Explained: How Congress destroyed AAP in 12 seats and helped BJP win in Delhi after 27 years

The BJP has come back to power in Delhi after 27 years.

New Delhi: Politics and elections are dangerously unpredictable as you never know who or which party and section will deliver either result, i.e., win and loss. What adds to the charm is the nail-biting finish where you do not know what will happen or how things will end.

Something similar happened in the Delhi Assembly Elections 2025 where voting was held on February 5 and the counting and declaration of results took place on February 8.

Three main parties, the BJP, the AAP, and the Congress fielded their candidates. The Congress has delivered pathetic performance in the previous elections in 2020 and 2015 as it failed to win a single seat and 2025 is no different either.

Congress scored a zero, but it played a crucial role in the decimation of the Aam Aadmi Party which won only 22 seats compared to 62 seats in 2020 and 67 seats in 2015. The Congress spoiled the party for Arvind Kejriwal’s enterprise in at least 12 constituencies where the BJP’s victory margin is smaller than the number of votes secured by Congress.

Starting with party supremo Arvind Kejriwal who fought from the New Delhi constituency to BJP’s Parvesh Verma by a margin of 4,089 votes. On the same seat, Congress candidate Sandeep Dikshit got 4,568 votes, more than the margin by which the saffron party romped home.

The same story is repeated in Jangpura, Greater Kailash, and Chhatarpur assembly constituencies where the margin between the AAP and the BJP is less than the number of votes taken by the Congress.

In Jangpura, Manish Sisodia, the former Deputy Chief Minister lost to BJP’s Tarvinder Marwah. In the high-profile Greater Kailash constituency, Saurabh Bhardwaj met the same fate, courtesy, Congress.

The breakup of the following seats will give you a better idea about how Congress ate into AAP’s votes.

New Delhi: BJP victory margin 4,089 votes; Congress votes 4,568.

Chhatarpur: BJP victory margin 6,239 votes; Congress votes 6,601.

Jangpura: BJP victory margin 675 votes; Congress votes 7,350.

Badli: BJP victory margin 10,661 votes; Congress votes 31,130.

Sangam Vihar: BJP victory margin 344 votes; Congress votes 15,863.

Malviya Nagar: BJP victory margin 2,131 votes, Congress votes 6,770.

Rajinder Nagar: BJP victory margin 1,231 votes; Congress votes 4,015.

The BJP has come back to power in Delhi after 27 years with 48 seats.