NEW DELHI, Feb. 17 -- Arvind Kejriwal had meteoric rise in the political firmament of India. He appeared as a warrior determined to decimate the demon of corruption by playing a leading role in the India Against Corruption movement. In the aftermath of IAC, he formed the Aam Aadmi Party in 2012 with the promise of cleansing politics of corruption.

Because of his image as an anti-corruption crusader, people had a lot of expectations from him and his party. That is why the party could bag 28 seats in its first assembly election in Delhi in 2013. Thereafter, he won the last two elections with a landslide victory, obtaining 67 seats in 2015 and 62 in 2020.

The defeat of Kejriwal in his own New Delhi Constituency and his party's humiliating ...