Ranchi, Aug. 10 -- BJP Jharkhand general secretary Amar Kumar Bauri on Monday accused the state government of "dictatorial" behaviour over the continued detention of party leaders who were taken into custody during a protest outside Chief Minister Hemant Soren's residence in support of students agitating over alleged irregularities in JPSC and JSSC examinations.
Bauri said BJP state president Aditya Sahu, Leader of Opposition Babulal Marandi, former Chief Minister Madhu Koda, former state BJP president Deepak Prakash and other party leaders had remained in detention for nearly 10 hours.
He alleged that the government was unnecessarily detaining BJP leaders and demanded that they either be formally arrested and sent to jail if they had com...