BJP leaders in Karnataka were detained while protesting against price hikes implemented by the Congress government. The protest, which began at Freedom Park, escalated when leaders attempted to march towards the Chief Minister's residence. R Ashoka, a BJP leader, called the detentions illegal. The BJP has threatened to continue protests across the state, accusing the Congress government of burdening people due to financial strain from guarantee schemes.
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00:00All right, R. Ashoka speaking right now, let's cut across lines.
00:04Congress is cheating on us.
00:06This is illegal.
00:10This is illegal.
00:12This is illegal.
00:14The Karnataka assembly say very clearly that the action being taken by the Congress government is illegal in detaining them.
00:22This is illegal.
00:32Okay, R. Ashoka there speaking.
00:34Let's just try to get a sense of what exactly his message is as he too, now along with all the other BJP leaders,
00:42has been detained for his protest over price hike in Bengaluru.
00:47These leaders planned in fact to go ahead and get out the chief minister's residence,
00:52which is why they've been taken into custody one after another.
00:56Sagai is with us, understandably a whole lot of chaos that's playing out,
01:00but Sagai is getting us those latest updates from the ground.
01:04BJP, Kader more or less cleared out from that particular site.
01:08They've all been taken into custody.
01:10There were barricades that were put up and when the BJP workers tried to breach those barricades,
01:14they were taken into custody one after another.
01:17It's unclear as to where these BJP leaders currently are being taken,
01:20but in all likelihood they will be kept detained in custody for the rest of the day,
01:25considering their plan of derailing the chief minister's residence.
01:29They had permission, Sagai, to go ahead and protest at Freedom Park,
01:33but it's the moment they stepped out that all of them are being hoarded away in buses.
01:39Absolutely, permission was granted only to protest at Freedom Park,
01:44where they were not allowed to cross the barricade, the restricted area,
01:48but still the BJP leaders who were protesting, they were all sent to Geraud's chief minister's house.
01:52They were trying to jump the restricted area and that's when the police had arrested them.
01:56As you rightly pointed out, they will be detained, they will finish all the procedures
02:00which should be followed legally by the police and thereafter all of them will be released
02:08and these are routine procedures and irrespective of parties, the police always detain
02:13whenever the party leaders are trying to violate the law,
02:18or trying to violate the restrictions which have been imposed.
02:23Okay, so clearly it was the moment that they started breaching barricades
02:26that you had the police officials going ahead and detaining all of these BJP leaders.
02:31The entire site being cleared off now as the message to, in fact, the BJP leaders is very clear.
02:36That no permission has been granted to you outside of Freedom Park
02:39and any attempt to Geraud the CM residence will not be allowed,
02:43which is why they were immediately taken into custody.
02:46What's the next course of action, Sakai, for these BJP leaders,
02:49with the likes of Vijayendra Yadurappa saying that this is just the beginning
02:53of the agitation against the Congress government over these price hikes?
03:01The BJP have already threatened to protest across the state
03:04and remember that they will carry out protests in the days ahead
03:08in almost all the districts against the price hike and it was the beginning.
03:13Yesterday was the beginning where they started the protest and slept overnight here at Freedom Park
03:18demanding the Karnataka government to roll back on the prices which have been increased
03:22and they have also targeted Karnataka government stating that due to guarantee schemes
03:26the government doesn't have money, they are bankrupt.
03:29That is the reason they are burdening people to pay more for water, electricity, property
03:34and even for diesel where the government have increased the prices of all these things
03:38and the BJP is demanding that they should roll back
03:41until unless they don't roll back they will continue the protest.
03:46Alright, Sakai, thanks very much for joining us with all of those details.
03:49BJP workers, one after another being detained in Bengaluru,
03:54stopped from protesting over the series of price hikes
03:57that have been reported in Karnataka under the Congress regime.
04:01Now these BJP leaders in fact were staging an overnight protest
04:05having protested at Freedom Park in Bengaluru.
04:08They've all been detained after they attempted to step out and Gerao, the Chief Minister's residence.