The arrest has rekindled India’s ‘democratic backslide’ debate, with opposition leaders and critics pointing out how investigating agencies avoid BJP leaders facing similar allegations.
On Thursday, 55-year-old Kejriwal, who heads the Aam Aadmi Party that also runs the government in north India’s Punjab state, was arrested by the Enforcement Directorate , India’s financial crime probe agency controlled by the federal government.
Though the opposition appears more organised than in the last polls in 2019, Modi remains highly popular and is widely tipped to win a third term.related to formulating Delhi’s liquor policy. He is the second chief minister of opposition-ruled states to be arrested in recent months. AAP is part of India’s opposition block formed last year, the Indian National Developmental Inclusive Alliance, popularly called the INDIA bloc.
The arrest came close on the heels of the Congress alleging that the Income Tax department, another federal agency, has frozen all its bank accounts on charges of discrepancies in their tax papers. According to Ajay Gudavarthy, a political scientist at New Delhi’s Jawaharlal Nehru University and author of the recent book, ‘Politics, Ethics and Emotions in ‘New India’’, the arrest reflects the BJP’s desperation to return to power for a third term.
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