New Delhi : Arvind Kejriwal had asked for a majority this time. Delhi has given him an assembly with virtually no opposition. His Aam Aadmi Party is now leading in 63 of Delhi’s 70 seats, a win of gigantic proportions.

The BJP has registered a nightmare result. It is leading in only six seats. Nine months ago, it had swept the capital’s seven Lok Sabha seats and was the single largest party in assembly elections held in December 2013 with 31 seats.

A whopping 53 per cent of the vote has powered the AAP avalanche. The BJP’s vote share is almost unchanged from last time at 33 per cent.

The Congress, in complete decimation has lost 15 per cent in vote share and will win no seat in Delhi, which it ruled for 15 straight years till 13 months ago.

Arvind Kejriwal, 46, who had quit exactly a year ago after 49 troubled days as chief minister at the head of a minority government, is the man of the moment.

Prime Minster Narendra Modi has invited him for a “chai pe charcha” and he also tweeted, “Spoke to @ArvindKejriwal & congratulated him on the win. Assured him Centre’s complete support in the development of Delhi.”

At the AAP office in west Delhi’s Patel Nagar, Arvind Kejriwal munched on namkeen and told that he had “no nervousness at all as we knew people were with us.”

“This is the peoples victory,” Mr Kejriwal said, adding that his first priority would be to end “rishvatkhori (bribery)” and “VIP culture.”

“I promise to be the janta’s Chief Minister,” Mr Kejriwal said. Outside his three-storey party office, where hundreds have gathered in the AAP’s white Gandhi topi, waving the Indian tricolour, a giant board reads, “Janta ka CM (The chief minister of the people)”.

Reacting to leads showing AAP ahead, the BJP’s Kiran Bedi, who was projected by the BJP as its chief ministerial candidate, said, “The defeat is mine… it is not a referendum on PM Modi.”

This is the first major setback for PM Modi since he registered a massive win in the national elections in May last year. The BJP had won most recently held state elections.