New Delhi: Nothing could have gone worse for the Bharatiya Janata Party than its chief ministerial candidate losing the election from her own seat. Conceding defeat from the Krishna Nagar constituency, she apologised for not being able to live up to the expectations of the people of Delhi.
In a nail-biting finish, Bedi lost to Aam Aadmi Party's SK Bagga on Tuesday on a seat that has been BJP's bastion.
Bringing in former IPS officer Kiran Bedi as its face in Delhi polls, the BJP had thought that it would be able to make a mark yet again like it did in all the elections in recent past. The party inducted Bedi just a few days before the polls and announced her as its CM candidate.
However, she failed to make a mark in the national capital. 2015 being the first election for Bedi, the BJP fielded her on the safest seat - Krishna Nagar - which has been held by party leader Harshvardhan since 1993. Ironically, she could not catch the pulse of her constituency too and lost the polls.
Decimated to single digits, the party is struggling to even get the Leader of Opposition post in the Assembly. The party is leading in merely 4 seats, three seats short of the 10 per cent seat requirement to get the Leader of Opposition in the 70-member Delhi Assembly.
The AAP in a massive victory claimed almost the entire Delhi winning with a thunderous majority of over 90 per cent seats in a 70-member assembly.
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