AAP seems to have made peace with the people who showed up to allegedly delay the nomination of their party boss. But we decided to dig deeper and find out who these people were.

The information we had, based on various reports, was that Kejriwal’s token number was 45 and there were other people lined up before him. The Election Commission, on their part, has clarified there was no deliberate delay on their end.

One Newslaundry reporter was at the Returning Officer’s Office where he noticed that these were not just individuals filing their nominations separately; they seemed to be doing it in cohesion, as a group. In fact, some members of the same family were filing their nominations in the New Delhi constituency.

This raises a few questions. Who were these people, and why were they collectively filing nominations in the same constituency? What was their objective? Did they belong to the BJP, as claimed by Bharadwaj, or were they from another party?

What we found is rather bizarre: some people who were protesting belonged to a group who call themselves “1857 Dobara”.

Now, before we go any further, a small note to our readers: all the information we have dug up for this fun little investigation is publicly available on social media and other websites. A follow-up investigation was done by Newslaundry after visiting one location in Delhi.

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