In the recent Lok Sabha polls in Delhi, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) garnered support from the Scheduled Caste (SC) reserved assembly segments, securing victory in all seven Lok Sabha seats in the national capital.
These results marked the BJP's third consecutive win in the Delhi Lok Sabha elections, surpassing opponents from the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance (INDIA), which comprises the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the Congress.
Of the 70 seats in Delhi, 13 are reserved for the SC community, all of which are currently represented by AAP MLAs. Furthermore, across Delhi's seven Lok Sabha seats, there are approximately 10 assembly constituencies each, with a notable Muslim voter presence in areas such as Chandni Chowk, North East Delhi, and East Delhi.
Interestingly, the BJP's historical performance in the SC reserved assembly segments had been relatively poor in past Assembly polls. However, their recent success in these areas has shifted the political landscape in Delhi.
In the East Delhi Lok Sabha seat, BJP candidate Harsh Malhotra received more votes than his nearest AAP rival, Kuldeep Kumar, in the SC reserved Assembly segments of Kondli and Trilokpuri. Kumar even secured fewer votes than Malhotra in Kondli, which he represents in the Delhi Assembly, with 57,985 votes against Malhotra's 59,551 votes.
In the North East Lok Sabha seat, Manoj Tiwari, who won against Congress candidate Kanahiya Kumar, got 80,757 votes in the reserved Gokalpur Assembly seat, while Kanhaiya managed to get 70,159 votes. However, in Seemapuri, Kumar polled slightly more votes than Tiwari, receiving 66,604 votes as opposed to Tiwari's 61,017 votes.
In North West Delhi, a reserved Lok Sabha seat, BJP's Yogender Chndolia defeated Congress' Udit Raj by over 2.9 lakh votes. Chandolia also received more votes in the SC reserved Assembly constituencies of Bawana, Nangloi Jat, and Mangolpuri, while Raj got more votes in the Sultanpuri reserved seat under the parliamentary constituency.
Bansuri Swaraj, the Bharatiya Janata Party's candidate for the New Delhi Lok Sabha seat, received 52,562 votes in the reserved Karolbagh Assembly segment, surpassing the 45,416 votes received by Aam Aadmi Party's candidate Somnath Bharti. Swaraj also outperformed Bharti in the Patel Nagar reserved seat.
In the recent elections, former Patel Nagar MLA Raaj Kumar Anand, who resigned as a minister in the Kejriwal government, secured only 1,170 votes from his own constituency as a Bahujan Samaj Party candidate.
Kamaljeet Sehrawat achieved victory by a margin of over 1.9 lakh votes against Aam Aadmi Party's Mahabal Mishra in the Madipur reserved Assembly segment.
Meanwhile, Ramvir Singh Bidhuri, the BJP winner from the South Delhi Lok Sabha seat, garnered more votes in the Deoli reserved Assembly constituency compared to AAP candidate Sahi Ram.
The candidates from the INDIA bloc delivered strong performances in the Assembly constituencies with a substantial number of Muslim voters.
In Seelampur, Babarpur, and Mustafabad Assembly segments, which had a significant number of Muslim voters, Congress's Kanhaiya Kumar received an impressive 88,708 votes, surpassing BJP's Tiwari, who secured 37,697 votes in Seelampur.
Moving to Chandni Chowk, JP Agarwal of Congress received a notable amount of votes in Matia Mahal, Chandi Chowk, and Ballimaran Assembly segments under the Chandni Chowk Lok Sabha seat, outshining BJP's Praveen Khandelwal in these areas.
Kuldeep Kumar, an AAP candidate, also succeeded in securing more votes than BJP's Harsh Malhotra in the Okhla reserved Assembly segment under the East Delhi parliamentary seat.
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