Mainstream WeeklyThe search for any ideological content in the Delhi Assembly elections scheduled to be held on 5 February 2025 would be like shuffling in a haystack for a needle.
But this ideological void does not appear to create any serious worry to people in the country’s capital and the centre of power. This is despite the fact that Delhi/NCR is home to a great number of important citizens: serving and retired government bureaucrats/officials, jurists/legislators, intellectuals, journalists, personalities associated with literature-art-culture-education, civil society activists, labour leaders and various NGO leaders.
In a healthy democracy, election time is, or should be, much more than a time to frame strategies for grabbing power. It should rather be a useful time for ideological churning among candidates/parties/voters. But such healthy possibilities within a democracy has been out rightly rejected in corporate India and its carrier corporate politics. In Delhi Assembly elections