The power of sorry

In the run-up to the Delhi Assembly elections, Aam Aadmi Party chief and now Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal apologised profusely before the people of Delhi. On several occasions he said that he was "sorry" for the "mistake" of quitting abruptly as chief minister in 2014. Before being called to form the new government in Bihar, Nitish Kumar also went into overdrive, seeking forgiveness of the people of Bihar "for mistakes I may have committed", and promised, just like Kejriwal, that "I shall not repeat them". Both are now firmly back in the saddle; only Kumar's government will have to prove its majority in the Bihar Assembly by March 16.