Uttar Pradesh Congress chief Ajay Kumar Lallu, party leader in Legislative Council, Deepak Singh along with several workers and leaders were detained as they attempted to march towards Raj Bhawan to observe ‘Kisan Adhikar Diwas’ on Friday.
The Congress had announced to observe ‘Kisan Adhikar Diwas’ and gherao Raj Bhawan to protest the new Farm laws. Confrontation between Congress workers and the police were reported from across the state.
Talking to media persons, Lallu said that the Yogi government was infringing on their democratic rights to hold peaceful protests. “When the BJP is organizing big rallies, programs and the Chief Minister himself is celebrating ‘Gorakhpur Diwas’ and other events, why only opposition parties, specially Congress leaders were being stopped or arrested for demonstrating against the government’s failures in the name of implementing Corona protocol. The Congress will continue its fight against this kind of oppression,” said the state Congress chief.
Prominent among those detained were Congress district chief, Ved Prakash Tripathi, City chief, Mukesh Chauhan, former minister RK Chaudhary, State Mahila Congress chief Mamta Chaudhary and others.
