Delhi Election 2025: With the Delhi Election within the pipeline, a buoyant BJP was hopeful of replicating its Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh success within the nationwide capital the place it is warming the opposition benches since 1998. Nonetheless, out of the Chief Minister’s chair amid corruption allegations, Aam Aadmi Get together supremo Arvind Kejriwal has put each – Congress and the BJP on the backfoot with early ballot strikes.
The roads of Delhi are dotted with BJP posters cornering the AAP authorities over clear consuming water and the non-implementation of the Ayushman Bharat scheme. Nonetheless, weeks forward of the ballot date announcement, the AAP made key strikes depriving the BJP or Congress of any additional benefit within the ballot battle.
हम दिल्ली की हर महिला को 2100 रुपये देना चाहते हैं। बीजेपी इसे रोकने के लिए पूरा ज़ोर लगा रही है। मैं दिल्ली वालों को कहना चाहता हूँ – इस बार चुनाव में झाड़ू का बटन इतनी ज़ोर से दबाना की बीजेपी को ज़ोर का करंट लगे।
पहले भी बीजेपी के सारे विरोध के बावज़ूद जैसे मैंने आपकी बिजली…
— Arvind Kejriwal (@ArvindKejriwal) December 28, 2024
To counter BJP’s Ayushman Bharat push, Kejriwal introduced the Sanjivani Scheme below which all Delhi residents aged 60 or above will likely be given free medical therapy in authorities and personal hospitals within the nationwide capital. The AAP was conscious that the BJP or Congress might announce one thing much like the Ladli Behan yojana in Delhi as properly after the scheme’s grand success in Jharkhand, Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh. Thus, the AAP caught the BJP unprepared because it introduced Mahila Samman Yojana and moved in direction of its implementation, saying girls residents would get Rs 2,100 if the AAP returns to energy subsequent 12 months.
Whereas Delhi LG VK Saxena has ordered a probe into the registration for the scheme over the allegation of assortment of non-public knowledge of residents, AAP has already occupied the driving force’s seat within the ballot battle. The BJP, which has all the time been shy about asserting freebies in Delhi, already bowed down because it stated that the free electrical energy and water schemes carried out by the AAP authorities would proceed even when the saffron occasion is voted to energy. The Congress has additionally made comparable guarantees.
Congress secured energy in Karnataka by delivering on its 5 ensures, which included free bus journey and free electrical energy—advantages that Delhi voters already take pleasure in below the AAP authorities. Now, each the BJP and Congress face the problem of discovering concrete methods to unseat the AAP, as mere rhetoric is unlikely to sway the voters or alter the ballot outcomes.
