{"id":4057,"date":"2026-10-10T11:36:45","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T11:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dhakastatement.com\/?p=4057"},"modified":"2026-10-10T11:36:45","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T11:36:45","slug":"mamata-banerjee-detained-during-protest-in-delhi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dhakastatement.com\/?p=4057","title":{"rendered":"Mamata Banerjee detained during protest in Delhi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Delhi Police detained former West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee during a sit-in protest outside her residence in the Indian capital today, according to a report by Anandabazar Patrika.<\/p>\n<p>Mamata was taken away in a prison van, the Bengali newspaper reported. Trinamool Congress leaders Dola Sen, Pratima Mondal, Derek O\u2019Brien, Shamirul Islam and Saket Gokhale were also detained.<\/p>\n<p>The protest was against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar and a revision of voter lists that critics say favours Prime Minister Narendra Modi\u2019s Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).<\/p>\n<p>According to Anandabazar Patrika, Trinamool Congress leader Kunal Ghosh wrote on X that Mamata had been prevented from leaving her residence and that police were not allowing her to stage a protest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe has sat down outside her residence with MPs,\u201d Ghosh wrote, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>Mamata and the other leaders were detained shortly afterwards, the newspaper reported<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: TheDailyStar<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Delhi Police detained former West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee during a&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4058,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[931],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhakastatement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhakastatement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhakastatement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhakastatement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhakastatement.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4057"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dhakastatement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4059,"href":"https:\/\/dhakastatement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4057\/revisions\/4059"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhakastatement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhakastatement.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhakastatement.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhakastatement.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}