BJP comes to power in Delhi after 27 years, winning 48 seats out of 70. What does AAP's heavy loss mean for its national party status?
Mann's remarks came after a meeting with AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal today, which took place just days after AAP's crushing defeat in the February 5 Delhi Assembly elections.
The party, which ruled Delhi for over 10 years, could maintain its hold in SC and Muslim dominated seats
Our focus was on 52 assembly seats, which we won in the Lok Sabha. I thought if the same people were voting for us in the Lok Sabha election, then why were they not voting for us in the Vidhan Sabha, says the Delhi BJP chief.
Several BJP leaders are in contention for the chief ministerial post, including Parvesh Verma, the giant killer who defeated Arvind Kejriwal from New Delhi and Manoj Tiwari, the former Delhi BJP president.
Saxena also reminded Atishi that he had previously warned former CM Arvind Kejriwal about the 'curse of Yamuna' after the Supreme Court stopped a project to clean the river.
The defeat in Delhi puts a question mark over the future, not only of AAP, but of the INDIA political bloc
AAP’s losses were not just limited to the Yamuna belt. The party suffered a significant decline in rural and semi-urban areas, particularly in outer Delhi, where BJP flipped 10 seats that AAP had won in 2020.
Founded in 2012, AAP rose to prominence with Kejriwal’s leadership, claiming Delhi’s CM seat, facing controversies, achieving national status, and ultimately losing its Delhi dominance to BJP in the 2025 assembly elections.
The BJP made a thumping comeback in Delhi after nearly 27 years. It delivered a decisive blow to the Aam Aadmi Party in a sweeping victory that further expands its saffron footprint across the country. The BJP secured 48 out of 70 seats, while AAP was reduced to just 22. The Congress, once a dominant force in Delhi, drew a blank for the third consecutive assembly election. AAP veteran and former Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia was defeated in Jangpura, while party supremo Arvind Kejriwal also lost New Delhi.
Arvind Kejriwal directed the newly elected MLAs to serve the people and solve their problems, she said
BJP's strong performance across all regions and communities in the polls has left the party with a wide pool of potential chief ministerial candidates
In the video, Atishi, who secured the Kalkaji seat by defeating BJP’s Bidhuri with a margin of 3,521 votes, was seen dancing with her supporters.
There are 11 assembly seats in Delhi where Muslim voters play a decisive role. In all these constituencies, voter turnout exceeded 55 per cent, with most seats witnessing over 60 per cent polling.
It was PM Modi’s cabinet initiative that a new pay commission was announced by the Cabinet and secondly, the rebates on IT returns announced in the Budget 2025 played its part in swaying the middle class towards the BJP.
He said the people of Delhi have "short-circuited the politics of short-cuts" and asserted that the mandate has made it clear that there's no space for corruption and lies in politics.
They attributed the loss to his "shift" away from the promise of alternative politics and accused him of betraying the aspirations of those who had backed the anti-corruption movement.
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has secured a resounding victory in the Delhi Assembly Elections 2025, ending AAP’s decade-long rule in the national capital. As BJP workers erupted in celebrations across Delhi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrived at the party headquarters to address supporters. The BJP headquarters turned into a sea of saffron, with thousands of enthusiastic party workers cheering, waving flags, and chanting slogans. Joining the celebrations were Union Home Minister Amit Shah, BJP National President JP Nadda, and other senior party leaders, who hailed the victory as a historic mandate for development. 'India needs fresh blood to purge politics of deceit': PM Modi invites youth to join politics. Watch here for more
Training his guns on the Congress, Prime Minister Narendra Modi said people have again given a big message to the party and it has secured a "double hat-trick" in the national capital.
While Paswan, 38, polled over 1.46 lakh votes, his nearest rival Samajwadi Party's Ajit Prasad, 42, garnered 84,687 votes, it said.
The BJP has secured a majority in the Delhi Assembly elections. Party leaders and workers celebrated their victory across the national capital, with their counterparts in other states also joining in. AAP’s top leaders, including national convenor and former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia, Saurabh Bharadwaj and Satyendar Jain, have lost their elections. Kejriwal lost the high-profile New Delhi seat to BJP’s Parvesh Verma by a margin of 4,089 votes. The Bharatiya Janata Party is poised to form a government in Delhi after more than 26 years.
AAP on Saturday was restricted to 22 seats, 14 short of forming a majority. While the party increased its vote share from 4.26 per cent in 2020 to over six per cent in 2025, it failed to win even a single seat for third consecutive term
A hard fought victory in Delhi and a resounding one in UP’s Milkipur bypoll have wholly overturned the political mood of June 2024. Three successive state assembly victories have increased BJP’s relative strength in Indian politics and diminished the bargaining capacity of its NDA allies
Congress general secretary in-charge communications Jairam Ramesh said the assembly election results reflected nothing more than a referendum on Kejriwal and AAP
That was 2013. Twelve years later, that dream of being a pan-India party and a national level leader is beginning to come undone for the bureaucrat-activist who chose to become a politician – not by joining an established party but starting his own from ground up.