The Delhi High Court today questioned the manner in which Aam Aadmi Party supremo and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal resorted to sit-in protest at Lieutenant-Governor (LG) Anil Baijal's official residence.

Hearing a petition filed by Delhi BJP MLA Vijender Gupta, the high court asked the Delhi government's lawyer as to who had authorised Kejriwal to hold the strike at someone else's office or house.

"We cannot figure out whether this is a strike or a dharna. Who authorised you to hold a strike in someone's office or house?" the court said.

The court asked the lawyer of the Delhi government whether the decision to call the strike was a prerogative of an individual or a decision that the cabinet had reached.

The lawyer representing the Delhi government clarified that it was its own decision to hold strike at the LG's house.

News agency ANI said Vijender Gupta today approached the Delhi High Court seeking an order to CM Kejriwal to end his strike.

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