AAP wins the Bawana seat by more than 25,000 votes

Voting was conducted on August 23 at 379 polling booths. The polling percentage remained low with only 45 per cent people turning up to cast their votes. One of the 12 reserved constituencies, Bawana has around 2.94 lakh voters and is dotted with 26 villages, unauthorised colonies and slums

Arnima Dwivedi
Published on: 28 Aug 2017 7:48 AM GMT
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New Delhi: Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has retained its Bawana Assembly seat in the by-poll in Delhi. AAP candidate Ram Chandra won the by-polls with a margin of over 25,000 votes, giving a boost to the party which is in power in Delhi.

AAP's Ram Chander got 59886 votes, while BJP's Ved Prakash manged to get 35834 votes and Congress's Surender Kumar got 31919 votes.

The by-poll was necessitated after Ved Prakash quit the AAP and resigned from the assembly seat to join the BJP.

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Voting was conducted on August 23 at 379 polling booths. The polling percentage remained low with only 45 per cent people turning up to cast their votes.

One of the 12 reserved constituencies, Bawana has around 2.94 lakh voters and is dotted with 26 villages, unauthorised colonies and slums.

Arnima Dwivedi

Arnima Dwivedi

A journalist, presently working as a sub-editor with newstrack.com. I love exploring new genres of humans and humanity.

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