MCD polls: Wards in Jain, Sisodia’s Assembly constituencies swept by BJP

New Delhi: The BJP swept three of the four wards in the Patparganj Assembly segment and all three in the Shakur Basti constituency held by senior AAP leaders Manish Sisodia and Satyendar Jain — both targets of sustained attacks over corruption by the saffron party — in the MCD elections.
The BJP had mounted unrelenting attacks on Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Sisodia and jailed minister Jain in the run-up to the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) elections, the results of which were announced on Wednesday.
Delhi Lieutenant Governor VK Saxena had ordered a probe into the Delhi government’s now-scrapped excise policy that had led to a CBI raid on locations associated with Sisodia. The BJP said the AAP had used the excise policy to “receive kickbacks” and promised that Sisodia, who was “instrumental” in framing it, would “face the music and the law”.
In Patparganj, Sisodia’s Assembly constituency, the BJP has won three of four wards.
The BJP’s Renu Chaudhary bagged the Patparganj ward by 403 votes against the AAP candidate while the saffron party’s Ravinder Singh Negi won from Vinod Nagar ward by a margin of 2,311 against the AAP’s Kuldeep Bhandari. In Mandawali, the BJP’s Shashi Chandna defeated the AAP’s Reena Tomar by 186 votes.
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