BENGALURU: The order of the state government to ban the ‘Mangaluru Chalo’ bike rally and the persistence of the opposition party BJP made the lives of over 1,000 police personnel deployed at the Freedom Park miserable for some time on Tuesday.
While the government directed the police to detain anyone who defied the order banning the bike rallies, BJP leaders allegedly threatened the police personnel of dire consequences once they came back to power in the state ‘in the next election’.
MP and BJP Yuva Morcha president Pratap Simha also manhandled a policeman in mufti, who went to detain him.
The fuming Simha and former deputy chief minister R. Ashok were sitting on a dharna, raising slogans against the state government.
As the dharna led to a huge traffic jam on the busy Sheshadri Road, the policemen tried to forcibly detain Ashok.
When another policeman came to detain Simha, he first warned and then manhandled the cop.
“Dare you to touch me. Things will not be fine if you touch me. Do you think only you know the law,” he warned.
Meanwhile, MP Shobha Karandlaje sustained minor injuries when the woman police tried to detain her and drag her to a waiting bus.
