Union Home Minister Amit Shah during a public meeting in support of BJP candidate Mohan Singh Bisht from Mustafabad constituency. File
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Kapil Mishra, the BJP candidate from north-east Delhi’s Karawal Nagar Assembly seat is leading with number of 45,534, after counting of 15 rounds. As the counting is underway for theDelhi Assembly election, the emerging trend shows he surpassed BJP’s Mustafabad Mohan Singh Bisht vote numbers.
Mohan Singh Bisht has been winning from Karawal Nagar seat with BJP’s ticket except for the year 2015 when he lost the constituency to Kapil Mishra who was a AAP member back then.
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Screengrab from EC website at the end of seventeenth round of counting.
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After winning from Karawal Nagar in 2015, Mr. Mishra was subsequently inducted into the Cabinet as the Water Resources Minister but was sacked in 2017 for “anti-party activities”. He joined the BJP in 2019 and was appointed vice-president of its Delhi unit four years later.
Kapil Mishra and Delhi riots 2020
Mr. Mishra, who is one of the party’s most visible Purvanchali faces in the Capital, was accused of making hate speeches in the run-up to the north-east Delhi communal riots in February 2020, which left 53 people dead and over 700 injured.
In February 2020, when an agitation against the Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) quickly spiralled out of control Delhi’s north -east area was severly affectes and Mustafabad and Karawal Nagar were among the riot affected localities.
Who is Mohan Singh Bisht?
Mohan Singh Bisht, a five-time MLA, is one of the heavyweight candidates of BJP.
Within hours of dropping his name from Karawal Nagar and Mr. Bisht announcing he would contest as an Independent, the BJP named him on January 12 as a candidate but from a different seat – Mustafabad.
After his name was dropped, Mr. Bisht had issued a warning to his party saying, “You have challenged the samaj [Uttarakhand community], not Mohan Singh Bisht. The BJP will lose at least 8-10 seats because of this decision, including Karawal Nagar, Burari, Mustafabad and Gokalpuri.”
He said, “I have assured them [BJP] that I will contest from Mustafabad and win the seat for the party.” The BJP has fielded former Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA Kapil Mishra from Karawal Nagar earlier.
Mustafabad Assembly is the same constituency that saw the highest voter turnout in north-east Delhi as it recorded 69% footfalls, according to Election Commission data.
Published – February 08, 2025 12:07 pm IST