Decoding BJP’s stunning victory in Delhi elections

The party has won or is leading on 48 of the Delhi assembly’s 70 seats to the AAP’s 22. The Congress failed to win a single seat, continuing a trend that started in 2015.

Senior BJP leaders also credited the extensive campaign by the cadre of the party’s ideological fount, the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) .

It was Kejriwal’s loss, they emphasised.

“It is the loss of a phenomenon that was Arvind Kejriwal. When he emerged as an anti-corruption face (on the India Against Corruption platform), he became a phenomenon. People voted for him...now the same people have voted against him,” said a party strategist.