India, Feb. 9 -- Even in the wave election of 2015, when Delhi had given the maximum ever tally of seats to a party (67), the Bharatiya Janata Party won the Mustafabad seat.

Then, fresh from its 2013 electoral debut -- in which the political greenhorns wrested power from the three-term chief minister Sheila Dikshit of the Congress -- the Aam Aadmi Party won 67 of the 70 seats in the Delhi assembly. The BJP managed just three seats, that of Vishwas Nagar (OP Sharma), Rohini (Vijender Gupta) and Mustafabad (Jagdish Pradhan).

In 2020, the AAP's Haji Yunus wrested the seat from the BJP. The seat was again in the spotlight this time with the BJP giving the ticket to Mohan Singh Bisht -- a five-term veteran from the Karawal Nagar seat -- and ...