Kejriwal's principal publicity manager? The BJP itself!
February 06, 2015 11:27
Arvind Kejriwal's principal publicity manager has been the BJP itself. But part of the curiosity is also due to the two chief contenders for the chief ministership and to two very different approaches to governance.
The BJP could, and should, have called for early elections in Delhi to take advantage of the support demonstrated in the Lok Sabha elections, where it won all of Delhi's seven parliamentary seats, taking a clear lead in 60 of the city's 70 assembly segments.
Instead, the party dithered though nobody in the BJP could explain quite what it hoped to achieve. Did the BJP think that given time it could do better than winning 60 out of 70? Or was it hoping for defections from the Aam Aadmi Party and the Congress?
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Pic: With campaigning ending yesterday, Arvind Kejriwal limbers up at his home in Kaushambi, Delhi.
The BJP could, and should, have called for early elections in Delhi to take advantage of the support demonstrated in the Lok Sabha elections, where it won all of Delhi's seven parliamentary seats, taking a clear lead in 60 of the city's 70 assembly segments.
Instead, the party dithered though nobody in the BJP could explain quite what it hoped to achieve. Did the BJP think that given time it could do better than winning 60 out of 70? Or was it hoping for defections from the Aam Aadmi Party and the Congress?
Read more on Rediff.com
Pic: With campaigning ending yesterday, Arvind Kejriwal limbers up at his home in Kaushambi, Delhi.
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