After Delhi, Punjab is the first state where AAP will form a government.

What went in AAP's favour? How did the party bag an absolute majority by completely overshadowing the entrenched parties in the state -- the Congress, the Shiromani Akali Dal and the Bharatiya Janata Party?

Malvinder Singh Mali, political analyst and former advisor to Congress leader Navjot Singh Sidhu, spoke to Syed Firdaus Ashraf/Rediff.com on AAP's rise and the Congress's decline in Punjab. Read the interview here.