Manish Sisodia was leading a march to parliament in protest against the currency ban
Manish Sisodia, the Deputy Chief Minister of Delhi, and his cabinet colleague Kapil Mishra were detained on Tuesday while they were marching to parliament in protest against the currency ban.
They were marching from Jantar Mantar in central Delhi to parliament, but were stopped on the way. The protest march included Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) volunteers, lawmakers and other leaders.
Speaking before the march, Mr Sisodia said the PM's move was "making people cry, while he himself was shedding crocodile tears'.
He also said, 'Terrorists in Kashmir today were found with Rs 2000 notes. Where are the terrorists getting them? Either you are unaware of the lapse or are involved in it... Neither terrorist funding has stopped nor counterfeit notes nor blackmarketeering.' "
Demanding that the currency ban be rolled back, he said: "This is what people want."
Also present at the protest were other Delhi ministers Gopal Rai and Satyendar Jain.
Before the protest, Mr Sisodia met the family of a man who died last evening after standing in queue for six hours outside a bank in northwest Delhi.
49-year-old Satish Kumar, a vegetable vendor, had collapsed while waiting to deposit 50,000 rupees. He was taken to a hospital but was declared dead.
According to the Press Trust of India, the man's wife told Mr Sisodia that they hadn't had any money for the past 10-12 days.
Last week, Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and his Bengal counterpart Mamata Banerjee launched a protest in Delhi demanding a rollback of the notes ban.
Mamata Banerjee is on her way to Delhi today to join the protests. At Kolkata airport she said, 'From tomorrow Trinamool workers will be on the ground. We will work with all Opposition parties and protest at Parliament. There is going to be a storm of protest. They should have got black money back from Swiss banks. Agriculture has been hit badly.'
Like Ms Banerjee, Mr Kejriwal has targeted the government almost daily, accusing it of inflicting a poorly-planned scheme on the poor.