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Will BJP Find CM Face For 2025 Assembly Polls?

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June 05, 2024

ONCE again, the BJP has swept the 2024 Lok Sabha elections in the national capital by a comfortable margin.

- UJWAL JALALI

Will BJP Find CM Face For 2025 Assembly Polls?

Even as the six new parliamentarians and the third-time victor Manoj Tiwari prepare themselves to voice the concerns of city residents in the House of the People, a parallel opportunity for political gain emerges upon the horizon– the road to the office of the Delhi Chief Minister.

The BJP, which has retained all seven city seats, despite brute dominance in the Centre for the past 10 years, has been unable to form a government in the capital or even identify and subsequently project a popular face for the CM’s seat for more than 25 years now.

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