Two persons were arrested in Assam’s Guwahati on Friday for allegedly painting a mural of activist Sonam Wangchuk, The Indian Express quoted the police as saying on Saturday.

They were arrested under charges of damaging public property, according to the newspaper quoted the police as saying on Saturday.

Wangchuk has been on a hunger strike since June 28 at Delhi’s Jantar Mantar. His fast is part of a protest led by the political campaign Cockroach Janta Party demanding the resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan over the alleged mismanagement of competitive examinations.

The activist was forcibly taken to hospital by the Delhi Police on Saturday.

Following this, student organisations and Opposition parties staged a protest in Mumbai against the police action.

The Mumbai Police detained several of the protesters and registered cases against them before releasing them, reported The Indian Express.

The two persons were arrested by a patrol team on Friday night while they were in the process of painting on a wall, an unidentified police official in Guwahati East was quoted as saying by the newspaper.

The action came a day after a mural of Wangchuk appeared on a flyover pillar in the city with the text “Save Sonam Wangchuk”.

It was reportedly painted by students of the Government College of Art & Craft on Thursday night. The police have...

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