India, Feb. 9 -- For a decade, Jangpura had been among AAP's safest seats in Delhi, with winning margins exceeding 20,000 votes for two straight terms. On Saturday, it turned into a nail-biting prestige battle that ended in defeat for former deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia, losing to BJP's Tarvinder Singh Marwah by just 675 votes in what became the constituency's closest-ever contest.

For Sisodia, who was shifted from Patparganj in what appeared to be a search for safer ground, the defeat proved particularly bitter. Having narrowly won Patparganj in 2020 after trailing for several rounds, he seemed set for a repeat performance when he overcame a first-round deficit to lead by about 2,348 votes until the sixth round. However, Marwah ...