Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal was summoned by the Enforcement Directorate this week in connection with a money laundering case linked to the alleged excise policy scam. The development has sparking concerns that the AAP chief will be arrested following his ED interrogation. Party leaders insist that the Delhi government will be ‘run from jail’ in such a situation. 

If the whole party is in jail, then the government and the party would run from jail. And this is what the BJP wants is that everyone should be in jail… They want free education, free electricity, free water, free pilgrimage, hospitals, and mohalla clinics to stop but Arvind Kejriwal will not let this happen,” party leader Saurabh Bharadwaj told ANI on Wednesday.

The Indian President and Governors are exempt from civil and criminal proceedings during their term in office. However this immunity does not apply to the Prime Minister or CMs. Tamil Nadu’s J Jayalalithaa was the first Chief Minister to be convicted while holding office.