Delhi Election 2025: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal filed nomination papers from the New Delhi assembly constituency on Wednesday, January 15.
Kejriwal is contesting against Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate Parvesh Verma and Congress leader Sandeep Dikshit for the New Delhi seat in the February 5 assembly election. Verma filed his nomination papers today.
The former chief minister, Kejriwal, won the seat three times: in the 2013, 2015, and 2020 assembly polls.
“The love and blessings given by the people of Delhi in the last 10 years have given me the strength and inspiration to work with full dedication and spirit of service. I have full faith that the people of Delhi will choose the politics of work this time, too,” Kejriwal said after filing the nomination papers.
New Delhi is one of the most high-profile seats among the 70 assembly constituencies of the national capital.
In 1993, Kirti Azad won from New Delhi on a BJP ticket. Azad is now a TMC MP in Lok Sabha. Sheila won the seat as a Congress candidate in 1998, 2003, and 2008.
Kejriwal won the New Delhi seat in 2013, defeating Sheila by over 25,000 votes. He won the seat again in 2015, defeating BJP's Nupur Sharma by over 31,000 votes.
In 2020, the last assembly election, Kejriwal defeated BJP's Sunil Yadav by over 21,000 votes. Congress candidate Romesh Sabharwal got just 3,220 votes in the New Delhi seat in the 2020 assembly elections.
Delhi Election 2025 is scheduled for February 5. The results will be announced on February 8.
The AAP, led by Arvind Kejriwal, won assembly elections in 2015 and 2020 quite comfortably. The BJP and the Congress are the other two major parties in the fray.
In the last two elections, the BJP was left with single-digit seats in the Delhi assembly, and the Congress was completely wiped out after ruling Delhi for 15 years before 2013.
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