With less than two weeks to go before India’s election begins, Arvind Kejriwal, one of the country’s most prominent opposition leaders, would usually be out on the campaign trail. Instead, he is detained in a 14ft by 8ft cell in Delhi’s Tihar jail – said to be spending his days sweeping, reading, doing yoga – and running Delhi’s government from behind bars.
Kejriwal, who has been the chief minister of Delhi since 2015, is not the only leader from his opposition Aam Aadmi party (AAP) to be locked up in Tihar. Alongside him is his former deputy chief minister, Manish Sisodia, who has been incarcerated for more than a year. The former health minister, Satyendar Jain, has been there since May 2022.
