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AAP sweeps Delhi: BJP crawls to single-digit; Congress draws a blank

The BJP, despite its successes in the 2014 and 2019 Lok Sabha polls, has struggled at the Assembly level

Delhi election, arvind kejriwal
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Delhi CM and AAP convenor Arvind Kejriwal, with family members and other party leaders at AAP office in New Delhi Photo: Dalip Kumar

Archis Mohan New Delhi
The incumbent Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) has secured a massive win in the Delhi Assembly polls, attributing its success to “politics of work” against the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP’s) “politics of hate”. Polling for Delhi’s 70 Assembly seats was held on Saturday after a fractious election campaign. 

The BJP’s defeat in Delhi comes on the heels of it losing in Jharkhand, failing to form the government in Maharashtra, and being forced into a coalition in Haryana after the party fell short of the majority mark. 

AAP’s win on Tuesday is being seen as a verdict at a time when nationwide

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