After a week of high-octane protests that included five major marches in different parts of the city, the Congress leadership might take some time to launch the next round of demonstrations for the ouster of chief election commissioner (CEC) Gyanesh Kumar.
To be sure, both Rahul Gandhi and the Congress’s general secretary (organisation), KC Venugopal, have announced that the agitations will continue.
But the Congress’s frontal organisations, especially the Indian Youth Congress (IYC) or the student body National Students Union of India (NSUI), might carry on their own protests. The next day, the lawmakers tried to march from Janpath to Jantar Mantar, but the Delhi police stopped them at the busy intersection of Raisina Road and Ashoka Road, and the leaders were detained. The INDIA bloc led a march to the Rajghat on last Thursday, followed by a march from Parliament to the Rashtrapati Bhavan to submit a memorandum to President Droupadi Murmu. “Former West Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee had to return to Kolkata and could not take part in the march. She was in the meeting of the Opposition at the Constitution Club. Now, we have our priorities in West Bengal. We might not be able to come to Delhi during the Puja week. You cannot beat us, threaten us, frighten us. We will not accept being bullied. Where were those people?
Because we needed to show the government that the people of India are not going to be intimidated, in a late evening tweet, Gandhi thanked all those who marched on Monday and said, “Today was a very important day. Because I didn’t see them.”
Trinamool Congress’s (Mamata faction) Rajya Sabha floor leader Derek O’Brien said that with the festive season round the corner, starting with the Durga Puja, the Opposition parties might have to chalk out their own plans. So, if the Congress or any other party makes a protest plan, they have to do it on their own,” O’Brien said. The party leadership has informed the INDIA allies that another march or demonstration is unlikely to take place on Tuesday. I was wondering where the cowards of the RSS who were beating the young children the day before yesterday were.
“The press conference will set the next political agenda,” said a senior Congress leader.
