As results indicate majority for Bharatiya Janata Party, Prime Minister Modi calls it ‘resounding and historic’ - Anadolu Ajansı

Congress leader Sandeep Dikshit concedes defeat in 2025 Delhi Assembly election as Congress faces third consecutive loss.

The sitting Chief Minister of Delhi defeated BJP's Ramesh Bidhuri in Kalkaji by a margin of 3521 votes. At the end of counting of votes, Atishi had 52154 votes while Bidhuri had 48633 votes. Congress' Alka Lamba managed 4392 votes.

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist party was trying to regain power in the federal territory that includes New Delhi on Wednesday as residents voted in a. Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party hasn’t won the territory that includes India’s capital of 20 million people in over a quarter-century.

Thousands began voting in the Indian capital’s state legislature election on Wednesday, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist party trying to unseat a powerful regional group that has ruled New Delhi for over a decade.

Incumbent Aam Aadmi Party on the back foot because of voter fatigue, but analysts predict a ‘much tougher fight’ between the parties.

Voting was underway on Wednesday in Delhi, the union territory that includes the capital of India, New Delhi, to decide the 70 members of its legislative assembly in a tight election whose results are scheduled to be declared on Saturday.

Two exit polls released on Wednesday gave BJP an edge over AAP in the Delhi assembly polls, one of the four analysed here gave the incumbent a third consecutive decisive mandate and another gave BJP an even clearer win.

Delhi votes in a fierce legislative assembly race, with key issues including corruption, unemployment, and welfare.