Embattled within and facing a political encounter from without, the Aam Aadmi Party seems to be on the threshold of brand new self-realisation. That grand internal growth seems to have been fortified especially after Deputy CM Manish Sisodia’s short trip the CBI headquarters and back. In its core group meeting recently, the party has decided on abstinence: it will not contest the polls in Gujarat (which Kejriwal had vowed to sweep) and Himachal Pradesh. Kejriwal had been pushing the line that even if the party bags six per cent of the votes in these states, AAP will earn the stature of a ‘national’ party. But now there is a role reversal. Reason? Party mandarins feel that it should now focus totally on delivering good governance to Delhi before looking here and there.