Desk Report
Publish: 26 Jul 2022, 04:37 pm
Rahul Gandhi || Photo: Collected
Authorities
have detained Indian Congress leader Rahul Gandhi during a road protest in
Delhi while his mother Sonia Gandhi was being questioned by the Enforcement
Directorate.
The
opposition leader, surrounded by scores of policemen, was sitting at a
high-security avenue near parliament and top government offices, NDTV reports.
The
reasons for his protest range from price rises and general sales tax to the
targeting of opposition leaders by probe agencies, according to the private
broadcaster.
Rahul
Gandhi sat alone while the authorities detained other lawmakers with him.
He
said that he is not playing up their arrests by his protest and it was mainly
against inflation, unemployment and to provide a voice for the people.
On
Twitter, Congress posted a combination photo showing Rahul Gandhi's protest
alongside a picture of his grandmother and former prime minister, Indira
Gandhi, sitting similarly.
"History
is repeating itself," the party tweeted in the Hindi text that accompanied
the photo.
After
an hour of the Congress MP’s protest, policemen forced him inside the bus
alongside other detained lawmakers, according to NDTV.
"India
is a police state, [Prime Minister Narendra] Modi is a king," Rahul Gandhi
said while police moved him away.
Meanwhile,
Congress president Sonia Gandhi has been undergoing a second round of quizzing
at the Enforcement Directorate in connection with the National Herald case.
The
party leader was accompanied by her daughter Priyanka Gandhi Vadra to the probe
agency's office. Rahul Gandhi went there before joining the protest on Tuesday.
The
Congress MPs have been protesting over the opposition “being silenced" in
parliament a day after four party MPs were suspended for the entire monsoon
session.
Authorities
stopped the lawmakers, who planned to march towards the residence of the
president, at the Vijay Chowk crossing.
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