'Gully boy' versus Poster boy, Kejriwal achieved his victory by polling 46,758 votes and having 61.1 percentages of votes while Yadav managed to gain 25,061 with 32.75 per cent.
Interestingly, Yadav who has been a student leader, was pitched by the BJP in New Delhi Assembly constituency where Member of Parliament (MP) , Meenkshi Lekhi has gained popularity after her stupendous victory in Lok Sabha however in Assembly elections, people have clearly supported Kejriwal, the man to be watched.
Pertinently, during the campaigning, Lekhi while delivering her speeches, claimed that AAP has become Akela Aam Party from AAP. The poll results have shown the mirror to the saffron party as who is the boss. New Delhi seat has ensured that their representative Kejriwal will be walking the 'Red Carpet' to Players' building.
The constituency which hosts people from different social economic backgrounds, boasts of popular markets like — Gole Market, Khan Market, INA Market and houses thousands of central/MCD and state Government employees. It was being speculated that free water/electricity and DTC travel will not work here. All these theories evaporated soon after the announcements of third round where Kejriwal was leading with 11,308 votes against Yadav 4,909 votes, it has become clear that AAP has won the seat in the fourth round itself. AAP gained further lead with 14,666 votes while BJP' Yadav was stuck at four digit with 6,389 votes.
According to EC, 27 candidates fought from the prestigious New Delhi seat while 0.52 per cent votes went to NOTA with 352 total votes. Congress Romesh Sabharwal managed to get 3,206 votes with voting percentage only 4.21 per cent on 14 postal. Shiv Kumar independent candidate from New Delhi got only nine votes, lowest.
