India, Oct. 15 -- The parents of Ankita Bhandari were detained at 4 am on Thursday but released later after staging a sit-in protest at India Gate in Delhi against the appointment of former Uttarakhand BJP in-charge Dushyant Kumar Gautam as the Governor of Sikkim.

Visuals shared by news agency ANI showed police taking Bhandari's mother into custody. After being detained, she said she would begin a hunger strike at their home if the authorities did not allow them to protest.

"We want to state that we will remain steadfast until his (Dushyant Gautam) appointment is revoked... If we are not permitted to sit here, we will sit on a hunger strike in our own homes," she said.

Her father said, "We give the government a 24-hour ultimatum: the a...