Delhi MCD elections: AAP on way to displace BJP
The Aam Aadmi Party has inched closer towards an absolute majority in the Municipal Corporation of Delhi elections. In the MCD of 250 wards, Arvind Kejriwal’s party is leading on 130 seats and the BJP is ahead on 107 seats. In this way, the Aam Aadmi Party has all but ended the BJP’s rule in Delhi MCD for 15 years. It is clear that the same slogan of Arvind Kejriwal’s double engine government has worked, which PM Narendra Modi has been giving in all the states.
On one hand, Congress is on the verge of winning only 8 seats, while BJP has won 97 and is ahead on 10. Whereas Aam Aadmi Party has won 114 and is leading in 16 others. No many votes are left to be counted now. In such a situation, it is seemingly certain that Arvind Kejriwal’s AAP government is coming to power in MCD. In terms of vote percentage, the BJP has secured 39 per cent votes, while the Aam Aadmi Party has secured the first number with 42 per cent votes. Congress got only 12 percent votes. It is believed that the major decrease in the votes of the Congress has given strength to the Aam Aadmi Party.
Setback in areas of bigwigs
A different trend has also been seen in the results of the MCD elections. On one hand Manish Sisodia’s Patparganj assembly has 4 wards, out of which Aam Aadmi Party lost on 3. Apart from this, the AAP has suffered setbacks in all the three seats of Shakurbasti assembly held by Satyendar Jain, Rani Bagh, Paschim Vihar and Saraswati Vihar. On the other hand, talking about BJP MPs, in Meenakshi Lekhi’s parliamentary constituency New Delhi, BJP has won only 5 wards, while Aam Aadmi Party has won 20.
