Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi, who was on her way to Agra to meet the family members of a man who died in police custody, was stopped at the Lucknow-Agra expressway on Wednesday, police said.They said the Congress general secretary was stopped as the Agra district magistrate had requested not to allow any political personality to go there following the man’s death. She was later detained by the Lucknow police and taken to Police LinesVideos from the scene show the Congress leader surrounded by many people including police personnel as she makes an attempt to go past them. The Congress leader can be heard saying in one of the videos, “I can’t understand…you are stopping me from going wherever I go..”The police official says that it is law and order issue and section 144 is already imposed.Priyanka Gandhi then responds, “What is the law and order issue? Someone has died…we are just two-three people going to meet the family..”In another video, the UP Congress chief Ajay Kumar Lallu asks the police officer whether Section 144 is imposed in Kushinagar or not where PM Modi is addressing a huge crowd of people.You can watch the video here:
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