<p class="title">Congress' performance touched a record low in the Delhi Assembly election as the party bagged less than 5 per cent of the total votes polled and 63 of its candidates lost their deposits.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The party, which ruled Delhi for 15 years on the trot under former Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, failed to open its account for the second consecutive assembly election in Delhi.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Only three of its candidates — Arvinder Singh Lovely from Gandhi Nagar, Devender Yadav from Badli and Abhishek Dutt from Kasturba Nagar — managed to save their deposits.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Also read: <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/election-2020/kaam-ki-rajneeti-wins-aaps-atishi-and-raghav-chadha-on-delhi-election-2020-result-803641.html">'Kaam ki Rajneeti wins', says AAP's Atishi and Raghav Chadha on Delhi election 2020 result</a></p>.<p class="bodytext">Security deposit of a candidate is forfeited if he/she fails to secure one-sixth of the total valid votes cast in a constituency.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Most of Congress candidates got less than 5 per cent of the total votes polled in their respective constituencies.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Delhi Congress chief Shubhash Chopra's daughter Shivani Chopra, who was the party candidate from Kalkaji, also could not save her deposit.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Also read: <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/election-2020/delhi-election-2020-bjps-hat-trick-of-setbacks-803629.html">BJP's hat-trick of setbacks</a></p>.<p class="bodytext">Former Delhi Assembly Speaker Yoganand Shastri's daughter Priyanka Singh also forfeited her deposit.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The party's campaign committee chairman Kirti Azad's wife, Poonam Azad, lost badly and stood fourth, polling only 2,604 (2.23) votes.</p>
<p class="title">Congress' performance touched a record low in the Delhi Assembly election as the party bagged less than 5 per cent of the total votes polled and 63 of its candidates lost their deposits.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The party, which ruled Delhi for 15 years on the trot under former Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, failed to open its account for the second consecutive assembly election in Delhi.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Only three of its candidates — Arvinder Singh Lovely from Gandhi Nagar, Devender Yadav from Badli and Abhishek Dutt from Kasturba Nagar — managed to save their deposits.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Also read: <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/election-2020/kaam-ki-rajneeti-wins-aaps-atishi-and-raghav-chadha-on-delhi-election-2020-result-803641.html">'Kaam ki Rajneeti wins', says AAP's Atishi and Raghav Chadha on Delhi election 2020 result</a></p>.<p class="bodytext">Security deposit of a candidate is forfeited if he/she fails to secure one-sixth of the total valid votes cast in a constituency.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Most of Congress candidates got less than 5 per cent of the total votes polled in their respective constituencies.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Delhi Congress chief Shubhash Chopra's daughter Shivani Chopra, who was the party candidate from Kalkaji, also could not save her deposit.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Also read: <a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/election-2020/delhi-election-2020-bjps-hat-trick-of-setbacks-803629.html">BJP's hat-trick of setbacks</a></p>.<p class="bodytext">Former Delhi Assembly Speaker Yoganand Shastri's daughter Priyanka Singh also forfeited her deposit.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The party's campaign committee chairman Kirti Azad's wife, Poonam Azad, lost badly and stood fourth, polling only 2,604 (2.23) votes.</p>