Around 200 persons were taken into custody for staging a black flag protest against the UPA chairperson Sonia Gandhi during her visit to Chennai on Sunday. Among them were prominent film director Bharathiraja, Tamil Nationalist Movement leader Pazha Nedumaran, director R Sundarrajan, Katradhu Tamizh Ram and Advocate Karuppan. The arrested protestors were detained at the KP Marriage Hall near Kattipara Junction. They were offered evening meals which they refused to have and staged a hunger strike