Delhi voters are quite distinct from other states. Caste plays a key role in elections in other states. But the voters in Delhi majorly look beyond their caste backgrounds to vote on group identities.
The bedrock of the 15-year-long tenure of the late Sheila Dikshit as the Chief Minister of Delhi was majorly the Residents’ Welfare Associations (RWAs). She accorded prominence to leaders of RWAs by holding regular meetings with them at the Delhi secretariat on a fortnightly basis.
The electoral constituency of the RWAs shifted loyalty lock stock and barrel to the AAP in the 2015 Assembly elections and stayed firmly with the Kejriwal-led outfit even in the 2020 polls.
The BJP for the past six months had been working with the RWAs. The functionaries of the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) too sought to break the AAP stronghold in the RWAs. The scale of the outreach is said to be on the lines of Maharashtra where the RSS functionaries had held as high as 20,000 close door meetings.
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