Jain to Kejriwal, aggregate jail time of AAP’s five top leaders — 82 months
Another jolt came when AAP’s communications in-charge Vijay Nair was arrested in September 2022. He was released two years later in the same month in 2024.
AAP leaders Arvind Kejriwal, Manish Sisodia, Sanjay Singh, Saurabh Bharadwaj and others at party office in New Delhi on Friday. PTI From six months to almost two-and-a-half years, five leaders from the Aam Aadmi Party’s top leadership, including its convenor Arvind Kejriwal, spent an aggregate of 82 months – only two months shy of seven years — behind bars.
It started in May 2022 with the arrest of one of Kejriwal’s close aides Satyendar Jain, who was the Delhi Health Minister at the time, in an alleged money laundering case by the ED. Jain spent two years and five months behind bars in a case registered by the CBI in 2017. He is the only one on the list of AAP leaders who were sent to jail on charges separate from the excise case.
Another jolt came when AAP’s communications in-charge Vijay Nair was arrested in September 2022. He was released two years later in the same month in 2024.
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Manish Sisodia’s arrest
The bigger jolt came when Manish Sisodia, then Delhi Deputy CM, was arrested in February 2023. He walked out of jail 17 months later in August 2024.
This was followed by the arrest of the AAP’s Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Singh in October 2023. He got bail in April 2024 after spending six months in prison.
The party’s biggest setback in the excise policy saga was the arrest of then CM Arvind Kejriwal in March 2024. Barring a 21-day interim reprieve (May 10 and June 1) from the Supreme Court for the Lok Sabha poll campaigning, Kejriwal walked out on a regular bail in September 2024.
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