Several top BJP leaders, including BJP state president Samrat Choudhary, MPs Sushil Kumar Modi and Ram Kripal Yadav and MLC Mangal Pandey, were also arrested during the protest.
A group of Muslims on Friday shouted slogans in support of slain gangster-turned-politician Atiq Ahmed, his brother Ashraf Ahmed, and son Asad Ahmed here, and termed their killings a conspiracy by the Yogi Adityanath government in Uttar .