'Dhappa': Cops tried to stop INDIA bloc march to EC; Rahul Gandhi pulled a surprise
Opposition leaders Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi bypassed police barricades during an INDIA bloc protest march in New Delhi. The siblings successfully moved their demonstration to the Akashvani Bhawan premises, catching authorities off guard.
Why it matters
The incident highlights the ongoing political tensions between the Indian opposition and the current administration regarding electoral processes.
NEW DELHI: The protest route was planned, and the police were prepared. But then came a “Rahul twist” in the planned script.The INDIA bloc's protest march on Tuesday was supposed to begin at Parliament House and end at the Election Commission headquarters, where opposition MPs planned to demand Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar's resignation over alleged irregularities in the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls.As expected, central Delhi was heavily barricaded. Police and paramilitary personnel were deployed along the route, traffic diversions were put in place and access to the Election Commission office was restricted.But midway through the protest, leader of opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi and his sister, Wayanad MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, pulled a surprise on the cops.As police started detaining INDIA bloc MPs and moving them into buses after stopping the march, Rahul and Priyanka did not remain on the road waiting to be taken…
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