New Delhi: The Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) gave the ruling Congress a severe hammering as it bagged 164 of the 272 wards in the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) polls.
As BJP swept the elections, the party's candidates recorded both the highest and lowest winning margins.
While BJP's prominent local leader Vijendra Gupta drubbed his nearest rival from Congress Manmohan Singh with the highest margin of 9,079 votes from the Rohini Central ward, the party's candidate from Malka Ganj ward, Shyam Lal barely managed to defeat the Congress' Thakur Das by two votes.
The BJP also saw the highest number of votes being polled with party candidate from Shalimar Garden (South) Ram Kishen Singhal getting 12,443 ballots.
An analysis of the results shows that the Kashmere Gate ward reserved for women saw the lowest number of 5,754 votes polled while Bawana, from where independent candidate Narain Singh won, polled the highest of 30,188 votes.
The BJP won 164 of the 272 wards in the freshly delimited MCD house-trouncing ruling Congress, which managed just 67 seats.
The polls also saw the Bahujan Samaj Party making inroads into the Capital with 17 seats while bit players like the Indian National Lok Dal-Bhartiya Janshakti combine and Jharkhand Mukti Morcha got just two seats each.
The independents also made a modest dent into the votes of the major parties by winning 15 seats. Ram Vilas Paswan's Lok Janshakti Party got three seats.
While the Congress stood far behind with 69 wards, Others — BSP, NCP, Jharkhand Mukti Morcha, Uma Bharti's Bharatiya Jansakthi Party-INLD combine and independents — managed to bag 39 wards.
(With agency inputs)
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