Police Battle Anti-Graft Protesters Outside PM's House, Hazare for Second Freedom Movement

An official source said Manmohan Singh was at home when the protests took place. "He was busy with work," the source told IANS.

The one notable absentee Sunday was former Team Anna member Kiran Bedi.

Asked about her, Kejriwal said: "On this issue she probably feels that the BJP can give the country a good government. But the BJP can't."

In a clear sign that IAC was not focussing only on the Congress, its members staged similar demonstrations in various state capitals including Jaipur, Bhopal, Bangalore, Mumbai and Bhubaneshwar, IAC told IANS.

After he was released by police in the morning, Kejriwal and the IAC members marched in separate groups from Jantar Mantar towards the residences of the prime minister, on Race Course Road, towards Congress chief Sonia Gandhi's house on Janpath and BJP president Nitin Gadkari's house on Tughlaq Road.

This time, police used used water canons on the protesters and lobbed teargas on them and also caned some protesters to disperse the crowd.

Besides Kejriwal, the other IAC members detained were Prashant Bhushan, Manish Sisodia and Kumar Vishwas. Hundreds of IAC supporters were also detained and let off later.

Kejriwal told reporters that it was their intention to show the people that "There is no opposition left in this country. All parties are hand in glove with the Congress" over coal allocation.

He called off the protest in the afternoon.

Late in the evening, Kejriwal tweeted that "this political revolution would sweep the whole country in times to come".

He said that IAC members in Bhopal were beaten up "very badly" while holding protests against corruption by the BJP government of Shivraj Singh Chouhan. He said 25 people, including six women, had been arrested. He announced his intention to sit on dharna on Tuesday outside the chief minister's residence and "offer himself for arrest" in protest against the police action.