Even as the news from the poll counting was still sinking in, celebrations did not wait at the party's brand new national headquarters on Deen Dayal Upadhyay Marg in Delhi.
By noon, it was clear that the Bharatiya Janata Party had pulled of a stunning victory in Tripura, storming the Left's bastion of a quarter century. To add to the party's thumping victory in Tripura, it was the front-runner to form a government in Nagaland with alliance partners and was in the equal reckoning along with the Congress to form a government in Meghalaya with alliance partners. This was the icing on the cake for party workers.
Even as the news from the poll counting was still sinking in, celebrations did not wait at the party's brand new national headquarters on Deen Dayal Upadhyay Marg in Delhi.
Two massive cut-outs of Prime Minister Narendra Modi and party chief Amit Shah were erected on the premises, indicating the ever growing consolidation of the top-two of BJP. It was the party's Mahila Morcha that kicked off the celebrations with full throated chants of, 'Har Har Modi, Ghar Ghar Modi', followed by 'Ek hi naara, ek hi naam Jai Shree Ram'.
But the one chant that captured the impact of the election result was 'Chappa Chappa, Bhajapa'. The party's victory in Tripura and possible alliances in Meghalaya and Nagaland is a significant expansion of its electoral footprint, especially with the Lok Sabha elections just an year away.
Party leaders informed that like the election strategy, everything was planned for the celebrations. "We will have lots of sweets to distribute among party workers, we will have gulaal and we will also have fireworks," said Kuldeep Chahal, a party leader. And the fireworks soon went off as party workers swelled in numbers, holding BJP flags and small cut-outs of PM Modi, awaiting the arrival of party chief Amit Shah. The dhol party, too, arrived to welcome Shah and fireworks went off as his cavalcade neared the party office.
Party workers stood above the party entrance with rose petals and as soon after Shah's car arrived, he was showered with the petals and the workers surged to greet him.
The ordinary worker was especially happy about the party finally unseating the Communist Party of India (Marxist) from Tripura. Siyaram Mandal, party office-bearer from East Delhi said, "Tripura victory is for the development promised by PM Modi. People there were fed up of Left. Detractors were talking about notebandi and GST but we have trumped it. Modi magic is clearly still working and we hope that BJP will get 400+ in Lok Sabha elections.
BJPs Lok Sabha MP from Delhi Meenakshi Lekhi said this was the result borne out of ideological commitment. "With this victory, the Left has been left out. The Kerala CPM can now say, we don't have any branches."
Bengal Warcry
Cadre took to celebration at BJP’s Bengal HQs in Kolkata, as the news of the party’s win in Tripura came in. Leaders told DNA that the trend was likely to continue in the Bengal panchayat polls.
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