Police detain TMC leaders holding dharna outside poll panel office
Financial Express Mumbai|April 09, 2024
TMC LEADERS WERE detained by the Delhi Police on Monday while they were holding a dharna outside the Election Commission's office, demanding that the chiefs of CBI, NIA, ED and Income Tax Department be changed.
Police detain TMC leaders holding dharna outside poll panel office

A 10-member delegation of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) had announced the dharna after meeting a full-bench of the Election Commission (EC).

The delegation urged the commission to ensure a level playing field in the Lok Sabha polls and stop the "misuse" of the central agencies against opposition parties and leaders, TMC Rajya Sabha member Sagarika Ghose, who was among the leaders who met the poll panel, said.

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