Arvind Kejriwal put under house arrest by Delhi Police post Singhu visit, claims AAP

The AAP has put up a tweet which reads, "BJP's Delhi Police has put Hon'ble CM Shri Arvind Kejriwal under house arrest ever since he visited farmers at Singhu Border yesterday. No one has been permitted to leave or enter his residence."

Kejriwal has been put under house arrest a day after he visited the Singhu border where thousands of farmers are protesting against the Centre's three new contentious farm laws.

The AAP, which has supported the nationwide strike called by the protesting farmers on Tuesday, has drawn a connection between Kejriwal's showing of solidarity with the peasants and his house arrest.

Training his guns against the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which rules the country and is currently facing one of the biggest protests, Delhi Health Minister Satyendar Jain tweeted, "The house arrest of Arvind Kejriwal means the BJP government wants to silence every single voice supporting the farmers' protest."

"The Home Minister yesterday arrested Arvind Kejriwal after he returned to home after meeting the protesting farmers at the Singhu border. Arvind Kejriwal has been arrested so that he is not able to come out of home in support of the Bharat Bandh," AAP MP Sanjay Singh, who was seen leading the party's protest against the farm laws in Parliament, tweeted.

The AAP government, which has been accused of enacting one of the Centre's farm laws in the union territory, had earlier turned down the Narendra Modi government's request to turn a stadium into a temporary jail for the farmers.

The representatives of the central government will on Wednesday meet the farmers for the fourth time since the agitation began to find a resolution to the deadlock, though it had failed on earlier occasions.

While the central government is in no mood to repeal the laws but to hold talks, the peasants have stated they would accept nothing short of the withdrawal of the laws.

Thousands of farmers are protesting against the farm laws in the Delhi-Haryana border with their sole demand of the repeal of the laws, which was initially passed through an Ordinance amid the Covid-19 pandemic earlier this year.

One of the Centre's new farm laws will now allow farmers to sell their produce to institutional buyers beyond the regulated wholesale market.

Though the middlemen in the wholesale markets are often accused of usurping the farmers in the earlier agricultural system, the protesters, backed by several opposition parties, fear they will have little bargaining power while selling their produce to institutional buyers, running the risk of getting exploited with the gradual destablising of the mundies.