NFHS-5 data shows that just 25 percent of the households in the national capital had one member covered under a health insurance scheme, while the corresponding ratio for Chandigarh was 32 percent
Atishi claimed that Prime Minister Narendra Modi does not trust any of the 48 BJP MLAs elected in Delhi and alleged that the party has no vision or plan for governance.
The BJP's Delhi legislature party is expected to meet on Sunday where the name of the next chief minister will be finalised. The process is likely to gather pace after Prime Minister Narendra Modi's arrival in Delhi.
The legislature party of the BJP is set to meet on Sunday to select their leader. The meeting will be presided over by two senior party leaders in the form of central observers.
In an interview, Delhi Congress chief Devender Yadav admitted that the party’s continued absence in the Assembly was a setback but insisted that there was a silver lining.
The party, which ruled Delhi for over 10 years, could maintain its hold in SC and Muslim dominated seats
The defeat in Delhi puts a question mark over the future, not only of AAP, but of the INDIA political bloc
From Parvesh Verma to Arvind Kejriwal and Atishi to Manish Sisodia, here's a list of five big winners and losers of Delhi polls 2025.
Despite retaining her seat in Kalkaji, Atishi's resignation came as part of a broader response to the AAP's performance, where the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) reasserted its dominance by securing 48 out of the 70 assembly seats,
Of the total 699 candidates in the fray this time, 96 were women.
Sweeping away the AAP from Delhi, the BJP won 48 seats in the 70-member assembly to extend its saffron footprint in the country. The Congress has drawn a blank in the polls once again after 2015 and 2020.
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.
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.
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
Rathee, who has built a large following for his political commentary, was quick to offer his views on the electoral defeat. In a post on X, Rathee attributed AAP’s loss to multiple factors, including the BJP's sustained efforts to undermine Kejriwal's government.
In its manifesto, the BJP promised substantial reduction in air pollution. In its final part of 'Viksit Delhi, Sankalp Patra 2025', the party vowed to reduce PM2.5 and PM10 levels by half in the next five years if voted to power.
AAP chief and former Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal faced a stunning defeat in his New Delhi stronghold, losing to BJP's Parvesh Verma, son of a former Chief Minister, by 3,182 votes. This marks a dramatic setback for the IAS officer-turned-politician who rose to fame through Anna Hazare's anti-corruption movement. Watch here for more details
The double-engine government will take the pace of development in Delhi to a new high, he said in a post on X.
RSSFACTS: BJP didn’t experiment with a high-octane campaign on national issues, nor did it thrust a chief ministerial candidate at the last moment. These two factors have been its undoing in the past. RSS provided the force multiplier by identifying 10 broad categories around which all the meetings were held with locals across Delhi.
The AAP supremo, who was eyeing his fourth straight win, was defeated by BJP's Parvesh Verma from New Delhi - one of the most high-profile seats. In Jangpura, AAP leader Manish Sisodia lost to BJP's Tarvinder Singh Marwah.
Parvesh Verma, a two-time MP from West Delhi has defeated Kejriwal with a margin of over 3000 votes.
The Congress, which failed to win a single seat in the Assembly elections in 2015 and 2020, did not succeed at opening its account in the capital this time around too.
With the middle class forming 67.16 percent of Delhi’s population—roughly 28.26 lakh households—political parties had every reason to court this influential demographic.
Manish Sisodia, a senior AAP leader and former Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi, concedes his defeat against BJP candidate Tarvinder Singh.
Delhi Election Result 2025: The results of the Delhi Assembly elections showed the BJP returning to power in the national capital after a gap of 27 years.