BJP Wins 7 of 12 MCD By-Election Wards in Delhi

The Bharatiya Janata Party secured seven of the 12 wards in by-elections for the Municipal Corporation of Delhi on Wednesday, bolstering its position in the city's civic body following polling on November 30. The results, announced by the state election commission, saw the Aam Aadmi Party claim three seats, while the Congress and the All India Forward Bloc each won one.

The by-elections filled vacancies created when 11 MCD councillors were elected to the Delhi Assembly in February and one to Parliament earlier in the year. Voting occurred across 580 booths from 7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., with 51 candidates, including 26 women, contesting the seats. Of the 12 wards, nine had been held by the BJP and three by the AAP prior to the polls.

The BJP's victories came in Ashok Vihar, where Veena Asija prevailed; Chandni Chowk, won by Suman Kumar Gupta over AAP's Harsh Sharma by 1,182 votes; Dwarka B, secured by Manisha Devi with a margin of 7,307 votes; Dichaon Kalan, taken by Rekha Rani; Greater Kailash, claimed by Anjum Mandal by 4,065 votes; Shalimar Bagh B, where Anita Jain defeated AAP's Babita Rana by more than 10,000 votes; and Vinod Nagar, won by Sarla Choudhry by 1,769 votes. The...