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The Aam Aadmi Party(AAP) on Wednesday swept the municipal bypolls in Delhi winning four of the five seats while the Congress bagged one and the BJP drew a blank, prompting AAP chief and Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal to assert that the victory is an indication of the expected outcome of the MCD elections next year.
\nThe ruling party of Delhi retained three wards–Rohini-C, Trilokpuri and Kalyanpuri–and also snatched the Shalimar Bagh ward from the BJP, media reports said.
\nThe AAP, however, lost the Chauhan Bangar ward to Congress candidate Chaudhary Zubair Ahmad who bagged the seat by the biggest margin of 10,642 votes, the reports added.
\nAlthough the Congress managed to get one seat, the party claimed that Delhiites are now looking towards it to give the “Knockout punch” in the Municipal Corporation of Delhi(MCD) elections due in 2022.
\nThe BJP, which has been ruling the civic bodies in the national capital for 15 years, alleged that the results clearly show that the Congress and AAP had teamed up with each other, and accused the rival parties of “match fixing” to defeat the saffron party.
\nThe five seats fell vacant after AAP\u2019s councillors had contested the assembly elections and won while the BJP\u2019s Shalimar Bagh councillor had died.
\nAAP candidate Dhirender Kumar won the Kalyanpuri ward by 7,043 votes. The party candidate Vijay Kumar from Trilokpuri defeated BJP\u2019s Om Prakash by a margin of 4,986 votes.
\nAAP\u2019s Sunita Mishra defeated Surbhi Jaju of the BJP in Shalimar Bagh ward by 2,705 votes. The seat was earlier held by the BJP.
\nRam Chander of the AAP defeated BJP candidate Rakesh Goyal by 2,985 votes in Rohini C ward.
\nMore than 50 per cent votes were cast in the bypolls for the five civic wards under two municipal bodies on February 28. The three civic bodies in Delhi are the North Delhi Municipal Corporation(NDMC), South Delhi Municipal Corporation(SDMC) and the East Delhi Municipal Corporation(EDMC).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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