KALYAN: Shiv Sena (UBT) workers staged a protest at Shivaji Chowk in Kalyan on Thursday against the alleged police action on students and demonstrators at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar, demanding the resignation of Union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan.The protesters accused the Centre of failing to address the students’ concerns and held Pradhan politically responsible for the controversy surrounding the protest. During the demonstration, party workers raised slogans against the Union government and burnt an effigy of the minister.The agitators also staged a brief ‘rasta roko’, disrupting traffic at the busy Shivaji Chowk junction. Police intervened and detained several protesters to restore normal traffic movement.Those detained included Shiv Sena (UBT) deputy leader Vijay Salvi, district president Alpesh Bhoir, city president Bala Parab and several party workers. They were later taken into preventive custody.Before being detained, Salvi alleged that the police action at Jantar Mantar was unjustified and said the students’ demands deserved a fair hearing.He demanded Pradhan’s resignation over the paper leak issue and also called on Union home minister Amit Shah and Prime Minister Narendra Modi to accept moral responsibility for the alleged assault on students during the protest and step down from their posts.
