New Delhi, March 1 -- While the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has been wielding political power at the Centre and in over 20 states across the country for the past 11 years under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, securing the Delhi Assembly has remained an elusive dream for the saffron party for almost three decades, since its last Chief Minister, the late Sushma Swaraj, demitted office in December 1998.

The BJP's exile from the Players' Building, the headquarters of the Delhi government, ended after its leader Rekha Gupta was sworn in as the chief minister of the national capital territory, along with her six cabinet colleagues on 20th February this year.

The mission of securing a political win in the national capital by ...