India continues to be in transition, and politics is the cornerstone of this evolution.

Narendra Modi's victory of May 2014 made every political bigwig a nonentity and traditional political systems oblivious. It forced academics to reassess their theories and columnists to rewrite eulogies.

An indestructible Modi-Shah pair, with every armour in its kitty – from money to a strong cadre – was defeated by a new party with a little percentage of this money and a volunteer base of 30,000.

Maybe it is poetic justice or a circle of interpretation that the Bharatiya Janata Party's (BJP) performance in Delhi would deny it the Leader of Opposition's post, something they very egoistically denied to the Congress in Parliament last year.

Sushma Swaraj, while replying to a debate in Parliament after BJP's loss in 2009 had said:

"Loktantra mein chunaav jeetein aur harein jaatein hai, yeh loktantra ka buniyaadi niyam hai, lekin yahaan kisi ke itishri nahin hoti, na party star par na vyaktigat star par."

(Victory and defeat in an election are the fundamental outcomes of a democracy, but it is not the end of either a party or an individual.)

In about two lines, Swaraj summed up the supremacy of a process that is democracy, to events that is the party or the individual. That, essentially is, how any election, including this one, should be read.

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