Former Uttar Pradesh chief minister, Akhilesh Yadav, was detained by the police in Unnao on Agra-Lucknow Expressway on Thursday.
He was on his way to meet ex-MLA & Samajwadi Party leader, Pradeep Yadav, who was beaten in clashes during district panchayat president elections in Auraiya.
SP party workers staged a protest on Kanpur GT road on Thursday morning. Following this, the police have taken a number of party workers into custody, including party leader, Naresh Uttam and MLA, Amitabh Bajpai.
The police have taken former CM and other party workers to a guest house in Hasanganj.