Second coming...

Unsubstantiated promises

15 lakh CCTV cameras to cost Rs 600 crore

Home guards for every bus

Free housing for all slum-dwellers. Unsubstantiated because land not in control of Delhi government

Authorisation of all unauthorised localities

Lowering of VAT will affect tax revenue

Fee Wi-Fi for entire city

20 new colleges under Delhi University, which is a central institution

Delhi to become a solar city

Regulation of school fee

8 lakh new jobs

Regularisation of 55,000 contract workers

After shattering the aura of invincibility around Prime Minister Narendra Modi, the focus is now on whether the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) can fulfill its promises, which are mostly under the domain of the central government.

Chief Minister-elect Arvind Kejriwal's promises like seeking full statehood for the national capital, control over Delhi Police and a say on Delhi Development Authority (DDA) are bound to generate friction.

The Delhi chief minister, unlike his counterparts in other states, doesn't enjoy control over the law and order machinery and doesn't possess terrestrial rights, which are the domain of union ministries of home and urban development.

In the next few days, before taking oath at Ramlila Ground, Kejriwal will meet the Prime Minister and home minister Rajnath Singh to seek their support on crucial issues.

Even though the BJP was decimated and the Congress annihilated, both of them together control the Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD). The BJP- dominated MCD had been a headache for the previous Congress government, too, which is actually a delivery agency on sanitation, primary health and even education.

The AAP plan to route funds and decide works through citizen wards will be aimed at curtailing the powers of MCD, a handy recipe for friction.

The BJP, which had bagged 33.07% votes in the last election, finished with 32.2% this time. The party did acknowledge that Kejriwal was not a joker, but a political leader who knows how to create space.

The AAP secured more than half the votes polled and raised its vote percentage from 29.49% in 2013 to 54.3%. AAP's vote percentage swung primarily because Congress votes dropped drastically by 15% from 24.55% in 2013 to just 9.79%.

The Congress had lost 15% votes in 2013 as well, but it never expected to draw a blank after ruling Delhi for 15 years. AAP's victory is decisive as just 0.49% pressed the NOTA button to reject all candidates.

Everyone acknowledged that the victory marks a remarkable comeback for Kejriwal, a former income-tax officer whose career seemed doomed a year ago when he quit as Delhi's chief minister over a crucial anti-corruption bill.

Modi had enjoyed huge popularity since taking office last year, winning a string of Assembly elections in Maharashtra, Haryana, Jharkhand and driving the party to its best performance in Jammu and Kashmir.

Kejriwal told cheering party supporters that the "people of Delhi have achieved something spectacular, and with the help of the people, we will make Delhi a city, which both the poor and the rich will feel proud of."

He admitted that the huge mandate was "very scary and we should live up to people's expectations." While the BJP carried out essentially an anti-AAP campaign, criticising Kejriwal in its rallies, road shows and advertisements, Kejriwal conducted an energetic campaign, which proved popular with the working class and the underprivileged who make up 60% of Delhi's population.

The ripple effects of AAP victory are being heard in Punjab. Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal said AAP's victory in Delhi will not affect Punjab politics. But the fragmentation within the Congress and people's apathy towards his rule have set greener pastures for AAP in the state.

AAP leader Yogendra Yadav described the victory as the success of the party emerging not as a political alternative, but as an alternative to traditional politics, abhorred by the current generation.

Hard-core BJP workers still believe that Kejriwal would prove a "permanent nuisance" on the Ground Zero of Indian politics. "That can never be good news for anyone. Till this election, the BJP never understood Kejriwal," a BJP leader told dna on condition of anonymity.

Among many things, analysts believe that the vote was also against the absolute power of Narendra Modi. "It is a reaction against the fear of a perceived monopoly by Modi over India's political geography," said a central government bureaucrat while analysing results. Other factors included refusal of the Modi government to pass on the benefits of the falling oil prices to the common man.