Delhi Police enter Congress HQ, beat up cadre? Cops deny

By Express News Service

NEW DELHI: The Congress headquarters right here witnessed excessive drama on Wednesday because the occasion continued its protest over the questioning of its chief Rahul Gandhi by the Enforcement Directorate within the National Herald case for the third consecutive day.

Party leaders alleged that Delhi Police personnel forcibly entered its headquarters at Akbar Road and thrashed them, posting a video of the incident on Twitter to substantiate their claims. However, the police denied their allegations.

“In an act of absolute goondaism perpetuated by the Delhi Police at the instance of the Modi government, the police today forcibly entered the national headquarters of the Congress here and beat up party workers and leaders. This is patently criminal trespass,” Congress chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala mentioned.

Other senior leaders alleged that safety personnel misbehaved with girls parliamentarians and handled them like ‘criminals’. Jothimani Sennimalai, Tamil Nadu MP, launched a video wherein she appealed to the Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla to provoke motion towards the safety personnel who mistreated girls MPs. “We had been brutally crushed up and assaulted on Tuesday and as we speak as effectively.

Our garments had been torn and sneakers had been eliminated. They are taking us to an unknown location. We wanted water however the police didn’t permit us to buy water. The safety personnel bundled 7-8 girls within the bus and handled them like criminals,” she alleged. Detained occasion leaders and functionaries equivalent to Sachin Pilot, Amrita Dhawan, Ajay Yadav, Vivek Bansal, Lalji Desai and Srinivas B V had been taken to completely different police stations in Alipur, Narela, Vasant Kunj, Najafgarh, and Burari.

The Congress demanded that an FIR for legal trespass be filed, erring police personnel suspended and disciplinary motion initiated towards them. However, the police rejected the costs. “The allegations are totally false and we strongly denied them,” a senior police officer mentioned.