AAP-Cong. combine fails to stop BJP from repeating clean sweep in Delhi
The HinduThe Bharatiya Janata Party won all seven Lok Sabha seats in Delhi for the third time in a row, defeating the Aam Aadmi Party and the Congress that came together under a 4-3 seat-sharing alliance to consolidate the anti-BJP votes. The voters of Delhi, in their verdict declared on Tuesday, made it clear that while they backed AAP with consecutive victories with over 50% vote share in the State elections, they have reposed faith in the BJP to represent them in Parliament. The BJP’s campaign — centred around the work done by its government at the Centre and the portrayal of AAP as a party mired in corruption — seems to have worked against Delhi’s ruling party, which termed PM Narendra Modi a “dictator” who would go to any lengths to “destroy” AAP and other Opposition parties. Ramvir Singh Bidhuri, Harsh Malhotra, Kamaljeet Sehrawat and Yogender Chandoliya won from South Delhi, East Delhi, West Delhi and North West Delhi respectively.