TMC dharna | Derek O’Brien, Saket Gokhale, others continue dharna at Delhi's Mandir Marg police station

TMC leaders who were detained by Delhi Police while staging a dharna outside the Election Commission’s office continued their protest at Mandir Marg police station

Trinamool Congress (TMC) leaders who were detained by Delhi Police while staging a dharna outside the Election Commission's office continued their protest at Mandir Marg police station on April 9.

AAP leaders, including Saurabh Bharadwaj, met the protesting TMC leaders who camped overnight at the police station.

The TMC leaders had met the full bench of the EC on Monday, demanding that the heads of the Enforcement Directorate, Central Bureau of Investigation, National Investigation Agency and Income Tax department be changed as they were allegedly acting at the behest of the ruling BJP.

The TMC leaders later announced they were sitting on a 24-hour dharna outside the EC office. The delegation comprised Rajya Sabha MP Derek O'Brien, Mohammed Nadimul Haque, Dola Sen, Saket Gokhale, Sagarika Ghose, MLA Vivek Gupta, former MPs Arpita Ghosh, Santanu Sen and Abir Ranjan Biswas and TMC West Bengal students' wing vice-president Sudip Raha. The leaders were later detained by Delhi Police and forcefully evicted from the site.

Police said they released the TMC leaders on Monday night. However, the leaders stayed put at the police station through the night and continued their dharna.

"Today, they again came back to the police station. They are still allowed to go but they are not leaving the police station," a police officer said.

In a post on X on Tuesday, Mr. Gokhale said the party leaders were continuing their protest at the police station.