MCD Election results: How could the AAP experiment go so horribly wrong?

Now that the battle lines are drawn, it remains to be seen how Delhi govt and MCD will co-exist

Elections to the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) show a complete rout of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), which was relying on these polls to validate its rule over Delhi. The relationship between municipal bodies in Delhi and the Delhi government is fractured and fraught. For many years now, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) has had a stranglehold over Delhi’s municipal structure, which actually lubricates the administrative wheels on which the capital is run.
 
The fervent negation of AAP – except in areas where the minority communities like the Sikhs or Muslims live in large numbers – also suggests