“I’ll register an FIR against you (Kejriwal). I apologise for that and seek your blessing.”

KAPIL MISHRA, speaking to the press before he went to the CBI to accuse Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal of corruption, took the bizarre step of asking for the latter’s approbation. Since the Aam Aadmi Party’s defeat in civic polls last month, it has lurched and stumbled—no sooner than it had smoothed things over with founding member Kumar Vishwas, than Mishra, a Vishwas ally, angered at being relieved of his duties as water minister, accused the apparently incorruptible Kejriwal of behaving like politicians he claimed to loathe: using his office to secure sweetheart deals for family members and enriching himself.