 sense, if you look at our vote share, if you look at our numbers in terms of seats we won and I am more interested in the second place finish because as a party when you stand alone many places we have lost very closely. There is a place where we lost municipality and then the winner was dissent by a toss because there was a tie. So, all sorts of things we have seen today and combined if you take the vote share, combined if you look at because Congress party and DMK is a 13 party alliance the 13 parties together this is BJP alone so rightfully so BJP is the third largest party in Tamil Nadu without a doubt. BJP is now the third largest party in Tamil Nadu claimed Annamalai a former IPS officer and the state president of BJP in a press meet on February 22. He was talking to the press when the counting of the votes of the urban local bodies were in progress. Annamalai made all claims of the results and boasted about the unprecedented victory of the party. The major claim of the state leadership was that the party has become the third largest force in the state by making huge inroads in several districts. The claims were amplified by the social media activists of the BJP and even by the national level leaders. Several national leaders of the BJP also endorsed the claims of the state unit with even false numbers. The National General Secretary of the party B.L. Sandosh tweeted, we have made a mark 51 person candidates and 323 councillors 5.61 person votes. Neither did the party had fielded 51 person candidates or did win 323 councillors. The claims are fabricated or false. News click analyzes the claims and the position of the BJP in the election. It is in fact the congress which had won more number of awards than the BJP in these elections. As part of the settler progressive alliance, the congress fielded candidates in 1376 and emerged victorious in 592. Contesting alone, the BJP was able to field candidates for only 5594 votes out of the total 12,838 votes and won only 308 votes. It is true that there is a slight increase in the number of votes won by the BJP but the party has suffered humiliating defeats in several districts with no representation in 10 districts. The BJP has won 22 of the 1,373 municipal corporation votes, a mere 56 of the 3,842 municipality votes and 230 of the 700,603 town panchayat votes which went for polls. The numbers are boosted by the performance of the party in Kanyakumari district from where it won 200 votes. The party had secured victories in 11 corporation votes, 21 municipality votes and 168 town panchayat votes in Kanyakumari district alone. The party since the late 1990s has successfully created a polarization in the district with a 50% minority population and consolidated on the Hindu vote pack. Though the number of votes has increased in Kanyakumari, the party has lost out on winning a simple majority to win the post of chairpersons in the local bodies which it managed to win in 2011. The party had one municipal chairperson and 13 town panchayat presidents in Kanyakumari which has now been reduced to 0 and 4 respectively. The high claims of the BJP on becoming the third largest party stood exposed not only on the number of seats it managed to win but its inability to fill candidates in all the votes which went for polls. The party was unable to put up candidates in 54% of the municipality votes, 64% of the town panchayat votes and 17.5% in the corporation votes. The performance of the BJP in highly urbanized city like Chennai and its stronghold Coimbatore has come under scrutiny. The party had high hopes for the Greater Chennai Corporation and Coimbatore City Municipal Corporation. Though the BJP managed to win a lone councillor in Greater Chennai Corporation, it drew a blank in Coimbatore. A similar performance was reported from Ternalvilli as well. In Coimbatore and Ternalvilli districts where the corporations are incorporated the party has representatives in the assembly. The party had pin high hopes in Coimbatore particularly but most of its candidates 85 out of 97 lost deposits. A similar outcome is reported from GCC as well. The party candidates failed to secure that deposit in 56 of the 60 wards in Tirchi Corporation as well. The BJP will be represented by its councillors only in 11 of the 21 total corporations and it has only one representative in 9 of these 11 corporations. The tall claims of the BJP on becoming the third largest force in the state are not supported by the numbers. The party has boasted its victory to present itself as a huge force but has a long distance to travel even to field candidates in all the wards of the urban local bodies.