TMC MP Mahua Moitra, General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee and several other party leaders were detained on Tuesday night after they held a dharna at the Union Rural Development Ministry office in New Delhi demanding a meeting with MoS Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti. The development came as the tug-of-war between the Centre and the West Bengal government over the release of funds to the state intensified with the TMC holding protests in the national capital for the second consecutive day.
TMC MP Mahua Moitra, General Secretary Abhishek Banerjee and several other party leaders were detained on Tuesday night after they held a dharna at the Union Rural Development Ministry office in New Delhi demanding a meeting with MoS Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti.
The development came as the tug-of-war between the Centre and the West Bengal government over the release of funds to the state intensified with the Trinamool Congress (TMC) holding protests in the national capital for the second consecutive day.
Moitra and Banerjee, along with party lawmakers, state ministers and supporters including MGNREGA workers, protested at the Jantar Mantar, a day after they held a two-hour sit-in at the Rajghat on Mahatma Gandhi’s birth anniversary before being evicted by the police.
They later took out a march to the Rural Development Ministry at the Krishi Bhavan, where they had an appointment with Minister of State Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti.