Cong wins 2 Shaheen Bagh wards in MCD polls

December 07, 2022 23:33

Women candidates from the Congress have emerged as winners in two wards in south Delhi which includes the Shaheen Bagh area, the epicentre of the 2019 anti-CAA protests, defeating their AAP rivals in both seats in the high-stakes municipal polls.

The Aam Aadmi Party on Wednesday won the Municipal Corporation of Delhi elections with 134 seats, and the BJP finished second with 104 seats, while the Congress was reduced to a meagre nine in the 250-member municipal corporation.

Former Okhla Congress MLA Asif Mohammad Khan's daughter Ariba won from the Abul Fazal Enclave, bagging 16,554 votes, defeating her AAP rival Wajid Khan with a margin of 1,479 votes.

In Zakir Nagar, Congress' Naziya Danish emerged victorious, edging past her AAP rival Salam Khan with a margin of 473, according to data shared by the State Election Commission.

Both these wards fall under the Okhla assembly constituency, held by AAP's Amanatullah Khan.

Shaheen Bagh falls in this area, and massive sit-in protests, led by a large number of women, were held there.

Congress' Delhi unit chief Anil Chaudhary, days ahead of the December 4 civic polls, had alleged that Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his Aam Aadmi Party had "wiped out" the rights of Dalits and minorities in Delhi.

"Arvind Kejriwal made remarks on Nizamuddin's Markaz and against the Shaheen Bagh agitation. He also wiped out the rights of Dalits, women and minorities with the jhadoo (broom)," he said. -- PTI

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