New Delhi

As the Election Commission trends indicated the BJP was well above the halfway mark in the Delhi Assembly elections on Saturday by midday, a pall of gloom descended at the AAP office while celebrations broke out at the BJP headquarters.

The trends are close to most of the exit polls that predicted BJP’s resurgence in Delhi elections.

Disappointed over the trends, neither the AAP leaders made any statements nor their otherwise active social media handles have any new messages.

As per the current trends available from the ECI website, AAP's top leaders Arvind Kejriwal and Atishi Marlena were trailing.

AAP Convenor and former Chief Minister Kejriwal, contesting from the New Delhi Assembly constituency, was trailing behind the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) Parvesh Verma and Atishi was trailing in Kalkaji behind the BJP's Ramesh Bidhuri.

After the completion of the 6th round of voting in the New Delhi Constituency, BJP’s Parvesh Verma is leading against AAP's Arvind Kejriwal by a margin of 225 votes ,as per Election Commission.

Other AAP leaders Satyendar Jain and Saurabh Bhardwaj were also trailing.

However, former Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia was ahead in Jangpura. Amanatullah Khan was also leading in Okhla and Imran Hussain in Ballimaran.

Earlier, Chief Minister Atishi exuded confidence in AAP's return to power and called the election a battle between good and evil, while Bharadwaj predicted that the AAP would win at least 40-45 seats.

Reacting to the trends, BJP MP Manoj Tiwari said: "We can see the blessings of the people of Delhi. We are confident that the tally will remain the same till the end.

Bidhuri said this is the people's decision to Kejriwal's "failure" and his "lies".

"The false promises he made over the past 10 years have been exposed. That is why the AAP will go, and the BJP will come to power in Delhi," he remarked.

The 70-member Delhi Assembly went to polls on February 5.

According to the present trends, the BJP was leading on 44 seats while the AAP was ahead on 26.

Delhi BJP President Virendra Sachdeva said that the people of Delhi have chosen PM Modi's good model of governance and have rejected Arvind Kejriwal's bad model as BJP crossed the majority mark in Delhi election results in the early trends.

 Sachdeva told news agency ANI that this election was a contest between good governance and bad governance.

 "The situation in Delhi--contaminated water, broken roads, poor sanitation, pollution in Yamuna, and much more--is a reflection of Kejriwal's model of governance, which the people of Delhi have rejected," he said.

 "On the other hand, Modi ji's model of good governance is one that the entire nation respects. People have chosen good governance," he added.

Speaking about AAP's prominent leaders like Arvind Kejriwal, Atishi, Saurabh Bharadwaj trailing in the results, the Delhi BJP Chief said that they will lose as they have cheated public.

"Their prominent leaders will lose the elections because they have betrayed the public. Arvind Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia, Atishi--these are all faces of corruption. The people will not forgive them," Virendra Sachdeva said.

BJP has crossed the majority mark in the Delhi Assembly election results, as per the early trends depicted by the Election Commission of India.

BJP is currently leading on 46 seats while the AAP is ahead on 24 seats.

The majority mark to form the government in the national capital is 36.

BJP's Parvesh Verma is leading on the New Delhi Assembly seat against Arvind Kejriwal by a vote margin of 225.

AAP Minister Saurabh Bharadwaj is also trailing on the Greater Kailash seat against BJP's Shikha Roy by a vote margin of 4,440.

Delhi Chief Minister Atishi is trailing to BJP's Ramesh Bidhuri on Kalkaji seat by a margin of 2,800 votes.

Polling for the 70-member Assembly was held on February 5, with a total voter turnout recorded at 60.54 per cent.