New Delhi, July 23 -- In the death of former chief minister of Delhi, Sheila Dikshit, the media has lost a good friend. Though she was unwell for a while, her end came rather soon. Just a day before her death, she was battling it out with the central leadership on how to revive the Congress party after the numbing loss in the 2019 elections. Dikshit contested the Lok Sabha elections and seemed like a winner, but she suffered the same fate as that of other Congress candidates when she lost by a big margin. Indeed, her stunning second loss in the last six years was no evidence of her waning popularity or the abundant love people had for her.

Despite being in the opposition, thousands of her admirers came to pay homage to a leader who was c...