New Delhi: Eight of the turncoats fielded by the AAP and one by BJP won on Tuesday. A total of 16 turncoats were in the poll fray — nine fielded by the Aam Aadmi Party, three by the Congress and four by the BJP.
Anil Bajpai, who was former AAP MLA from Gandhinagar, retained the constituency on a BJP ticket. He defeated AAP’s Naveen Chaudhary by over 6,000 votes.
AAP rebel Kapil Mishra, who had joined the BJP and contested from Model Town, lost to AAP’s Akhilesh Pati Tripathi by over 10,000 votes. Tripathi was the sitting MLA from the constituency. The BJP also fielded two Congress turncoats, Sanjay Singh (Vikaspuri) and Surendra Pal Singh Bittoo (Timarpur). Singh was defeated by the AAP’s sitting MLA from Vikaspuri, Mahinder Yadav, by over 31,000 votes. Bittoo lost to the AAP’s Dileep Pandey by over 21,000 votes.
