Ex-speaker, Congress leaders detained at airport ; not allowed to visit city

Mangalore Today News Network

Mangaluru, Dec 20, 2019: It has been reliably learnt that former Assembly Speaker Ramesh Kumar and some Congress leaders who had arrived in the city  in the wake of Thursday’s  violent protests, have been detained at the Mangaluru International Airport and have not been allowed to visit the city where curfew has been clamped.

 

Source said the leaders  including S R Patil, M B Patil, V S Ugrappa, Basavaraj Rayareddy and Nazeer Ahmed are expected to be sent back to Bengaluru.

Senior Congress leaders like Ramesh Kumar, SR Patil, @MBPatil detained at #Mangaluru airport. Other leaders like @krishnabgowda @siddaramaiah who planned to take a private flight not given permission. #Karnataka #CAA_NRC pic.twitter.com/1UxEURFtBi

— Pooja Prasanna (@PoojaPrasanna4) December 20, 2019