India's Aam Aadmi Party May Upend Elections
The new Aam Aadmi Party already controls New Delhi
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Two parties dominate India’s politics: the Congress, which has ruled with its coalition partners for two terms and relies on rural voters; and the Bharatiya Janata Party, the Hindu nationalist group that last ruled the nation in 2004.
National elections will be held in May, and the expectation is that the BJP will fall short of a majority in Parliament but will still win enough seats, giving it the right to form a government with some smaller regional parties. In December the BJP, seen as more probusiness than Congress, won the most seats in four out of five state elections, including Rajasthan, India’s largest state. The victory was seen as a stepping stone to national power.