Modi’s Loss, a Warning to All
The Modi government’s nine-month honeymoon with Indian voters ended on Tuesday. The Bharatiya Janata Party (B.J.P.), which had been on a roll since dominating the general election last May, secured only 3 of 70 seats in the election for the state assembly in Delhi. Its sole consolation was to see its traditional rival, the Congress Party, completely wiped out. The two-year-old-plus Aam Aadmi Party (A.A.P.), or Common Man Party, trounced them both, winning 67 seats.
No one expected the scale of the A.A.P.’s victory, least of all its members, among whose number I am proud to count myself. It was a stunning reversal for an upstart party whose leader exactly one year ago dismayed the public by walking out of the previous Delhi government after just 49 days in office.… Seguir leyendo »