New Delhi, Feb. 8 -- Kailash Gahlot is currently leading against Surender Bhardwaj by 6685 votes in the Bijwasan constituency, show early trends.

Former Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Kailash Gahlot, who resigned from the Arvind Kejriwal-led outfit and joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in November 2024, is the saffron party's candidate from the Bijwasan assembly constituency in the Delhi assembly election, the polling for which was held on February 5.

Gahlot, a Jat leader from Najafgarh in southwest Delhi, was a key member of the AAP. He held several crucial portfolios, including transport, during the second and third stints of AAP national convenor Arvind Kejriwal as the chief minister of Delhi, and under party leader Atishi, who b...