The CBI’s excise policy case, in which a trial court had discharged Arvind Kejriwal and his close associates, is now under appeal at Delhi HC. AAP MPs Raghav Chadha and Sandeep Pathak have joined the BJP, taking with them 5 others. At the centre of this churn is Kejriwal, whose political journey is indistinguishable from the trajectory of the party's – disruptive, meteoric and increasingly burdened by paradox.