BJP stares at the prospect of not getting Leader of Opposition post in Delhi Assembly

New Delhi: In a major disaster for Bharatiya Janata Party's Delhi unit, the party is staring at the prospect of not even being able to get the Leader of Opposition post in the Assembly. BJP won just three seats in Delhi Assembly elections which is four short of the 10% per cent seat requirement to get the Leader of Opposition in the 70-member Delhi Assembly as the Aam Aadmi Party's broom swept away the rivals.

The fall for BJP can be gauged from the fact that the party won all seven Lok Sabha seat in the April-May elections and led in 60 Assembly segments but just a few months later, it faced decimation in what it considered its pocket borough. The Narendra Modi wave, so visible till mid 2014, has completely disappeared in the national capital.

Just a few months back in May 2014, the BJP had done the same to Congress when the former was restricted to just 44 MPs in the Lok Sabha and failed to get the Leader of Opposition post.

However, senior AAP leader Kumar Vishwas said his party would give the Leader of Opposition post to the BJP even if it did not win seven seats in Delhi Assembly. He tweeted, "Even if BJP gets less thn 7 seats we will give LOP to BJP. लोकतन्त्र स्वीकार से चलता है (sic)."

With AAP on a roll, BJP recorded its worst show in Delhi, a state its top leadership was confident of winning easily claiming that both AAP and Congress were a spent force.

But just a few minutes after trends started pouring in, it became clear that AAP's Arvind Kejriwal was leading his party to the biggest win in the history of Delhi and in the end his party bagged 96% of the seats.

As results started pouring in revealing the true extent of AAP's march in Delhi, the hypothesis of the party being supported by the downtrodden, poor and lower middle class and not the middle class and the rich lay in tatters.