New Delhi: A day before voting in Delhi for the national election, Arvind Kejriwal, the top man of the Aam Aadmi Party or AAP, reached out to two men who have attacked him during his campaign. Kejriwal first called on Lali, an auto-rickshaw driver who slapped him in Sultanpuri in northwest Delhi on Tuesday. Lali was a picture of contrition as he spoke to the AAP leader with folded hands, and tried to touch his feet. "I committed a huge mistake. He is god for me. I did it because he left the government after some days," he said, referring to Kejriwal's resignation in February, after 49 days in power, over the Jan Lokpal bill.

“I forgave him,” Kejriwal said after meeting 38-year-old Lali at his residence in Aman Vihar area of Outer Delhi. The AAP leader was in an open jeep when Lali garlanded him and then struck him hard on his left cheek, leaving him with a swollen eye. The 38-year-old was immediately tackled to the ground by AAP supporters and beaten. He was taken to a hospital later. Lali had called Kejriwal a "liar" and accused him of "betraying auto-drivers." Kejriwal, who called off his roadshow and meditated at Mahatma Gandhi's memorial Rajghat after the attack, on Wednesday said the Delhi Police should track down the "mastermind" of these attacks.