Assembly elections 2025: Two-pronged litmus test for AAP's 'Delhi model'

Both BJP and Congress are chalking out strategies to make the most of the anti-incumbency that may have set in during the Aam Aadmi Party's 10 years in office

In a couple of months from now, the country’s biggest, its oldest and its youngest national parties, would face off in a triangular contest for the Delhi Assembly polls. The first two, namely the biggest, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and the oldest, the Congress, would share a rare common agenda of defeating the third — the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), the latest to secure the ‘national party’ tag.

 

The term of Delhi Assembly expires on February 23, and the polls are likely in the middle of February. The contours of the battle have already been set. The AAP has