Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) national convener and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal filed his nomination from the New Delhi constituency on Tuesday after waiting for over six hours. AAP spokesperson Saurabh Bhardwaj said Kejriwal filed his nomination around 6.30 pm on Tuesday.

On the last day of filing nominations, Kejriwal was seen waiting and holding token number 45. “Waiting to file my nomination. My token no is 45. There are many people here to file nomination papers. Am so glad so many people participating in democracy,” Kejriwal said.

Earlier, alleging a conspiracy, AAP senior leader Manish Sisodia accused the BJP of propping up 44 independent candidates ahead of Kejriwal to deny him nomination.

Sisodia said no matter how much the BJP conspires they will not be able to stop Kejriwal from filing his nomination. “The BJP, no matter how much you conspire, you will not be able to stop Kejriwal from filing his nomination or from becoming the Chief Minister for the third time. Your conspiracies will not yield any result,” he said.

Tagging tweets of Bharadwaj, who alleged 35 candidates were sitting at the office along with the CM without proper nomination papers or even 10 proposers.

“They (candidates) are insisting unless their papers are complete and they file their nominations, they won’t allow the CM to file his nomination papers,” he said.

“Doesn’t matter. Many of them are filing for the first time. They are bound to make mistakes. We also made mistakes the first time. We should hand hold them. I am enjoying waiting with them. They are all part of my family,” Kejriwal said in a tweet.

Delhi goes to polls on February 8 and counting will take place on February 11. The BJP has fielded Sunil Yadav against Kejriwal, while the Congress has fielded Romesh Sabharwal.