Ahead of Amit Shah’s visit to Alwar, students detained before proposed protest

Forward of Union Residence Minister Amit Shah’s programme in Alwar on Sunday (August 16, 2026), police detained some college students, saying they had been allegedly planning to carry a protest and present black flags over a variety of points, together with the demand for restoration of scholar union elections.

Mr. Shah, accompanied by Rajasthan Chief Minister Bhajanlal Sharma, is scheduled to handle a public assembly at Vijay Nagar Floor in Alwar later within the day and launch a number of initiatives.

Police sources mentioned the scholars had been taken into custody earlier than a proposed protest at RR School.

The protestors had deliberate to boost the problems of lathicharge on college students at Jantar Mantar, poor situation of roads, the alleged Matsya rip-off and demand the restoration of scholar union elections, they mentioned.

They’d additionally deliberate to indicate black flags to register their protest in opposition to the federal government, the sources mentioned.

Mr. Shah will just about inaugurate and lay the inspiration stones for 933 improvement work price ₹6,279 crore throughout Rajasthan, together with 151 initiatives price ₹783 crore in Alwar district.

The initiatives in Alwar embrace the inspiration stone laying of a brand new ₹200-crore Saras Dairy plant and the inauguration of a medical school.

The State-level Mukhyamantri Rojgar Utsav can even be held through the programme, the place appointment letters will likely be given to 10,548 newly recruited personnel, together with 461 from Alwar district.