UP police arrest Digvijay Singh, Sachin Pilot

The leaders were prevented at the Delhi-UP border by UP Police from going towards Badalpur, the village of Mayawati.

Congress leaders Digvijay Singh, Sachin Pilot and Rita Bahuguna Joshi were arrested by Uttar Pradesh Police on the border with Delhi when they were going towards state Chief Minister Mayawati’s village to protest against the ‘coercive’ acquisition of land.

The leaders were prevented at the Delhi-UP border by UP Police from going towards Badalpur, the village of Mayawati, where the Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee has organised a ‘Kisan Sangharsh Rally’ to ‘highlight the land lust of the BSP chief’.

Singh, Pilot and Joshi were arrested and taken to a nearby police post.

“This is the tyranny of Mayawati Government. We were going towards Badalpur peacefully to express our solidarity with people there who have lost their land,” Pilot, Dausa MP, said after his arrest.

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