LEADER of Opposition Rahul Gandhi and his sister Priyanka Gandhi Vadra were forcibly removed on Wednesday by police and were detained after they along with other leaders staged a sit-in at the roundabout near Shangri-La hotel in central Delhi. Rahul Gandhi and other MPs and leaders were headed in buses to the Jantar Mantar protest site after they were stopped by the police from proceeding further. They were taken to different police stations and Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi were released a little after 8 PM from police detention. While Rahul Gandhi was taken to the Barakhamba road police station, Priyanka Gandhi and others were detained in the Chhatrasal stadium. The leaders staged the sit-in at the roundabout itself, with Priyanka Gandhi lying on the road along with other women leaders, while carrying a copy of the Constitution. Security personnel gathered in large numbers at the site and they first forcibly removed Rahul Gandhi, and put him inside a police bus after carrying him on their shoulders. Some of the Congress leaders including Amarinder Singh Raja Warring and Udai Bhanu Chib alighted atop the bus carrying Rahul Gandhi, while Mumtaz Patel sat on its bonnet. A large posse of women policepersonnel then started removing Priyanka Gandhi and other women who were lying on the road. They were forcibly removed and put into buses and were taken away from the site. “This is how they treat members of Parliament who are asking simply to meet the election commissioners. This is how they treat us.

 

They are beating members of Parliament,” Priyanka Gandhi said. “Their policemen have scratched me all over. They have thrown us to the ground and now we are not going to leave from here. Let them call their forces back. I will not move from here,” she added. As Rahul Gandhi was being taken away in the police bus, which the Congress claimed got punctured on the way, he said the Opposition’s protest will not stop until Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar resigns, asserting that this is a fight to protect the “most sacred thing” in the country. Meanwhile, INDIA bloc MPs will stage a bigger protest on the ground on Thursday against CEC Gyanesh Kumar, Opposition leaders said on Wednesday, after they were stopped from reaching Jantar Mantar during a coordinated mobilisation involving the members of Parliament of several parties. The decision to hold another protest was discussed among the parties on Wednesday. RAHUL, PRIYANKA BOOKED FOR ENTERING AKASHVANI BHAWAN WITHOUT PERMISSION:DELHI Police has registered an FIR against Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, and their supporters for allegedly forcibly entering Akashvani Bhawan during the Opposition’s march against the CEC on October 6, officials said on Wednesday. The FIR was registered after police received a complaint alleging that Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi, their supporters and other MPs accompanying them entered the Akashvani Bhawan premises without permission, the Delhi Police officials said.