Delhi Assembly Elections 2025: In a neck-and-neck electoral battle, BJP’s Shikha Rai has defeated AAP’s Saurabh Bhardwaj in the highly contested Greater Kailash Assembly constituency in South Delhi.
According to the ECI data, Rai defeated Bharadwaj by just 3188 votes and won 49594 votes from the constituency.
Who is Shikha Rai?
The 60-year-old Shikha Rai is the BJP councillor for the second time from ward number 173 of the Greater Kailash assembly seat. She was also the mayor candidate from BJP in the year 2023. She has a post-graduate degree, and has estimated total assets amount to Rs 16.1 Crore, while liabilities stand at Rs 3.1 Crore as per media reports.
On Saturday, Rai told the media that she is confident that BJP will form the government with a huge majority. She also dismissed the allegations levelled by AAP, saying that they are proof that they are losing the elections. “The people of Delhi also want development like the other states that have a double-engine government,” she told ANI.
Last month, Rai had said that the voters have changed their mind this time against the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP).
“This time, we have seen a lot of change in the voter’s mind. Because for the last 10 or 5 years they are themselves suffering, you know, what has been done by the Kejriwal government in Delhi. So that’s why they need a change,” she told NDTV. Slamming the AAP government, she said, “The very basic amenities which people have a right over, even they are not provided to them. So see, when it is summers, people of Delhi do not get water. When it’s rainy season, all the roads are flooded When it comes winters, there is a lot of pollution.”
What happened in 2020 Delhi Assembly Elections?
In the last Delhi Assembly Elections Results, Greater Kailash recorded a historically high voter turnout of around 60 percent. AAP’s Saurabh Bhardwaj won the last two elections, securing 60,372 votes in 2020 and defeating BJP’s Shikha Rai by 16,809 votes. The Congress candidate, Sukhbir Singh Pawar, received only 3,339 votes.