Why Kejriwal needs to know he is not ‘God's gift to India'. Not yet

The Delhi election results, which have brought the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) back to government after 27 years, can be summed up in one line: the aam aadmi voted against the leadership of Aam Aadmi Party, but not necessarily against the idea of AAP.

There can be no other explanation when many top leaders, including Arvind Kejriwal, who made this election a referendum on himself, lost their seats – but the drop in AAP’s seat count was not mirrored in a commensurate drop in vote share, which came within a stone’s throw of BJP’s.