The BJP, AAP, and Congress all chose to view the results of the byelections for 12 seats in the MCD house through their own lenses on Wednesday.

Even though it won two fewer seats than in December 2022, the BJP claimed its pitch of “triple-engine” efficiency — the Centre, Delhi government, and MCD — had delivered.

The AAP argued that Delhiites were already missing the party they had voted out of power in the Assembly in February.

And the Congress, in victory at one civic ward, detected a pulse in its moribund organisation in the capital.

Delhi BJP chief Virendra Sachdeva said the results — seven wards and a 46% vote share for his party — demonstrated “the people’s choice”. He credited the win to Chief Minister Rekha Gupta ’s intensive grassroots campaign, which saw her travelling a

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