Kalkaji election results: AAP's Atishi wins in her debut Assembly polls

AAP's Atishi from Kalkaji has bagged the seat with over 11,000 votes defeating BJP's Dharmabir Singh, who got 39,438 votes against Atishi, who polled 46,775 votes.
Atishi, one of the most popular faces of the Aam Aadmi Party, is pitted against Dharambir Singh of the BJP and Shivani Chopra of the Congress. Shivani is the younger daughter of Delhi Congress president Subhash Chopra who had won this seat thrice in the past.

In 2015, this seat was won by Avtar Singh of AAP who defeated BJP's Harmeet Singh Kalka by 19769 votes. In 2013, Kalka had defeated Dharambir Singh of AAP by over 2000 votes.

Kalkaji is part of South Delhi Lok Sabha constituency along with nine other Vidhan Sabha segments. The present geographical structure of Kalkaji constituency came into existence in 2008 as a part of the implementation of the recommendations of the Delimitation Commission of India.

Atishi is an educator who switched to active politics. Oxford-educated Atishi was advisor to Delhi deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia, and played a key role in education reforms. She also played a pivotal role in the government's prestigious mohalla sabha programme.

In 2013, she took up an active role in AAP and went on to become a party spokesperson and member of its political affairs committee. While working as an advisor on a token salary of Re 1, Atishi was sacked by the Centre in 2018, a move termed as "political vendetta" by her party.

Atishi contested the 2019 Lok Sabha elections from East Delhi and came a distant third to BJP's Gautam Gambhir.