New Delhi: Several Congress leaders, including Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, were detained amid a massive protest outside the party’s Delhi headquarters against rising prices, unemployment.
Rahul Gandhi said that Narendra Modi government has “hijacked” all institutions of India’s democratic structure. The MPs were dressed in black as a symbol of their protest.
Earlier, Gandhi said that the Congress was forced to adopt the agitational route, despite consistent demands by opposition parties, Center has refused to discuss price rise, unemployment, GST or China’s alleged ingression into Indian territory in the Parliament.
He added that the opposition voices are being systematically targeted by the “BJP-RSS” system of governance that has placed its ideological supporters in democratic institutions like Judiciary, Election Commission, Central investigation agencies and the media.
As a result, opposition campaigns and voices on such pertinent issues of people have been rendered ineffective. Gandhi added, “We’re witnessing the death of democracy. What India has built brick by brick, starting almost a century ago, is being destroyed in front of your eyes. Anybody who stands against this idea of onset of dictatorship is viciously attacked, jailed, arrested and beaten up.” He said that any criticism of the government is viciously attacked and critics are being imprisoned while issues of common people are not being allowed to be raised. “Today there is no democracy in India, there is dictatorship [led by] four people.”
Earlier this week, the ED conducted raids in 12 locations purportedly connected to the National Herald probe, including the Delhi offices of the newspaper. The Congress leaders have maintained that the ED has not found a shred of evidence against the Gandhis and that the probe is yet another way to restrain the Gandhis who have been “fearlessly raising their voice” against the Modi government’s alleged authoritarian practices. BJP wants to tarnish the image of the Gandhi family and Congress party that’s why they’re hatching such conspiracies. Web Desk
