Punjab Deputy CM Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa, who was en routeto Lakhimpur Kheri to meet victim families, was forcibly detained by the UttarPradesh police and taken to Shahjahanpur police post falling under Police Station, Sarsawa, Saharanpur.
He has been held illegally in the police station for abouttwo hours now.
Randhawawho was accompanied by PCC Working President and MLA Kuljit Nagra and otherMLAs, Parminder Singh Pinky, Barinder Singh Pahra, Kuldeep Vaid, Kulbir SinghZira and Angad Singh left for Lakhimpur by road on Monday morning after UP govtdenied permission for landing chopper at Lucknow Airport.
Earliertoday, FormerPPCC Chief Navjot Sidhu and some legislators of his party were detained byChandigarh police after they held a protest outside the Punjab governor'sresidence in Chandigarh.
Congressleaders raised slogans against the BJP, they also condemned the detention ofAICC general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra in UP.
Meanwhile, theUttar Pradesh government had denied permission to Punjab Chief Minister CharanjitSingh Channi too to visit the violence-hit district in Uttar Pradesh.