he ruling AAP in the national Capital in this Lok Sabha polls has lost the Assembly segments which it had won in the last Assembly polls dominated by the minorities. AAP along with Congress as part of the INDIA Bloc failed to prevent BJP in any of the seven Lok Sabha berths.

Data analysed by The Pioneer revealed that the Muslim dominated area, including northeast Delhi assembly seat and Chandni Chowk assembly seat, preferred INDIA alliance candidates yet the locality under jurisdiction of AAP MLAs have been lost massively.

According to the 2011 Census, the minority Muslim population is about 12.9 per cent in Delhi with the North east seat having the highest share with 20.7 per cent Muslims residing in the area. While the constituency recorded the highest voting percentage at 58.3 per cent, the data shows that three Muslim dominated assembly constituencies, including Seelampur, Mustafabad, and Babarpur, voted in favour for the Congress candidate Kanhaiya Kumar.

In Seelampur, Kanhaiya secured 88,708 votes, ahead by a margin of 50, 741 votes while Tiwari was trailing behind him by 25,187 in Mustafabad assembly seat. In a clash of two Bihari babus, the student leader turned politician was ahead by a margin of 15,915 by securing 75,047 votes in Babarpur area.

Each seat saw a voting percentage of over 65 per cent, however failing to swing the seat in favour of the joint Congress and INDIA alliance candidate who lost the seat by a margin of over 1.3 lakh votes.

The Chandni Chowk seat, which saw a battle between poll debutante Praveen Khandelwal and five time MP JP Agarwal, include muslim dominated assembly seats like Chandni Chowk, Matia Mahal and Ballimaran, which recorded voting percentages of 56.8 per cent, 67.20 per cent, and 64.7 per cent respectively.

The two MP from Chandni Chowk was ahead in Ballimaran by a margin of 28,894 votes while the Confederation of All India Traders (CAIT) founder trailed behind by 47,613 votes in Matia Mahal. Agarwal secured 42,512 votes in Chandni Chowk assembly seat leading by the margin of 15,378 votes.

In East Delhi constituency, Okhla, an area with Muslim-dominated pockets, 1,33,989 voters cast their votes for the joint AAP and INDIA alliance candidate Kuldeep Kumar ahead by 73,818 votes from BJP's Harshdeep Malhotra. The seat recorded a voting percentage of 52.2 per cent.