The BJP office in Delhi after the results of Assembly elections were declared on Tuesday.
At approximately 32% vote share, the BJP has lost just 1 percentage point of its 2013 Assembly poll voteshare. For the party, that was the only good news today.
In Krishna Nagar, the office of the party's chief ministerial candidate, Kiran Bedi, was shut. It was locked soon after mid-day, when the trends made the outcome clear. Fielded from this party stronghold, Ms Bedi has lost to Aam Aadmi Party's SK Bagga by around 2,500 votes.
Some of the BJP grassroot workers in the area said the result was not altogether a surprise for them.
"The plan to defeat her was put in place a month-and-half ago when all the mandal office bearers were changed," alleged Chunmun Bindra, the local panna pramukh - one of the men tasked with seeing 30 families in his area vote on the polling day.
The party, he said, had brought in new people to work in the area, who "had no clue". "They (the people in charge) kept loyal workers away, did not give them any work," he said.
Even the lists at times, were faulty, alleged his colleague Naresh Ghai, who has been with the party for over 30 years.
"See, Ramesh Wahi died over a year ago," he said, showing a bunch of lists. "But his name still figures in our lists. That's how disconnected the party was from reality."
Panna pramukhs are a part of the grass-root strategy that BJP president Amit Shah used to great effect - not once but five times -- in Gujarat. It had been replicated in Delhi in hopes of rich dividends and in Krishna Nagar constituency alone, the BJP had over 1,600 panna pramukhs.
But after Ms Bedi's defeat, Ghai was skeptical. "The concept of panna pramukhs work only on paper," he said.
Grassroot-level workers pointed out other things, which they felt, worked to BJP's disadvantage.
"We just didn't have enough time to campaign," said Honey Gupta, former Yuva Morcha head. The BJP was the last to announce its candidate list, declaring some names just 24 hours before the last day of filing nominations.
Moreover, "old timers were ignored, new entrants with no local connect were given importance. It alienated many workers," he said.
Union Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad has said the party will introspect on the loss. But for panna pramukh Sandeep Jain, the reason was clear: "The BJP worked to defeat the BJP," he said.