Chandigarh, Feb. 12 -- Days after the party's crushing defeat in the Delhi assembly elections, Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convener Arvind Kejriwal gave a pep talk to the party's lawmakers from Punjab on Tuesday, telling them not to feel demoralised and instead work collectively with a focus on the 2027 assembly elections in their state.

Kejriwal gave this message to chief minister Bhagwant Mann, cabinet ministers, MLAs and MPs from Punjab, the only state where the AAP is now in power, at a meeting held at Kapurthala House in Delhi.

He told them that winning and losing are part of politics, and they should go to their constituencies and double their efforts to deliver on promises made to people to give a push to development in the re...