Will the just-concluded assembly elections spell the end of the dream run by Arvind Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party in the national capital? A overwhelming majority of exit polls -- eight out of 10 -- appear to think so, with two giving the party a chance and one tentatively giving it half a chance. Matrize has predicted an outer margin of 37 seats for AAP -- two more than the halfway mark of 35 in the 70-member assembly. Two others -- WeePreside and Mind Brink -- have predicted a third term for Mr Kejriwal's party.
The rest are predicting a change of guard -- suggesting that the people of Delhi have shifted their allegiance from AAP to the BJP - their favourite 20 years ago. An aggregate predicts 30 of Delhi's 70 seats for AAP and 39 for the BJP. Most pollsters have kept the Congress in the fringes -- the maximum number of seats predicted for the party is just three.