Chanting slogans 'Ache Beetenge Panch Saal- Lage raho Kejriwal, carrying blue and white balloons, party flags, buntings and giant cut-outs of their leader Arvind Kejriwal and dancing on dhols, several Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) workers were seen on road celebrating as soon as the party candidates were in lead from their constituencies. Following the lead at several constituencies, there was a joy and happiness among the AAP workers, however, the workers from other parties including Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and Congress left the voting counting centre till afternoon.
In South Delhi, at Jija Bai Industrial Training institute counting centre, the votes counting for Mehrauli, Chhatarpur and Malviya Nagar constituencies were going on. The candidates from the party had reached the counting centre early morning and several workers from BJP and AAP were seen waiting for result outside the counting centre. However, there were no workers from the Congress party.
Till 12 pm, the air was tense as the fortunes kept fluctuating between the BJP and AAP. AAP candidates surged ahead in the afternoon and it started dawning upon BJP workers that their party was over. They started leaving the centre. AAP candidates, Somanth Bharti, Kartar Singh Tanwar and Naresh Yadav won Malviya Nagar, Chattarpur and Mehrauli seats by defeating their counterparts with a huge margin. The Chattarpur constituency till last witnessed see-saw battle and the constituency was finally won by AAP's Kartar Singh Tanwar who defeated his rival Bhram Singh Tanwar of BJP with a margin of 3720 votes.
As the result was announced, the AAP workers outside the counter center burst into joy and started dancing and chanting slogans. The party workers distributed sweets and termed the victory of development over caste and creed politics.
"The people of Delhi have shown that Arvind Kejriwal has done development in city despite several hurdles faced by him in his tenure as Delhi Chief Minister. People have voted for schemes and facilities which were provided by AAP Government," said Chetrapal, an AAP worker.
Anand Kumar, who was distributing sweets, said that this is victory of works done by AAP Government. "There will be more facilities for poor and a middle class person in Arvind Kejriwal's this term Government. People of Delhi trust Kejriwal and they have faith in his work," said Kumar.
"The BJP had tried to make this election communal but people of Delhi want development and peace. Through this election they have shown that development is what they want," said Sandhaya, an AAP worker in South Delhi.
Similar environment were witnessed at other counting centers as well. AAP supporters started coming out of their houses and reached one after another to show solidarity with the party. On the other hand supporters of the BJP started leaving seeing AAP candidates taking a sizeable margin on all the seats.
While no Congress supporter was seen at counting center. AAP supporters reached at Dhirpur counting center where counting for Timarpur, Burari, Matia Mahal, Chandni Chowk, Sadar Bazar, Ballimaran and Karol Bagh Assembly seats was going on and started celebrating with dhol and sweets.
At Netaji Subhash University of Technology was flooded with the supporters of both AAP and BJP as the counting for West Delhi constituencies, including Moti Nagar, Madipur, Rajouri Garden, Hari Nagar, Tilak Nagar and Janakpuri started at 8 am. As the trends gathered momentum in favour of AAP, the party workers started celebrating and waved the party flag with gay abandon.
AAP candidates won all the 10 seats falling the West Delhi parliamentary seat in a direct rebuff to BJP's sitting Lok Sabha member Parvesh Verma. AAP's Rajesh Rishi won from Janakpuri, Raj Kumari Dhillon won from Hari Nagar, Girish Soni won from Madipur, Shiv Charan Goel won from Moti Nagar, Dhanwanti Chandela won from Rajouri Gardern and Jarnail Singh won from Tilak Nagar.
"This is victory and tall claims of BJP have been negated by the people of Delhi and they has shown faith in the leadership of Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his policies," said Ankur Sharma, an AAP worker. While AAP workers celebrated downcast BJP supporters beat a hasty retreat and thus leaving the field open for the AAP supporters and volunteers to celebrate the grand victory of its party candidates against mighty BJP, which had launched a massive campaign in the city as it wanted to checkmate AAP's victory march. The euphoria generated by a well calibrated campaign by the central BJP leadership, dissipated as results started pouring in favouring AAP's resounding victory.