Published : Feb 8, 2025, 1:15 PM IST
|Updated : Feb 8, 2025, 2:50 PM IST
New Delhi: BJP routed AAP at Mangol Puri (SC) Assembly constituency, located in the North-West district of Delhi. Mangol Puri Assembly seat had been a stronghold of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) for the last decade.
Raj Kumar Chauhan of BJP defeated Dharam Rakshak alias Rakesh Jatav of AAP by a margin of 6,255 votes. Congress had also fielded its candidate Hanuman Sahay from the seat. The seat was won by AAP in both the 2020 and 2015 Delhi Assembly elections.
In 2020, the Mangol Puri (SC) Assembly constituency had a total of 1,90,728 electors. The total number of votes cast was 1,26,028 and AAP's Rakhi Birla had wo by securing 74,154 votes. BJP's Karam Singh Karma was second with a total of 44,038 votes. In 2015, the constituency had 1,78,940 voters and the number of votes case was 1,28,426. Birla had won the seat then as well by securing 60,534 votes. Congress' Raj Kumar Chauhan stood second with a total of 37835 votes.
In the 2013 Delhi Assembly elections, AAP's Birla had won the by seat defeating Chauhan who was then with the Congress by a margin of 10,585 votes which was 9.16% of the total votes cast for the seat. AAP had a vote share of 38.42% in 2013 in this seat.
