BJP candidate Vijender Gupta, who was a former Delhi BJP president and former chairman of North- Delhi Municipal Corporation, secured 59866 votes. Gupta defeated CL Gupta from Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) by 5367 votes. BJP candidates have always been winning from Rohini except in 2013, when Vijender Gupta was asked to take on the then Delhi Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit and AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal from New Delhi.
Rohini is believed to be a bastion of Vijendra Gupta because of his stature and the work done by him. The saffron party, this time, took a defensive step and fielded Gupta to counter the AAP wave. Jagdish Pradhan, another winning BJP candidate from Mustafabad in North-east Delhi, is a clear beneficiary of split in minority vote between two Muslim candidates’ from Congress and AAP.
Congress candidate Hasan Ahmad won the Mustafabad assembly seat in 2013 by defeating Pradhan with a very slender margin of 1,896 votes. Pradhan, before joining the BJP, served the Congress for almost 10 years as a municipal councilor.
“I had been campaigning door-to-door for a very long time and I have addressed all issues in this election that are affecting the people of my constituency for which I got elected. However, I had never imagined this kind of a verdict for the BJP in the Assembly election,” said Pradhan. The latter defeated Congress’ Hasan Ahmed by 6,031 votes.
BJP candidate Om Prakash Sharma, who fought from Vishwash Nagar assembly seat, defeated his AAP rival Dr Atul Gupta by 10,158 votes. Sharma got a total of 58,124 votes whereas Dr Gupta ended up with 47,966.
Rohini is believed to be a bastion of Vijendra Gupta because of his stature and the work done by him. The saffron party, this time, took a defensive step and fielded Gupta to counter the AAP wave. Jagdish Pradhan, another winning BJP candidate from Mustafabad in North-east Delhi, is a clear beneficiary of split in minority vote between two Muslim candidates’ from Congress and AAP.
Congress candidate Hasan Ahmad won the Mustafabad assembly seat in 2013 by defeating Pradhan with a very slender margin of 1,896 votes. Pradhan, before joining the BJP, served the Congress for almost 10 years as a municipal councilor.
“I had been campaigning door-to-door for a very long time and I have addressed all issues in this election that are affecting the people of my constituency for which I got elected. However, I had never imagined this kind of a verdict for the BJP in the Assembly election,” said Pradhan. The latter defeated Congress’ Hasan Ahmed by 6,031 votes.
BJP candidate Om Prakash Sharma, who fought from Vishwash Nagar assembly seat, defeated his AAP rival Dr Atul Gupta by 10,158 votes. Sharma got a total of 58,124 votes whereas Dr Gupta ended up with 47,966.