India, Feb. 11 -- The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the recently concluded elections won 48 out of the 70 seats, making inroads in Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)-dominated constituencies, and retaining most of its seats barring one - Badarpur.

Won in 2020, the Badarpur seat flipped to the AAP instead, with the constituency continuing a three-decade trend of never re-electing an incumbent MLA.

Badarpur was one of the eight seats the BJP had won in 2020, with Ramvir Singh Bidhuri beating the AAP's Ram Singh Netaji.On February 8 this year, Netaji secured a decisive victory, defeating the BJP's Narayan Dutt Sharma by a whopping 25,888 votes.

To be sure, the constituency's voter turnout in 2025 fell to 56.93% from 59.5% in 2020.

Some locals attri...