Losing an election is part of the game for a political party. Every party has had its share of electoral setbacks, only to bounce back again. One just has to remember the stunning comeback of the Congress barely three years after it suffered a morale shattering defeat in the 1977 general election or the spectacular BJP win in 2014 after two successive defeats to realise that defeat, like win, is not something permanent. The big defeat of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in the Delhi municipal elections, therefore, need not be seen as signs of a party on the fast road to oblivion.
