PM Modi, Amit Shah can't ensure election wins always: RSS on Delhi polls

The remark was made in an editorial by the RSS in its mouthpiece publication 'The Organiser' while analysing the results of the recently-concluded Delhi elections where the BJP was decimated at the hands of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP).

In a landslide victory, Arvind Kejriwal's AAP won 62 of 70 in the assembly polls, decimating the challenger BJP which could win only eight seats.

In its assessment of the Delhi polls, the RSS editorial, titled 'Delhi’s Divergent Mandate', stated: "...Narendra Modi and Amit Shah cannot always help out in the Assembly level elections and there is no option but to rebuild the organisation in Delhi to address the local aspirations of the masses is the clear message."

"Since the emergence of AAP, besides the traditional middle-class vote of the Congress, this entire slum-dwellers vote was transferred to the new party that emerged out of the anti-corruption movement. In the battle of perceptions, there was certainly no anti-incumbency visible against Aravind Kejriwal and his Government which was added by electricity and water bills doles," it said.

The write-up identified that there was the apparent failure of BJP to revitalise the organisational structure at the grassroots level after 2015 and building up of the campaign on in the last leg of the elections were the two major reasons for defeat in the well-fought out battle.

"The Shaheen Bagh narrative was effectively used by AAP without directly getting involved in it. This Genie of Muslim fundamentalism experimented under the pretext of CAA may create a new testing ground for Kejriwal," the RSS analysed.

"No single party is able to satisfy the Delhi voter at all levels and therefore, the divergent voting is on the rise is the biggest takeaway of this election," it stated.