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Congress March To President Stopped, Priyanka Gandhi Briefly Detained


Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and a number of other different leaders, had been taken into preventive custody.

Highlights

  • Congress has sought President’s intervention for withdrawal of farm legal guidelines
  • The occasion says that the memorandum has two crore signatures
  • Hundreds of farmers have been protesting close to Delhi for almost a month

New Delhi:

Congress leaders led by Rahul Gandhi, marching to the Rashtrapati Bhavan, had been stopped by the police earlier than a small delegation was allowed to enter the presidential palace to undergo President Ram Nath Kovind a memorandum in search of his intervention for the withdrawal of the farm legal guidelines towards which 1000’s of farmers have been protesting close to Delhi for almost a month. Mr Gandhi’s sister, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, and a number of other different leaders, had been taken into preventive custody by the police and despatched away in a bus to a police station after they had been stopped. There have been launched a short time later.

The enchantment to the President has two crore signatures, urging his intervention for repealing the three controversial legal guidelines.

“I need to inform the Prime Minister that these farmers are usually not going to return house till these farm legal guidelines are repealed. The federal government ought to convene a joint session of parliament and take again these legal guidelines. Opposition events stand with farmers and labourers,” Mr Gandhi stated after assembly the President. He additionally attacked PM Modi and the federal government, saying there was “no democracy” in India and those that stood up towards the PM had been labelled terrorists, “even when it was (RSS chief) Mohan Bhagwat”.

“Any dissent towards this authorities is assessed as having components of terror. We’re enterprise this march to voice our assist for the farmers,” Priyanka Gandhi Vadra stated, sitting on the street.

Shortly thereafter, Ms Gandhi-Vadra once more hit out on the centre, calling the federal government a “sinner”. “Generally they are saying we’re so weak that we do not qualify as Opposition and generally, they are saying that we’re so highly effective that we’ve got made lakhs of farmers camp on the border (of Delhi) for a month. They need to first determine what we’re,” she informed reporters from contained in the inexperienced, DTC bus by which she and different leaders had been stored.

“It’s a sin to make use of the type of names they used for farmers. If the federal government is looking them anti-nationals, then the federal government is a sinner,” she stated.

Earlier than beginning the march from central Delhi’s Vijay Chowk, Mr Gandhi met with senior Congress leaders on the occasion headquarters the place leaders gave speeches on the farm legal guidelines.

“Solely the leaders, who’ve permission, might be allowed (to go to Rashtrapati Bhavan),” police officer Pragya stated.

Opposition events, which tried to dam the farm payments in parliament, had earlier requested the President to not signal on the payments. The payments, they’d stated, had been handed within the Rajya Sabha in an undemocratic method. The President, nevertheless, had given his assent to all three payments. Rahul Gandhi was a part of the opposition’s assembly with President Kovind on December 9.

Hundreds of farmers, who’ve braved water cannons, tear fuel and police barricades, started their protest final month towards the farm legal guidelines, aimed toward getting rid of middlemen and permitting them to promote produce anyplace within the nation. 

The federal government has been urging the farmers to have interaction in additional talks to finish the impasse. On Wednesday, farmer teams stated they’re prepared to carry with the federal government talks however are ready for the federal government to carry discussions with an open thoughts and current concrete proposals which can be acceptable.

(With inputs from ANI)

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