New Delhi: In a sweet revenge for the 1999 whitewash, the Congress party today (May 13, 2004) wiped out Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) winning six of the seven Lok Sabha seats in the national capital, unseating three Union Ministers.

The victory of Congress party created a history of sorts, as no party had managed to win the State Assembly, Municipal Corporation and now the Lok Sabha seats one by one in a gap of two years.

Elections 2004-Where is India heading...
Political Parties in India

None of the Congress candidates won in the last Parliamentary elections.

The saving grace for BJP was South Delhi, where its candidate V K Malhotra managed to retain his constituency by defeating noted lawyer and Congress candidate R K Anand by nearly 16,000 votes.

While Malhotra polled 2.40 lakh votes, Anand could only manage 2.24 lakh votes.

New Delhi, Saddar and Outer Delhi constituencies saw the major upsets for the BJP when its party candidates, who were part of the Union Government, lost to Congress candidates.

Vijay Goel, former Minister of State in Prime Ministers' Office, was humbled by Jagdish Tytler by a margin of 16,000 votes in Saddar constituency.

Tytler got 1,40,073 votes while his rival could get only 1,24,097 votes.

BJP's star candidate and former Labour Minister Sahib Singh Verma was made to bite dust in the Outer Delhi seat by Congress candidate Sajjan Kumar who won by over 1.70 lakh votes.