PMModi'sbrothercan’tstageadharnainYogiland

Prahlad Damodar Das Modi, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s brother, sat on a dharna outside Chowdhary Charan Singh Airport to protest against arrest of his supporters who came to receive him. After getting an assurance from senior police officials, he, however, ended his dharna.

Prahlad had arrived in Lucknow on a three-day tour of Uttar Pradesh to attend Yoga Social Society (YSS) functions in Sultanpur, Jaipur and Pratapgarh. When he came out of the airport after arrival at around 3 pm, he was told that a large number of his supporters had come to the airport to welcome and receive him but they were arrested by the Lucknow police.

According to the sources, the Lucknow Police had detained his supporters for violating Section 144 which is in force at the high security zone at the airport.

Infuriated over the arrest, Prahlad Modi, who is Patron of the Yoga Social Society, sat on a dharna. Initially, the police tried to convince him to end the dharna as his supporters had been only detained and were not arrested. The police also assured him that no cases will be registered against them.

Modi, however, claimed that the police told him his supporters were arrested on the PMO’s order. “They did not show me any copy of the order. What kind