As Karnataka minister DK Shivakumar arrived in Mumbai on Wednesday to meet 10 of the rebel Congress-JD(S) MLAs, Mumbai Police said the Congress leader would not be allowed into the hotel where the MLA are staying.
ANI reports the Maharashtra State Reserve Police Force and Riot Control Police have been deployed outside the Renaissance Hotel in Powai where the MLAs are staying.
Shivakumar told reporters outside the Mumbai airport he would not be deterred. “Let Mumbai Police or any other force be deployed. Let them do their duty. We’ve come to meet our friends. We were born together in politics, we will die together in politics. They are our party men. We have come to meet them,” he said.
Ten rebel MLAs from the Congress-JD(S) combine on Tuesday wrote to the Mumbai police commissioner expressing fears of threat to their lives during visits of Karnataka Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy and Congress leader DK Shivakumar on Wednesday, PTI reported.
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The letter signed by 10 MLAs said they have heard that Kumaraswamy , Shivkumar and others are going to storm the hotel premises they are staying in and they feel threatened by this.
The letter stated that the MLAs were not willing to meet the two leaders and wanted the police not to allow them to enter the hotel premises.
The signatories of the letter are Shivram Hebbar, Pratap Gowda Patil, B C Patil, Byrati Basavraj, S T Somshekar, Ramesh Jarkiholi, Gopalaiyya, H Vishwanath, Narayan Gowda and Mahesh Kumutali.
The copies of the letter were marked to Zone 10 deputy commissioner of police, senior inspector of Powai police station and the management of the hotel they are staying in, PTI’s report said.