Although authorities had maintained till the last minute that Mevani and his supporters did not have permission to hold the event,
it seems the rally organisers and Delhi Police reached a compromise later.
In Gujarat, Mevani won his seat partly because the Congress did
not nominate any candidate against him and the Congress jumped from two to seven SC seats, partly because of organisations like the Dalit Shakti Kendra that dalit leaders like Martin Macwan have built in the course of several decades.