Omkar Dattatray
BJP has registered a bumper and unprecedented victory in Delhi polls and the party is armed with the essential number to form the government in Delhi. Now for the first time there will be a double engine Sarkar in the national capital and it is no ordinary thing but is most extraordinary development in which there is the benefit of Delhites.
The exile of 27 year of the BJP has ended and BJP will form the government in Delhi proving the exit polls as exact polls and 100 percent true and correct and proved AAP’s claims of forming government in Delhi wrong.
The Delhi Poll results showed that there was two cornered contest in Delhi polls and no three cornered contest as Congress failed to score any seat despite its tall claims. In fact in the crucial Delhi assembly polls ,the louts of BJP bloomed full trouncing AAP miserably.BJP is making comeback to Delhi throne after the good old days of Sushma Swaraj, Madan Lal Khurana and Sahib Singh Verma which were the heydays and golden days of Delhi BJP.
However BJP is staging a comeback after a long period of 27 years. People of Delhi have this time reposed their trust and confidence in Modi and his BJP and has given a emphatic win in the elections in accordance with the exit polls .The BJP has registered victory in the Delhi Assembly results, ending the AAP’s 10 -year reign in the national capital.
BJP won Delhi Assembly polls and defeated AAP and thus dashed to the ground tall claims of Arvind Kejriwal to again form the government third time in succession.
AAP was routed and its bigwigs such as former chief minister of Delhi Arvind Kijriwal, deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia and other big leaders were made to lick the dust as they lost the polls.
The AAP has lost Delhi Poll battle because it was battling anti-incumbency and there was internal disarray .But there are other reasons of its defeat such as clear loss of support among the capital’s middle class. The BJP’s ”double engine” Sarkar slogan and Modi magic resulted in BJP winning a comfortable number of seats and in the crushing defeat of the AAP.
Arvind Kejriwal’s AAP after winning three Assembly elections, this time lost the polls and BJP ,wrested back the UT for itself after 27 years. The Congress was not in the picture anywhere as it scored a big zero which is a humiliation of the grand old party. The BJP’s campaign ,spearheaded by the prime minister Narendra Modi ,broadly ran on one message -continuation of AAP’s welfare schemes ,with added promise of ”double engine development ”and a cracking down on AAP’s corruption.
It also appeared that AAP has lost the confidence of the middle class who did not benefit from the politics of welfarism, but were impacted by poor state of roads and civic amenities in Delhi.
BJP wooed the middle class assiduously through several outreach programs including RWA meetings .The icing on cake came through the massive tax cut announced by the Modi government in the Union Budget.
BJP made clear that no welfare schemes will be closed but will continue with added thrust.PM Modi made it clear that freebies will continue in Delhi and it tilted the balance in favor of BJP. Modi gave added weight to the poll freebies of AAP. Poor condition of roads and sewers was also a big factor which contributed in the downfall of AAP in Delhi. The relentless LG-AAP tussle worked wonders and it also catapulted BJP to power. Anti-incumbency of AAP also played its role in defeating AAP polls. Finally BJP swept Delhi polls and trounced its rival AAP.BJP had a emphatic and historic win as it won 48 seats and AAP managed to retain only 22 seats .While BJP had won only 8 seats in 2020 Delhi assembly polls ,it significantly increased its tally to 48 ,but AAP had won 62 assembly seats in 2020 polls and it is a worst debacle for AAP .In fact election outcome showed that BJP has extraordinary win this time and all hopes of AAP of coming to power for the consecutive third term did not materialize and instead BJP is all set to form government in Delhi.AAP which was eying a third straight full term in Delhi failed to retain Delhi and instead it is saffron party which won from different corners of Delhi and the louts bloomed from different parts of Delhi. Congress which had ruled for 15 years ,failed to open account as it got zero seats.AAP also got a big setback as it did not even get the magic number of 36 seats this election but had to contend with merely 22 assembly seats which is 14 seats short of the magic figure .Thus BJP is now armed with a thumping mandate to form a stable, strong and frictionless government which will work with all seriousness to come up to the expectations of the people .Prime minister Narendra Modi who was the star campaigner of the BJP in assembly elections was successful in turning the tide in favor of the saffron party. It is no exaggeration to state that the people of Delhi voted in favor of Modi and his developmental model and good governance mantra. Modi said that the two decade rule of AAP -Da has come to an end and Delhi has freed itself from the misrule of AAP .People of Delhi both middle class and the poor sections of the people as well as many Muslims have voted in favor of BJP .Congress has been decimated in Delhi polls as it for the third consecutive time won zero seats .Now there was a saffron surge and Hindutva wave in Delhi and all this coupled with the development politics helped BJP to win a significant number of 48 seats .Now that the people of Delhi have voted in favor of the BJP ,it should try to come up to the expectation of the Delhites so that their issues and problems are solved and misrule has led to the debacle of AAP and due to this reason coupled with anti-incumbency and AAP ‘neglect of the middle class paved the way for the significant win of the BJP in these elections .One fact needs to be stressed that Delhi is mini India as the people from all corners of India reside in Delhi for earning their livelihood and also for pursuing education, technical education and as a result of urbanization and better prospects are attracted towards Delhi and it is mini-India and the thumping majority to the BJP will be reciprocated and replicated in Bihar assembly polls in November and in fact in all elections including in UP polls which are somewhat far away, but still the echo of the success of BJP in Delhi assembly elections will greatly influence the polls in UP. To put a long story short ,it can be said that BJP had a clean sweep in these elections and now it will be the responsibility of BJP government to alleviate the sufferings of the people in Delhi. After assuming power ,the BJP’s government should focus on curbing pollution, cleaning Yamuna ,giving clean drinking water and improving civic amenities for the people of Delhi. The task of governance is gigantic and challenging and with the peoples cooperation it will minimize the hardships of the people of Delhi and remove mismanagement in Delhi .The astounding win of BJP is not only a big setback to AAP ,it also strikes at the very survival of that party. Only time will tell how much BJP government will come to the rescue of Delhites .One thing is certain that BJP has a bumper win in Delhi polls and it is the turn of BJP government to redress the sufferings of Delhites.
(The author is a columnist, social, KP activist & Freelancer)