Pall of gloom descends over BJP, Cong offices

The offices of Congress and BJP today wore a deserted look, while festive celebrations marked the Aam Aadmi Party's day of historic triumph.
Hardly any officials were seen at Rajiv Bhawan, the Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee's head office on Rouse Avenue in central Delhi, while very few office-bearers turned up at Delhi BJP headquarter on Pandit Pant Marg in Lutyens' Delhi.
Halting the Modi juggernaut, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) today scored a landslide victory in the Delhi Assembly elections by winning as many as 67 of the 70 seats leaving BJP with only three and completely decimating Congress which drew a blank.

Stung by a humiliating defeat, AICC General Secretary Ajay Maken, Delhi Congress In-Charge P C Chacko and DPCC chief Arvinder Singh Lovely have all tendered their resignations owning moral responsibility after the party's electoral drubbing.
The conference hall on the ground floor of Rajiv Bhawan lied completely dark and vacant, while the conference room on the first floor was locked.
For AAP on the other hand, the day was nothing short of a festival, as spirited volunteered paraded around the national capital, with the party's poll jingle "paanch saal Kejriwal" renting in the air.
From Patel Nagar Metro station where rickshaw drivers wearing AAP caps and a party flag on their vehicles to the road leading to the party office, volunteers started pouring in when the counting commenced at 8 am.

There were periodic roars of joy when it was announced that Kejriwal won from New Delhi seat while the roar reached a crescendo when television channels announced defeat of BJP's chief ministerial candidate Kiran Bedi.