00:00All right, R. Ashoka speaking right now, let's cut across lines.
00:04Congress is cheating on us.
00:06This is illegal.
00:10This is illegal.
00:12This is illegal.
00:14The Karnataka assembly say very clearly that the action being taken by the Congress government is illegal in detaining them.
00:22This is illegal.
00:32Okay, R. Ashoka there speaking.
00:34Let's just try to get a sense of what exactly his message is as he too, now along with all the other BJP leaders,
00:42has been detained for his protest over price hike in Bengaluru.
00:47These leaders planned in fact to go ahead and get out the chief minister's residence,
00:52which is why they've been taken into custody one after another.
00:56Sagai is with us, understandably a whole lot of chaos that's playing out,
01:00but Sagai is getting us those latest updates from the ground.
01:04BJP, Kader more or less cleared out from that particular site.
01:08They've all been taken into custody.
01:10There were barricades that were put up and when the BJP workers tried to breach those barricades,
01:14they were taken into custody one after another.
01:17It's unclear as to where these BJP leaders currently are being taken,
01:20but in all likelihood they will be kept detained in custody for the rest of the day,
01:25considering their plan of derailing the chief minister's residence.
01:29They had permission, Sagai, to go ahead and protest at Freedom Park,
01:33but it's the moment they stepped out that all of them are being hoarded away in buses.
01:39Absolutely, permission was granted only to protest at Freedom Park,
01:44where they were not allowed to cross the barricade, the restricted area,
01:48but still the BJP leaders who were protesting, they were all sent to Geraud's chief minister's house.
01:52They were trying to jump the restricted area and that's when the police had arrested them.
01:56As you rightly pointed out, they will be detained, they will finish all the procedures
02:00which should be followed legally by the police and thereafter all of them will be released
02:08and these are routine procedures and irrespective of parties, the police always detain
02:13whenever the party leaders are trying to violate the law,
02:18or trying to violate the restrictions which have been imposed.
02:23Okay, so clearly it was the moment that they started breaching barricades
02:26that you had the police officials going ahead and detaining all of these BJP leaders.
02:31The entire site being cleared off now as the message to, in fact, the BJP leaders is very clear.
02:36That no permission has been granted to you outside of Freedom Park
02:39and any attempt to Geraud the CM residence will not be allowed,
02:43which is why they were immediately taken into custody.
02:46What's the next course of action, Sakai, for these BJP leaders,
02:49with the likes of Vijayendra Yadurappa saying that this is just the beginning
02:53of the agitation against the Congress government over these price hikes?
03:01The BJP have already threatened to protest across the state
03:04and remember that they will carry out protests in the days ahead
03:08in almost all the districts against the price hike and it was the beginning.
03:13Yesterday was the beginning where they started the protest and slept overnight here at Freedom Park
03:18demanding the Karnataka government to roll back on the prices which have been increased
03:22and they have also targeted Karnataka government stating that due to guarantee schemes
03:26the government doesn't have money, they are bankrupt.
03:29That is the reason they are burdening people to pay more for water, electricity, property
03:34and even for diesel where the government have increased the prices of all these things
03:38and the BJP is demanding that they should roll back
03:41until unless they don't roll back they will continue the protest.
03:46Alright, Sakai, thanks very much for joining us with all of those details.
03:49BJP workers, one after another being detained in Bengaluru,
03:54stopped from protesting over the series of price hikes
03:57that have been reported in Karnataka under the Congress regime.
04:01Now these BJP leaders in fact were staging an overnight protest
04:05having protested at Freedom Park in Bengaluru.
04:08They've all been detained after they attempted to step out and Gerao, the Chief Minister's residence.
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