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Mumbai Congress chief detained for protest against PM
Mumbai, April 2
Mumbai Congress chief Sanjay
Nirupam and several party activists were detained when they staged a
protest against visiting Prime Minister Narendra Modi here on Thursday,
an official said.
The Congressmen were protesting against what
they termed 'injustice meted out to Mumbai' by proposing to make
Ahmedabad (Gujarat) an international financial centre, and opposing the
discontinuation of foodgrain supply by fair price shops to people
holding above poverty line (APL) ration cards.
The protest, by
hundreds of activists including a large number of women, was held near
the statue of B.R. Ambedkar near Mantralaya, close to the venue where
the prime minister attended the 80th anniversary celebrations of the
Reserve Bank of India.
Many of them were put into waiting police vans and taken to Colaba police station.