Congress Satyagraha in help of Rahul: Leaders, staff name for ‘democratic forces to get collectively’

By PTI

NEW DELHI: Congress staff throughout the nation on Sunday organised “Sankalp Satyagraha” to protest in opposition to the disqualification of Rahul Gandhi from Lok Sabha, with social gathering president Mallikarjun Kharge lashing out on the ruling BJP and asking why it’s pained if fugitives equivalent to Nirav Modi and Lalit Modi are criticised.

While in Delhi, the police denied permission to the Congress to carry its protest programme at Rajghat, the police in Gujarat detained a number of social gathering functionaries for holding the stir.

In the nationwide capital, the Congress put up a stage outdoors Mahatma Gandhi’s memorial for its day-long protest programme after the permission was denied.

In her handle on the protest programme, Congress basic secretary Priyanka Gandhi stated a martyred prime minister’s son, who walked hundreds of kilometres for nationwide unity, can by no means insult the nation. She was referring to her father and late prime minister Rajiv Gandhi who was assassinated in 1991.

Priyanka Gandhi stated the time had come to boost voice in opposition to an “arrogant government” as barring Rahul Gandhi from contesting elections doesn’t bode nicely for the nation and its democracy.

“My family’s blood has nurtured democracy in this country. We are ready to do anything for this country’s democracy. Great leaders of the Congress laid the foundation of democracy in this country. If they think they can scare us, they are wrong. We will not be scared,” she stated.

Police detain a Congress supporter throughout a protest in opposition to disqualification of Congress chief Rahul Gandhi from Lok Sabha, in Ahmedabad. (Photo | PTI)

Slamming the BJP over its cost that Rahul Gandhi insulted OBCs along with his comment for which he has been convicted in a prison defamation case, Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge stated why is the ruling social gathering pained if fugitives equivalent to Nirav Modi and Lalit Modi are criticised.

Kharge additionally thanked all Opposition events for standing with Rahul Gandhi and the Congress to avoid wasting democracy.

“They talk of OBC now, is Lalit Modi OBC, is Nirav Modi OBC, is Mehul Choksi OBC, they ran away with people’s money. If they are fugitives why are you pained if they are criticised. You (BJP) punish the person who works to save the country and send those abroad who loot the country,” Kharge stated.

“Rahul Gandhi ji is fighting for the people of this country, for the women, for the youth, fighting against unemployment and inflation,” he stated.

Gandhi was disqualified from the Lok Sabha on Friday, a day after a courtroom in Gujarat’s Surat convicted him in a 2019 defamation case.

The disqualification will stop Gandhi (52), a four-time MP, from contesting elections for eight years until the next courtroom stays the conviction.

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.@INCIndia’s Samvidhan Bachao, Loktantra Bachao Sankalp Satyagraha has simply begun at Rajghat with a whole bunch of leaders and staff collaborating. The Satyagraha will proceed until 5pm. pic.twitter.com/dF6a4pAYAS

— Jairam Ramesh (@Jairam_Ramesh) March 26, 2023

Congress protests throughout nation

Congress staff in lots of states and union territories like Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, Telangana, Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, Haryana and Gujarat took half within the protest programme.

In Gujarat, the police detained state Congress chief Jagdish Tahor, Leader of Opposition within the Assembly Amit Chavda and senior chief Bharatsinh Solanki together with social gathering staff after they arrived at Lal Darwaza in Ahmedabad to protest.

The protesters had been taken to the police stadium the place they continued to shout slogans in opposition to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the Bharatiya Janata Party.

“We have the power of Truth and resolution of Satyagraha. To expose the loot of BJP, with a firm determination to protect democracy, each and every worker of Gujarat Pradesh Congress is with Rahul Gandhi,” Thakor tweeted.

TPCC president and MP Revanth Reddy together with Senior congress leaders protest on Rahul Gandhi’s disqualification at Gandhi Bhavan in Hyderabad on Sunday. (Photo | Vinay Madapu, EPS)

The Punjab and Haryana items of Congress additionally noticed the satyagraha.

Punjab Congress president Amrinder Singh Raja Warring alleged that the motion in opposition to Rahul Gandhi was taken as a result of the BJP-led Centre was “scared” of his subsequent speech in Parliament on the Adani difficulty. Warring stated a “tearing hurry” was proven by the Lok Sabha Secretariat in disqualifying Rahul Gandhi allegedly on the behest of the BJP-led authorities.

Haryana Congress chief Udai Bhan stated Rahul Gandhi has been elevating his voice in opposition to the BJP-led Centre on numerous points. “They want to silence his voice, but they are mistaken,” he stated.

Charging that establishments are being attacked within the nation, Punjab’s Leader of Opposition Partap Singh Bajwa stated it’s time for “all democratic forces to get together”.

In Congress-ruled Rajasthan, the social gathering’s state unit chief Govind Singh Dotasra, Food and Civil Supplies Minister Pratap Singh Khachariyawas and a number of other different leaders took half within the protest.

Dubbing Gandhi’s disqualification as a “murder of democracy”, Dotasra charged that the BJP labels anybody who raises their voice in opposition to it as “anti-nationals” and distorts their public picture by social media. “Rahul Gandhi is someone whose grandmother and father sacrificed their lives for the sake of the nation,” he added.

MP Shashi Tharoor talking within the Satyagraha organised by Congress at Gandhi Park in Thiruvananthapuram on Sunday. (Photo | BP Deepu, EPS)

The Tamil Nadu Congress Committee on Sunday held a statewide protest. TNCC president Ok S Alagiri, who led the protest in Cuddalore termed Gandhi’s disqualification an act of injustice and political vendetta.

Meanwhile, the Puducherry Pradesh Congress Committee stated it can maintain a dawn-to-dusk quick right here on Monday to sentence the disqualification of Rahul Gandhi as member of Parliament.

In Andaman and Nicobar Islands, senior social gathering leaders like native MP Kuldeep Rai Sharma, Pradesh Congress Committee president Ranglal Halder and Campaign Committee chairman of Andaman and Nicobar Territorial Congress, TSG Bhasker assembled in entrance of the statue close to Aberdeen Bazaar right here since morning and raised their voices in opposition to the ruling social gathering on the Centre for “conspiring against Rahul Gandhi.”

“कांग्रेस” देश के लिए क़ुर्बानी का दूसरा नाम है। #SankalpSatyagraha pic.twitter.com/ylDK3K9S8u

— Mallikarjun Kharge (@kharge) March 26, 2023

In Port Blair, social gathering leaders had been seen carrying placards criticising the NDA authorities.

In Himachal Pradesh’s Shimla, Congress leaders and staff gathered on the Ridge and protested in opposition to the transfer. The social gathering would launch a statewide protest in opposition to the alleged try of the BJP authorities to “kill democracy” and “muzzle” the voice of the individuals from Monday, stated Congress leaders.

Jammu and Kashmir Pradesh Congress Committee (JKPCC) Sunday held a day-long ‘Sankalp Satyagraha’ with social gathering chief Ghulam Ahmad Mir accusing the BJP authorities on the Centre of being undemocratic.

Speaking to reporters, Mir stated not solely Congress social gathering, however all non-BJP secular events have come collectively, and are “wailing over the death of democracy” within the nation. “The BJP government has not left any sign of the Constitution in the country, all the steps it takes are illegal and undemocratic,” he charged.

Jammu and Kashmir Congress President Vikar Rasool Wani with social gathering leaders levels a protest in opposition to disqualification of Congress chief Rahul Gandhi from Lok Sabha, in Jammu. (Photo | PTI)

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