Rajasthan police detain students ahead of Amit Shah’s Alwar visit

Rajasthan Police detained a group of college students in Alwar on Sunday ahead of Union home minister Amit Shah's public programme in the city, Hindustan Times reported. The students had planned to hold a protest and show black flags to Shah, demanding his resignation over the police action against student protesters in Delhi in July.

Shah, accompanied by Chief Minister Bhajanlal Sharma, is scheduled to address a public meeting in Alwar and launch development projects worth Rs 6,279 crore across the state. Police sources said the students were taken into custody before a proposed protest at RR College. The protesters planned to raise the issue of the lathi-charge on students at Jantar Mantar in Delhi, along with poor road conditions, the alleged Matsya scam, and the demand for restoration of student union elections in Rajasthan.

The detentions follow a pattern of similar preventive actions ahead of Shah's public engagements in recent weeks, Hindustan Times reports. In Pune on August 1, several Congress and Shiv Sena (UBT) leaders were detained before Shah's visit. The Opposition has repeatedly demanded Shah's resignation over the July 20 police action against student-led protests over the NEET-UG paper leak.