Aam Aadmi Party leaders monitor results at their headquarters in Delhi
Arvind Kejriwal has defeated three-time chief minister Sheila Dikshit in her constituency of New Delhi by some 22,000 votes. His one-year-old Aam Aadmi Party made a spectacular electoral debut winning 28 of Delhi's 70 seats, just four behind the BJP, which is on top.
Here's your 10-point cheat-sheet to the Arvind Kejriwal phenomenon:
- India's newest political star, Arvind Kejriwal, left his job as a tax official in 2001, to embark on a career as an anti-corruption campaigner that would lead to national fame.
- After leaving government service he campaigned to bring in India's Right to Information Act in 2005, which earned him the Ramon Magsaysay Award.
- A few years later, he teamed up activist Anna Hazare to demand the anti-corruption Lokpal Bill, which creates a national ombudsman to investigate venality among elected representatives and bureaucrats.
- Though their demands went unheeded and their relationship ultimately soured, the campaign planted Mr Kejriwal onto the national stage.
- In November 2012, he launched the Aam Aadmi Party, despite Anna's advice to remain an apolitical movement.
- Through the campaign for his Aam Aadmi Party in Delhi, the father-of-two campaigned with no security - a status symbol for politicians in the capital.
- His supporters wielded the party symbol, the broom, and wore white caps. "The broom symbolises a clean sweep of India's rotten politics; the white Gandhi cap connects India to an era "when we had a politics of honesty and a politics of public service," he said in an interview last month.
- Using tactics popularised by US President Barack Obama, the party raised nearly 20 crores ($3.2 million) through small donations - with supporters' names listed on the website.
- Congress chief Sonia Gandhi's son-in-law Robert Vadra handed Mr Kejriwal his most memorable nickname in an outburst earlier this year, in which he branded AAP "mango people in a banana republic".
- Mr Kejriwal and his party have been criticised for their economic policies and promises of reversing hikes in water and electricity prices.
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