New Delhi, Jan. 31 -- The people of Delhi have lost faith in the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) and the Congress, and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is the only hope city residents have for conflict-free governance, BJP national vice-president and the party's Delhi election in-charge Baijayant Jay Panda told HT in an interview. Edited excerpts.

What is so different this time that you think the people of Delhi will vote for the BJP?

This time things are very different. The people of Delhi have given chances to the Congress for many years and now they have given three chances to AAP-da (what the BJP has nicknamed AAP; a Hindi word that translates to disaster), and despite that, Delhi doesn't look like the Capital of the fifth largest economy in ...