The head of India's opposition Congress party in the state of Uttar Pradesh, Ajay Rai, alleged that he was held by police authorities at his hotel in the northern city of Ayodhya, just as he arrived with a party delegation on Monday to visit the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Mandir amid an ongoing graft row.
"The BJP government's dictatorship has reached its peak!" Rai said in a post on X, blaming Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party for the "arrest."
"I had just arrived in Ayodhya when the BJP government got so scared that the police arrested me from the hotel and are taking me away in their jeep," he said in the post.
The government did not immediately comment on Rai's claims.
Rai's post included a video which showed the regional opposition leader seated on a chair in a hotel room while at least two police officers in uniform stood by.
