BBC:
Arvind Kejriwal: The maverick leader who took on India's Modi
By Nikhila Henry,BBC News, Delhi
AAP - Mr Kejriwal is the third AAP leader to be arrested over the alleged corruption case
When Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was arrested on Thursday on claims of corruption, it came as no surprise.
Months earlier, in November, Mr Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) had run a door to door campaign, asking residents of India's capital whether he should resign or run his government from jail.
Mr Kejriwal and other party seniors face corruption accusations under investigation by India's powerful federal financial crime agency, the Enforcement Directorate (ED)
He is the third AAP leader to be arrested over a case related to a now-scrapped liquor policy in Delhi. This policy involved the government relinquishing control of the liquor market to private vendors.
Mr Kejriwal has denounced the investigation, arguing that the ED had failed to frame "specific" charges against him and called the summons "generic" and "illegal".
Mr Kejriwal's arrest, contrasting his anti-corruption campaign that took India by storm in 2011, comes less than a month before India's general elections, starting on 19 April. His AAP is part of the 27-party INDIA alliance aiming to challenge the BJP.
When Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was arrested on Thursday on claims of corruption, it came as no surprise.
Months earlier, in November, Mr Kejriwal's Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) had run a door to door campaign, asking residents of India's capital whether he should resign or run his government from jail.
Mr Kejriwal and other party seniors face corruption accusations under investigation by India's powerful federal financial crime agency, the Enforcement Directorate (ED)
He is the third AAP leader to be arrested over a case related to a now-scrapped liquor policy in Delhi. This policy involved the government relinquishing control of the liquor market to private vendors.
Mr Kejriwal has denounced the investigation, arguing that the ED had failed to frame "specific" charges against him and called the summons "generic" and "illegal".
Mr Kejriwal's arrest, contrasting his anti-corruption campaign that took India by storm in 2011, comes less than a month before India's general elections, starting on 19 April. His AAP is part of the 27-party INDIA alliance aiming to challenge the BJP.
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Mr Kejriwal and his close confidant Manish Sisodia (left) - Mr Sisodia was arrested in January
In just over a decade, AAP, despite being a newcomer, has emerged as a formidable force.
It has secured successive victories in Delhi's state elections since 2013 and expanded its influence by winning crucial polls in Punjab, where discontent against federal government policies prevails.
The party is contesting four of the seven parliamentary seats in the capital in the upcoming polls. In 2019, it lost all the seven seats to the BJP. However, AAP swept 67 of the 70 assembly seats in Delhi in 2020.
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In just over a decade, AAP, despite being a newcomer, has emerged as a formidable force.
It has secured successive victories in Delhi's state elections since 2013 and expanded its influence by winning crucial polls in Punjab, where discontent against federal government policies prevails.
The party is contesting four of the seven parliamentary seats in the capital in the upcoming polls. In 2019, it lost all the seven seats to the BJP. However, AAP swept 67 of the 70 assembly seats in Delhi in 2020.
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kt comments:
The US and Europeans went ape-shit (first) when Alexei Anatolyevich Navalny was arrested, and (then) when he died.
Why?
Because he opposed Putin's rule.
Now we must ask those double-standard hypocritical Wankees and Europeans what about Arvind Kejriwal?
Is it that they couldn't be bothered because he doesn't oppose Putin or Xi Jinping?
Or is it because the man who had Arvind Kejriwal thrown into prison just before India's elections on a dodgy charge is the man the US-West has been courting, Narendra Modi?
No worries buddy, I'll treat you like I do Netanyahu ... well ... perhaps a wee less as Binjamin is virtually a God to us Americans
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