Indian opposition leader Arvind Kejriwal arrested over corruption claims
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Kejriwal is a key leader in an opposition alliance challenging Prime Minister Narendra Modi in elections next month.
Delhi Chief Minister and prominent opposition leader Arvind Kejriwal has been arrested by India’s financial crime agency in connection with corruption allegations related to the city’s liquor policy, his party has said.
The arrest of Arvind Kejriwal on Thursday means the main leaders of the decade-old Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) are in jail, following the arrests last year of two of Kejriwal’s deputies in the same case, which the party has called “dirty politics”.
Atishi Singh, Delhi’s finance minister, rejected the allegations and said that the AAP was seeking to quash the latest arrest.
“We have asked for an urgent hearing by the Supreme Court tonight itself,” she said.
Kejriwal will continue to be Delhi’s chief minister while the party fights the accusations, Singh said.
