NEW DELHI: Riding high on the developmental works undertaken in the last five years, Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party AAP ) government in Delhi registered historic victory for the second consecutive term.Two developments have followed AAP’s sweeping victory. The Delhi-centric party now plans to go national and also replicate the ‘Kejriwal model of development’ in other states. Also, several states have started emulating this model of development.BJP had publicised the ‘Gujarat model of development’ in the run-up to the 2014 Lok Sabha election. It highlighted the works done by Narendra Modi as chief minister of Gujarat for 12 years from 2001.The Gujarat model of development was not discussed after the 2014 Lok Sabha election. It was not repeated in the 2019 Lok Sabha election either. However, buoyed by the Delhi results, AAP wishes to draw mileage out of its Kejriwal model of development.Even though counting was still in progress and all results were yet to be announced on February 11, AAP put up a banner with Kejriwal’s picture appealing to people to get associated with the party “for nation-building”. They also displayed a phone number to become a part of this campaign.Speaking in Ramlila Maidan after his swearing-in on February 16, Kejriwal said not just Delhi but the whole country needed this “new politics of 21st century”.Delhi minister Gopal Rai said AAP would launch a month-long campaign from February 23 to March 23 for expansion. They would connect with 10 million people.AAP has also decided to contest all elections to local bodies across the country by projecting its "positive nationalism". The party would contest assembly elections in several states, including Punjab Punjab AAP president Harpal Singh Cheema claimed that the party’s impressive performance in Delhi would have an impact in Punjab which goes to polls in 2022. "Kejriwal's development model will work in the state in the next polls," he said.AAP Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh has also announced that the party wanted to replicate the Kejriwal model of development in Uttar Pradesh, where he comes from. The party’s membership drive would be carried out for a month from February 23.While AAP is looking at expansion outside Delhi, the other states are taking a cue from the Arvind Kejriwal government.West Bengal’s finance minister Amit Mitra has announced free electricity to consumers with quarterly consumption of up to 75 units in the 2020-21 state budget. The Kejriwal government gives free electricity upto 200 units to each household.Incidentally, both AAP and Mamata Banerjee-headed Trinamool Congress (TMC) have political strategist Prashant Kishor as their adviser.Some other states, such as Madhya Pradesh, Jharkhand, Telangana, Karnataka and Union Territory of Jammu and Kashmir, have already announced that they would be replicating mohalla clinics.Mohalla clinics offer cheap but quality health facilities to the people under the neighbourhood health facility scheme. They offer free basic medical care services for illnesses like fever, diarrhoea, skin and respiratory ailments besides first aid for injuries and burns.They dispense free medicines and health check-ups and 212 tests by empanelled laboratories. The Kejriwal government opened 301 mohalla clinics in the last five years.AAP’s experiment with expansion would face its first test in Bihar which faces election later this year. BJP and state chief minister Nitish Kumar-led JDU are coalition partners in the NDA government.Prashant Kishor, former JDU vice-president and aide of Nitish Kumar , has already announced the launch of a new campaign ‘Baat Bihar Ki’ to highlight the alleged misrule of the Nitish government.Kishor fell out with Nitish over Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA), National Population Register (NPR) and National Register of Citizens (NRC).Of the assembly elections held in four states after the 2019 Lok Sabha poll, BJP has managed to come to power only in Haryana. It lost power in Maharashtra and Jharkhand and suffered a humiliating defeat at the hands of Kejriwal in Delhi for the second consecutive election.Bihar would not be the only state to pose a challenge to BJP.Assam, West Bengal, Kerala, Puducherry and Tamil Nadu go to polls in 2021; Punjab, Goa, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh and Gujarat in 2022; and Tripura, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh in 2023.Among these states, BJP is in power in Assam, Goa, Uttar Pradesh, Uttarakhand, Himachal Pradesh, Gujarat, Tripura and Karnataka and hopes to win in West Bengal, Punjab, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh.In these circumstances, BJP may face a stiff challenge to retain power in the states it is in power, including Bihar.