The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) looked set to sweep the elections to the national capital’s three civic bodies, trends showed on Wednesday, in what could be a crushing blow to Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal who is struggling to retain his five-year-old party’s appeal.
The AAP was at a distant second and the Congress was in third place.
The elections carry wider national ramifications as an emphatic victory for the BJP will only add to its image to invincibility and leave a divided opposition further demoralised in the run up to the national elections in 2019.
