It was the longest that Narendra Modi had to wait after joining electoral politics in 2001. The prime minister and his party had been desperately trying to return to power in Delhi, where the BJP was born. The city that witnessed the formation of the Bharatiya Jana Sangh in October 1951, and later the BJP in April 1980, has long been a melting pot of cultures, shaped by partition-era migrants, aspirants from other states seeking work and shifting political fortunes. The BJP had been a powerful electoral force in Delhi since its inception, till its electoral debacle in the 1998 assembly polls. And now, the party has made a powerful comeback, extending its reach beyond its core voter base in the national capital for the first time.
It was Sheila Dikshit of the Congress who gave Delhi its modern avatar with flyovers, metro lines, malls and cultural festivals, until Arvind Kejriwal, a political newcomer, disrupted the scene with a fresh political vocabulary in 2013. Twelve years later, that very language, once used to capture the imagination of a social media-driven generation, proved to be his undoing. Kejriwal now finds himself overpowered by the very slogans of anti-corruption and social welfare that once propelled him forward.
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