Kapil Mishra to Bagga, polarising faces take centre stage in Delhi BJP

The next significant change in the population composition was brought about by migrants, largely from undivided Uttar Pradesh and Bihar

For decades, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) struggled to identify, nurture, and project a person to lead the party in Delhi, which was one of its bastions since the days of the Bha­ratiya Jana Sangh. By the BJP’s own reckoning, Madan Lal Khurana was the last leader of consequence, until he was done in by factional feuds. 

When Sahib Singh Verma was picked to replace Khurana as chief minister, it was regarded as an “unconventional” move because Verma was a Jat. It was recognised that Delhi’s demography had moved beyond the Punjabi-dominated core to newly empowered social groupings and the