New Delhi: Union Home Minister Sushilkumar Shinde sparked a controversy on Wednesday by calling Aam Aadmi Party convener, Arvind Kejriwal, a 'mad chief minister.'



Speaking at a rally in Maharashtra, Shinde said that he had to cancel the leave of several policemen in Delhi as ''a mad CM was sitting on dharna.”

Arvind Kejriwal along with his MLAs and ministers staged a dharna outside the Rail Bhavan in the national capital on Monday demanding action against five policemen who had a run-in with Delhi ministers, Somnath Bharti and Rakhi Birla.



The Delhi CM had been demanding action against policemen who refused to carry out a raid on an alleged drug and prostitution ring on Law Minister Somnath Bharti's directive last week.

The SHO of Malviya Nagar, who refused to raid on the orders of Somnath Bharti, and PCR van in-charge of Paharganj, where a Danish woman was gang-raped last week, were sent on leave.