Planning protest, Kumari Selja, Cong MLAs held in Chandigarh

Chandigarh, July 22

The Haryana Pradesh Congress Committee (HPCC) president Kumari Selja, along with state in charge Vivek Bansal and party MLAs, tried to take out a protest march over the Pegasus controversy here today, but as soon they came out of the office, the police stopped them.

Twentyfour MLAs took part in the protest which included Deputy Leader of Congress Legislative Party (CLP) Aftab Ahmed, party’s chief whip BB Batra and former ministers, Dr Raghuvir Kadiyan and Geeta Bhukkal.

Adampur MLA Kuldeep Bishnoi and former deputy CM Chander Mohan also participated in the protest.

Former CM Bhupinder Singh Hooda and former minister Kiran Choudhry were absent on the occasion. Selja, Bansal and MLAs were kept in preventive custody for about two to three hours at the Sector 3 police station and were released around 3 pm. — TNS