MCD By Polls result : AAP and Cong won the seat, BJP loses !!!

(Pi Bureau)

 

 

New Delhi : In Delhi’s MCD By polls elections , AAP and congress has won one one seat in by polls. BJP has lost the both seats. AAP won the east Delhi’s Maujpur seat while Congress bagged the Sarai Pipal Thala seat in the municipal bypoll.  Results were declared by the Delhi Sate Election Commission on Tuesday morning. Now, of the 272 wards, BJP holds 184 seats, AAP 47 and Congress 31. The other have got 10 seats.

 

In Maujpur (ward 40 E), AAP candidate Reshma, who got 9374 votes won the seat. She defeated Congress candidate Rekha Sharma by a margin of 699 votes. Sharma managed to get 8675 votes.

 

In Sarai Pipal Thala ward, which was carved out after delimitation, Congress candidate and former leader of opposition in North Delhi Municipal Corporation, Mukesh Kumar Goel, won the bypoll with 10, 946 votes. Goel was earlier a two-time councillor from Dhirpur ward. BJP candidate Mangat Ram Sharma got 8203 votes.

 

The bypoll took place on these two seats on May 14 (Maujpur) and 21 (Sarai Pipal Thala) due to the death of two Samajwadi Party candidates.