Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal is on six-day remand of ED in the liquor scam.
He will have to spend his days in the lockup in ED till 28th March. During this time, the central agency will ask questions related to the scam. ED had reached Kejriwal’s house on March 21 and then he was arrested.
The agency has described the Delhi CM as the kingpin of the liquor scam and claimed that the money received from the scam was also used in the Goa elections.
The arrest of the Delhi Chief Minister has been covered by media houses across the world. This includes America’s Washington Post to Qatar’s Al Jazeera.
Washington Post published on its news portal, “Delhi Chief Minister arrested amid increasing crackdown on opposition.” The article notes that Indian law enforcement officials on Thursday arrested Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, a rising opposition leader, in an alleged money-laundering case.
His supporters say that the country’s ruling Bharatiya Janata Party has implicated him.
The news article further read, “In recent months, opposition parties have accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s BJP of unfairly using central investigative agencies to systematically pressure political rivals or jail them ahead of crucial national elections.” Is accused of. General elections will start from April 19. Apart from Kejriwal, three other leaders of his party, who are seen as a potential future challenger to the BJP in national politics, were jailed last year in a liquor case.”
‘The New York Times’ has also given space to Kejriwal’s arrest. One headline read, “Indian opposition parties say they are facing problems as elections approach.”
The head of one of India’s major opposition parties was dramatically arrested on Thursday, the article said.
On the same day another party said it had been blocked from accessing its bank accounts. Critics say the Modi government has taken action to harass its rivals. Aam Aadmi Party leader Arvind Kejriwal was arrested from his home in New Delhi late on Thursday night.
Kejriwal, who is also the Chief Minister of the National Capital Territory of New Delhi, was arrested on corruption charges related to the city’s liquor policy. His party leaders say that the allegations are fake.
What did BBC say on the arrest?
On the other hand, Britain’s BBC gave the headline in its news, “Arvind Kejriwal: Delhi Chief Minister arrested on corruption claims.”
Prominent opposition politician and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal has been arrested by India’s Financial Crimes Agency, the news said.
The arrests stem from allegations of corruption related to the city’s policies on liquor sales. Kejriwal and his party, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), have denied any wrongdoing and described the case as politically motivated.
Aljazeera wrote- Will the opposition unite due to Kejriwal’s arrest?
At the same time, Al Jazeera has asked a question on the arrest of Arvind Kejriwal, will this unite India’s opposition? Al Jazeera has given the headline, “Dead Democracy – Will India’s opposition unite with the arrest of Arvind Kejriwal?” The article reads, “The arrest has plunged the Indian capital into an unprecedented constitutional crisis. This is the first time that a serving Chief Minister of Delhi has been arrested. Terming it as PM Modi’s dirty politics on the fake case, a spokesperson of Kejriwal’s Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) told Al Jazeera that the party leader will not resign but will run the government from jail. “India’s Enforcement Directorate (ED) is investigating allegations of corruption in the liquor policy implemented by the Kejriwal government in 2022.”