โDelhi has become a detention state. When there is a detention state and police raj, then you have to accept that there is emergency in the country,โ he said.
Raut also criticised the Maharashtra government over the police action against protesters in Mumbai on Saturday, saying Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis should apologise.
Police detained more than 7,000 protesters at multiple locations in Delhi on Saturday, preventing them from reaching Jantar Mantar, according to PTI.
CJP leaders Abhijeet Dipke, Ashutosh Ranka and Saurav Das, who were placed under preventive arrest after being detained at Delhi airport ahead of the protest, were released on Sunday morning after being produced before an executive magistrate. CJP legal affairs head Ratna Singh said they were released on the condition that they would not โbreach peaceโ for a year.
Raut also claimed that there was unease within the BJP over the political situation and predicted a change in the countryโs political leadership by March-April next year. He alleged that four senior BJP leaders in the Union cabinet, whom he did not name, were discussing a decision in the interest of the country.
Drawing parallels with the Emergency imposed in 1975 and the final years of Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussoliniโs rule, Raut alleged that curbs on protests and the detention of Opposition leaders reflected a similar situation in India.
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