New Delhi: One of the key constituencies in the 70-member Delhi Assembly, the Patel Nagar (SC) seat is seeing a neck-and-neck fight between AAP's Pravesh Ratn and BJP's Raaj Kumar Anand.
After round 12 of 15 of counting of votes, Ratn is leading by 2557 votes over Anand. The AAP candidate has polled 48350 votes while Anand has polled 45793. Congress' Krishna Tirath, a former Union Minister, is at a distant third, with only 3843 votes.
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), which won the seat in the 2020 and 2015 Assembly polls, is aiming to score a hat trick. In the 2020 Delhi Assembly polls, the Patel Nagar seat had a total of 198185 electors. Total number of valid votes was 120047. Raaj Kumar Anand won and became MLA, securing a total of 73463 votes. Pravesh Ratn stood second with a total of 42528 votes.
In 2015, the seat had a total of 171213 electors and the number of valid votes polled was 116151. AAP candidate Hazari Lal Chauhan won and became MLA. He had secured a total of 68868 votes. Krishna Tirath, who was with BJP then, stood second with a total of 34230 votes.
- Overall, the BJP was leading in at least 47 seats while AAP was ahead in 23 while Congress was yet to open its account, as counting of votes continued for the assembly election in Delhi. The results will reveal if AAP's political dominance in Delhi remains intact or is dented enough by the BJP for the saffron party to return to power for the first time since 1998.
