New Delhi, Feb 8
BJP's Delhi chief ministerial candidate Kiran Bedi is in no mood to unwind and is preparing for a series of meetings with senior party leaders, an aide said Sunday, a day after polls.

Senior party leader Nirmala Sitharaman visited Bedi at her residence Sunday morning, while a review meeting at the state party headquarters - 14, Pandit Pant Marg - is expected later in the day at 5 p.m..

All the 70 candidates, including Bedi as well as state BJP chief Satish Upadhyay, Delhi polls in-charge Prabhat Jha, and a few national leaders will review the party's performance in the polls as a majority of exit polls have indicated that the BJP is set to lose to Arvind Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party.

"She got up in the morning and after offering prayers met Sitharaman ji. She will be getting no time to relax as there is another meeting in the evening and she is preparing for that," said the aide.

"Although, she has a bad throat, she is positive and energetic and is in no mood to relax," the aide added.

The party is expected to hold a series of meetings in the coming days.

Sitharaman meets Bedi, hopeful of winning Delhi polls

BJP leader Niramala Sitharaman Sunday visited the party's chief ministerial candidate Kiran Bedi at her residence and told reporters that they were hopeful of winning the Delhi assembly polls.

"We are waiting for the results. We are hopeful that we will win," Sitharaman told reporters outside Bedi's house a day after the polling for the 70 Delhi assembly seats was held.

A majority of the exit polls, however, are indicating that Arvind Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party is set to return to power in Delhi, relegating the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) to the second spot and decimating the Congress, India's oldest political party.

Asked about Bedi's statement in the wake of the exit poll figures Saturday evening that she would take the blame if the party lost in Delhi, Sitharaman said: "She has given her personal view but we are hopeful the result will go in our favour."

According to the exit poll figures, while the AAP is likely to get anywhere between 31 and a staggering 54 seats, the BJP could bag 17 to 35 seats. The Congress, which ruled Delhi for 15 years until December 2013, it is forecast, would be routed, winning no seat or at best four seats.

The elections took place a year after Kejriwal's 49-day tenure as the chief minister ended abruptly.