Those detained included four former chief ministers: AAP’s Arvind Kejriwal, Trinamool Congress founder Mamata Banerjee, and the Left’s Pinarayi Vijayan and Manik Sarkar. Over 1,500 people were detained across Delhi on Saturday as massive police action countered the Cockroach Janta Party’s (CJP) call to gather at Jantar Mantar to demand the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar over alleged irregularities in the poll process.
‘Arrest Us All’: Rahul Gandhi’s Message From Chennai
On Friday, the INDIA bloc handed a memorandum to President Droupadi Murmu. Leader of the Opposition (Lok Sabha) Rahul Gandhi, who is in Chennai for a student outreach event, posted on X: “Arrest all the leaders. Arrest all the young people. Arrest us all. We are surrounding you, and we are not going to back down. Mark my words: we already have the information we need… Youth of India, I am proud of you. Keep protesting. We are standing with you. He will be held accountable for the crimes committed against the country,” he added. Gandhi led protests in Delhi on four days this week.
“His 15-year political drama is coming to an end…
At his ‘Chhatron ki Goonj’, he said PM Modi “is destroying democracy”.
Dipke remained in police custody while his paternal grandmother passed away in his hometown in Maharashtra; police said he was told he could leave for the funeral , but by the evening it was not clear if he was to be released. Police sources later said women and senior citizens would be released, but the massive deployment would continue on Sunday as there could be renewed attempts to protest. CJP founder Abhijeet Dipke and leaders Ashutosh Ranka and Saurav Das were detained from the plane as soon as they landed in Delhi. “One, Indian democracy has thwarted attempts to incite anarchy. He also highlighted the BJP-led NDA’s wins in Friday’s bypolls in Assam, West Bengal and Puducherry. Activist Sonam Wangchuk also used an Emergency reference. Wangchuk had stayed away from Saturday’s protest, citing his work in Ladakh.
Two, the country will be governed by Parliament, not by the streets,” he said, arguing that a protest without permission would inconvenience people. “We are not opposed to protests, but you have weaponised street protests because of your electoral defeats,” Prasad said, naming the Congress but not the CJP. A face of the CJP’s maiden protest that had forced the resignation of the education minister over paper leaks in July, he said India was “in a state of undeclared Emergency”. “I will be compelled to consider an Anshan Fast (hunger strike) or Padyatra March (foot march) if they are not released by tomorrow,” he said. Earlier reporting noted: ‘Even Indira Gandhi didn’t do this’: What Abhijeet Dipke said before being detained at Delhi airport; CJP shares video Image Credit: (X ) CJP condemned the detention of its leaders Abhijeet Dipke, Saurav Das and Ashutosh Ranka after they landed in Delhi. All we wanted to do is a peaceful protest, and they are picking us up from the flight like we are criminals,” Dipke said.
Earlier reporting noted: He compared the alleged action to the Emergency imposed by former prime minister Indira Gandhi. Earlier reporting noted: “Not even Indira Gandhi did this during the Emergency.
