In South Delhi, BJP’s Ramvir Bidhuri sails past AAP candidate
Ramvir Bidhuri secured 6.92 lakh votes and was leading by 1.24 lakh votes from the nearest rival AAP's Pehelwan. Pehelwan had receieved 5.68 lakh votes.
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In 2019, Ramesh Bidhuri was the BJP candidate who was picked by the party this time. (File Photo)BJP’s South Delhi candidate Ramvir Bidhuri on Tuesday defeated his nearest rival and Aam Aadmi Party candidate Sahiram Pehelwan. However, this time the vote percentage of BJP’s winner has reduced by 2.54 percentage points when compared with the results of 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
The South Delhi Lok Sabha seat has been the home turf of BJP as it has won this constituency for two consecutive terms earlier. In 2019, the vote percentage for the south Delhi candidate was recorded at 56 percent which dropped to 53.46 percent this time.
In 2019, Ramesh Bidhuri was the BJP candidate who was picked by the party this time.
Bidhuri secured 6.92 lakh votes and was leading by 1.24 lakh votes from the nearest rival AAP’s Pehelwan. Pehelwan had receieved 5.68 lakh votes. Bahujan Samaj Party’s candidate Abdul Basit was a distant third with only 9,861 votes. A total of 22 candidates had contested from the South Delhi seat including 2 independent candidates.
Born in 1952 in a family of farmers in South Delhi’s Tughlakabad, Ramvir Bidhuri is a sitting MLA of BJP representing Badarpur assembly constituency and is also the Leader of the Opposition in the Delhi Assembly. He is a Political Science graduate from Delhi University’s Deshbandhu College. He began his political journey with the Saffron brigade when he joined the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad (ABVP) in 1970. He also had been an active worker of the BJP’s predecessor Jan Sangh.
Elected as a member of the first Delhi Legislative Assembly in 1993, Bidhuri has since been elected four times as an MLA. After he won the assembly election in 2020, BJP chose him to be the LoP in Delhi assembly becuase he was the senior most legislator among BJP’s 8 winners. He was also appointed a member of BJP’s National Executive in 2013.
From the South Delhi seat, the BJP’s earlier candidate Ramesh Bidhuri won twice in 2014 and 2019. In September 2023, Ramesh Bidhuri had triggered a controversy in the Lok Sabha when he made violent anti-Muslim slurs against Bahujan Samaj Party’s MP Danish Ali.
The South Delhi seat encompasses a diverse mix of urban areas, high-end localities, and bustling markets and comprises Bijwasan, Palam, Mehrauli, Chhatarpur, Deoli (SC), Ambedkar Nagar (SC), Sangam Vihar, Kalkaji, Tughlakabad and Badarpur assembly segments.
In his first 100-day road map, Bidhuri had announced that he would ensure the extended population of villages outside ‘lal dora’ is regularised. He also spoke of a master plan to eliminate heavy traffic congestion in Sangam Vihar, Deoli and Chattarpur. He had also promised that 69 affluent colonies will be regularised.
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