Congress leaders and workers court arrest at District Headquarters in different parts of state under ‘Jail Bharo’ agitation on Thursday against detainment of Chhattisgarh Pradesh Congress Committee (CGPCC) Chief Bhupesh Baghel for allegedly circulating the sleaze CD of a Chhattisgarh Minister.
Baghel was sent on judicial remand till October 8 by a special CBI court a couple of days ago after he refused hiring any advocate and filing for bail application.
In the same series of Jail Bharo agitation, Congress leaders and workers led by local MLA Dehuti Karma court arrest in Dantewada where they were confined in a make shift jail.
The numbers of detainees in the make shift jail was reported to be 142 and the important leaders arrested were Dehuti Karma, Dipak Karma, District Congress President Vimal Surana and Tulika Karma.
Korba legislator Jai Singh Agrawal led the movement in Korba where hundreds of Congress workers under his leadership staged the Jail Bharo agitation.
The Congress workers were raising slogans against the state government and a minor scuffle of them with the police was also reported.
Reports of courting arrest are also coming from other district headquarters too and hundreds of workers staged agitation in Rajnandgaon too.