We have seen many politicians walk out of hostile TV news interviews (our current prime minister being a case in point). What we don't see often, however, is a politician accusing his interviewer of being corrupt live on camera. And that too merely for asking questions.

But then, Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal is not known for subtlety.

Weeks after going all-out in support of NDTV India over a one-day ban and accusing the Modi government of strangling the fourth pillar of democracy, Kejriwal went on to call a BBC Hindi reporter corrupt for questioning a claim he had made.

Here's what happened in a recent interview between BBC and Kejriwal:


BBC Hindi journalist, Nitin Srivastava, was doing a Facebook Live with the Delhi CM when he questioned his claim of 55 people having died due to demonetisation since it was announced on November 8. Considering some of the initial reports blaming deaths on demonetisation have been debunked later, the question wasn't unjustified.