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NEW DELHI: Halting the Narendra Modi juggernaut, the Aam Aadmi Party
(AAP) was Tuesday headed for a landslide victory in the Delhi Assembly
elections in a sweep that pulverised the BJP and decimated the Congress.
The AAP was leading in a staggering 66 seats in the 70-member assembly
with its nearest rival BJP far behind at a paltry three seats.
Congress, which ruled the national capital for 15 years till December
2013, may not even open its account while the INLD was ahead in one
seat.
In an election that was billed as a referendum on Prime Minister
Narendra Modi but rejected by BJP as such, the AAP wave spearheaded by
its chief Arvind Kejriwal knocked the two major parties and their
veterans from their citadels.
In all the assembly elections that followed the spectacular victory in
the May Lok Sabha polls, the BJP formed governments in Maharastra,
Haryana, Jharkhand and emerged the second largest party in Jammu and
Kashmir with highest vote share.
AAP chief Kejriwal was leading in the prestigious New Delhi
constituency while BJP's Chief Ministerial nominee Kiran Bedi was
leading by 800 votes in Krishna Nagar seat, considered a traditional
stronghold of the party.
Congress' Chief Ministerial candidate Ajay Maken was trailing in Sadar Bazar seat.
As the voting trends trickled in showing a massive landslide for AAP,
Modi called Kejriwal over phone to congratulate him on the victory. He
assured Kejriwal of Centre's complete support in the development of
Delhi.
Bedi also congratulated Kejriwal saying "full marks to Arvind." Maken,
whose party has been decimated in the elections, resigned as Congress
General Secretary taking full responsibility for the debacle.
In 2013 polls, AAP had got 28 seats, BJP 31 and Congress in eight
seats. Kejriwal had formed a short-lived government with Congress
support and resigned after 49 days on the issue of Lokpal Bill.
The defeat for BJP was all the more bitter because it had won all the
seven Lok Sabha seats in the last year's general elections. The party's
gamble of making Bedi its Chief Ministerial candidate back fired.
Kejriwal thanked Modi for his greetings and said he would like to meet
him soon to discuss issues related to Delhi. He told the Prime Minister
that he will need the Centre's help.
Expressing happiness over the party's performance, AAP leader Yogendra
Yadav said, "it was not just under class, but the middle class also
voted for AAP. The (Narendra Modi) juggernaut seems to have halted at
least for now."
Reacting to the election trends, BJP said the polls were a referendum
on Kejriwal and it should not be linked to the performance of Narendra
Modi government.
"I do not see in this way," BJP spokesperson GVL Narsimha Rao said when
asked whether the elections were a referendum on Modi's performance.
"In this election it was a referendum on Arvind Kejriwal. That's how
people of Delhi saw it. I think people have certainly voted for
Kejriwal. It was a referdum of AAP's 49 days in office and its
performance. People felt they should be given a chance," he said.
Hailing AAP's performance, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Baneerjee
called the election result a turning point in the country's political
situation.
"Delhi election is a turning point of the present political situation.
Shows political vendetta has no place in a democracy. Country needed
this change," she said in a tweet.
"This is a victory for the people and a big defeat for the arrogant and
those who are doing political vendetta & spreading hate among
people," Banerjee said in another tweet.
As trends showed AAP's thumping victory, Bedi said she will take responsibility if BJP was defeated in the polls.
Bedi was trailing after two rounds round of counting in the Krishna Nagar constituency.
AAP candidate and former Minister Rakhi Birla was leading in Mangolpuri
constituency in North West Delhi against her Congress rival Raj Kumar
Chouhan. Another former AAP Minister Somnath Bharti was ahead in Malviya
Nagar constituency in South Delhi over his Congress opponent Yoganand
Shastri.
AAP leader and former Minister Manish Sisodia was leading in Patparganj
seat in East Delhi against ex-AAP MLA and BJP candidate Vinod Kumar
Binny. BJP's Jagdish Mukhi was ahead in Janakpuri.
Former AAP Minister Sourav Bhardwaj was leading from Greater Kailash
where Congress' had fielded President Pranab Mukherjee's daughter
Sharmistha Mukherjee.
AAP's Sharad Chauhan was leading in Narela. AAP was also leading in Mehrauli, Kasturba Nagar and Jangpur.
With early leads giving the party a considerable lead, hundreds of AAP
supporters broke into celebrations and raised slogans 'paanch saal
Kejriwal' (5 years for Kejriwal).
Every lead projected on the massive LCD screen set up at AAP's East Patel Nagar office was being cheered by supporters.
Kejriwal reached the office early in the morning and is expected to address supporters after the final results are declared.
Senior party leaders Sisodia, Kumar Vishwas, Yogendra Yadav and Sanjay
Singh were also present at the three-storey office and monitoring the
results from there.
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