Congress MP and leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday climbed police barricades during the opposition INDIA bloc’s protest march to the Election Commission of India on Tuesday.
Rahul, along with Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge and party MP Priyanka Gandhi, joined the march from the Parliament House complex. More than 300 Opposition MPs participated in the march, Rahul said, with some of them, including Priyanka Gandhi, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav and Trinamool Congress MPs Abhishek Banerjee and Derek O’Brien, also being briefly detained.
Speaking to reporters from inside the Akashvani complex, where the Opposition MPs were staging a sit-in, the Lok Sabha LoP said the INDIA bloc was not only “going to counter” the poll body but would “destroy them. The youth of the country believe and understand this,” Rahul said, while claiming that even the police had said the same. He added that he was saying this “with careful consideration”, and claimed that action would be taken “against all of them.
Earlier reporting noted: TMC leaders Abhishek Banerjee, Derek O Brien, Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, SP chief Akhilesh Yadav and CPI (M) leader John Brittas were among those who took part in the march Earlier reporting noted: Heavy security deployment and barricading had been put in place in and around Parliament and the Election Commission headquarters ahead of the march. Earlier reporting noted: ‘Gyanesh, it’s done bro, time to resign’: INDIA bloc MPs stage sit-in after march to ECI stopped INDIA bloc MPs, including Leaders of Opposition Mallikarjun Kharge and Rahul Gandhi, on Tuesday marched from the Parliament House complex towards the Election Commission of India but were stopped by police on Parliament Street, where they sat on a dharna demanding Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar’s resignation.
The Opposition leaders began marching to the ECI office to hand over a formal memorandum. “We are not only countering them, we are going to destroy them. I am standing here to save the democracy of India.
A few hours ago, 300 Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha MPs came here with me.
During the protest, Rahul said the Opposition MPs were “trying to save democracy in the country. I have no interest in what BJP says. They too are trying to save democracy in the country,” he told reporters, according to ANI news agency.
