Congress to hold massive protests over FIR against Rahul Gandhi: KC Venugopal
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The Congress revealed “massive protest marches” on Monday evening over a first information report (FIR) registered against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in Uttarakhand, intensifying the political battle over some people “purifying” the Ramlila ground at Haldwani after Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge addressed a public meeting there.
Adding to this, Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha and Congress leader Rahul Gandhi addressing a press conference at the AICC headquarters on Saturday (HT Photo/Sanchit Khanna) The FIR was registered by the Haldwani police on Sunday, a day after Gandhi addressed a press conference in New Delhi to demand that Prime Minister Narendra Modi order an FIR against those involved in the “purification” of the Ramlila ground at Haldwani.
Meanwhile, Congress general secretary KC Venugopal shared the FIR against Rahul Gandhi was a “shameless weaponisation of the state machinery” to target the Leader of the Opposition in the Lok Sabha.
Notably, Venugopal told the party’s state and district units to hold protest marches at the state and district headquarters on Monday evening to register their “vehement condemnation of this vendetta politics and to demand immediate legal action against the guilty BJP workers in Uttarakhand”.
As per the latest buzz, The FIR, registered on a complaint by Amit Kumar, a member of Shri Ram Sena Dharmarth Seva Nyas, accused Gandhi of offences under the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989 and sections 196 (promoting enmity between classes) and 299 (malicious acts to outrage religious feelings) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita. The FIR shared Gandhi wrongly described the cleaning and havan ritual as an act of “untouchability” and an atrocity against the Scheduled Caste community without verifying the facts.
In further updates, Venugopal shared the party’s fight against those who attack the values of social justice enshrined in the Constitution should continue and asked all party leaders at the state and district levels to participate in the protests.
On top of that, He shared party units should ensure the maximum mobilisation and media dissemination “to send an unyielding message: the Indian National Congress will not be intimidated by state-sponsored witch-hunts and will fight relentlessly for social justice, constitutional equality, and the dignity of every citizen.”
“The BJP’s blatant defence of this casteist behaviour and its shameless weaponisation of the state machinery to target the Leader of the Opposition unequivocally proves that they are the biggest perpetrators or protectors of social injustice today. They have demonstrated that they will deploy the entire might of the state to suppress anyone who dares to speak out against caste-based discrimination and Dalit atrocities,” he shared.
Source: Hindustan Times