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  BJP Central Observer Ravi Shankar Prasad, party’s Delhi President Virendra Sachdeva, party leader and Delhi Chief Minister-designate Rekha Gupta and party leaders Satish Upadhyay and Parvesh Verma after the BJP legislature party meeting, at the party office, in New Delhi, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025. File | Photo Credit: PTI First-time MLA Rekha Gupta will … Read more

BJP MLA Rekha Gupta shows a victory sign after being named as the new CM of Delhi by the party during the party legislative meeting, in New Delhi on Wednesday. | Photo Credit: ANI Delhi CM-desingate Rekha Gupta, an elected MLA from Shalimar Bagh seat, expressed her gratitude to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and party … Read more

BJP leader and Delhi Chief Minister-designate Rekha Gupta after the BJP Legislature Party meeting at the party office in New Delhi on February 19, 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI With a 30-year career in politics, Shalimar Bagh’s Rekha Gupta is set to take over as the next Chief Minister of Delhi on February 20. A … Read more

BJP MLA-elect Rekha Gupta arrives at the party office to attend BJP legislative party meeting, in New Delhi on February 19, 2025 | Photo Credit: ANI After more than a week of speculation, following the Bharatiya Janata Party’s victory in the 2025 Delhi Assembly election, the party on Wednesday (February 19, 2025) announced Rekha Gupta … Read more

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah and Union Minister and BJP National President JP Nadda during an event organised at the party headquarters after the party’s victory in the Delhi Assembly elections. File | Photo Credit: PTI

BJP leaders Vinod Tawde, Tarun Chugh, Virendra Sachdeva and others arrive to inspect preparations for the oath ceremony of the new Delhi Government, at the Ramlila Maidan in New Delhi on Tuesday, February 18, 2025. | Photo Credit: PTI Senior Delhi BJP leaders on Tuesday (February 18, 2025) inspected preparations at the Ramlila Ground in … Read more

BJP supporters celebrate the party victory in Delhi. The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is likely to announce the Chief Minister of Delhi on Monday (February 17, 2025), over a week after the February 8 poll results. The BJP sources on Sunday confirmed that a meeting with the 48 newly elected MLAs will be held at … Read more

In the summer of 2011, Anna Hazare, a Maharashtra-based social activist, started a fast-unto-death protest in the national capital’s Ramlila Maidan, seeking a ‘Jan Lokpal Bill’ to fight corruption. The movement ‘India Against Corruption’ was quick to catch the public imagination, pulling thousands into the sprawling grounds at the heart of Delhi, as it grabbed … Read more

Numbers that baffle in Maharashtra. | Photo Credit: ANI “The executive Government is instructing or managing things in such a manner that those people who do not belong to them either racially, culturally or linguistically, are being excluded from being brought on the electoral rolls. Electoral rolls are a most fundamental thing in a democracy… … Read more

Delhi BJP president Virendra Sachdeva and other leaders during a party event in New Delhi on February 14, 2025. | Photo Credit: Shashi Shekhar Kashyap The swearing-in ceremony of the BJP government in Delhi is likely to take place on February 19 or 20 and the new dispensation will give priority to clean drinking water … Read more

BJP candidates celebrate their victory in the Delhi Assembly elections. File | Photo Credit: PTI The swearing-in ceremony of the BJP government in Delhi is likely to take place on February 19 or 20 and the new dispensation will give priority to clean drinking water supply, improved civic infrastructure, among other things, party leaders said. … Read more

Atishi, Acting Chief Minister of Delhi, addresses a press conference at AAP HQ in New Delhi on February 14, 2025. | Photo Credit: Shashi Shekhar Kashyap Outgoing Delhi Chief Minister Atishi on Friday (February 14, 2025) said “internal conflicts” are happening among BJP MLAs over portfolio allocation and accused the party of making excuses to … Read more

AAP leader Sanjay Singh with Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Aaditya Thackeray, Priyanka Chaturvedi and Sanjay Raut addresses media after meeting AAP Convenor Arvind Kejriwal at his temporary residence in New Delhi on February 13, 2025. | Photo Credit: SHASHI SHEKHAR KASHYAP Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Aaditya Thackeray met Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) convenor Arvind Kejriwal … Read more

Kailash, KK (2024), ‘The Politics of Welfare: The BJP and the Discerning Voter’, Studies in Indian Politics, 12 (2) 228-250, 2024, Lokniti, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies. Right from the time of its independence, India has had to contend with extreme inequality and a large population of poor people. While there have been … Read more

BJP MP Bansuri Swaraj at a Ravidas temple in New Delhi on Wednesday on the occasion of Guru Ravidas Jayanti. | Photo Credit: ANI The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Wednesday attacked the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) over the “delay in selecting a Chief Minister”, claiming that people are facing hardships because of the lack … Read more

