The Modi-wave hit the national Capital exhausting and what determined the BJP's victory was the foremost swing of seats. ancient Congress strongholds that had gone to the AAP within the 2015 Assembly polls visited the BJP, whereas previous areas won by the Congress in 2012 civic polls visited the BJP now spherical.
In 2012, the BJP had won 138 seats with the Congress within the Opposition with 77 seats.
According to party employees, the variety of areas together with south Delhi's Madipur and North Delhi's Inderpuri, all twelve wards below Ambedkar Nagar, Gokalpuri and Sultanpuri assembly segments - that the party had not won in any civic election before - now visited the BJP.
"We had ne'er won Madipur and Inderpuri however once boundary of components of Model Basti and Pusa, that wont to be Congress seats, came to us. However, it absolutely was, for the most part, the people's mandate that gave the party the very best variety of seats," same Rajesh Bhatia, metropolis BJP general secretary.
Besides, he added, out of the 45 seats reserved for SC, 25 were won by the BJP, that is additionally for the primary time.
BJP's Sunita (she solely goes by one name) won the Madipur seat with a margin of 702 seats, defeating AAP's Jai Shree. conjointly the villages in the south-west metropolis and on the outskirts like Sagarpura, Kakraula and Dabri, that were sometimes inclined to the Congress and had voted in immense numbers for the AAP in Assembly polls went with the BJP now.
Also, east metropolis areas like Hindu deity Nagar and Gandhi Nagar that had traditionally seen a powerful leadership by Congress leaders like A K Walia and Arvinder Singh pretty visited the saffron party. Party insiders say that the defection of pretty to the BJP and therefore the undeniable fact that senior Congress leaders felt sidelined vie a serious half in making certain the swing vtoe.