India, Feb. 9 -- Several senior Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leaders were embarrassed in the Delhi assembly elections, the results of which were announced on Saturday, with party national convener Arvind Kejriwal, former deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia, state minister Saurabh Bharadwaj, and former minister Satyendar Jain all losing to their Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) rivals.

However, a handful of heavyweights - outgoing chief minister Atishi, ministers Gopal Rai and Imran Hussain, and senior leader Amanatullah Khan - managed to retain their seats, lending respectability to what was otherwise a crushing loss for the party.

In all, the AAP managed to win only 22 out of 70 seats in Delhi - a far cry from the 62 seats it won in the 2020 pol...