NEW DELHI: Senior Congress leader Sachin Pilot on Wednesday said he was detained along with Acharya Pramod Krishnam by the police in UP’s Moradabad when they were on their way to meet the kin of the four farmers killed in the Lakhimpur Kheri violence.
Pilot said all through their road journey from Delhi they were stopped at multiple checkpoints, posed several questions by the police and were eventually detained and taken to a guest house in Moradabad. "We have broken no law, we were merely going to meet the families of the farmer victims and the intention was to bring peace and calm in the area. People who are named in the FIR are not being questioned or detained but people who are going to share the sorrow and wipe the tears of people are being detained," the former Rajasthan deputy chief minister said.
"This evening @AcharyaPramodk ji & I were detained in Moradabad while on route to Lakhimpur Kheri. We didn't break any provisions of the law. These undemocratic steps of UP Govt will not deter us," he said in a tweet.
