Atishi and four BJP women MLAs Mark Delhi’s fewest women legislators in a decade

The Delhi Meeting election outcomes witnessed a thumping victory of the Bharatiya Janata Get together (BJP) in Delhi as Aam Aadmi Get together (AAP) bigwigs conceded defeat failing to get the bulk mark. Regardless of this, it’s important to notice that the outgoing Delhi Chief Minister and AAP chief Atishi was among the many 5 notable women candidates who emerged victorious in the ballot race. 

Notably, that is the fewest variety of women legislators that Delhi has elected in a decade. 

Atishi was additionally the one lady who received from AAP in the 2025 Delhi Meeting elections retaining the Kalkaji constituency by defeating her opponent Ramesh Bhiduri of the BJP by a margin of three,521 votes. 

Massive win for four women BJP candidates 

The saffron fold’s four women candidates together with, Rekha Gupta from Shalimar Bagh, Poonam Sharma from Wazirpur, Neelam Pahelwan from Najafgarh, and Shikha Roy from Higher Kailash triumphed the elections. 

Rekha Gupta received from Shalimar Bagh with 68,200 votes defeating AAP’s Bandana Kumari by a big margin of 29,595. Poonam Sharma received from Wazirpur with 54,721 votes defeating AAP’s Rajesh Gupta by a margin of 11.425 votes. 

Neelam Pahelwan received from Najafgarh with 10,1708 votes defeating AAP candidate Tarun Kumar by a margin of 29,009 votes. Shikha Roy received from Higher Kailash with 49,594 votes defeating AAP candidate Saurabh Bharadwaj by a margin of three,188 votes. 

Of the whole 699 candidates in the fray this time, 96 have been women. 5 years earlier, 672 candidates fought the Meeting polls and of them 76 have been women. Eight women candidates had received in the 2020 Meeting polls.

Among the many three key political events in the elections, the BJP and AAP had fielded 9 women candidates every whereas the Congress had seven women nominees. All three events fielded extra women candidates this time than the 2020 Meeting polls.

The BJP on Saturday returned to energy in Delhi after greater than 27 years to comb away the Arvind Kejriwal-led AAP with a two-thirds majority on the again of a hyper-localised marketing campaign and Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s ‘AAP-da'(catastrophe) blitzkrieg.