Punjab Deputy CM Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa, who was en route to Lakhimpur Kheri to meet victim families, was forcibly detained by the Uttar Pradesh police and taken to Shahjahanpur police post falling under Police Station, Sarsawa, Saharanpur.
He has been held illegally in the police station for about
two hours now.
Randhawa
who was accompanied by PCC Working President and MLA Kuljit Nagra and other
MLAs, Parminder Singh Pinky, Barinder Singh Pahra, Kuldeep Vaid, Kulbir Singh
Zira and Angad Singh left for Lakhimpur by road on Monday morning after UP govt
denied permission for landing chopper at Lucknow Airport.
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Earlier
today, Former
PPCC Chief Navjot Sidhu and some legislators of his party were detained by
Chandigarh police after they held a protest outside the Punjab governor's
residence in Chandigarh.
Congress
leaders raised slogans against the BJP, they also condemned the detention of
AICC general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra in UP.
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Meanwhile, the
Uttar Pradesh government had denied permission to Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit
Singh Channi too to visit the violence-hit district in Uttar Pradesh.