{"id":62916,"date":"2024-03-29T03:10:52","date_gmt":"2024-03-28T18:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/28\/arvind-kejriwal-delhi-chief-minister-anti-corruption-jailed"},"modified":"2024-03-29T03:10:52","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T18:10:52","slug":"arvind-kejriwal-the-delhi-chief-minister-jailed-by-modis-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=62916","title":{"rendered":"Arvind Kejriwal: the Delhi chief minister jailed by Modi\u2019s government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leader of India\u2019s Common Man party has spent his career rooting out everyday corruption and is now in jail weeks before general election begins<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/28\/india-us-envoy-gloria-berbena-criticism-delhi-chief-arvind-kejriwal-narendra-modi\">India summons envoy after US criticises Delhi chief minister\u2019s arrest<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When Arvind Kejriwal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2011\/jan\/02\/india-corruption-backlash-treasure-hunters\">emerged on to India\u2019s political scene in 2011<\/a>, he was an outsider with over a decade of activism behind him. Today he is one of the country\u2019s most recognised opposition leaders and his political party governs two powerful states.<\/p>\n<p>Yet Kejriwal\u2019s swift rise from newcomer to political heavyweight, standing up against the might of the Narendra Modi government, has appeared to come at a cost. Last week, Kejriwal, who is the longstanding face of India\u2019s anti-corruption movement, was detained on corruption charges \u2013 becoming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/21\/opposition-leader-arvind-kejriwal-arrested-in-india\">the first sitting chief minister to be arrested<\/a>. He will be held in custody for at least 10 days.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/28\/arvind-kejriwal-delhi-chief-minister-anti-corruption-jailed\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Leader of India\u2019s Common Man party has spent his career rooting out everyday corruption and is now in jail weeks before general election beginsIndia summons envoy after US criticises Delhi chief minister\u2019s arrestWhen Arvind Kejriwal emerged on to India&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":649,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[353,62,433,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-delhi","category-india","category-narendra-modi","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/649"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62916"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62916\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62917,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62916\/revisions\/62917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}