A few weeks ago, while releasingits election manifesto, the AAP incensed a section of the Sikh community by placing the party's symbol, a broom, next to a picture of the religious shrine. Around the same time, party leader Ashish Khetan compared the AAP 'youth manifesto' with the holy book of the Sikhs. This lead to a series of protests and complaints against the party.

So because Kejriwal and his party made a mistake by hurting the sentiments of Sikhs he wants to cleanse it away by performing sewa at the Golden Temple in Amritsar. "I had come here to offer voluntary service to apologise for the unintentional mistake committed in our youth manifesto... I have peace of mind now," he said. Kejriwal went around the shrine complex, offered prayers and later cleaned utensils at the "Langar hall" or the community kitchen which serves food to over one lakh people in a single day.