Mumbai: AAP members detained during protest against Raghav Chadha, six MPs’ merger with BJP

The Mumbai Police on Sunday detained several Aam Aadmi Party members who were protesting against the party’s Rajya Sabha MP Raghav Chadha and six other AAP MPs merging with the Bharatiya Janata Party’s legislature party in the Upper House of Parliament.

The AAP’s Mumbai leader Ruben Mascarenhas, who was among those detained ahead of the planned protest on Sunday, alleged that this was done to prevent the demonstration.

Mascarenhas told Scroll that he had written to the police a day earlier, informing them of the party’s plan to protest outside Chadha’s Mumbai home and had received an acknowledgement on Sunday morning.

However, he alleged that police personnel arrived at his house at about 1.45 pm, ahead of the planned protest at 3.30 pm, and prevented him from leaving. He was later detained.

“I am not being allowed to leave [my house],” Mascarenhas said on social media earlier in the day. “This is illegal and unacceptable.”

Mumbai Police has orders from the very top that today’s peaceful protest by @AAPMumbai against Raghav Chaddha and Sandeep Pathak’s treachery, has to not take place at any cost. We intimated the police, well in time.

Police has arrived at my home. I am not being allowed to… pic.twitter.com/L2ecaNG3rP— Ruben Mascarenhas (@rubenmasc) April 26, 2026

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