The AAP on Monday lashed out at the BJP and the Centre and said that Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia's arrest was "nothing but the BJP's dictatorship" and that it was done to divert public attention from the Adani-Hindenburg issue.

AAP leaders have accused the BJP and the Union Government of hatching a conspiracy to trap Sisodia and demanded that former L-G Anil Baijal also be probed since he had approved the excise policy. The party has also said that 80 per cent of its leaders were arrested by Delhi Police since Sunday, and questioned whether anyone can be detained for more than 24 hours.

Later addressing a Press conference, Rajya Sabha MP and AAP leader Sanjay Singh lashed out at the BJP and the Centre and alleged that Delhi Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia's arrest was "nothing but the BJP's dictatorship" and that it was done to divert the public attention from the Adani-Hindenburg issue.

"The leader who has been working hard for the development of poor children has been arrested by the CBI. Manish Sisodia's house was thoroughly raided but nothing was found. This is happening to divert  public attention from the outrage over Adani," Singh said. AAP national spokesperson Saurabh Bhardwaj said the long detention was illegal and drew a parallel between late Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's Emergency era and the present.

 "Since yesterday, the AAP has been repeatedly saying that not only has Manish Sisodia ji been arrested, but almost 80 per cent of the leadership of the party has been arrested by the police. When asked, the Central Government is saying that they have only been detained," he said.

 Noting that it is 'illegal' to detain someone for such a long duration, he said by now, the leaders should have been presented in court.  "By now you should have presented them in the court and told under which Sections and for what reason you have arrested a Rajya Sabha MP? Delhi's senior leader Gopal Rai has been detained.

Adil Ahmed Khan who looks after the work of the organization has also been arrested. Dozens of MLAs and elected councilors have been arrested by the police since yesterday. They spent the whole night in the police station.

The police hasn't released them," he said. Bhardwaj said these are "signs of Emergency" and the Narendra Modi Government at the Centre is doing what Indira Gandhi did when she imposed Emergency in 1975.  The AAP's Delhi convener Gopal Rai said that it was then L-G Baijal who had approved the now-scrapped excise policy for 2021-22 and he should be probed and interrogated too.