The Congress on Monday alleged that the Delhi police made a “murderous attack” on its chief Ok C Venugopal and others throughout their protest march taken out in solidarity with Rahul Gandhi, with P Chidambaram and Pramod Tiwari sustaining hairline fractures of their ribs.
Gandhi on Monday appeared earlier than the Enforcement Directorate for questioning in a cash laundering case pertaining to the National Herald newspaper-Association Journals case.
Thousands of Congress staff carried out protest marches within the nationwide capital in addition to state capitals towards the ED motion on the previous Congress president.
Congress common secretary and chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala alleged that another Congress leaders additionally sustained accidents as Delhi police beat them up and detained hundreds of its staff since final evening.
“Atrocities of Delhi police and Modi authorities haven’t stopped. They have made a murderous assault on AICC common secretary Organisation Ok C Venugopal and have mercilessly overwhelmed up Delhi in-charge and Rajya Sabha MP Shaktisinh Gohil with lathis.
“See the atrocities of Delhi police that former Home Minister and former Finance Minister P Chidambaram was also roughed up and his rib was broken and his spectacles were found broken on the road outside AICC office,” Surjewala alleged in a video message.
“Does the Modi government not know on how to treat a former Home minister of the country?” he requested.
The Congress chief additionally alleged that one other Rajya Sabha MP, Pramod Tiwari, was thrown on the highway and his rib was fractured.
Both Chidambaram and Tiwari have sustained hair-line fractures, he claimed.
“When three big, burly policemen crash into you, you are lucky to get away with a suspected hairline crack! Doctors have said that if there is a hairline crack, it will heal by itself in about 10 days. I am fine and I will go about my work tomorrow,” Chidambaram additionally tweeted.
Surjewala alleged that the Modi authorities has crossed each restrict of barbarism. “Is this a democracy?” he mentioned.
“The entire day has passed, the attack continues… A deadly attack was launched on Congress Organisation General Secretary KC Venugopal by targeting him… Democracy has been trampled. The country will not forgive the Modi government,” Surjewala mentioned in a tweet in Hindi.
The Congress chief requested Prime Minister Narendra Modi how way more “atrocities” he was going to commit.
Surjewala, who too was detained by the police, mentioned the celebration is not going to bow right down to such techniques and can proceed to work on “path of democracy”.
“You can beat them and commit atrocities on them, but the Modi government has reminded everyone of the British regime. The Congress fought with the British and will now fight against you till democracy wins,” he mentioned.
Videos and footage of Venugopal being dragged by Delhi police and later sitting in a police station in a haggard state emerged on social media throughout the day.
AICC common secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra additionally met Venugopal later on the Tughlaq highway Police Station, the place Harish Rawat, former Uttarakhand chief minister, was additionally current.
Meanwhile, BJYM, the youth wing of the BJP, mocked Indian Youth Congress president B V Srinivas by sharing on Twitter a video of him operating away from the police as he was being accosted by them.
The 30-second-long video confirmed Srinivas giving a byte to media earlier within the day by which he’s saying “We do not fear the police and will carry out a march.” The jibe was rebutted by Srinivas via one other video he posted on his Twitter account that confirmed him resisting arrest and within the course of getting roughed up by the police.
He captioned the video: “First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win – Mahatma Gandhi.” Srinivas too was detained by the police.
Source: www.financialexpress.com”