With urban consumption slowing, job creation lagging, and food price inflation persisting, the tax rebate by Nirmala Sitharaman seems to have won BJP their first assembly election since 1998.
Traditionally considered politically passive, Delhi’s middle-class electorate may have been the decisive force behind BJP’s resurgence in the national capital.
While the middle-class voted overwhelmingly in the BJP's favour in the general elections, it preferred the AAP in assembly polls mainly due to waivers offered on electricity and water bills.
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