Four Muslim candidates make it to Delhi Assembly
The Hindu
AAP wins 6 out of 7 Muslim-majority seats in Delhi Assembly election despite split in community votes.
The Delhi Assembly election saw a division of Muslim votes but despite that the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) managed to win six out of the seven seats which have a substantial population of the community.
A total of four Muslim candidates made it to the Delhi Assembly, down from five last time.
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The four winning Muslim candidates are Imran Hussain from Ballimaran, Aaley Mohammed Iqbal from Matia Mahal, Amanatullah Khan from Okhla and Chaudhary Zubair Ahmad from Seelampur. All four contested on an AAP ticket.
In 2020, the AAP won all the seven seats with a substantial Muslim population - Okhla, Babarpur, Mustafabad, Seelampur, Matia Mahal, Ballimaran and Chandni Chowk. This time it won six barring Mustafabad which saw a three-way split of the Muslim vote between the AAP, All India Majlis-E-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM), and the Congress.
While in 2020, the Muslims had by and large voted for the AAP, there was a split in the community's vote this time but not enough to dent the party's chances in Muslim-dominated areas.
The only exception was Mustafabad where a split in votes among the three Muslim candidates of AAP, AIMIM, and the Congress paved the way for a big win of the Bharatiya Janata Party's Mohan Singh Bisht from Mustafabad by 17,578 votes.
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