Competitive populism: On parties and the Delhi Assembly elections
As campaigning intensifies for the Delhi Assembly elections, scheduled for February 5, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and the Congress are raining promises of welfare schemes on every section of voters. The BJP, which was critical of the ruling AAP’s unrestrained populism as “revdi”, or a freebie culture, has not…