The police are detaining those heading to Jantar Mantar this morning and taking them to Delhi’s Chhatrasal Stadium in an effort to keep the iconic site out of bounds for the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP)’s supporters during their mega protest over alleged electoral illegalities.
CJP protest: Visuals showed the protesters being bundled into police vans and taken away in areas such as Connaught Place near Jantar Mantar.
Kerala’s Leader of Opposition and former chief minister Pinarayi Vijayan was also briefly held at the Chhatrasal stadium. He is seen flanked by CPI(M) MP John Brittas and former finance minister KN Balagopal in a video shared by the former. Brittas claimed they were detained, taken to Chhatrasal, and are now being taken round the city in a police jeep. “We are being taken in a police jeep round and round in the city. We don’t know where we are going. Pradhan had eventually resigned, and the government accepted their demands.
We were taken to Chhatrasal stadium and we are in a police jeep after 30-40 minutes. The detentions are part of police efforts to prevent a July 20-like chaos that erupted during a CJP protest demanding the resignation of then Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan over exam paper leaks.
This is the situation,” he said in another video.
