While preparing to take out a protest rally and to wave black flags at the Prime Minister Narendra Modi who addressed a public rally at Parade Ground on Tuesday, scores of Congress activists belonging to its affiliates, NSUI and Youth Congress, were arrested from near the Congress state headquarters in the city. Police also snatched the black flags from their possession.
SP City Ajay Singh said that around 40 NSUI and Youth Congress members were arrested outside Congress Bhawan as they had gathered to carry out a rally and show black flags to PM Modi. later, they were brought at police lines in police vans from Congress Bhawan and were later released.
NSUI member Mohan Bhandari said that they had been stopped from showing the anger of the student community which has been left in the lurch, post note ban. “Examination drawing near, the students are being forced to line up in the never-ending queues to withdraw money from the ATMs without rightly focusing on their studies,” he said. Others present during the demonstration were NSUI members Shyam Singh Chauhan, Ajay Tyagi, Vinit Prasad Bhatt and Naresh Rana aside from the Youth Congress members like Sangram Singh Pundir and Dimpal Shaily.