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PM Modi’s effigy burnt throughout Congress protest at Wayanad in opposition to Rahul Gandhi’s disqualification 

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By PTI

WAYANAD: Wayanad on Saturday witnessed sturdy protests, together with the burning of an effigy of Prime Minister Narendra Modi by Congress employees and its youth and pupil wings, over the disqualification of Rahul Gandhi as an MP who represented the constituency.

Congress leaders, together with MLA T Siddique, who was a part of the protest march to the workplace of BSNL in Kalpetta in Wayanad, have been by power faraway from the positioning and carried away by the police to their bus.

Besides them, a number of Youth Congress (YC) and KSU leaders have been additionally arrested and faraway from the protest web site.

The leaders and employees of the celebration and its youth and pupil wings, after marching to the BSNL workplace had sat down on the street in entrance of it, which led to the blocking of site visitors motion, based on visuals aired on TV channels.

Some YC employees have been additionally seen climbing over police barricades into the BSNL workplace compound.

As the Congress, YC and KSU leaders and employees have been being hauled away, they stored shouting slogans like ‘INC zindabad’.

Earlier within the day, Leader of Opposition within the State Assembly and senior Congress chief V D Satheesan informed reporters in Kochi that the celebration and the UDF could be holding protests throughout the state in opposition to the disqualification of Gandhi.

The celebration would additionally maintain a protest march to the Kerala Raj Bhavan on March 27, he mentioned.

Gandhi was convicted and sentenced to 2 years in jail by a Surat court docket on Wednesday in a 2019 prison defamation case over his “Modi surname” comment.

A day later, the Lok Sabha Secretariat in a notification mentioned that his disqualification was efficient from March 23 — the day of his conviction.

WAYANAD: Wayanad on Saturday witnessed sturdy protests, together with the burning of an effigy of Prime Minister Narendra Modi by Congress employees and its youth and pupil wings, over the disqualification of Rahul Gandhi as an MP who represented the constituency.

Congress leaders, together with MLA T Siddique, who was a part of the protest march to the workplace of BSNL in Kalpetta in Wayanad, have been by power faraway from the positioning and carried away by the police to their bus.

Besides them, a number of Youth Congress (YC) and KSU leaders have been additionally arrested and faraway from the protest web site.googletag.cmd.push(perform() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

The leaders and employees of the celebration and its youth and pupil wings, after marching to the BSNL workplace had sat down on the street in entrance of it, which led to the blocking of site visitors motion, based on visuals aired on TV channels.

Some YC employees have been additionally seen climbing over police barricades into the BSNL workplace compound.

As the Congress, YC and KSU leaders and employees have been being hauled away, they stored shouting slogans like ‘INC zindabad’.

Earlier within the day, Leader of Opposition within the State Assembly and senior Congress chief V D Satheesan informed reporters in Kochi that the celebration and the UDF could be holding protests throughout the state in opposition to the disqualification of Gandhi.

The celebration would additionally maintain a protest march to the Kerala Raj Bhavan on March 27, he mentioned.

Gandhi was convicted and sentenced to 2 years in jail by a Surat court docket on Wednesday in a 2019 prison defamation case over his “Modi surname” comment.

A day later, the Lok Sabha Secretariat in a notification mentioned that his disqualification was efficient from March 23 — the day of his conviction.