Bharatiya Janata Party leader Kapil Mishra congratulated the Aam Admi Party for its landslide victory in the Delhi assembly elections and pointed out that this is the BJP's fifth loss in a row in state elections. The former AAP leader, who had joined the saffron party, suffered a crushing defeat in the Model Town constituency at the hands of AAP's Akhilesh Pati Tripathi.

"I congratulate Aam Aadmi Party and Arvind Kejriwal for the excellent victory. The BJP has lost the fifth state election in a row. It means we have somewhere failed to connect with the people of Delhi," Mishra was quoted as saying by ANI.

The BJP managed to win only eight of the 70 seventy seats in the capital though it increased its tally by five seats comparing to the 2015 elections.

The BJP has fought few state elections in recent times with such organisational firepower and ideological fervour as it did the Delhi polls, but this all came to nought as the party suffered a big loss, a defeat that continues its poor run in state elections since 2018.

Since 2018, the BJP has failed to win a majority in any of the state polls.

It lost power in Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh in 2018 followed by Maharashtra and Jharkhand. The party managed to form government in Karnataka by winning over opposition MLAs and in Haryana by allying with a regional party.

The huge gap in BJP's votes in the Lok Sabha and assembly polls in states like Jharkhand, Haryana and now in Delhi makes it clear that a large number of its voters have switched their preference in regional elections. 

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