Can Aam Aadmi Party retain Delhi?
Live MintFor weeks now, Delhi has been centre-stage for the protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act. But despite the party’s massive win on all seven Lok Sabha seats in the 2019 Lok Sabha elections, it is the Aam Aadmi Party that starts as the clear frontrunner in the assembly elections. In the 2014 Lok Sabha elections, for instance, Delhi voted overwhelmingly in favour of the BJP with the party sweeping all seven seats with substantial margins. Last year’s survey suggested that Delhi voters, like other states, seemed to be focused on the state government’s performance when deciding their vote in assembly elections. In the 2015 post-poll survey, 43% AAP voters said they may have voted differently if he was not the party’s chief ministerial candidate.