MCD poll results: Is Delhi running out of patience with Arvind Kejrwal?

It seems clear that voters are punishing AAP govt, despite giving the party a giant mandate in 2015

Few municipal elections get as much coverage as those to Delhi’s three municipal corporations, the results of which were announced on Wednesday. Some of this attention is simply because they are taking place in India’s capital, where much of the national media is located. But this year’s elections were deemed particularly significant because they were offering closure on a storyline that has been bubbling away since 2013: The rise of the Aam Aadmi Party.

With most figures in by Wednesday afternoon, it became clear that the Bharatiya Janata Party had retained all three of Delhi’s municipal corporations, with