While the BJP has faced a humiliating defeat in Delhi elections, the party’s chief Amit Shah’s son, Jay Shah’s wedding went almost unnoticed in the wreckage of rout with no firecrackers when the baraat arrived at the YMCA club in Ahmedabad, where the venue took place.

With the election results took the BJP chances away hour by hour, Mr Shah, 50, looked visibly upset as he arrived with the baraat around 11.30 a.m. He didn’t spoke to journalists waiting at the gate of the club and drove straight in.

The BJP has won most state elections in recent months based on canny strategy and micromanagement by Mr Shah. However, the first major setback to the BJP in months came on a day Mr Shah would have wanted only good tidings.

The wedding in Ahmedabad was a close-knit affair; around 1000 people attended, including corporate bigwigs like Mukesh Ambani and Gautam Adani and several senior BJP leaders and central ministers like Rajnath Singh, Nitin Gadkari and Piyush Goyal.

Those who attended the traditional Gujarati wedding said it was not a lavish event. Mr Shah has planned two reception parties, one in Ahmedabad on Thursday and another in Delhi on Sunday. Jay Shah, who is the secretary of the Gujarat cricket association, has married his friend from the days at Nirma University in Ahmedabad.

- Manohar