TMC delegation on its way to Sonbhadra stopped at Varanasi airport, prevented from meeting victims' kin

A parliamentary delegation of the Trinamool Congress (TMC) led by party leader and Derek O' Brien, which was on its way to Uttar Pradesh's Sonbhadra district to meet the families of those affected in the firing earlier this week, was stopped at the Varanasi airport here on Saturday.Senior officials including Varanasi District Magistrate and SSP reached the airport to meet the delegation.Derek O' Brien released a video message in which he said, "We just landed at Varanasi airport. The ADM and SP are here. They told us that we have been detained. We told them it cannot be 144 because there is only three of us. We told them we intend to visit the trauma centre to meet the injured and then we wish to go to the spot of the incident. "Condemning the prohibition of its delegation from leaving the airport, All India Trinamool Congress (AITC) leader and Rajya Sabha MP Derek O'Brien said that police has detained the delegation and was not allowing them to meet the Sonbhadra firing incident ...