AAP | The Kejriwal gameplan

Delhi has only one chief minister and his name is Arvind Kejriwal,” an­nounced the capital’s new CM, Atishi. These evocative words came a mere 48 hours after Kejriwal’s surprise announcement that he was resigning from the office he had held for nearly a decade—to popular acclaim initially, but ground down by attritional politics of late that saw him jailed on corruption charges. Nominated by the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on September 17 as Kejriwal’s successor, what Atishi was suggesting is that hers was only a stopgap regency—that the icon was only in temporary eclipse.