India, Feb. 8 -- The Bharatiya Janta Party's (BJP) pursuit for office in Delhi ended on Saturday after a long wait of 27 years.

How did the BJP win the national capital, which also happens to be the nation's political capital? A month ago, most political commentators believed that while the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) may suffer some losses, it still had the edge in Delhi given the gap between the two parties, both in terms of votes and seats. Despite sweeping the Lok Sabha elections in Delhi multiple times in the past three decades, the BJP had to reconcile with the main Opposition's slot in successive assembly polls. There were many reasons for this, including the absence of a state-level leader that could match the Congress's Shiela Dixit, ...