Congress workers protest in Lucknow over Rahul, Priyanka Gandhi’s detention

The Uttar Pradesh unit of Congress on Wednesday held a protest outside the party office in Mall Avenue locality against detention of its leaders, Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Vadra and others during a protest in Delhi (Source: Photo by Vishal Srivastava)

The party had planned to gherao Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath's residence at 5 Kalidas Marg but party workers led by state president Ajay Rai were stopped outside the party office where police had put up barricades (Source: Photo by Vishal Srivastava)

"The BJP government is committing atrocities on people. The way in which Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka ji were humiliated, party workers will gherao the CM's residence," Rai said after coming out of the Congress office (Source: Photo by Vishal Srivastava)

After the party workers were stopped by the police, they sat on dharna raising slogans against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and CM Adityanath (Source: Photo by Vishal Srivastava)

The party workers tried to cross the barricades but heavy deployment of the police prevented them (Source: Photo by Vishal Srivastava)

Later, senior leaders of the party, including Rai, were detained and taken away in a police vehicle (Source: Photo by Vishal Srivastava)

Opposition leaders, including Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and Mallikarjun Kharge of the Congress, and Samajwadi Party's Akhilesh Yadav, were forcibly removed by the police after they staged a dharna outside the PM's residence on Tuesday (Source: Photo by Vishal Srivastava)

They were demanding the resignation of Modi and Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan over the police action against students protesting the alleged paper leak issue. Some leaders were briefly detained and later released (Source: Photo by Vishal Srivastava)