There are two common strands in two of the most one-sided election outcomes in the past 30 years in India. First, the BJP lost the heaviest in both. Second, a woman is generally believed to have influenced the outcome the most.
In the 1984 General Election, the Rajiv Gandhi-led Indian National Congress won 404 of the 491 seats it contested. The BJP lost 222 of the 224 it contested. Indira Gandhi is credited with the victory – in the way her death triggered outrage and sympathy across most of India. She died in office, shot dead by her bodyguards. Her assassination had caused the election.
In the 2015 Delhi Assembly election, the Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) won 67 of the 70 seats it contested. The BJP lost 67 of the 70 it contested. Kiran Bedi is being discredited for the loss – in the way her candidature for the top post triggered outrage in the BJP. She lost her seat as well.
Indira Gandhi won 1984 for Rajiv Gandhi and the Congress. We know this because Rajiv lost big soon after. He never won India again and was assassinated in the middle of the 1991 election campaign.
Kiran Bedi didn't lose Delhi for the BJP. Here is why.
The worst thing said about Bedi is that she is crusty on the outside, that she has difficulty relating with colleagues. This surely is lesser evil than being footloose in office, which Kejriwal is.
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