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Upstart AAP hits BJP with landslide at Delhi polls

India’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) took a thrashing yesterday in elections to the state government in Delhi.

The Hindu supremacist and fanatically neoliberal party of Prime Minister Narendra Modi won just three seats out of 70, with the rest taken by the centre-left Aam Aadmi (Common Man) Party (AAP) of former tax official Arvind Kejriwal.

Victory for the self-styled anti-corruption party indicates how fed up Indians are with the endemic corruption of the BJP and the once omnipotent Congress party.

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