Former Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Kumar Vishwas took a swipe at his former colleague Arvind Kejriwal as early counting trends indicated a landslide victory for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in the Delhi Assembly elections.

“I congratulate the BJP on their victory and hope they will serve the people of Delhi well. I have no sympathy for a man who betrayed the dreams of AAP workers. Delhi is now free from him,” Vishwas, a founding member of AAP, told ANI.

He accused Kejriwal, who lost his New Delhi seat, of using AAP workers’ aspirations for his “personal ambitions.”

“Today, justice has finally been served,” said Vishwas, once a close aide of Kejriwal. “When we heard the news of Manish Sisodia’s defeat in Jangpura, my wife, who usually stays away from politics, broke down in tears,” Vishwas said.

BJP spokesperson Shazia Ilmi expressed her relief, stating that Kejriwal had been “finally exposed.”

“This is a significant day not just for the BJP but for the people of Delhi,” Ilmi, a former AAP leader who later joined the BJP, told NDTV.

“The way they (AAP leaders) rose and the way they have fallen—it’s like life has come full circle,” she added. 

BJP on Course for a Landslide in Delhi

Latest trends show the BJP leading in 48 out of 70 Delhi assembly seats, while AAP is ahead in 22. The Congress appears poised for another electoral washout.

The BJP, which aggressively targeted AAP over the “Sheesh Mahal” controversy and Kejriwal’s extravagant expenditure on a lavish chief minister’s bungalow, looks set to take power in Delhi after nearly three decades.

Key AAP leaders, including former Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his deputy Manish Sisodia, have suffered significant defeats. Kejriwal lost the New Delhi seat to BJP’s Parvesh Sahib Singh, widely seen as a frontrunner for the chief minister’s post.