Delhi: Badarpur

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A constituency profile

As in 2020

Battle down south: Old guards, new allegiances & a fresh face

Shradha.Chettri@timesgroup.com

New Delhi:

Badarpur, the largest assembly constituency in south Delhi in terms of the number of voters, has seen many a twist and turn ever since the parties started declaring their candidates.

While AAP was the first to announce its candidate, the decision to replace sitting MLA Narayan Dutt Sharma (47) with Ram Singh Netaji (64), who had only recently switched over from Congress, didn’t go down well with the former. Netaji has previously won the seat twice, first as an independent in 2003 and, then, as a Bahujan Samaj Party candidate in 2008. In 2013 and 2015, he contested on a Congress ticket, but lost on both occasions.

Snubbed, Sharma went on an all-out attack, claiming that AAP had sold the ticket to Netaji. A few days later, he joined BSP and was promptly given a ticket.

BJP, on the other hand, has kept its faith in veteran Ramvir Singh Bidhuri (66), who has won the seat thrice — once each as a Janata Dal (1993-1998), Congress (2003-2008) and BJP (2013-2014) member.