While the BJP emerged as the biggest winner – securing five out of ten assembly seats – in the by-poll results that were announced on Thursday (April 13), it was the loss of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in Rajouri Garden assembly seat in Delhi that garnered more attention.
This was so because the Sikh-dominated Rajouri Garden had turned into a high-profile seat in the 2015 Delhi assembly election. Journalist-turned-AAP politician Jarnail Singh, infamous for throwing a shoe at P. Chidambaram in 2009 for his alleged failure to bring the perpetrators of 1984 anti-Sikh pogrom to task, took on political heavyweight

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