The Delhi and Haryana Police have retaliated against the Punjab Police’s arrest of BJP leader Tajinder Pal Bagga, amid high political drama. The Haryana Police stopped a team of cops taking the 36-year-old leader to Mohali, where he was supposed to be produced in court, on Friday afternoon, while the Delhi Police filed a kidnapping case against the Punjab Police.

Bagga was arrested on Friday morning from his West Delhi home in connection with a case filed in Punjab. The Aam Aadmi Party has accused him of threatening Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal.

Bagga’s family, on the other hand, claims that the Delhi Police were unaware of the arrest. According to images shared by news agency ANI, cops from the state ruled by AAP’s Bhagwant Mann were seen sitting with Bagga at a Delhi police station.

Bagga is the BJP’s youth wing’s national secretary. Bagga did not participate in a probe into the case filed against him, according to Punjab Police. According to the AAP, the BJP leader had previously sought relief from the court, but had been denied.

BJP leader Manjinder Singh Sirsa described it as “vendetta politics” at a press conference in Delhi. “This country is governed by a constitution,” Sirsa said, “not by Arvind Kejriwal’s whims and fancies.”

He also claimed that the Punjab Police action was motivated by Arvind Kejriwal’s announcement of a power subsidy in the national capital. He also claimed that the Bhagwant Mann government was attempting to deflect attention away from the arrests of separatists in Haryana on Thursday. “It was expected that both of these would elicit a response. The AAP planned his arrest to divert attention away from him.”