Mangaluru: Dakshina Kannada District Congress Committee on Saturday staged protest outside its party’s office in the city against the detention of AICC General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi in Uttar Pradesh on Friday.

Speaking on the occasion former Karnataka minister Ramanath Rai added that the BJP government was misusing its power and mocking the democracy by such detention of leaders who were going to meet the families of victims who were killed following a land dispute in Uttar Pradesh.

Priyanka Gandhi was detained by UP Police when she was visiting victims of Sonbhadra tragedy on Friday.

DCC President K Harish Kumar, former minister Abhaychandra Jain, Vishwas Kumar Das, Anil Pinto, T K Sudhir, Nazeer Bajal and others were present during the protest.

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Belthangady: A woman in her mid-50s from Guddethota in Shishila village here died after suffering a snake bite while working in a plantation on Sunday.

The deceased, identified as Prema (55), was reportedly bitten by a cobra when working in a plantation located in Shishila village of the taluk on Sunday afternoon.

The members of the Shourya Disaster Response Team, who were informed of the incident, arrived at the plantation and took Prema to the Puttur Government Hospital, but the patient is learned to have died due to the intensity of the snake venom.

Prema is survived by her daughter and son.