Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu along withCabinet ministers and leaders were detained on Thursday on the Haryana-UttarPradesh border in Saharanpur as they were heading towards Lakhimpur Kheri wherenine people were killed in violence that erupted during farmers' protests onSunday (October 3).
They have been staging a sit-in protest at the border.
The leaders have been demanding the arrest of UnionMinister Ajay Kumar Mishra's son Ashish Mishra in connection with the death offarmers during the violence.
Sidhu threatened to go on hunger strike if action is nottaken against the minister's son by Friday.
He was accompanying Deputy Chief Minister SukhjinderRandhawa and cabinet ministers Pargat Singh and Vijay Inder Singla, besidesformer ministers Balbir Singh Sidhu, Gurpreet Kangar and Sunder Shyam Arora andother leaders.
Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi also joined Sidhufor a brief period when the vehicular march started in the morning from Mohali,near here.