Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi claimed this week that no riots were reported during the 15 years that his party governed Delhi.

Gandhi is straying from the truth. The police registered more than 1,100 cases of rioting over 13 years for which data is available.

Overall, 1,109 riot cases have been reported in Delhi between 2001 and 2013, according to National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) data, which reveal that 7,601 people have been arrested under sections143-145,147- 151,153,153A,153B,157, 158,160 of the Indian Penal Code.

Gandhi accused the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) of inciting riots in poll-bound states during a rally at Seelampur, an economically depressed area of the National Capital Region.

Delhi goes to polls on the 7th of February, 2015. Results will be announced three days later on the 10th.

Gandhi said: “We were in power in Delhi for 15 years but not a single incident of riot (sic) took place. Wherever elections are due, BJP’s people incite riots. Riots were triggered in Uttar Pradesh, Jammu and Kashmir and Maharashtra wherever elections took place.”

Referring to recent rioting in East Delhi’s Trilokpuri, Gandhi added: “No one from other parties, except Congress workers, helped affected people. You didn’t see (Arvind)Kejriwal or anybody else. There were people from Congress who helped the victims.”

Let us look at year-wise data on riots from 2001 to 2013 when the Congress was in power; the party’s Sheila Dixit was chief minister from 1998 to 2013.