India’s Central Bureau of Investigation arrested a key official of the party that governs the capital Delhi, which may imperil its aspirations of becoming a challenger to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s party in next year’s national elections.
The investigative agency on Sunday arrested Manish Sisodia, deputy chief minister of Delhi and a key functionary of the Aam Aadmi Party, over allegations of irregularities in the framing and implementation of a new excise policy, the CBI agency said in a statement.
The Aam Aadmi Party has accused Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party of conducting a witch hunt against its leaders and called Sisodia’s arrest an attempt to malign the party’s popularity under the leadership of Arvind Kejriwal, who’s Delhi’s chief minister.
