New Delhi:The political landscape in India is gearing up for a significant year in 2025, marked by crucial assembly elections in Delhi and Bihar, as well as the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) elections. These elections come on the heels of a tumultuous 2024, where the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) regained power in states like Haryana and Maharashtra after facing setbacks in the Lok Sabha elections.
The 2025 political atmosphere starts with the road About the high-stakes Delhi Assembly elections. This election is one of the most important for the political players, including the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), Congress, BJP, Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), and the AIMIM of Asaduddin Owaisi. The AAP, under Arvind Kejriwal, looks to make it four in a row while the BJP sees its chance to finally take power in Delhi after 27 years of waiting. The Congress, which tries to bring back its lost power, is aware of how crucial these elections are.
In 2024’s Lok Sabha elections, the Congress and the AAP collaborated to contend for all seven legislative assembly seats in Delhi, but they will take rival positions in the 2025 assembly elections. Though having a decade of national governance, the BJP hasn’t had the chance to win Delhi, a state which only succeeded in 1993. Since then, it has been defeated first by Congress with Sheila Dikshit as a leader and then by AAP with Kejriwal as a head. The BJP is aimed at changing the direction this time.
The chances are through the roof for Kejriwal and AAP, who continue to joist out popular pledges. Meanwhile, the BJP has presented its own roadmaps that result in pressing the campaign harder in the nation’s capital.
Turning the page of 2025 is the Bihar where assembly elections will occur. Bihar is a very complicated problem for BJP. This is the case because the party depends mostly on its PM JD(U), which is under the leadership of Chief Minister Nitish Kumar. The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) is a coalition that consists of JD(U), BJP, Chirag Paswan’s LJP(R), Jitan Ram Manjhi’s HAM, and Upendra Kushwaha’s RLSP.
On the opposing side, Dritin Tejashwi Yadav, the one and only leader of the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD), is anticipated to launch a substantial campaign with the support of a coalition with Congress and leftist parties, in addition to backing from TMC’s Mamata Banerjee and SP’s Akhilesh Yadav. Furthermore, election strategist-turned-politician Prashant Kishor’s Jan Suraj Party will be on stage for its first-ever elections, while Owaisi’s AIMIM is going to use the Muslim vote to act as a kingmaker.
This election is another crucial test for Nitish Kumar; the wise politician has been skilfully navigating between RJD and BJP alliances for over a period of three decades. The BJP looks to achieve similar success as they did in Maharashtra by appointing their own CM in Bihar, which is certainly something that Kumar and his party have grasped.
Also, on the electoral card with the BMC elections, the Congress and the local body elections come up in Mumbai, including the BMC, which is Asia’s richest municipal corporation. The face-off features Shiv Sena, which has split into two factions after getting led by Uddhav Thackeray and Eknath Shinde, while the BJP is about to take a crucial role. After catching the attention of the state elections, the BJP tries to remove Uddhav’s dominance over the BMC. The mission of Uddhav is often portrayed as the control of the BMC, which he would like to strengthen against the dissent in his own party.
The BMC elections shadow the election of urban voters in various local bodies of Maharashtra, which adds the final touch to a burgeoning political tussle.
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