Interesting contest on Mustafabad seat: Candidates are being discussed in Mustafabad Assembly constituency. From this seat, the Aam Aadmi Party has fielded a young face and fielded Adil Ahmed Khan, who is the Congress on Ali Mehndi.
The most talked about candidate is Tahir Hussain, who is in jail on charges of Delhi riots, whom AIMIM has fielded on his ticket. The BJP has contested even more interesting elections by giving ticket to former MLA Mohan Singh Bisht from Karwal Nagar in this seat.
How much is in which?
All the candidates in this seat are strong and therefore competition here is not easy but the biggest factor in this seat is the Muslim vote bank. While this is a contest between the Congress and the Aam Aadmi Party candidate and the Muslim vote bank, Asaduddin Owaisi’s party has tried its best to make a dent in the Muslim vote bank by giving a ticket to Tahir Hussain, an accused in the Delhi riots from here.
About 40% of the Muslim vote bank is in this seat and now this vote bank is divided because on one hand Adil Ahmed Khan of Aam Aadmi Party is engaged in his efforts for Muslim vote bank, on the other hand Congress is also leaving no shortage in realising this vote bank. Along with this, many people in the area are showing sympathy with Tahir Hussain, an accused in the Delhi riots.
What is the status of Mohan Singh Bisht?
BJP candidate Mohan Singh Bisht has been maintaining a good presence in the areas of north-east Delhi and that is why he has also been an MLA from Karwal Nagar near Mustafabad several times. If 40% of the Muslim vote bank is left, the BJP is focussing on about 60% of the vote bank.
History of Mustafabad seat
If we look at the history of the Mustafabad seat, the competition for this seat has always been fierce. In the 2008 assembly elections, Congress candidate Hasan Ahmed won this seat with 40.7% of the vote and the BJP lost by just a few votes, the BJP got 39.69% of the votes. In 2013, Hasan Ahmed of the Congress once again won the election for this seat, but this time too, the vote margin between the BJP and the Congress was doing a lot. This time, the Congress got 38.24% votes, while the BJP got 36.95% votes.
The seat went to the BJP in 2015
In 2015, Congress candidate Hassan Ahmed again contested from this seat, but this time we faced complaints and the BJP won this seat by increasing its vote percentage, so the Congress vote percentage decreased in the same year 2008 and 2013. However, this time too, the BJP’s vote percentage was lower. In 2015, Jagdish Pradhan won from the BJP with 35.33% of the votes.
Who won in 2020?
In 2020, Haji Yunus of the Aam Aadmi Party won the seat with 53.2% of the vote for the first time, while the BJP came second with 42.06% and the Congress came third with 2.89%.