Advocating a “strong need” for unity between the Congress and the Aam Admi Party (AAP), Nobel laureate Professor Amartya Sen said that the two parties should have fought the Delhi elections together with mutually agreed commitments. Speaking to PTI during an exclusive interview at his ancestral home here in West Bengal’s Birbhum district, Mr. Sen … Read more

Union Minister and BJP National President JP Nadda, centre, Union Minister Harsh Malhotra, right, the party’s National Vice President Baijayant Jay Panda, second right, and Delhi President Virendra Sachdeva, second left, and others during the party’s election committee meeting on January 9, 2025. File | Photo Credit: PTI The Delhi BJP’s various poll committees on … Read more

Image for representative purpose | Photo Credit: The Hindu The Delhi High Court on Wednesday (February 12, 2025) refused to examine a plea against “freebies” and cash-oriented schemes by political parties ahead of elections, noting the Supreme Court was already hearing a similar issue. A bench of Chief Justice D.K. Upadhyaya and Justice Tushar Rao … Read more

‘Manmohan Singh and the technocratic, Delhi-based Congress managers interpreted the 2009 results as an endorsement of the employment guarantee scheme, or even the U.S. nuclear deal’  | Photo Credit: AFP At the first official state dinner of his presidency, on November 24, 2009, Barack Obama, the first non-white President of the United States, hosted Manmohan … Read more

Delhi BJP chief Virendra Sachdeva during a protest against the ‘sheesh mahal’. | Photo Credit: file photo Two days after winning the Delhi Assembly election, the BJP on Monday said its Chief Minister will not occupy “Sheesh Mahal”, referring to the 6, Flagstaff Road bungalow where Arvind Kejriwal stayed as the Chief Minister from 2015 … Read more

The meeting comes two days after the Aam Aadmi Party’s defeat in Delhi. File | Photo Credit: PTI AAP supremo Arvind Kejriwal will hold a meeting with Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann and party MLAs from the state in the national capital on Tuesday (February 11, 2025) to discuss the Delhi assembly polls outcome, party … Read more

The BJP dethroned AAP in the recent Delhi Assembly poll by winning 48 of the 70 Assembly seats. The BJP sources credited micro-level outreach programmes, door-to-door campaigns ahead of the election for the party’s victory. While the BJP’s top brass hosted big rallies and roadshows, other leaders reached out to the target groups, including salon … Read more

Delhi Congress chief Devender Yadav. | Photo Credit: file photo The Congress’s Delhi unit chief, Devender Yadav, on Monday said the party’s failure to get the votes of Dalits and minorities who are “uncomfortable with the politics of the Bharatiya Janata Party” dented its prospects in the Assembly poll. “Dalits and minorities who are uncomfortable … Read more

Watch: Delhi Assembly Elections 2025 | Key winners and losers The BJP staged a thumping comeback in Delhi after more than 26 years as it won 48 of the 70 seats in the Assembly polls on Saturday (February 8, 2025). The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) secured victories from 22 seats and the Congress drew a … Read more

BJP National General Secretary B.L. Santosh, Delhi BJP chief Virender Sachdeva, party national vice-president Baijayant Panda, party MP Bansuri Swaraj pose for a picture with newly elected party MLAs Parvesh Verma and others at Delhi BJP Office in New Delhi on February 9, 2025. | Photo Credit: ANI The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is all … Read more

Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut suggested that the Delhi poll results might have been different if the AAP and Congress had formed an alliance. File | Photo Credit: ANI Social activist Anna Hazare has expressed satisfaction over Arvind Kejriwal’s defeat in the recent Delhi Assembly polls, according to Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut. … Read more

Delhi BJP President Virendra Sachdeva and other party leaders seen during a meeting at Delhi BJP office in New Delhi on February 9, 2025. | Photo Credit: Sushil Kumar Verma A day after winning 48 out of the 70 seats in the Delhi Assembly elections, a delegation of the Bharatiya Janata Party’s winning candidates in … Read more

Power play: Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Delhi Lt. Governor V.K. Saxena during the foundation stone laying and inauguration ceremony of various development projects, in New Delhi. File | Photo Credit: Shiv Kumar Pushpakar In the first week of January, the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) campaign for the Delhi Assembly election started with Prime Minister … Read more

 The Congress, which has already been exposing the AAP government’s misgovernance in Punjab, would now corner the AAP with a renewed vigour over its “failures” and “unfulfilled promises” in the days to come, said Rajinder Kaur Bathal. File | Photo Credit: PTI The Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) debacle in the Delhi Assembly election is all … Read more