NEW DELHI, Feb 8: AAP chief and former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was defeated in his New Delhi bastion by BJP's Parvesh Verma, the son of another former Chief Minister, by 3,182 votes in a stunning fall for the IAS-turned-politician who rose to prominence with the anti-corruption movement led by Anna Hazare. Kejriwal's stunning defeat mirrored AAP's fortunes, with the BJP set to return in the national capital after a hiatus of 27 years.
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Kejriwal, battling corruption charges and the 'Sheesh Mahal' controversy, won the New Delhi seat for the first time in 2013 after defeating the then Delhi Chief Minister and veteran Congress leader Sheila Dikshit. He went on to win the high-profile seat in the 2015 and 2020 polls with hefty margins.
The win against Kejriwal in a high-profile seat like New Delhi marks a spectacular achievement for Parvesh Verma, the son of former BJP leader and Delhi Chief Minister Sahib Singh Verma. Verma, who rose up the BJP ranks after a longstanding association with the RSS as a 'shakha pramukh', took Kejriwal head-on during the campaigning, accusing him of neglecting the constituency's civic issues.
