A day after the Delhi assembly elections voting , the BJP on Thursday held a review meeting with all 70 NDA contesting candidates, their election agents and district presidents to take stock of the outcome of the polling. The meeting was attended by BJP’s national leader Shiv Prakash, Delhi BJP election in-charge Baijayant Jay Panda, co-incharge Atul Garg, state president Virendra Sachdeva, as well as MPs and senior leaders.
The BJP leaders exuded confidence over the results of the Delhi Assembly elections, with multiple Exit Polls projecting a landslide victory for the party, ending its 27-year-long wait for power in the national Capital, the party asserted on Thursday while claiming that people were "angry" with the ruling AAP and its national convener Arvind Kejriwal.
After the review meeting, Sachdeva stated that the people of Delhi are fed up with the corruption-ridden, anarchic, and incompetent rule of the Arvind Kejriwal government and the Delhi Assembly election results will be unprecedented, and BJP will win more than 50 seats to form the government.
Earlier, multiple exit polls on Wednesday predicted a victory for the BJP over the ruling AAP in the Delhi assembly polls, while the Congress was projected to make no significant gains from the last elections. Three exit polls, however, predicted a victory for the AAP and as many showed a close contest between them, with an edge for the BJP. The AAP rejected the exit polls claims, saying the pollsters have "historically" underestimated its performance, while the BJP termed the predictions an assertion of people's urge for change. Reacting to the Exit Poll predictions, BJP leaders exuded confidence of forming the government and attributed the projected victory to widespread dissatisfaction with the AAP's governance. The BJP's New Delhi MP, Bansuri Swaraj said that the people of Delhi had voted against the AAP's "misgovernance" of the past decade and expressed their desire for a "double-engine" government under Prime Minister Narendra Modi's leadership. "Delhiites want the BJP to form a double-engine government here and make Delhi a Viksit capital of a Viksit Bharat," Swaraj said.
BJP national general secretary Arun Singh said, "We saw on the ground that there was so much anger among people against the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and Arvind Kejriwal. They have a hope from the BJP. They want to form a double-engine government in Delhi under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi." "That's why I am fully confident that a double-engine government of the BJP is going to be formed in Delhi under Prime Minister Modi's leadership which will ensure all-round development for Delhi," he said in the Parliament complex.