#DelhiDecides: Arvind Kejriwal will take oath as Delhi CM on Feb 14

Indian Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) supporters celebrate the AAP's victory in the state assembly elections outside the party's headquarters in New Delhi on February 10, 2015. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi conceded defeat on February 10 in the Delhi state elections as early results showed anti-corruption campaigner Arvind Kejriwal's party set for a landslide victory. (AFP)

Indian security personnel stand guard at a vote counting centre in New Delhi on February 10, 2015. Counting of votes started for Delhi state elections with exit polls indicating former chief minister Arvind Kejriwal's anti-corruption party has comfortably beaten Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalists. (AFP)

An Indian woman waits for bus as she sits near an election advertisement with a photograph of Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal at a bus stop in New Delhi, India, Sunday, Feb. 8, 2015. A slew of exit polls Saturday predicted an outright victory for Aam Aadmi Party, an upstart anti-corruption party in elections to install a state government in India's capital, a potentially huge blow for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist party. Hindi reads, "five years Kejriwal".(AP)

Anti-corruption champion Arvind Kejriwal. (AFP)

Published Tuesday, February 10, 2015

By Agencies

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi conceded defeat on Tuesday in Delhi state elections as early results showed anti-corruption campaigner Arvind Kejriwal's party set for a landslide victory.

Modi assured Kejriwal of the national government's "complete support" following the right-wing premier's first election loss since storming to power at general polls last May.

"Spoke to @ArvindKejriwal & congratulated him on the win. Assured him Centre's complete support in the development of Delhi," Modi said in a tweet.

Early tallies showed Modi's Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leading in just three seats in the 70-seat state assembly, with former Delhi chief minister Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) ahead in 66.

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