Broom swept aside in MCD polls: Why AAP lost despite populist agenda

AAP must face facts if it doesn't want to lose relevance

Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) urgently need to stop pointless protests over electronic voting machine fraud and focus on undertaking a realistic assessment of the drubbing the party received in the Delhi municipal elections. The AAP’s tally of 48 seats overall — just 27 in its traditional strongholds of the east and south — to the Bharatiya Janata Party’s 181 (up from 138 in 2012) suggests that other factors contributed to this underwhelming performance. Certainly, much more was expected from a party that registered a stunning 67-seat majority in the 70-member Assembly in 2015,