Summary:
The Congress on Saturday called the BJP government in the state dictatorial after several Congress leaders were detained by the police during a protest against the illegal detention of Priyanka Gandhi in Uttar Pradesh. This was part of a nationwide protest orchestrated by the party against the detention of Priyanka Gandhi. Criticising the police atrocity, Gujarat Congress in-charge Rajiv Satav said that they had taken requisite permission from the police for the protest. He and other top state leaders including Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee president Amit Chavda later visited Purohit in the hospital. Some of the Congress workers had to be bodily carried into the police van to be detained..