AAP's Arvind Kejriwal urges Union Home Minister to stop crimes in Delhi after man throws water on him in Delhi during Padyatra

A man threw water on Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) supremo and former Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal during a padyatra (journey by foot) in the national capital on Dec 1.

Visuals of the attack show security personnel and Kejriwal's supporters catching the man and thrashing him, with the AAP chief assessing what had just happened.

Police sources were quoted as saying the incident happened while Kejriwal was walking with supporters in south Delhi's Malviya Nagar neighborhood.

The man has been identified as Ashok Jha, sources said, adding he has been detained and is being questioned.

Reacting to the attack on him, Kejriwal urged Union Home Minister Amit Shah to stop crime in the national capital.

Delhi Chief Minister Atishi in a post on X claimed Jha was a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) member.

AAP leader Saurabh Bharadwaj alleged the BJP was behind the attack.

"Law and order have collapsed in Delhi and the central government and the Home Minister are not doing anything," Bharadwaj was quoted as saying by news agency ANI.

Delhi BJP spokesperson Praveen Shankar Kapoor in a statement said Kejriwal has gone back to doing his "old trick" with an eye on the Delhi assembly election which is due early next year.

"Arvind Kejriwal's every political strategy has failed. Now he will return to using his old tricks, in which he is slapped and ink is thrown at him. A similar thing happened today. Arvind Kejriwal should tell himself what new game he started today," Kapoor said.

"We request the Delhi Police to question the suspect and find the truth. The BJP has never taken the path of threats or violence in political campaigns," he added.

The AAP in a post on its X handle questioned what it alleged was a "deteriorating law and order situation in Delhi".

... If a former chief minister is not safe in the country's capital, then what will happen to the common man? Delhi's law and order situation has completely collapsed under (central) BJP rule," the AAP said in a post on X.