Singh sat on a dharna outside the Ramada Hotel after he was not allowed by the police to meet the rebel lawmakers in the hotel.
Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh and Karnataka Congress chief DK Shivakumar were placed under preventive arrest in Bengaluru after they attempted to visit the hotel where several rebel Congress MLAs from Madhya Pradesh are staying.
Singh sat on a dharna outside the Ramada Hotel after he was not allowed by the police to meet the rebel lawmakers in the hotel. He was later taken into preventive custody by the police.
"We have been taken to the local DCP office by Bengaluru police. I demand that we must be allowed to meet our MLAs, who are in BJP’s captivity. I announce my Hunger Strike, till we are allowed to meet our MLAs. We live in Democracy, not Dictatorship.," Singh said in a tweet.
"I am a Rajya Sabha candidate from Madhya Pradesh, voting is scheduled for March 26. My MLAs have been kept here, they want to speak to me, their phones have been snatched, the police is not letting me speak to them saying there is a security threat to MLAs," ANI quoted Singh as saying.
Singh who was agitating with a face mask on, said, "We were expecting them to come back, but when we saw they're being held back, messages came from their families...I personally spoke to five MLAs, they said they're captive, phones snatched away, there is Police in front of every room. They're being followed 24/7."
Karnataka Congress president DK Shivakumar too informed that he was detained along with Digvijaya Singh and others, and said the BJP was "hell-bent" on destabilising democratically elected governments. "Police have detained me, Digvijay Singh & other INC leaders & are not allowing us to meet @INCMP MLAs who are being held forcefully at a resort by BJP. BJP is hell-bent on destabilizing democratically elected govts. It has strengthened our resolve to fight to save democracy," he tweeted.
Last week, 22 Congress MLAs in Madhya Pradesh resigned soon after former leader Jyotiraditya Scindia quit the party. The development plunged the Chief Minister Kamal Nath-led government into a crisis.
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