Pravesh Verma Family Details: Balancing gender, caste and community with experience, its vision of a “Delhi befitting the status of India’s capital city” and consolidating, for the future, a political mandate that has eluded it for close to three decades — these are the factors that are likely to guide the BJP’s decision while picking its Delhi Chief Minister, according to party sources.
The Bharatiya Janata Party ended its 27-year exile by winning the Delhi Assembly elections in 2025. With this, the Aam Aadmi Party was ousted from power. In the Delhi election, BJP won 48 seats and AAP won 22 seats. Many big faces of AAP lost. Among them, Arvind Kejriwal is the most talked about. BJP candidate Pravesh Verma defeated Kejriwal from New Delhi seat. After which Pravesh Verma’s name is in the headlines. Let’s know who is Pravesh Verma. What is his family background?
This time a tough fight was seen on the New Delhi seat in the Delhi Assembly elections. AAP’s national convenor and former CM Arvind Kejriwal was in the fray from here. Congress gave ticket to the capital’s former Chief Minister Sheila Dixit from this seat, while BJP made Pravesh Verma, son of former CM and Union Minister in Atal Bihari Vajpayee government Sahib Singh Verma, its candidate. A total of 23 candidates tried their luck from this seat, but no BJP candidate could defeat Pravesh Verma.
Pravesh defeated Kejriwal by 4089 votes
BJP candidate Pravesh Verma defeated AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal by 4089 votes. Pravesh got a total of 30,088 votes. Kejriwal got 25,999 votes and Congress’ Sandeep Dixit got 4568 votes. The main reason for Kejriwal’s defeat is Congress candidate Sandeep Dixit, because Sandeep got 4568 votes, which is more than the margin of victory and defeat between Pravesh Verma and Kejriwal.
Who is Pravesh Verma?
Pravesh Verma is the son of Sahib Singh Verma, former CM of Delhi and Union Minister in Atal Bihari Vajpayee government. Pravesh Verma was born on 7 November 1977. He completed his early education from DPS School located in RK Puram, Delhi and obtained a graduation degree from Kirori Mal College of Delhi University. He has also done MBA in business.
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