Three Delhi BJP MLAs win in style in LS polls

Three of the four winning MLAs from last year's Delhi polls who contested Lok Sabha elections have replicated their Assembly poll triumphs by defeating their opponents in the national capital by huge margins.
The three winners today were all BJP candidates while the only one to lose out was AAP's Rakhi Birla.
Leading the chart for BJP was ex-Chief Minister Sahib Singh Verma'a son Parvesh Verma in the West Delhi constituency. He garnered 6,51,395 votes, leaving AAP's Jarnail Singh (3,82,809) and sitting Congress MP Mahabal Mishra (1,93,266) far behind.
The 36-year-old Verma scion had unseated former Delhi Assembly Speaker Yoganand Shastri in Mehrauli in the Assembly polls of December, 2013.

As the results came out today, BJP wrested all seven seats in Delhi from Congress but it was LS debutant AAP which claimed second spot in all the seats with Congress relegated to third in all of them.
Continuing the clinical performance for the party, BJP's Ramesh Bidhuri from South Delhi, who had won from Tughlaqabad in the 2013 Assembly polls, dealt a severe blow to his opponents, amassing a massive tally of 4,97,980 votes.

AAP's Col Devinder Sehrawat (3,90,980) and Congress's Ramesh Kumar (1,25,213) took second and third spots, respectively.
Finishing the line up was Delhi BJP chief Harsh Vardhan, who had scored an easy victory from the Krishna Nagar seat in the December polls and maintained an unassailable lead in the counting by polling 4,36,468 votes from Chandani Chowk seat till reports last came in.

Journalist-turned-politician Ashutosh of AAP, a debutant in the high-voltage elections in the capital garnered 3,00,515 votes, and sitting Congress MP Kapil Sibal was handed a humiliating defeat, managing just 1,75,619 votes to finish third.
The 65-year-old Congress leader had won in both 2004 and 2009 from this high-profile LS constituency but the anti- incumbency against Congress seemed difficult to ward off.
The AAP giant-killer from Mongolpuri Assembly seat in the Delhi polls, Rakhi Birla, 27 -- who had trounced Congress's four-time MLA and PWD minister Rajkumar Chouhan by a massive margin of 10,585 votes, however, had to be content with a second spot in the North-West Delhi Lok Sabha seat.

BJP's Udit Raj (56) totalled 6,29,860 against Birla's tally of 5,23,058 votes while sitting Congress MP Krishna Tirath (58) followed with 1,57,468 votes.