Delhi social welfare minister Raaj Kumar Anand on Wednesday resigned from the cabinet and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), saying he joined the party to fight corruption but the party leaders had ended up trapped in corruption.

“I am very pained today. I came into politics when Arvind Kejriwal said that politics will change and the country will change. But today I am saying with regret that the politics did not change, the politician changed. AAP was born against corruption, but today this party is trapped in corruption,” Anand, a Patel Nagar legislator, said at a Press conference on Wednesday to announce his resignation.

Wednesday’s development comes as a huge blow to AAP after the arrest of chief minister Arvind Kejriwal last month over alleged irregularities in the 2021-22 excise policy. Former deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia is already in jail in the same case.

AAP leader Sanjay Singh, who recently walked out of prison on bail after being held in Tihar jail for six months, linked Anand’s surprise move to pressure from federal agencies. “This proves that the BJP’s target is to break AAP.