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New Delhi: Four former chief ministers \u2013 Mamata Banerjee, Arvind Kejriwal, Pinarayi Vijayan and Manik Sarkar as well as more than 7000 thousands protesters including MPs and former MPs and ministers were detained on Saturday during their protests seeking the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar over \u2018vote chori\u2019.<\/p>\n
They were detained from different locations as they staged separate protests. While Vijayan along with senior Communist Party of India-Marxist (CPI-M) leaders marched to Jantar Mantar from nearby Kerala House, Mamata staged a protest outside the residence of Trinamool MP Derek O\u2019Brien\u2019s residence in South Avenue, bordering Rashtrapati Bhavan after she was prevented from stepping out. Sarkar and Kejriwal held separate protests with CPI(M) and AAP workers.<\/p>\n
Mamata sat on protest along with four Trinamool MPs \u2013 O\u2019Brien, Dola Sen, Pratima Mondal and Samirul Islam \u2013 a former MP Saket Gokhale but were detained with the party saying that she was taken in a \u2018prison van\u2019 used for transporting jail inmates.<\/p>\n
Sharing a video of the van in which they were taken, Samirul Islam posted on \u2018X\u2019, \u201cIs this a Super Emergency? For the past one and a half hour, we have been driving around the entire city of Delhi, and we don’t know what they are going to do with us. Isn’t this a Super Emergency?\u201d As the police van took rounds of the city without taking them to a police station, the MPs sang songs in protest. Finally, they were taken to Dwarka where Mamata and others sat on a dharna.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are treated like criminals and murderers. If they had to detain us, they should have sent a police van and not a van used to ferry prisoners,\u201d she told reporters from the police station where she was detained.<\/p>\n
From a police van, Kejriwal posted a video saying, \u201cThe youth in the country are awakened. People will no longer be scared of Modi\u2019s dictatorship. Gyanesh Kumar will have to resign. People will no longer tolerate \u2018vote chori\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n
Vijayan was picked up from near Kerala House where he and other CPI-M Polit Bureau and Central Committee members marched to Jantar Mantar.<\/p>\n
Senior MP John Brittas, who was detained along with Vijayan, said they were driven around the city for long without any consideration for the 80-year-old former Chief Minister\u2019s health. He claimed that Delhi Police personnel even did not listen to them to provide medicines when Vijayan felt uncomfortable.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
New Delhi: Four former chief ministers \u2013 Mamata Banerjee, Arvind Kejriwal, Pinarayi Vijayan and Manik Sarkar as well as more than 7000 thousands protesters including MPs and former MPs and ministers were detained on Saturday during their protests seeking the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar over \u2018vote chori\u2019. They were detained from different …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":212936,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india"],"yoast_head":"\n