on 7 november 2013, the bharatiya janata party announced verma as the party's candidate from mehrauli constituency for the 2013 legislative assembly election, held on 4 december. the mayor of the south delhi municipal corporation sarita chaudhary and sher singh dagar, the bjp candidate for mehrauli in the 2008 election, wanted to contest from the same seat. supporters of both the aspirants opposed verma's candidature. chaudhary's supporters protested outside the delhi bjp headquarters and called verma an "outsider". his mother and wife campaigned for him in the constituency. he defeated runner-up narinder singh sejwal of the aam aadmi party by a margin of 4,564 votes and the incumbent mla and the speaker of the delhi vidhan sabha yoganand shastri. in 2014 indian general election, pravesh verma won the election from west delhi lok sabha constituency by a record margin of 2,68,586 votes.