Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party won a scant eight out of 70 parliamentary seats
LAST MAY Narendra Modi won a triumphant second term as India’s prime minister, with a thumping majority in the Lok Sabha, the lower house of parliament. The showing by his Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party was particularly strong in Delhi, the capital. It grabbed all seven of the National Capital Territory’s parliamentary seats.
There are two obvious explanations for the party’s slide. The one Mr Modi might prefer is that Delhi’s voters draw an unusually stark distinction between national and local elections. There is much truth to this. The local Aam Aadmi Party , a newish political force that grew out of a popular anti-corruption movement and has run the city since 2015, has done a creditable job improving basic services.
Yet a world of difference separates the two Delhi polls. In 2015 Mr Modi’s party was also relatively fresh and inexperienced. Now it is a behemoth. Not only does the BJP enjoy the lion’s share of Indian political funding, and command a pack of gleefully partisan television stations. Its control of central ministries gives it bullying rights over such key institutions as the Delhi police and the national election commission.
In its campaign, the BJP insistently strove to depict Shaheen Bagh’s mothers and housewives as dangerous incubators of treachery and terrorism. “This fire can anytime reach the households of Delhi,” fulminated Parvesh Verma, one of the party’s MPs.
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