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Delhi Elections: Why Didn’t BJP Decide Earlier?

Delhi Elections: Why Didn’t BJP Decide Earlier? By  Deepak Parvatiyar November 7, 2014 elections.in The very premise on which the  Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP)  declined to form its government despite emerging as the single largest party in the Delhi Assembly after the November 2013 elections was that it was averse to cobbling up support for government formation. But why couldn’t the Lotus straightaway decide in favour of fresh elections and instead procrastinated over the issue for so long? The 2013 Assembly Verdict Placed BJP in a Dilemma It would, indeed, be imperative to refer to the continuous flip-flops of the BJP on the issue of holding fresh election in the state but any such deliberation on the issue demands a reference to the Catch-22 situation that the party has been into ever since the fractured verdict of 2013 in Delhi. It has been a classic case of so near yet too far, for the BJP. It had missed the magic numbers by just three. And there lay