Police arrested Congress city chief Sanjay Nirupam and his party workers to prevent them from meeting actor Amitabh Bachchan and urging him to support Federation of Western India Cine Employees workers, who have been on strike for the past two weeks. Nirupam was meant to visit the actor’s Juhu bungalow, but police served him a notice preventing him from doing so. He said he would request Bachchan to cancel the shoot of his reality show Kaun Banega Crorepati in support of the strike. Party workers said they would hand over a memorandum to the superstar to apprise him about the strike and the demands raised by workers. “My party workers and I were arrested outside my house.

Source: Hindustan Times August 28, 2017 04:07 UTC