In BIG setback, Arvind Kejriwal loses New Delhi seat, his stronghold for over 10 years

Former Delhi Chief Minister and AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal, who was seeking re-election for the fourth time, has lost from the New Delhi assembly seat. Kejriwal lost his seat to former two-time BJP MP Parvesh Verma, whom the party had held back from contesting last year's Lok Sabha election.

Kejriwal finished around 1,200 votes behind his rival, with the Congress' Sandeep Dikshit third, a set of results that will also reignite talk over the rift between the two parties.

Arvind Kejriwal has held the New Delhi seat since 2013, when he beat Congress stalwart and then Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit to herald what would be the AAP's decade-long rule of Delhi.

Earlier, former Deputy CM Manish Sisodia also conceded defeat against BJP's Tarwinder Sinfh Marwah- a fierce contest in Janpgura.

Kejriwal and the AAP are, instead, set for a humiliating defeat; according to ECI, at 1pm, the BJP was leading in 48 of Delhi's 70 Assembly seats and the AAP in 22.