Dozens of members of the opposition Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) were detained in New Delhi and sporadic protests erupted elsewhere across India on Friday against the arrest of AAP’s top leader for graft, weeks before general elections. India’s financial crime agency arrested Arvind Kejriwal, the chief minister of the national capital territory of Delhi, in connection with graft allegations relating to the city’s liquor policy. The arrest is seen as a setback for AAP and the larger opposition alliance. All the main leaders of the party are currently in jail in connection with the liquor case. AAP members, including some ministers in the Delhi city government, were stopped by police and taken away in buses as they shouted slogans and sought to march towards the city court where Kejriwal is expected to be produced. Kejriwal’s arrest is viewed as an attempt to prevent him from campaigning in the general elections. AAP supporters also staged protests in other parts of India. Opposition leaders have condemned Kejriwal’s arrest and accused Prime Minister Narendra Modi of seeking to weaken the opposition ahead of the elections.