Delhi Chief Minister and AAP candidate Atishi won the Kalkaji constituency against BJP candidate Ramesh Bidhuri by over 3,500 votes. Meanwhile, Congress candidate Alka Lamba also lost by a huge margin. In her first reaction following the results, Atishi thanked the people of Kalkaji and said that the party’s war against BJP will continue.
The Kalkaji Assembly constituency was one of the most fiercely contested seats in the 2025 Delhi elections, with chief minister Atishi of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) facing a tough fight against Congress’s Alka Lamba and BJP’s Ramesh Bidhuri. The counting of votes for the Kalkaji seat, along with 69 others in the Delhi Assembly election, began at 8 am.
According to the Election Commission, voter turnout stood at 54.59 %, a decline from the 2020 elections. The BJP has not won the Kalkaji seat since 1993 but is relying on Bidhuri’s strong electoral track record to change that trend. Bidhuri, a three-time MLA from Tughlakabad, secured victories in 2003, 2008, and 2013, even during phases when the BJP faced challenges in Delhi. He later represented South Delhi as an MP in both 2014 and 2019 but was not given a ticket for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
In another huge setback for the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), Delhi minister Saurabh Bharadwaj has lost to Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate Shikha Roy by 3,139 votes in the Greater Kailash constituency. With the defeat, he joins other senior AAP party leaders who lost the election, including Arvind Kejriwal and Manish Sisodia.
As per Election Commission data, Roy won by 49,370 votes against Bharadwaj’s 46,231. Congress’s Garvit Singhvi managed to secure only 6,677 votes.
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