The party said the bypoll was the semifinal of the April 23 MCD election where the people of Delhi will also reject AAP which has "failed" to deliver good governance in the city.
Addressing a press conference, BJP national vice- president and party's Delhi unit in-charge Shyam Jaju said Delhiites will teach a lesson to the Aam Aadmi Party in the upcoming MCD election in a similar way the people of Rajouri Garden did in the bypoll.
BJP MP Parvesh Sahib Singh Verma said that after the "humiliating" defeat in the bypoll, Kejriwal should give his resignation on moral grounds as his party has been completely "rejected" by the people in this election
"This is the beginning of the end of AAP government in Delhi," Verma, an MP from West Delhi, said.
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SAD (Badal) leader Manjinder Singh Sirsa, who contested the bypoll on BJP ticket and won the election with 14,652 votes, said this election is a referendum on the Kejriwal government's performance.
"In this poll, AAP candidate has lost his deposit which indicates people are very angry with AAP government's poor performance in Delhi.
"Arvind Kejriwal makes excuses not to work in Delhi despite the fact that people had given him a huge mandate in the Assembly polls," Sirsa told reporters.
Sirsa said, "Kejriwal claims that Modi-led Centre doesn't give him permission to work in Delhi, but I want to know whether he had sought permission for allotting office space to AAP, and paying fee of Rs 4 crore to a noted lawyer (in a defamation case against Kejriwal filed by Union Minister Arun Jaitley)."
With the victory, the BJP's tally in the 70-member Delhi Assembly will become four. The Congress does not have any presence in the House.
Hitting out at DPCC President Ajay Maken's claim that his party's vote share has increased in the bypoll, Sirsa said that his party candidate bagged just 81 votes in a booth which was near Maken's residence in the constituency.
"When they got the majority then EVMs were functioning well, now that they are losing they say the EVMs are tampered. It doesn't work like this".
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