Defending her post Delhi assembly polls statement - "It is not my defeat, it is a defeat of the BJP" - former chief ministerial candidate Kiran Bedi Wednesday clarified that she said so because she had not failed herself in person. "There are two parameters of measuring success. One is the outer success and another inner success. So given my circumstances and capacity with which I approached people and the campaign, I asked myself one question - Had I given my best shot," the former IPS officer asked while launching her co-authored book at the ongoing Delhi World Book Fair. "And I knew I had and that is why I said that I didn't lose. I lose when I fail myself and I win when I win for myself," she added. Ms Bedi lost the BJP's bastion of Krishna Nagar in east Delhi by 2,277 votes to the Aam Aadmi Party(AAP) leader S K Bagga, an advocate, who polled 65,919 votes to her 63,642 votes. Following this, many blamed BJP for making Bedi their chief ministerial candidate, ignoring its senior party leaders.
