Before she wasn’t, Sheila Dixit was a popular Chief Minister, the face of Delhi for 15 years. For the last three years though, the Congress has been on a seemingly terminal downward spiral in the national capital. Reduced to the third spot in the 2013 elections with just eight seats, they were decimated in the 2015 Assembly elections. With no seats and just nine percent of the vote share, India’s oldest party has been all but written off from the capital.
In the results of the Delhi Municipal bypolls, the Congress and its Delhi chief Ajay Maken finally have something to smile about.