Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal on Sunday said the Aam Aadmi Party would contest the Assembly elections in Haryana in 2019. Addressing a rally in Hisar town, Kejriwal said the AAP will break the record of Delhi, where it won 67 out of 70 seats in the 2015 elections.

“You have to break the record of 67 seats made by Delhi’s public,” Kejriwal told the attendees at the Haryana Bachao Rally, The Indian Express reported. The AAP convener said voters in Delhi had “thrown out” both the Congress and the Bharatiya Janata Party.

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The AAP chief claimed that both former Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda of the Congress and present Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar of the Bharatiya Janata Party were responsible for “getting riots triggered between Jats and non-Jats” during the Jat quota agitation in 2016.

“BJP is the number one party in orchestrating riots,” Kejriwal asserted. “If you want riots between Hindu and Muslims, give the BJP a contract and they will get it done in two minutes.”

“We will soon initiate the process to choose candidates for all 90 seats in Haryana,” the state’s AAP convener Naveen Jaihind later told The Indian Express. “People of the state are fed up with the politics of the CBI [the Congress, the BJP and the Indian National Lok Dal], whose leaders only promote their family members.”

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Labourers claim AAP promised them money, food

Some labourers who attended Kejriwal’s rally told ANI that they had been promised Rs 350 and free food for being part of it. “We were promised Rs 350 and free lunch but we haven’t received anything so far. They say the money is stuck somewhere,” a labourer said.

However, Jaihind claimed that the BJP made some people wear AAP caps and asked them to give interviews alleging that money and food had been promised but not provided, India Today reported. “Rs 1,000 are given to people to attend Amit Shah’s rally and they still don’t go, why would anyone come to ours for Rs 300?,” he added.