Opposition leaders say it is a systematic crackdown, but the ruling party insists it is the law taking its course.
NEW DELHI – India’s opposition parties slammed Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government for arresting a key leader just weeks before India holds general elections, saying the move was a “vindictive misuse of central agencies” and an attempt to stifle them.
“Our sincere and unsolicited advice to opposition parties who are attacking the BJP is to trust the courts and seek relief from them,” Mr Sambit Patra, the BJP’s national spokesman, told reporters on March 22.In February, the chief minister from the eastern state of Jharkand was arrested by the ED in a case of alleged land fraud. He remains in prison.
The ED has been investigating Mr Kejriwal over allegations that his government skewed the state’s alcohol pricing in return for bribes. Other federal anti-corruption agencies, including the Central Bureau of Investigation, are also probing the alcohol policy. “One by one, they are putting opposition leaders in prison. There will be no one left to fight in the elections,” Mr Kejriwal said in February. “BJP does not win elections. They steal them.”“A scared dictator wants to build a dead democracy,” Mr Rahul Gandhi, a senior leader with the Congress party posted on the social media platform X, referring to Mr Modi. Others described Mr Kejriwal’s arrest as a “desperate witch-hunt”.
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