The images were grim, menacing. On the night of March 21, a posse of Enforcement Directorate (ED) officials surrounded Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal’s house. Police arrived, roads were blocked, and a tense atmosphere was created. The CM was arrested that night, and the next morning taken away to custody.
The arrests of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and former Jharkhand chief minister Hemant Soren earlier, reveal an unprecedented brazenness. Elections had been notified, the Model Code of Conduct was in force and none other than a sitting chief minister was jailed on charges that are more than a year old.
