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Youth Cong workers protest against Priyanka Gandhi's detention
    Hyderabad, July 20 (PTI) Youth Congress activists,
including women, staged a protest here Saturday against the
detention of party leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra in Uttar
Pradesh on July 19 when she insisted on going to Sonbhadra
where 10 people were gunned down this week.
The activists, led by its Telananga unit president M Anil
Kumar Yadav, burnt an effigy of Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister
Yogi Adityanath outside Gandhi Bhavan in the city, the party's
headquarters in Telangana.
They raised slogans against Adityanath, Prime Minister
Narendra Modi and the BJP.
AICC incharge of party affairs in Telangana R C Khuntia
alleged that the "arrest" of Priyanka Gandhi Vadra is
undemocratic.
Adityanath is ruling UP like a "dictator", he alleged,
adding that people would teach the BJP regime a lesson. PTI
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The standoff between Gandhi and the Uttar Pradesh
government ended Saturday, a day after she was detained
Gandhi headed back to Delhi after a meeting with some
Sonbhadra villagers who travelled to the Mirzapur guesthouse
where she had stayed overnight, refusing an offer from local
administration to furnish a personal bond and leave.
Ten people, all Gond tribals, were shot dead Wednesday
when a village headman, Yagya Dutt, and his supporters
allegedly opened fire in an attempt to take possession of a
piece of land in Ubbha village in Sonbhadra's Ghorawal area.
    Twenty-eight others were injured, including nine
supporters of the village head.
    Twenty-nine people were arrested after the clash. PTI
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