Lok Sabha elections 2024: Five persons detained for showing black flags to Devendra Fadnavis' convoy

Devendra Fadnavis. File pic

Five people were detained by police in north Maharashtra's Dhule district after they showed black flags to Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis' convoy on Wednesday afternoon and released later, a police official said, reported news agency PTI.

The incident took place at Karvand Naka in Shirpur, he said. Fadnavis was on his way to Jalgaon to campaign after finishing a Lok Sabha elections 2024 rally in Shirpur when the protesters came on the road, the official said, reported PTI.

They belonged to Adivasi and Koli communities and wanted to protest as their long-pending demands had not been fulfilled. They were taken to Shirpur police station and released after giving a warning, the official added, reported PTI.

Meanwhile, Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Wednesday said making Narendra Modi prime minister for the third time would mean responding to every bullet fired from Pakistan with a cannon shell, and accused the Congress of promoting the agenda of the neighbouring country, reported PTI.

Shah was speaking at a Lok Sabha elections 2024 campaign rally in Jalna Lok Sabha constituency in central Maharashtra for Union minister and BJP candidate Raosaheb Danve.

"Making Narendra Modi PM for the third time means responding to every bullet from Pakistan with a cannon shell," he said.

In the BJP-led NDA, it is decided who would be the prime minister after the elections, but in the opposition's INDIA bloc, decision was yet to be taken on the issue, the senior BJP leader said, reported PTI.

"Their leaders say they will become PM one by one. But such a huge country can not be run like a partnership company. They don't have any vision. But Modi has worked for ten years and has an agenda of 25 years," Shah said, reported PTI.

He also alleged that if there was anyone who takes forward Pakistan's agenda, it was Rahul Gandhi's Congress.

"PM Modi undertakes surgical and air strikes (against Pakistan), but Rahul Gandhi questions them. Modi ended Naxalism, but Rahul raises questions over it," the Union home minister said.

The Congress-led opposition was talking about revoking the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, and if it came to power, it would commit the "sin of putting a lock with the name Babri on it on (Ayodhya's) Ram Mandir," he alleged.

(With inputs from PTI)