Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) protesters were detained outside Patel Chowk metro station while demonstrating against the arrest of its convenor and Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal in an alleged money laundering case. The AAP supporters were detained amid their call to ‘gherao’ Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s house. The BJP is also holding parallel protests in the city demanding Kejriwal’s resignation as Delhi CM. In response to the protests, police have increased security in parts of the city.
Meanwhile, the Delhi High Court may take up Arvind Kejriwal’s plea challenging his “illegal” arrest and subsequent remand by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in a money laundering case linked to the now-scrapped Delhi excise policy. The Delhi chief minister had filed the plea on Saturday for an urgent hearing against his arrest, but the court directed that the matter would be listed in due course, on or after Wednesday.
AAP launched the “DP campaign” on Sunday in support of its founder, urging people to join to save the constitution and democracy in the country. Atishi announced that the INDIA bloc will organize a rally on March 31 against Kejriwal’s arrest. The Rouse Avenue Court remanded Kejriwal to six days of ED custody in the case until March 28, following his arrest on March 21.
BJP MP Manoj Tiwari says, “After being arrested, it is now that Kejriwal has remembered that they could not provide water and sewer facilities to the people of Delhi… They are doing press conferences that they could not provide medicines in the hospitals. They have accepted today that they have put Delhi into a plight in last 9-10 years…”
