Morning Digest: BJP returns to power in Delhi after two decades; Bangladesh launches ‘Operation Devil Hunt’, and more

The Hindu Morning Digest gives a select list of stories to start the day. Read the top news today on February 9, 2025

The Bharatiya Janata Party, with its win of 48 seats, returned to power in the national capital after a gap of over 26 years scuttling the Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) bid for a fourth straight term. AAP won 22 seats.

The Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) defeat and the Congress’s failure in resurrecting itself in the Delhi elections have raised further challenges for the already-faltering INDIA bloc. There is a growing impatience with the Congress and many allies have accused it of contributing to the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) victory. 

Rajasthan Chief Minister Bhajan Lal Sharma along with his Cabinet colleagues and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLAs took a dip at Triveni Sangam in the Maha Kumbh in Uttar Pradesh’s Prayagraj on Saturday (February 8, 2025). The visiting group from the State, comprising 115 members, left Jaipur for Prayagraj by a special plane in the morning.

Celebrating the Bharatiya Janata Party’s (BJP) thumping victory in the Delhi Assembly elections on Saturday (February 8, 2025), Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the party’s senior leadership and workers at the BJP’s national headquarters here.

Having secured a major victory in the national capital, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is set to decide on the next Chief Minister of Delhi. There are several contenders in the contest for the CM’s post. The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) repeatedly took jibes at the BJP over the lack of a chief ministerial face in the campaign for the just concluded election.

Bangladesh’s interim government launched an operation Saturday after a student group gave a 24-hour ultimatum to track down “culprits” who assaulted their activists during a reported attack by protesters on an Awami League leader’s house on the outskirts of Dhaka.

The cases of Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS) are rising in Maharashtra day by day, three new suspected cases of GBS were reported on Saturday, with the toll reaching 183 and deaths at six. The two more water sources were found contaminated on Saturday, as the water samples were rapidly tested.