Delhi Police will keep central Delhi sealed on Sunday, holding Jantar Mantar shut, barricading the Capital’s borders and diverting traffic at 30 points, as the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) vowed to march again a day after an estimated 7,000 people were detained, and the Supreme Court prepared to hear a plea accusing the authorities of defying its order against a complete shutdown of metro and train services.
But we won’t. Opposition parties announced their own protest for Monday, when top leaders of the INDIA bloc will march to the Supreme Court to urge it to expedite all cases related to the SIR and the Election Commission. “The government thought we would back down after the detention of Abhijeet Dipke, Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka. “Mr. Modi, do whatever you want. Arrest all the leaders. Arrest all the young people. Arrest us all. A Supreme Court bench of justices Joymalya Bagchi and V Mohana will hear a contempt plea filed by advocate Shailendra Mani Tripathi, which names Union home secretary Govind Mohan, Delhi Police commissioner Anurag Kumar and Delhi Metro Rail Corporation (DMRC) chairperson D Thara as respondents.
Call out all the police: 10,000, 20,000, 50,000, whatever you want. More than 40,000 of them were on duty on Saturday, including 26,000 reinforcements, the largest deployment in the city since February 2020.
We will continue our agitation till Gyanesh Kumar resigns,” Shinde said. Shinde also said he had not been able to contact them since their detention. A police officer, who did not wish to be named, said they were taken separately to locations in Najafgarh and Gurugram. We are surrounding you, and we are not going to back down,” said Gandhi, the Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha. Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge said the government had turned the “Mother of Democracy” into a “Muzzled Democracy”. The plea accuses them of “blatant violation” of the court’s October 9 direction that there be no complete prohibition on metro and train services, an order in which the court had remarked that “you will not use a hammer to kill a fly”, after which the DMRC kept 45 of the 57 stations it had planned to close shut.
CJP leader Ajinkya Shinde, who was designated by the group as holding the reins after its leader Abhijeet Dipke was taken into custody, said the movement would not back down, would try to reach Jantar Mantar again on Sunday and would stay put until its demands were met. Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee , who was detained on Saturday during a silent protest outside party MP Abhishek Banerjee’s residence on South Avenue and taken to Dwarka in a prison van, said Rahul Gandhi had asked her to stay in Delhi for it. On Sunday, police will try to stop protesters from converging on Jantar Mantar and from entering the New Delhi district, and will regulate movement on key roads according to the situation on the ground, officials said, adding that police and Central Armed Police Forces (CAPF) personnel would stay deployed until the situation eased.
