Scores of BJP workers were detained by the Delhi police when they were staging a demonstration near Chief Minister Atishi’s residence demanding the immediate reappointment of 10,000 civil defence volunteers (CDVs) who were removed last year as bus marshals.

The BJP workers, including the party’s Delhi president Virendra Sachdeva, were bundled into waiting police vehicles and taken away.

“Some BJP workers were detained and were removed from the protest site to maintain law and order,” a senior police officer said.

Leading the protesters, Sachdeva accused Atishi of failing to do anything for the reappointment of the bus marshals.

The chief minister should explain why her government did not issue orders for the reappointment of bus marshals despite direction by the Lt Governor V K Saxena to reinstate them from November 1, he said.