Panic building in Delhi Establishment

The concerns of the “Beltway”, it has long been recognised in the United States, rarely determine the outcome of electoral battles, although they are paramount in other times. For all its other charming attributes, the Delhi Establishment — which includes a heady mix of politicians, lawyers, editors, bureaucrats, socialites and those whose sources of livelihood are an enduring mystery — has never accepted its creeping irrelevance during election season when power shifts to the hoi-polloi and regional elites.

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