India, April 8 -- Punjab chief minister Bhagwant Mann on Sunday attacked Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led central government over the arrest of Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) supremo and Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal and alleged that democracy and freedom that Shaheed Bhagat Singh fought for are in danger.

Mann, along with several ministers and AAP legislators gathered at Khatkar Kalan, the ancestral village of Shaheed Bhagat Singh, for a day-long fast to protest Kejriwal's arrest after the AAP gave the call for a nationwide collective fast.

The Delhi chief minister was arrested last month by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in an excise policy-linked money laundering case. He had been sent to judicial custody till April 15.

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