{"id":234475,"date":"2025-02-08T07:04:04","date_gmt":"2025-02-08T07:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/08\/modis-bjp-leads-in-elections-in-delhi-region\/"},"modified":"2025-02-08T07:04:04","modified_gmt":"2025-02-08T07:04:04","slug":"modis-bjp-leads-in-elections-in-delhi-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/08\/modis-bjp-leads-in-elections-in-delhi-region\/","title":{"rendered":"Modi\u2019s BJP Leads in Elections in Delhi Region"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/02\/08\/multimedia\/08India-election-HFO-01-wvlz\/08India-election-HFO-01-wvlz-facebookJumbo.jpg?ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"Modi\u2019s BJP Leads in Elections in Delhi Region\" title=\"Modi\u2019s BJP Leads in Elections in Delhi Region\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s national ruling party appeared poised to win an important regional election in India\u2019s capital where voters had rejected Mr. Modi\u2019s Hindu-first platform for nearly three decades even as it was expanding its footprint elsewhere across the vast country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Early results on Saturday in elections for New Delhi\u2019s regional assembly suggested that the Bharatiya Janata Party was on track to have more seats than the Aam Aadmi Party. Aam Aadmi, a small party, has governed the capital area for the past decade, though it has increasingly struggled against Mr. Modi\u2019s <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/03\/21\/world\/asia\/india-national-congress-bank-accounts-bjp.html\" title=\"\">efforts to crush it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The political fight over who governs the capital region has come to epitomize the cutthroat nature of Indian politics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mudslinging rival parties have been competing for votes with handouts as well as with pressure tactics that include A.I.-heavy disinformation campaigns and outright jailings of politicians.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Meanwhile, delivery of basic government services for a region of more than 20 million people appears <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/03\/23\/world\/asia\/india-election-federalism.html\" title=\"\">increasingly paralyzed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\"><em class=\"css-2fg4z9 e1gzwzxm0\">This is a developing story. Check back for updates.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/02\/08\/world\/asia\/india-delhi-election-results.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s national ruling party appeared poised to win an important regional election in India\u2019s capital where voters had rejected Mr. Modi\u2019s Hindu-first platform for nearly three decades even as it was expanding its footprint elsewhere across the vast country. Early results on Saturday in elections for New Delhi\u2019s regional assembly suggested that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/02\/08\/multimedia\/08India-election-HFO-01-wvlz\/08India-election-HFO-01-wvlz-facebookJumbo.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[183105,2093,1496,2921,183104,67,648,1686,3135,7792,8732],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234475"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234475"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234475\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234477,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234475\/revisions\/234477"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}