Bengaluru: Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh was lifted by the police on Wednesday morning and taken into preventive custody after he attempted to meet 22 rebel Madhya Pradesh MLAs.
The 22 MLAs loyal to former Congress leader Jyotiraditya Scindia have been at Ramada hotel in Bengaluru, where the Congress has alleged that they have been held captive in BJP-ruled Karnataka.
Digvijaya Singh flew down to Bengaluru this morning in a bid to meet them but he was prevented from approaching them following which he sat on dharna there.
“Singh was taken into preventive custody near the Ramada resort as he was trying to stage a protest after he was denied entry into it to meet the rebel MLAs,” a police official told IANS.
