Arvind Kejriwal arrest news: 95% of ED cases against Opposition leaders since 2014, says report

India's opposition leaders have shown solidarity with Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal following his arrest by the ED on Thursday. With this, Kejriwal has joined a list of prominent leaders who have come under the ED scanner since Prime Minister Narendra Modi came into power in 2014.

The Directorate of Enforcement (ED), which operates under the Department of Revenue, Government of India, has filed 95% of the cases against the Opposition leaders since 2014, according to a report by .

An analysis by English Daily mentioned that there has been a four-fold jump in ED cases against politicians since PM Modi's regime in comparison to the Congress-led UPA regime.

The Indian Express report showed that between 2014 and 2022, out of 121 political leaders who were raided by the ED, 115 were Opposition leaders.

However, during the UPA's regime, a total of 26 politicians were probed by the ED. Of these, 14 were Opposition leaders, or more than half (54%).

After 2022, several other political leaders have come under the radar of ED such as Delhi Deputy CM Manish Sisodia (March 2023), Telangana CM K Chandrashekar Rao, Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) leader K Kavitha, Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) leader Hemant Soren and Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal.

The other senior Opposition politicians facing ED probes include D K Shivakumar from Karnataka; West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee’s nephew Abhishek Banerjee, former Haryana CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda; and, the late Rajya Sabha MP Ahmed Patel, who was Sonia Gandhi’s aide.

ED's official probed 24 Congress leaders between 2014 and 2022 September, according to The Indian Express analysis. Follwed by 19 (TMC); 8 (Shiv Sena), 6 (BJD), 5 (RJD, BSP, SP and TDP each), 3 (AAP, INLD, and YSCRP), 2