Delhi Elections: Sandeep Dikshit Congratulates Parvesh Verma For 'Splendid Victory' From New Delhi

Sandeep Dikshit, whose mother Sheila Dikshit was a three-time chief minister of Delhi who also represented the seat, took to X to congratulate BJP's Parvesh Verma.

File photo of Congress leader Sandip Dikshit.

Source : PTI

New Delhi: Sandeep Dikshit, the Congress candidate from New Delhi assembly constituency, on Saturday congratulated BJP's Parvesh Verma for winning the seat by defeating three-time sitting MLA and AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal.

Dikshit, whose mother Sheila Dikshit was a three-time chief minister of Delhi who also represented the seat, took to X to congratulate Verma.

"Congratulations for your splendid victory from New Delhi," he wrote in Hindi, tagging Verma.

New Delhi was billed as a high profile seat where Dikshit was locked in a direct contest with Kejriwal and Verma.

नई दिल्ली से आपकी शानदार जीत के लिए बहुत बहुत बधाई@p_sahibsingh

— Sandeep Dikshit (@_SandeepDikshit) February 8, 2025

For the AAP national convenor, the face of the party borne of an anti-corruption movement in 2013, it was a tantalising seesaw ending in despair.

As the morning progressed, Kejriwal was trailing, then leading and then trailing again. And at end of day came the verdict -- he had lost by 4,089 votes to Verma, the son of former Delhi chief minister Sahib Singh Verma.

Dikshit finished a distant third with 4,568 votes, which was more than the victory margin for the seat.

Harish Khurana, son of another former Delhi chief minister Madan Lal Khurana, also won on a BJP ticket from Moti Nagar, defeating AAP's Shivcharan Goel by 11,657 votes. 

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