BJP’s Kamaljeet Sehrawat wins in West Delhi
In the Lok Sabha elections this year, BJP — which earlier bagged the seat twice — fielded Sehrawat replaced party leader Parvesh Sahib Singh Verma, who had won from the West Delhi constituency in 2019.
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West Delhi BJP candidate Kamaljeet Sehrawat (Image source: PTI )BJP’s Kamaljeet Sehrawat won the West Delhi constituency with 8.42 lakh votes — a margin of over 1.99 lakh votes — with a 55% vote share. AAP’s Mahabal Mishra came second with 6.43 lakh votes.
A law graduate and former PG teacher, Sehrawat is acknowledged for her “public connect” and various organisational positions in the Delhi BJP as well as the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD), she was also a mayor of the erstwhile South MCD from 2017 to 2018.
In the Lok Sabha elections this year, BJP — which earlier bagged the seat twice — fielded Sehrawat replaced party leader Parvesh Sahib Singh Verma, who had won from the West Delhi constituency in 2019.
Sehrawat, who had lost the 2008 Delhi Assembly elections, rose in the organisational ranks of the party’s state unit over decades — from serving as a district vice-president from Najafgarh to secretary, BJP Mahila Morcha president, and Delhi BJP’s vice-president. At present, she is the only woman general secretary of three such posts in the Delhi BJP unit.
In the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, Verma had defeated AAP’s Balbir Singh Jakar from the seat with 8.65 lakh against the latter’s 2.51 lakh.
AAP’s Mishra — a former Congress leader and the senior-most among the four AAP candidates this year — who joined the Arvind Kejriwal-led party in November 2022 was earlier a Congress MP from West Delhi. He has been active in the Capital’s political corridors for the last three decades.
Established in 2008, the West Delhi seat is one of the seven parliamentary constituencies in the NCT of Delhi which emerged as a part of the implementation of the recommendations by the Delimitation Commission of India.
The West Delhi constituency comprises 10 Vidhan Sabha (legislative Assembly) constituencies — Madipur (SC), Rajouri Garden, Hari Nagar, Tilak Nagar, Janakpuri, Vikaspuri, Uttam Nagar, Dwarka, Matiala, and Najafgarh.
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