The Bharatiya Janata Party's Veena Asija won the Ashok Vihar MCD bypolls after beating the Aam Aadmi Party's Seema Goyal. The counting for the bypolls took place on December 3, with the BJP winning seven and AAP winning three wards.
The saffron party's candidate, Asija, won the bypoll with a margin of 405 votes after securing 8883 votes in comparison to Seema's 8478. BJP retained this ward, having won it in the 2022 MCD Elections too. BJP's Poonam Sharma had won the civic body polls in 2022 after beating Aam Aadmi Party's (AAP) Reeta Khari by just 156 votes. Later, Sharma won the Wazirpur Assembly seat in the 2025 Delhi Assembly polls by defeating the AAP candidate Rajesh Gupta by 11,425 votes, which mandated Ashok Vihar to undergo the bypolls.
AAP alleged the BJP for 'chori', wondering how its candidate lost, citing that its candidate had won. "Ashok Vihar seat - Aam Aadmi Party won, this is the result on the website. Now they are saying the BJP won in the recounting. How can this be possible?" AAP President Saurabh Bharadwaj said while posting a screenshot.
AAP's media in-charge, Anurag Dhanda, also hit out at the BJP. "This is the BJP openly perpetrating fraud in the elections in broad daylight. When the Aam Aadmi Party won the 10/10 round by 179 votes, then how was the result changed?" Dhanda reposted Bharadwaj's post.
Meanwhile, the party reposted the posts. "The BJP is openly stealing in the by-elections," AAP Delhi wrote on its social media.
BJP bags seven wards, AAP takes three
Coming to the results of the MCD bypolls, the BJP clinched seven of the 12 wards. Coming into the bypolls, the saffron party was held by the BJP, while the remaining three belonged to AAP. Meanwhile, AAP retained three wards. Congress and the All India Forward Bloc secured one each. BJP won the Dwarka B, Vinod Nagar, Ashok Vihar, Greater Kailash, Dichaon Kalan, Shalimar Bagh B and Chandni Chowk wards. Notably, AAP won Naraina, Mundka and Dakshin Puri. The All India Forward Bloc candidate Mohd Imran won the Chandni Mahal ward.
