At least three BJP youth leaders were taken into preventive custody here by police on Friday for showing black flags to Employment and Technical Education & Training Minister Sanjay Dasburma.
Demonstrating against Dasburma for his alleged involvement in the chit fund scam, the BJP workers had earlier threatened to protest his visit to the city. The Minister was here to attend a function at the Bhubanananda School of Engineering on the occasion of the World Youth Skill Day.
When the Minister’s car was entering into the school campus, the BJP youth leaders suddenly appeared from behind a wall and waved black flags at him asking him to go back. The police escorting the Minister overpowered three BJP leaders and snatched away the black flags from them.
BJP City Yuva Morcha chief SR Mitra, vice-president Asutosh Das and another youth leader Satyaban Das were taken into preventive custody and detained at the local Mangalabag police station, from where they were released on PR bonds after the Minister left the city in the afternoon.