The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) is currently holding an emergency meeting at the party’s office in Delhi as the AAP is apprehensive that the Delhi Chief Minister may be arrested by the CBI.

According to reports, AAP Delhi convenor Gopal Rai called an emergency meeting at the party office in the national capital at 5 pm today amid Kejriwal’s questioning by the CBI in connection with the liquor policy scam case.

Reports quoting sources in the AAP said the meeting is being held as the party is apprehensive of Kejriwal’s arrest.

They said that all office bearers, district presidents, national secretaries and leaders of the AAP have been asked to attend the meeting.

Earlier, several top leaders of the party—Raghav Chadha, Sanjay Singh and Jasmine Shah—along with several other workers and members of the AAP were detained by the Delhi Police while protesting against Kejriwal’s questioning by the CBI.

Earlier today, amid heavy security deployment, AAP chief Kejriwal appeared before the CBI for questioning in connection with the purported liquor policy scam case at the agency’s headquarters.

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) supremo and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal appeared before the CBI on Sunday for questioning in the liquor policy scam case amid tight security outside the CBI headquarters.

Accompanied by Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, MPs, ministers and top AAP leaders, Kejriwal arrived at the federal agency’s headquarters at 11 am today where security was heightened and prohibitory orders under Section 144 CrPC imposed to ensure no gatherings take place.

Reports said that over 1,000 security personnel were deployed outside the CBI headquarters.

The AAP supremo was served summons by the CBI on Friday to appear before it for questioning in connection with the liquor policy case. The AAP has claimed that the summon is a conspiracy to arrest Kejriwal.

A poster depicting Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar as the united opposition’s Prime Minister candidate for next year’s Lok Sabha elections was seen pasted outside the Rashtriya Janata Dal’s (RJD) Patna office on Sunday.

According to reports, the poster, which was put by RJD women’s wing general secretary in Bihar, Poonam Rai, showed Nitish Kumar sitting in the Prime Minister’s chair while being surrounded by top leaders of the allied opposition, including Telangana CM K Chandrasekhar Rao, NCP supremo Sharad Pawar, Shiv Sena supremo Uddhav Thackeray, Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal, Tamil Nadu CM Stalin, Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge, former Congress scion Rahul Gandhi, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamta Banerjee, RJD chief Lalu Prasad and Bihar deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav.

Nitish Kumar has repeatedly asserted that he wasn’t keen on becoming the Prime Minister, however, his ally party RJD clearly sees the JD(U) leader as one of top candidates to challenge Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the BJP juggernaut in the 2024 General Elections.

Reports said the poster was later pulled down to avoid any controversy.

Kumar is viewed as one of the pillars of the Opposition’s united front to wrest power from the BJP in next year’s polls.

On Friday, the Bihar CM, while addressing party workers in Patna said that he will not hold talks with non-BJP parties and will go on a visit across the country in an attempt to build and strengthen opposition unity ahead of the 2024 elections.

The JD(U) chief in a scathing attack on the BJO said that those who vote for the saffron party in next year’s Lok Sabha polls will bring “destruction” onto themselves.

At the party meeting, Nitish Kumar once again reiterated that although he was working tirelessly to forge opposition unity, he isn’t a claimant to the prime minister’s post.

Slain gangster-politician Atiq Ahmad and his brother Ashraf Ahmad had links to dreaded Pakistan-based terror group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) and Islamabad’s spy agency Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), the Uttar Pradesh police said on Sunday.

Atiq and his brother Ashraf, who were shot dead by three gunmen posing as journalists on Saturday night ran the notorious IS 227 mafia gang, police said, adding that Atiq was the leader of the gang while his brother Ashraf, was an active top-ranking member of the group.

The police said that Atiq had given them a statement in which he had confessed to having links with LeT and ISI and also revealed that he received arms and ammunition dropped by Pakistani drones in Punjab.

According to the statement, Atiq and Ashraf had told the police that they knew the address of the persons who delivered the Pakistani weapons but cannot locate them from jail and would. They could, however, escort the police to their location.

The slain brothers had also told the police that weapons used in Umesh Pal’s murder were also received from Pakistan.

Atiq Ahmed and his brother Ashraf Ahmed were gunned down in front of the Uttar Pradesh police while they were on their way for a medical checkup at a hospital in Prayagraj.

In a mafia-style shooting, three gunmen, posing as journalists, shot and killed the Ahmad brothers on camera and later surrendered before the police.

The shooters, who were whisked away to an undisclosed location, have been identified as Lovlesh Tewari, Sunny Singh and Arun Maurya—all three have a deep criminal background and killed Atiq and his brother to climb the ranks in the criminal underworld, according to the police.

Gangster-politician Atiq Ahmad and his brother Ashraf, had recently been convicted in the Umesh Pal kidnapping and murder case.

On Thursday, Atiq’s son Asad Ahmad, was shot dead in an encounter by the Special Task Force (STF) of the Uttar Pradesh Police in Jhansi.