Delhi Assembly Election 2020, Rithala profile: The Aam Aadmi Party's Mohinder Goyal has won the election from the Rithala constituency against the Bharatiya Janata Party's Manish Chaudhary with a margin of 13,873 votes.
In the last election, 66.46 percent of the voters had cast their votes, which amounted to 1.65 lakh votes.
The Assembly constituency is part of the North West Delhi Lok Sabha constituency. AAP's Mohinder Goyal had sought re-election from the constituency, fighting against Manish Choudhary of the BJP, a councilor in the North Delhi Municipal Corporation.
Here is a brief profile of Rithala constituency:
Constituency Name: Rithala
Constituency Number: 6
District Name: North West Delhi
Total Electors: 2,48,480
Female Electors: 1,14,760
Male Electors: 1,33,699
Third Gender: 21
Reserved: No
Results in previous elections: Kulwant Rana of BJP won the seat in 2008 and 2013 polls. He lost to Mohinder Goyal of the AAP in the 2015 polls. This constituency came into existence in 2008 post the delimitation exercise.
Demographics: As per reports, Rithala is a Muslim-concentrated Assembly segment with the community forming 30 to 40 percent of the population. The Assembly segment also has a crucial Jat population, which has -traditionally been a BJP votebank. Middle-class areas such as Sector 17 Rohini, Sector 16 Rohini, Sector 11 Rohini and Sector 6 Rohini are part of the constituency.
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Updated Date: Feb 11, 2020 19:11:28 IST
