<p class="title">Congress leader Digvijaya Singh's detention by police in Bengaluru is display of "dictatorship and Hitlarshahi" by the BJP, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath said here on Wednesday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Singh staged a protest near a Bengaluru resort this morning where rebel MLAs of Madhya Pradesh Congress are staying, and demanded that he be allowed to meet them.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Singh, who has been detained by the police, accused the BJP of holding the MLAs captive and said that he would go on a "hunger strike".</p>.<p class="bodytext"><a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/national/national-politics/madhya-pradesh-govt-crisis-live-shivraj-singh-chouhan-opposes-congress-plea-on-deferring-trust-vote-812237.html">Follow live updates on Madhya Pradesh crisis</a></p>.<p class="bodytext">Reacting to this, Nath said if the need arises he would also go to the Karnataka capital.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Preventing Congress Rajya Sabha candidate and other ministers from meeting MLAs, misbehave with them, forcibly taken them into custody is totally a dictatorship and hitlershahi (sic)," Nath said in a tweet.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Entire country is watching how an elected government is being made unstable and how BJP is murdering democratic values," Nath said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Why they are not allowing them to meet MLAs. What BJP is afraid of. BJP is playing a dirty political game in the state," the chief minister tweeted.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Demanding immediate release of detained Congress leaders, Nath said that democratic norms and Constitutional values are being stifled.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Later speaking to reporters, the CM said, "Why the BJP is afraid of presenting 16 MLAs here (Bhopal)? What is the problem in one person (Singh) meeting with 16 legislators?"</p>.<p class="bodytext">Nath reiterated that his government had proven majority on floor of the House in the last 15 months since coming to power.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Amid political uncertainty in Madhya Pradesh, the state Congress Legislature Party on Tuesday moved the Supreme Court seeking direction to the Centre and the BJP-led Karnataka government to grant it access to communicate with its rebel MLAs staying in Bengaluru.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The apex court had also directed the Kamal Nath government to respond by Wednesday to a plea by senior BJP leader Shivraj Singh Chouhan seeking immediate floor test in the Assembly. </p>
<p class="title">Congress leader Digvijaya Singh's detention by police in Bengaluru is display of "dictatorship and Hitlarshahi" by the BJP, Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Kamal Nath said here on Wednesday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Singh staged a protest near a Bengaluru resort this morning where rebel MLAs of Madhya Pradesh Congress are staying, and demanded that he be allowed to meet them.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Singh, who has been detained by the police, accused the BJP of holding the MLAs captive and said that he would go on a "hunger strike".</p>.<p class="bodytext"><a href="https://www.deccanherald.com/national/national-politics/madhya-pradesh-govt-crisis-live-shivraj-singh-chouhan-opposes-congress-plea-on-deferring-trust-vote-812237.html">Follow live updates on Madhya Pradesh crisis</a></p>.<p class="bodytext">Reacting to this, Nath said if the need arises he would also go to the Karnataka capital.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Preventing Congress Rajya Sabha candidate and other ministers from meeting MLAs, misbehave with them, forcibly taken them into custody is totally a dictatorship and hitlershahi (sic)," Nath said in a tweet.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Entire country is watching how an elected government is being made unstable and how BJP is murdering democratic values," Nath said.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"Why they are not allowing them to meet MLAs. What BJP is afraid of. BJP is playing a dirty political game in the state," the chief minister tweeted.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Demanding immediate release of detained Congress leaders, Nath said that democratic norms and Constitutional values are being stifled.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Later speaking to reporters, the CM said, "Why the BJP is afraid of presenting 16 MLAs here (Bhopal)? What is the problem in one person (Singh) meeting with 16 legislators?"</p>.<p class="bodytext">Nath reiterated that his government had proven majority on floor of the House in the last 15 months since coming to power.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Amid political uncertainty in Madhya Pradesh, the state Congress Legislature Party on Tuesday moved the Supreme Court seeking direction to the Centre and the BJP-led Karnataka government to grant it access to communicate with its rebel MLAs staying in Bengaluru.</p>.<p class="bodytext">The apex court had also directed the Kamal Nath government to respond by Wednesday to a plea by senior BJP leader Shivraj Singh Chouhan seeking immediate floor test in the Assembly. </p>