All 70 assembly seats are to be voted on February 05 under the Delhi Assembly elections. On February 08, votes will be counted. Delhi’s Kalkaji seat is going to take a tough fight. Delhi Chief Minister Atishi is contesting from this seat. At the same time, Alka Lamba, President of All India Mahila Congress, is also contesting from this seat on Congress ticket. At the same time, the Bharatiya Janata Party has made former MP Ramesh Bidhuri its candidate.
13 candidates are contesting elections on this seat
13 candidates from Delhi’s Kalkaji seat have come out to try their luck in the electoral fray. On behalf of Aam Aadmi Party, Atishi, Ramesh Bidhuri of Bharatiya Janata Party, Alka Lamba of Congress Party, Pritam Singh of BSP Party and candidates of many small parties have contested. The Congress claims that this seat will have a triangular contest. So at the same time, the BJP claims that the main fight on this seat is between AAP candidate Atishi and his party candidate. Please tell that the AAP party has won the election twice in this seat.
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Kalkaji seat profile
Kalkaji assembly seat is located in South Delhi. There is a famous temple of mother by the name Kalkaji here. In 2008, Kalkaji seat was formed after delimitation. It is part of the South Delhi Lok Sabha constituency. According to Election Commission data, there were 1,06,743 voters in Kalkaji constituency during the 2020 Delhi assembly elections. In which the male voters were 59,157 and the female voters were 47,583.
Electoral history
Let us know that in the 2020 Delhi assembly elections, AAP party candidate Atishi won this seat by a margin of 11,393 votes. During this, Atishi got 55,897 votes with 52.28% vote share. Atishi defeated Bharatiya Janata Party candidate Dharambir Singh. Dharambir Singh received 44,504 votes. Congress candidate Shivani Chopra finished third with 4,965 votes.
