India, Feb. 9 -- The BJP in Maharashtra on Saturday celebrated its party's victory in the Delhi assembly polls all over the state. The opposition, however, has termed it the victory of the 'Maharashtra pattern'-the alleged manipulation of votes that saw the BJP score yet another win. Maharashtra Vikas Aghadi (MVA) allies also expressed the need for the opposition INDIA coalition to stick together to counter the BJP.

Maharashtra chief minister Devendra Fadnavis declared that the victory in Delhi was a representation of the "confidence shown by voters in PM Narendra Modi's leadership". "The voters have unmasked AAP and its leader Arvind Kejriwal, who had been misleading the people with false assurances and cheating," he claimed. "After the...