Police detain Congress members protesting outside Kaushik’s home

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Police detain Congress members protesting outside Kaushik’s home

Tuesday, 18 February 2020 | PNS | Haridwar

The police detained a number of Congress members after they staged a protest outside the residence of cabinet minister Madan Kaushik here on Monday. According to the police, the protesters were demonstrating on the road without permission.

However, the Congress members claimed that they had informed the city magistrate through a letter a day ago about their planned protest. The police acted under political pressure, they alleged.

Members of the Youth Congress who had organised the protest alleged that cabinet minister and Haridwar MLA Madan Kaushik had not done anything progressive for Haridwar so far. They futher averred that Kaushik protects elements of the mafia involved in liquor, land and mining businesses.

Alleging that Kaushik and his team had also pressurised some local Congress members to join his party, the protesters said that no new school, college or hospital had been built in Haridwar during the past 16 years.

Earlier, the protesters pitched a tent on the roadside outside Kaushik’s residence on Monday morning to protest. The police personnel headed by city circle officer Abhay Singh reached the spot.  Singh asked the protesters to change their protest site as the traffic was being disrupted on the narrow stretch of the road where they were protesting.  However, the Congress members remained there and continued raising slogans. The police then detained the protesters and took them to the police line in Roshnabad. Singh said that the site chosen for protesting was not suitable as the road was narrow. Stating that the protest had affected the traffic, he added that they did not have the permission to protest.

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