Kejriwal holds review meeting over defeat on 8 Delhi assembly seats

To understand shortcomings in ir preparation and execution,  Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) held a review meeting over ir defeat in eight Assembly seats in Delhi elections. This meeting was held at Kejriwal's house and was attended by all senior leaders of party. During meeting, all possible reasons for defeat in eight constituencies were scrutinized.  

Candidates submit reasons for defeat 

candidates who contested on eight lost seats submitted a list of reasons to party for ir loss. Kejriwal instructed party leaders to maintain touch with public on all eight seats. He also asked leaders to work in a proactive manner to solve ir issues, irrespective of result, in days ahead. 

Special focus was given to a few seats on which leaders were defeated by a very close margin. Laxmi Nagar was one such constituency from where AAP candidate Nitin Tyagi lost to BJP's Abhay Verma by just 880 votes. Arvind Kejriwal also instructed leaders to hold discussions with public regarding work being done by state government and its various schemes. 

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Delhi elections result 

Soon after counting of votes for 70 seats of Delhi Assembly began at 8 am, AAP mand to take an early lead leaving Congress and BJP behind. Celebrations started taking place at AAP headquarters as early vote-counting trends showed a comfortable victory for party. With time, margins between AAP and BJP, Congress increased following which Arvind Kejriwal-led registered a thumping victory. 

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Arvind Kejriwal’s party secured 53.57% of votes in national capital and won on 62 seats out of 70 constituencies in assembly. BJP, on or hand, who contested with ir allies JD(U) and LJP secured nearly 40 per cent of votes and won eight seats. Congress, a party that has ruled national capital for many years under leadership of former CM Sheila Dikshit, won zero seats in election with only 4.26 per cent of vote share.  

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While AAP's Sanjeev Jha recorded biggest victory margin of over 88,000 votes from Burari, AAP's Amanatullah won Okhla with a margin of 71,000 votes. Patparganj constituency witnessed a neck to neck contest between AAP's Manish Sisodia and BJP's Ravinder Singh Negi with latter leading all throughout counting only to trail behind Sisodia in end. Sisodia, however, won with only a thin margin. 

(With ANI Inputs) 

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