Chandigarh, Feb. 9 -- In a better-than-expected performance, five out of the 11 Sikh faces who fought the Delhi assembly elections emerged victorious.

In the 2020 elections also 11 Sikhs had contested, out of which two - both belonging to the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) -- had won. Then, SAD an alliance partner of the BJP had backed out of the polls at the last moment protesting against the Citizens Amendment Act passed by the BJP government.

Surprisingly, all three Sikh candidates fielded by the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) this time -- Manjinder Singh Sirsa from Rajouri Garden, Arvinder Singh Lovely from Gandhi Nagar and Tarvinder Singh Marwah from Jungpur seat -- have won.

Sirsa, a two-former MLA, who also served as the president of the D...