NEW DELHI: BJP's Ramvir Singh Bidhuri has defeated AAP's Ram Singh Netaji in the
Badarpur
assembly constituency with a margin of 3719 votes. Check earlier updates:
* As per the official trends on election commission's website, Ram Singh Netaji is leading by 1,591 votes against Bidhuri
* As per the official trends on election commission's website, Ram Singh Netaji is leading by 6,083 votes against Bidhuri
* As per the official trends, AAP's Ram Singh Netaji is leading by 7,898 votes against BJP's Ramvir Singh Bidhuri
* ECI's trends are now available for all 70 seats. AAP is leading on 52 seats, while the BJP is ahead in 18 constituencies.
* As per the official trends, AAP's Ram Singh Netaji is leading by 3085 votes against BJP's Ramvir Singh Bidhuri
* Official EC trends: Aam Aadmi Party leading on 7 seats and Bharatiya Janata Party leading on 6 seats.
* AAP's Ram Singh Netaji takes early lead in Badarpur assembly constituency
Badarpur, the largest assembly constituency in south Delhi in terms of the number of voters, has seen many a twist and turn ever since the parties started declaring their candidates.
While AAP was the first to announce its candidate, the decision to replace sitting MLA Narayan Dutt Sharma (47) with Ram Singh Netaji (64), who had only recently switched over from Congress, didn’t go down well with the former.
Netaji has previously won the seat twice, first as an independent in 2003 and, then, as a Bahujan Samaj Party candidate in 2008. In 2013 and 2015, he contested on a Congress ticket, but lost on both occasions.
The ruling party seeks a second term under the leadership of chief minister Arvind Kejriwal. AAP has given tickets to 46 of its sitting MLAs besides introducing 15 new faces to the fray.
The BJP is contesting on 67 of the 70 assembly seats, leaving two seats for its National Democratic Alliance partner the Janata Dal (United) and one for the Lok Janshakti Party. Among the 67 BJP candidates, over 30 are former legislators or have contested the assembly elections in the past.
The Congress, which ruled Delhi for three consecutive terms from 1998 to 2013, is for the first time contesting the Delhi assembly polls in alliance with another party. The party has worked an alliance with Rashtriya Janata Dal.
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