Senior BJP leader Yashwant Sinha and 300 party workers and leaders were arrested on Monday for allegedly assaulting a Jharkhand State Electricity Board official over a power crisis issue in the state. Sinha has been sent to judicial custody for 14 days.

Incidentally, Sinha admitted before the media of "instructing" the party's women activists to tie-up JSEB's Hazaribagh branch General Manager Dhanesh Jha using a rope.

"Yes, I have asked them to tie hands of the GM as women are the worst sufferers for not getting power. Their children's education is also suffering," Sinha told reporters.