Due to the heavy deployment of police forces, the BJP leaders could not reach their destination and were taken under preventive custody.
Karnataka BJP leaders being taken into preventive custody. (X)
BJP leaders tried to lay siege to the Karnataka chief minister’s office-cum-residence in Bengaluru alleging rampant corruption in allotting alternative sites (plots) by the Mysuru Urban Development Authority but were stopped and taken into preventive custody. Party leaders BY Vijayendra, R Ashoka, S Sunil Kumar, Araga Jnanendra, S Suresh Kumar, CN Ashwath Narayan and CT Ravi were detained.