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New Delhi: Left leaders including Communist Party of India (Marxist) general secretary M.A. Baby, former Rajya Sabha MPs Brinda Karat and P. Rajeev, former Kerala ministers KK Shailaja and M.V Govindan, and former MP P.K. Sreemathy were detained and put on a bus as they set out for Jantar Mantar from Kerala House this morning, as part of the protests calling for the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar.

Brinda Karat told The Wire from the ground, “Modi and this government should realise that the people of India have risen and they cannot stop them. The heart of Delhi belongs to all of its people.”

The Wire was able to record footage of M.A. Baby being manhandled by police despite there not appearing to be any provocation to do so.

Amit Shah’s police brutally manhandle CPI(M) General Secretary @MABABYCPIM and other senior leaders for the crime of fighting........

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