India, Feb. 21 -- The first BJP government in Delhi in nearly three decades addresses the gender, regional, and caste dynamics of the party's rainbow support base. The choice of Rekha Gupta, a first-time woman MLA as chief minister (CM), is interesting on at least two counts. One, though the BJP controls 14 states and UTs, only Delhi has a woman CM. Gupta add muscle to the party's claim that it aims to empower women politically. Two, women are a constituency that the AAP tried to cultivate with welfare promises, but they moved towards the BJP in the Delhi assembly polls earlier this month. Clearly, the Delhi BJP wants to consolidate this critical demographic - which has proved to be the swing factor in states such as Madhya Pradesh, Jhark...
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