Delhi election result: Who is Parvesh Verma the giant slayer who defeated Kejriwal and could become next Delhi CM?

The BJP is all set to form the new government in New Delhi with its thumping performance in the assembly elections on February 5. BJP is leading in 48 seats, leaving AAP with just 22 in the 70-member house.

This will be the first time the BJP forms a government in Delhi since 1998. The previous BJP Chief Minister of Delhi was Sushma Swaraj, who was in office from October to December 1998.

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Who will be the next Delhi Chief Minister?

With the BJP comfortably crossing the majority mark in Delhi, the discussion has now shifted to who will become the next Chief Minister. Notably, the BJP did not have a CM face going into the elections. But the Leader of the Opposition in the Delhi Assembly, Vijender Gupta, former Lok Sabha MP Ramesh Bidhuri, who contested against Chief Minister Atishi, and former Lok Sabha MP Parvesh Verma, who contested against Arvind Kejriwal, were among those considered the front-runners.

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Bidhuri, who lost to Atishi in Kalkaji, has now been ruled out of the race, and Verma, who scripted arguably one of the biggest election upsets in India in recent times, is now the odds-on favourite to become the next Delhi Chief Minister.

Who is Parvesh Verma

Parvesh Sahib Singh Verma is the son of BJP leader and former Delhi Chief Minister Sahib Singh Verma, who held the post from 27 February 1996 to 12 October 1998.

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The 47-year-old MBA graduate made his electoral debut in 2013, winning the Delhi Assembly election from Mehrauli. Verma was elected to the Lok Sabha for the first time in the 2014 General Election, winning the West Delhi constituency by a record margin of 2,68,586 votes.

Verma retained the West Delhi seat in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, winning with an even bigger margin of 5.78 lakh votes.

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