AAP sweeps Delhi as voters reject hate.
| | | | | | | The Aam Aadmi Party is set to form the government in Delhi for the third time in six years with Arvind Kejriwal returning as the Chief Minister.
AAP’s win capped a months-long campaign that highlighted the party’s achievements which included free neighbourhood clinics, a focus on Delhi’s government-run schools, free travel on public buses for women, and sharply reduced tariffs on water and electricity. The party, born out of Anna Hazare’s anti-corruption movement, also reminded voters that it had run a largely scam-free government.
Its chief rival, the BJP, ran a divisive and mostly joyless campaign focused around the presumption that the integrity of the Indian republic was compromised by a group of peaceful demonstrators camped out on a national highway, near the neighbourhood of Shaheen Bagh along Delhi’s south-east border. Much of the BJP’s campaign was focused on the controversial new Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), that critics say violates the secular tenets of India’s Constitution by making religion a basis for citizenship and the BJP claims is in national interest. |
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