India, Aug. 26 -- In the corridors of the Bharatiya Janata Party, winning an election has never been the finish line. It is, as the party's newly appointed national vice president Lal Singh Arya describes it, merely the starting gun for the next one.

Days after being elevated from national president of the party's Scheduled Caste Morcha to one of 13 national vice presidents under BJP chief Nitin Nabin, Arya used his first detailed interview since the promotion to lay out a philosophy that has powered his party's rise across the country: govern as if the next election has already begun. "For us, an election is never a one-time event," Arya said. "The day we win, we go back into campaign mode. We serve people honestly, we deliver developme...