Azamgarh: Maharashtra Cabinet Minister was detained by police in Azamgarh on Thursday. Raut who is also the Energy Minister in the Maharashtra state and National President of Dalit Congress was first stopped by the police and detained in Gaura-Badshahpur before Azamgarh while he was heading to Bansgaon.
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The minister himself took to Twitter to share the information. Raut was on his way to meet the family members of Satyamev Jayate, a Dalit village head who was killed. “I am being prevented from meeting the aggrieved family,” said Nitin Raut in a tweet.
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The cops told Raut that they can’t go to the village because no one is allowed to go there. The police then asked him to walk to a nearby guest house. However, party workers accompanying him said waiting at a guest-house would not yield to anything and urged the cops to let them go to the place where their supporters were waiting.
Following the incident, Raut sat on a dharna against this ‘dictatorship’ and others accompanying him raised slogans.