"BJP withstood the anti-incumbency factor to win MCD polls as the people of Delhi wanted to teach the Congress a lesson for its failure to tackle inflation, price rise and corruption," the party's Delhi unit co-incharge Ramnaresh Chaurasia told reporters.
Even the decision to trifurcate the MCD could not boost performance of the Congress in the recently-concluded polls as the people were in no no mood to spare the UPA government at the Centre for its misrule, he said.
Chaurasia, a BJP leader from Bihar and an MLA, said the party had succeeded in carving a niche among over 30 lakh people from Poorvanchal region settled in Delhi, who "by and large voted for the saffron party with as many as 12 of 17 candidates" from Poorvanchal background winning the MCD polls.
With Poorvanchal people constituting the "fastest growing segment" of population in Delhi and adjoining areas, the BJP will turn the table on Congress in the next general elections by riding on the strong support from people of the eastern states, he said.