UP Congress Chief Ajay Kumar Lallu Detained After Protest by the Bus For Migrants

UP Congress Chief Ajay Kumar Lallu Detained After Protest by Bus To the Migrants.(FILE)

Agra:

Uttar Pradesh Congress chief Ajay Kumar Lallu was arrested in Agra after which he sat on a dharna for the granting of permission for the buses arranged by the party to enter the state, police said Wednesday.

Senior leaders of the party Pradeep Mathur, Vivek Bansal and Manoj Dixit were also arrested, they said.

“A case has been registered against Ajay Kumar Lallu under various sections of the IPC and the Epidemic of Law in Fatehpur Sikri police station. Mr Lallu was arrested on Tuesday night, and he along with other Congress leaders were put in the Police Lines,” Superintendent of Police, Agra, Babloo Kumar, said.

On Tuesday, Mr. Lallu and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra’s secretary were escorted by the police after the state government said that a list of 1,000 buses submitted by the party to transport migrant workers to include the registration numbers of auto rickshaws, cars and trucks.

Also, records showed that many of the buses in the list of not having valid fitness certificates or insurance papers, the BJP government, he said, accusing the opposition party of playing with the lives of the workers.

The FIR against Mr Lallu and Sandeep Singh, personal secretary of Gandhi capped a day during which the party traded charges with the Yogi Adityanath government and held a protest in Rajasthan on the border.

The FIR cobra Mr Lallu, Mr. Singh and “others” under Indian Penal Code sections related to cheating and forgery of documents.

The Congress rejected the government’s claim in its list with the numbers of other vehicles, challenging it to perform a “physical check” of the bus.

Later, a state government spokesman said about 100 vehicles in the Congress of the list were not buses.

Of buses, 297 lacked a certificate of suitability, or validity of the insurance papers. As the war of words escalated, UNTIL the Congress the head of Lallu and other party workers came to the Agra border, where they argued with police and staged a dharna.