New Delhi: After AAP convenor and Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal was summoned by the CBI for questioning him on the excise policy case, several AAP leaders protested by staging a sit-in protest near the CBI office on Archbishop Road.
The police detailed top party leaders including Rajya Sabha MPs Sanjay Singh and Raghav Chadha, Delhi ministers Saurabh Bharadwaj, Atishi and Kailash Gahlot, AAP spokesperson Adil Ahmad Khan, its general secretary Pankaj Gupta. Some ministers in the Punjab government were also detained. Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann had left before the detention happened.
While being taken away in the police bus, Chadha told the media that the situation is like "being under a dictatorship." "Delhi Police has arrested us for sitting peacefully and is taking us to some unknown place... what kind of dictatorship is this?," he later tweeted.
AAP's Delhi unit convenor Gopal Rai chaired an emergency meeting with Mayor Shelly Oberoi, Deputy Mayor Aaley Mohammad Iqbal, the party's national secretary Pankaj Gupta, and leader Jasmine Shah to discuss the next course of action.
They also discussed what steps to be taken if Kejriwal is arrested. At the moment, the CBI is questioning him as a witness and not an accused.