Hyderabad, Feb. 8 -- The All India Majlis-e-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) failed to open any account in the Delhi Assembly elections, but the party might find itself being called the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) 'B team' as its Mustafabad seat candidate Tahir Hussain split enough votes to allow the BJP to win. Aam Aadmi Party's (AAP) lost the seat by a margin of over 17000 votes.

According to the Election Commission's data, BJP's Mohan Singh Bisht won the seat with 85,215 seats, while AAP's Adeel Ahmad Khan came second with 67637 votes. The AIMIM candidate came third by securing 33474 votes, which makes it clear that if the AIMIM had not contested the election, the AAP candidate would have sailed through.

The AIMIM's choice of candidate...