New Delhi: Harish Khurana, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) candidate for the Delhi’s Moti Nagar seat and son of former Delhi chief minister Madan Lal Khurana, won by a margin of 11,657 votes against his closest rival, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) candidate and incumbent MLA Shivcharan Goel.
As of 4:46 pm Saturday, with all 13 rounds counted, Khurana secured 57,565 of the votes as against Goel’s 45,908 votes. Congress was in the third position with 3,334 votes.
In a post on X (formerly Twitter), Khurana said, “The unprecedented victory of the Bharatiya Janata Party in the Delhi Assembly elections is a victory of the strong leadership of Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi and the people’s unwavering faith in the development-oriented policies of the BJP.”
दिल्ली विधानसभा चुनावों में भारतीय जनता पार्टी की अभूतपूर्व जीत प्रधानमंत्री श्री नरेंद्र मोदी के सशक्त नेतृत्व और भाजपा की विकासोन्मुखी नीतियों पर जनता के अडिग विश्वास की जीत है। यह जीत इस बात का प्रतीक है कि मोदी जी की नेतृत्व क्षमता और भाजपा की सुशासन की राजनीति ने… pic.twitter.com/PYMywPRhCP
— Harish Khurana (@HarishKhuranna) February 8, 2025
This was Harish’s electoral debut from the seat that his father had won twice—in 1993 and 2003. He had previously served as the spokesperson of Delhi BJP and currently holds the position of a secretary in the Delhi unit.
The BJP had last won the Moti Nagar seat back in 2013, when Subhash Sachdeva had defeated AAP’s Kuldeep Singh Channa. Since 2015, the seat has been held by AAP’s Goel, who had won by over 14,000 votes in the 2020 assembly elections.
The sons of three former Delhi chief ministers are in the electoral fray this time—the two others being Sandeep Dikshit, Sheila Dikshit’s son, and Parvesh Verma, Sahib Singh Verma’s son.
Sandeep and Parvesh are pitted against former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal in the New Delhi constituency.
The BJP has been out of power in Delhi since 1998. The party had bagged 49 out of 70 seats in 1993, when senior leader Madan Lal Khurana was named the chief minister. He held the position from 1993 to 1996 and later served as a Union minister in Atal Bihari Vajpayee’s cabinet.