Kejriwal shows his Aam Aadmi muscles, leaves battered BJP with just 3 seats

Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party registered an emphatic and decisive victory in Delhi elections, effectively halting the Narendra Modi wave that had swept the BJP to power at the Centre and three states. In a stunning election result, Kejriwal’s AAP won 67 seats in the 70-member Delhi Assembly and trounced its arch-rival BJP with the party winning only three seats. The BJP, which was hoping to sail through on the Modi charisma, could not even ensure a win for its chief ministerial candidate Kiran Bedi. She lost to AAP’s S K Bagga from the Krishna Nagar constituency, considered a safe seat which had sent BJP’s Dr Harsh Vardhan five times to the Delhi Assembly. “I couldn’t live up to their expectations,” Bedi said. All AAP top leaders, including Kejriwal’s second in command Manish Sisodia, registered wins in the polls. Amid chanting of ‘5 saal Kejriwal’ by a jubilant gathering of his supporters outside the office, Kejriwal thanked his voters. Emerging out of the ‘now-famous’ balcony of the AAP office in central Delhi’s Patel Nagar, Kejriwal said, “This is the victory of honest politics. Like Congress, BJP lost because of its arrogance.” Indian Express