Parvesh & Marwah giant slayers, defeat AAP chief, Sisodia

BJP’s Parvesh Verma emerged as a giant slayer on Saturday as he defeated AAP convener and former CM Arvind Kejriwal by 4,089 votes in a fiercely contested poll from the New Delhi Assembly constituency.

Parvesh (47) bagged 30,088 votes while Kejriwal got 25,999. A two-term MP from West Delhi and the son of former Delhi CM Sahib Singh Verma, Parvesh also trounced Congress stalwart Sandeep Dikshit, who could manage only 4,568 votes. His victory was not dissimilar to Kejriwal’s win in 2013 when he dethroned three-time CM and Congress candidate Sheila Dikshit.

One among frontrunners for the CM’s post, Parvesh reached out to the maximum voters in a door-to-door campaign two months before the poll.

BJP’s Tarvinder Singh Marwah emerged as another prominent winner as he defeated former Deputy CM Manish Sisodia, in Jangpura by 675 votes.

Saurabh Bharadwaj, another top AAP leader, lost to BJP’s Shikha Roy in Greater Kailash by 3,188 votes. Satyendar Jain, Rakhi Bidlan, Raghuvinder and Somnath Bharti were other prominent AAP losers.

From the BJP, the biggest loser turned out to be national general secretary Dushyant Kumar Gautam, who lost to AAP’s Vishesh Ravi in Karol Bagh by a margin of 7,430 votes.