Winning ways

There is space for alternative political narrative

The Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP’s) impressive performance in Gujarat, where it has defied a 27-year incumbency to improve its tally from 99 seats in 2017 to 156 this year, may well dominate the electoral narrative. But on the larger canvas, a more sobering reality is evident: Of the three recent elections, the Centre’s ruling party has lost two. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) overturned the BJP’s 15-year hegemony in the municipal elections in Delhi despite the fact that the latter involved several party stalwarts to campaign for it. In Delhi, the AAP won 134 seats at the cost of both