Mumbai, Oct. 10 -- Mumbai Police on Saturday detained Tushar Gandhi, great-grandson of Mahatma Gandhi and president of Hum Bharat Ke Log, ahead of a planned protest at August Kranti Maidan in support of the Cockroach Janata Party's (CJP) agitation at Delhi's Jantar Mantar, officers said.

He was detained from Linking Road in Bandra and taken to the D N Nagar police station. Gandhi had planned to hold a "Chale Jao!" protest at August Kranti Maidan in Mumbai's Grant Road area in support of the CJP protest at Jantar Mantar in Delhi.

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