Who is BJP’s Tarvinder Singh Marwah who handed defeat to AAP stalwart Manish Sisodia?

BJP's Tarvinder Singh Marwah with Amit Shah during campaigning. (File photo/PTI)

Aam Aadmi Party's second-in-command and former Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia on Saturday conceded defeat to Bharatiya Janata Party's Tarvinder Singh Marwah
BJP’s Tarvinder Singh Marwah in the Jangpura constituency.

According to Election Commission data, 38,859 votes were polled in favour of Tarvinder Singh Marwah after 10 rounds of counting while Manish Sisodia got 38,184 votes. Sisodia lost by a margin of 675 votes.

Conceding defeat, Sisodia said, "Party workers fought well; we all did hard work. People have supported us as well. But, I lost by 600 votes. I congratulate the candidate who won. I hope he will work for the constituency."

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Who is Tarvinder Singh Marwah?

After being the Jangpura MLA from 1998 to 2013 from the Congress camp, Marwah jumped the shit and joined the BJP in 2022.

Hailing from the Sikh community, which comprises a sizeable section of the electorate along with Punjabis in the constituency, Marwah has pushed hard to regain lost ground.

The BJP candidate faced a fierce competition from AAP stalwart Sisodia and Congress’ Farhad Suri in a triangular contest in the Jangpura seat, which comprises a mix of upper middle-class and lower-class segments with Jatavs, Balmikis, Saini and Dhobi (washermen) communities besides Muslims, according to a News18 report.

This was the first time Sisodia contested the Jangpura seat. He had earlier represented the Patparganj seat between 2013-2024. In the 2020 assembly polls, he won the seat by narrow margins.

In Jangpura, Sisodia faced the charge of "outsider” from Marwah, who has won thrice from the constituency in the past. In his campaign, the BJP leader focused to make a narrative of ‘local versus outsider’ whereas Sisodia harped on AAP’s promises and freebies.