Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal has now hit back at BJP leaders who have been targeting the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) after Delhi Police found alleged links of the Shaheen Bagh shooter with his party. Kejriwal has dismissed the claims as Home Minister Amit Shah's "cheap tricks" before the Delhi elections on February 8.

Speaking to ANI in an interview on Wednesday, Kejriwal said, "After all their attempts at branding me as a terrorist failed, now the BJP has started misusing Delhi Police. BJP is frustrated and Amit Shah is now using all kinds of cheap tricks hours before the elections in desperation."

"The people of Delhi and the entire country are watching and it is very clear to everyone that these are conspiracies being hatched by the BJP before the elections," Kejriwal said.

The AAP chief also said that his party doesn't have the capacity to carry out such attacks.

Kapil Baisala who opened fired at the Shaheen Bagh protest site last week is a member of the Aam Aadmi Party, Delhi Police said on Tuesday, sparking a war of words between the BJP and the AAP.

Deputy Commissioner of Police (Crime Branch) Rajesh Deo said that Baisala and his father joined the AAP in early 2019. Baisala's family, however, refuted the police's claim.

BJP has attacked Arvind Kejriwal over the shooter's alleged links with AAP and said there are photographs of him with AAP leader Sanjay Singh.

BJP IT cell head Amit Malviya said on Wednesday, "If he was just any other common AAP worker, why would Sanjay Singh welcome him with garlands?"

"Kejriwal carried out the shootout at Shaheen Bagh with the intention of polarising Delhi on communal lines," the BJP leader said.

BJP spokesperson Sambit Patra said, "It's good that Kejriwal has imparted good education to his own children but using other's children (Kapil Gujjar) as cannon fodder to satisfy his own political satiety and just to put the blame of terrorism on "Hindus", exposes the #ConspiratorInCheif Kejriwal completely".

BJP leader Prakash Javadekar also alleged that "their (AAP's) designs are very clear from the beginning and they are trying every trick".

The whole conspiracy of the AAP is to "divide society, cause fear in a community and create a vote bank," Javadekar claimed.