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The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) secured victory in all seven Lok Sabha seats in Delhi. Notably, the party's candidates included two former mayors, a popular actor, and the daughter of a former external affairs minister.

 

Of the seven candidates, only Manoj Tiwari from North East Delhi was re-elected. The other six were contesting for the Lok Sabha for the first time.

 

The results saw significant victories, including Praveen Khandelwal's win in Chandni Chowk by a margin of 89,325 votes and Ramvir Singh Biduri's victory in the South Delhi seat by 1.24 lakh votes.

 

Bansuri Swaraj, daughter of former Union minister Sushma Swaraj, won the New Delhi constituency by 78,370 votes. She previously was the co-convenor of the BJP's legal cell in Delhi.

 

Harshdeep Malhotra, who replaced cricketer-turned-politician Gautam Gambhir as the BJP's candidate for East Delhi, secured victory with a margin of 93,663 votes. Malhotra had previously held positions as a councillor and mayor in the East Delhi Municipal Corporation.

 

Yogendra Chandoliya's victory in the North West Delhi constituency with a margin of 2.90 lakh votes was the highest among all winning candidates in the national capital. Chandoliya, a prominent face of the Scheduled Caste community for the BJP in Delhi, had previously served as mayor of the North Delhi Municipal Corporation.

 

"I said from Day 1 that the BJP would win all seven seats in Delhi. I also said that the biggest winning margin would be in North West Delhi. I will meet the BJP workers and RWA (Residents' Welfare Association) members on Wednesday to thank them," said Chandoliya, who was fielded in place of Hans Raj Hans.

 

"I will take a list of projects and make the North West Delhi Lok Sabha seat one of the best in Delhi. I thank all the voters who have voted for me," he added.

 

Both Malhotra and Chandoliya serve as general secretaries of the BJP's Delhi unit.

 

Ramvir Singh Bidhuri, the Leader of the Opposition in the Delhi Assembly, replaced Ramesh Bidhuri in the South Delhi seat.

 

Hailing from the Gujjar community, he has been involved in politics for over 50 years. He was among the five Janata Dal MLAs elected to the reconstituted Delhi Legislative Assembly in 1993.

 

Tiwari, a prominent Purvanchali leader, was a well-known actor and singer in Bhojpuri films before entering politics. He ran for his first Lok Sabha elections from Gorakhpur on a Samajwadi Party ticket but was defeated by the BJP's Yogi Adityanath in 2009.

 

He secured his first victory in the 2014 elections from North East Delhi. In 2019, Tiwari defeated former Delhi chief minister and Congress stalwart Sheila Dikshit to secure a second term in the Lok Sabha.

 

This time, Tiwari defeated the Congress' Kanhaiya Kumar by 1.38 lakh votes.

 

Khandelwal, who represents the Baniya community, is the general secretary of the Confederation of All India Traders. He ventured into electoral politics in 2008, but was unsuccessful in contesting the Delhi assembly elections from Chandni Chowk.

 

Kamaljeet Sehrawat, who replaced Parvesh Verma from West Delhi, is a two-term municipal councillor from Dwarka. She has been active in Delhi politics for almost two decades.

 

In 2017, she contested her first municipal election from Dwarka-B in the erstwhile South Delhi Municipal Corporation and won by the highest margin.

 

Her victory margin in her first Lok Sabha election was 1.99 lakh votes.