Patparganj finally returned the Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia to Delhi Assembly for the third time in a row but it gave anxious movements to him and his supporters. The ding-dong battle between Manish Sisodia and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP's) Ravinder Singh Negi continued till the 11th round when the 'lady luck' finally smiled upon Sisodia, and he romped home by 3,000 votes much to the relief and delight of AAP leadership and its anxious supporters.
"The people of Delhi haveonce again defeated the hate mongered politics and voted for the politics of dedicated work and welfare. Also, vote is on the good Education Model. I am very happy and thankful to the people of Patparganj and Delhi who once again believed in us and gave the party another chance and opportunity to continue working for them. Delhi has created history and is happening for the first time in the Nation where hate politics has been defeated by the people," said Sisodia after the formal announcement of his victory.
AAP leader retained his Assembly Constituency (AC) with a hat trick win by securing marginal vote of 3,271. Total seat secured by Sisodia was 69,974. While, Negi secured 66,703.
Defeating BJP's candidate Negi from Patparganj seat, Sisodia scored a hat- trick of win from this seat falling in the east Delhi Lok Sabhaa constituency. Even though there was a close fight between the AAP and its rival BJP in the Assembly constituency (AC).
The vote counting in the AC began with a sprint in round 1 and 2 with Sisodia leading with a thin margin with securing 3,846 and 8,791 votes. While, BJP's candidate Negi was second with 3,734 and 8,717 vote share. However, the match turned interesting as the BJP candidate surged into lead and maintained it till the 11th round. Negi took the lead in third round leaving Sisodia behind with a margin of 1,427 votes in round three.
After round three, BJP's Negi started leading, while, the vote share of Sisodia was lagging behind. Sisodia's vote gap graph kept narrowing and widening with a small and huge difference, such as 754 in round four, 1,576 in Round five and 2,182 in round six and it continued till round 10.
However, after the Round 10, the race turned on to its head with Sisodia recovering and neutralising his vote with a thin margin of 650 in Round 11 and started leading the match with taking a long jump of 2,073 vote defeating Negi.
The results was declared with a major relief after round 15 with a tough and close fight between the two party and the Deputy Chief won the seat with hat trick win and a margin of 3271 votes.
Also, the vote counting graph which was kept decreasing and increasing with tick-tick nervousness among the AAP and Sisodia, who were curiously sitting at the counting centre
Besides, there interesting battle was also witnessed at Krishna Nagar seat between BJP's Anil Goyal and AAP's Bagga, where AAP was in a tough and close fight in second position with a close margin of 2500- 3000 seats running behind BJP till round 13, but with a surprising jump Bagga started leading after round 14. Bagga won the seat after 16 round of counting with a margin of 4,127 votes.
While, in Laxmi Nagar, AAP's Nitin Tyagi was leading till round 11 lost the seat to BJP's Abhay Verma with a margin of 760 votes.
Apart from this, in the East Delhi Constituency, AAP's Kuldeep Kumar defeated BJP's Raj Kumar in Kondli AC with a huge margin of 17,964 votes. AAP's Rohit Kumar also clean swept the Trilokpuri seat with a huge margin of 12,526 by defeating BJP's Kiran.
While, in Gandhi Nagar constituency, BJP's MLA candidate Anil Kumar Bajpai won the seat by defeating AAP's Naveen Chaudhary. Bajpai swept the seat with a margin of 6,153 votes.