Meghnad S, who is well known for his content on parliamentary affairs and public policy, contested from Malviya Nagar as an Independent to prove that “a common man can fight elections without money power and political backing.”
Terming his brief political plunge a great ‘learning experience’, Meghnad said during his livestream, “The money was well spent. I would not have gotten this sort of education about the electoral process anywhere else. This is just the beginning…”
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Meghnad, who has over 81,000 followers on his YouTube channel ‘Meghnerd’ and nearly 2 lakh followers on X, was assigned the pen as his election symbol.
Considered India’s first content creator candidate, the 35-year-old documented his brief but colourful tryst with electioneering on his YouTube channel under “#ProjectAnda”.
Despite fighting the election on a shoe-string budget, Meghnad’s campaign gained substantial traction online. His poll song, ‘Dilli Ka Normie Neta’, received over 38,000 views within a few hours of its release.
A Commerce graduate from Nagpur University, Meghnad declared assets worth ₹55 lakh and liabilities worth ₹1 lakh while filing his nomination.
Malviya Nagar Assembly Constituency Results
Meanwhile, in Malviya Nagar, former Delhi BJP chief Satish Upadhyay defeated senior AAP leader and incumbent MLA Somnath Bharti by a narrow margin of 2,131 votes.
The Bharatiya Janata Party won 48 seats in the 70-member Delhi Assembly, according to the Election Commission. The saffron party will form the government in the national capital after 27 years.
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The Aam Aadmi Party won 22 seats. Many of its top leaders, including former CM Arvind Kejriwal, former Deputy CM Manish Sisodia & Deputy Speaker Rakhi Birla, lost their re-election bids.
The Congress, which ruled the Union Territory between 1998 and 2013, secured no seats for the third time in a row.
(Edited by : Jomy Jos Pullokaran)
First Published: Feb 8, 2025 9:29 PM IST