Rahul Gandhi Protest Against CBI Move Includes "Sit-In" At Police Station
NEW DELHI:
Rahul Gandhi today led a massive opposition protest in Delhi
against the government's move to send CBI chief Alok Verma on leave and walked
into a police station asking to be arrested. The Congress president and his
colleagues spent more than an hour with the cops as hundreds of Congress
workers demonstrated outside.
The Congress has slammed the government for what it says is
the "illegal, unconstitutional and illegitimate removal of the CBI
director". The government has sent Mr Verma and his deputy Rakesh Asthana
on forced leave after both accused each other of taking bribe from
the same businessman.
Leaders from the Trinamool Congress, Aam Aadmi Party, CPI(M)
and other parties marched from Dyal Singh College in central Delhi's Lodhi Road
to the CBI headquarters, 4.2 km away. Loktantrik Janata Dal leader Sharad
Yadav, CPI's D Raja and TMC's Nadimul Haque joined the Congress protest.
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| Rahul Gandhi walks with protestors and opposition leaders on Lodhi Road in their protest against the government's CBI move |
Rahul Gandhi walked ahead of hundreds of people who shouted
slogans and carried placards and posters criticising the government. A man
holding a white sheet of paper with "CBI" written on it was seen
inside a cage - a depiction of the Supreme Court once calling the investigating
agency a caged parrot.
Mr Gandhi then got on to a truck in front of police
barricades near the CBI headquarters in the CGO complex to prevent the
protestors from reaching the building.
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| Protest outside CBI headquarters: A protestor sits inside a cage with a placard that reads "CBI" |
Congress general secretary Ashok Ghelot said the party wants
Mr Verma to be "reinstated" as the decision to remove him was
"illegal".
The protest marches are being organised outside the CBI
offices across the country. In some places, police used water canon to rein in
the protestors.
Mr Gandhi has said the midnight removal of CBI chief Alok
Verma was a "disgraceful and unconstitutional attempt" by Prime
Minister Narendra Modi to block an investigation into the Rafale fighter jet
deal.
"Why was M Nageswar Rao appointed as CBI director in a
hurry? All parties should protest against this along with Congress party,"
AAP leader Sanjay Singh said. West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said
the CBI has become "BBI", short for "BJP bureau of
investigation".
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| The protest marches are being organised outside the CBI offices across the country. In some places, police used water canon to rein in the protesters. |
In a letter to all Congress general secretaries, state unit
chiefs and legislature party leaders, Congress general secretary Ashok Gehlot
asked them to hold protests against the BJP government outside all CBI offices
across the country.
Setting the agenda for the march, Mr Gandhi on Thursday said
Mr Verma being sent on administrative leave was to pre-empt an investigation
into the Prime Minister's alleged role in the Rafale deal.
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