ELECTION EFFECT ON AAP: ONCE BITTEN TWICE SHY.

The paper seeks to analyse the effect of elections- the Assembly elections of Delhi of December 2013 and the 16th Lok sabha elections of May 2014- on the Aam Aadmi Party. The party, after its formation in October 2012, had scripted one of the most spectacular electoral victories, winning 28 seats in the 70-member Assembly of Delhi. If this unexpected electoral triumph catapulted it to the seat of power in Delhi and inflated its ego to such an extent that it turned a blind eye to the goof ups it committed in its brief stint in the Delhi government, the drubbings in the parliamentary elections in less than six months, has given it a reality check of the Indian politics. Against this backdrop, the paper seeks to analyse the decision of the party to concentrate on the Assembly elections in Delhi and to refrain from electoral contest in upcoming Assembly elections in Haryana, Jharkhand, Maharashtra. andJammu and Kashmir. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]