Neha Maheshwri Bhagat (BOMBAY TIMES; April 10, 2014)

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) chief Arvind Kejriwal was scheduled to shoot for Kapil Sharma’s comedy show yesterday, but it was cancelled at the last minute. Reason: The Election Commission (EC) bans leaders from promoting their parties and its ideologies on any public platform 48 hours before polls. And with Delhi going to polls today, Kejriwal’s appearance on the TV show would have been a violation of the rules.

 Says a source from the production house, “It was mutually cancelled as we didn’t want to violate any rules. The idea of having somebody like Kejriwal on the show was not to talk about his party or anything serious. We were looking at a fun episode with questions in a lighter vein about his dharna and hunger strike. We will now go back to our original shoot schedule.”