New Delhi: Aam Aadmi Party Sanjay Singh, who was released from detention along with fellow party leaders today, lashed out at Bharatiya Janata Party saying that the latter tried to sully the image of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.
He also claimed that he would have Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union Home Minister Amit Shah and industrialist Gautam Adani “arrested within two hours” if the Enforcement Directorate and the CBI were with him.
Singh and other leaders including minister Gopal Rai were detained by the Police who were protesting near the CBI office where Sisodia was being questioned.
The Aam Aadmi Party has claimed that 80 per cent of its leaders have been arrested by the Delhi Police since Sunday, reported news agency PTI. The party also questioned whether a person can be detained for more than 24 hours.
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The Central Bureau of Investigation on Sunday arrested Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia for alleged corruption in the implementation of now-scrapped excise policy in the national capital.
According to police, the leaders detained on Sunday were being released today.
Addressing a press conference today, AAP national spokesperson Saurabh Bhardwaj said the long detention was illegal and drew a parallel between former prime minister Indira Gandhi's emergency era and the present.
"Since yesterday, the Aam Aadmi Party has been repeatedly saying that not only has Manish Sisodia ji been arrested, but almost 80 per cent of the leadership of the party has been arrested by the police. When asked, the central government is saying that they have only been detained," he said.
"I want to know whether the detention is of one hour, two hours or three hours. Now it will be 24 hours, can police detain such big leaders for 24 hours? There is no such provision in the law," he opined.
Terming the detention for such long hours as “illegal” he said by now, the leaders should have been presented in the court.
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"By now you should have presented them in the court and told under which sections and for what reason you have arrested a Rajya Sabha MP? Delhi's senior leader Gopal Rai has been detained. Adil Ahmed Khan who looks after the work of the organisation has also been arrested. Dozens of MLAs and elected councillors have been arrested by the police since yesterday. They spent the whole night in the police station. The police haven't released them yet," he said.
Bhardwaj said these are "signs of emergency" and the Narendra Modi government at the Centre is doing what former prime minister Indira Gandhi did when she imposed emergency in 1975.
"These are very dangerous signs. These are signs of emergency. You have put all the leaders behind bars without any reason and this is wrong. The central government should answer on what basis did it arrest our top leadership and put them behind bars," he said.