After remaining relatively inactive in the Delhi election campaign, RSS cadre began heavily mobilising in the third week of January, by organising three meetings in each polling booth, senior leaders from Delhi RSS told The Quint.

What provoked RSS' mobilisation at the time is AAP leader and Deputy CM Manish Sisodia's statement from 23 January, when in an interview, he said that he 'stood with the people of Shaheen Bagh.'