New Delhi: Just before heading towards the Rashtrapati Bhawan, Congress MPs and other senior leaders got detained by the Delhi Police at All India Congress Committee headquarters. Raging over the matter, the opposition party called BJP-led Central Government 'anti-government" for not permitting MPs to meet the President of India.
While speaking exclusively to ETV Bharat, Telangana Congress Committee Incharge Manickam Tagore said, "Today 98 MPs went to Delhi as we wanted to meet President of India to hand over 2 crore signatures of farmers, collected by the Congress party from all over the country, asking for the withdrawal of three black farm laws. But we were not allowed to meet President of India and only 3 MPs got the permission, while all other MPs got detained by the police." "The main issue is the attitude of Modi Government towards the Parliament and the democratical process. They think that it can be curtailed like the Gujarat model assembly. Therefore only this time winter session has not been called. They do not treat MPs like MPs," he alleged.
Congress party had planned to march to the Rashtrapati Bhawan to submit a memorandum to the President of India, with 2 crore signatures of the farmers, appealing him to withdraw the three farm laws at the earliest. However, only 3 leaders, including Rahul Gandhi, Adhir Ranjan Choudhary and Ghulam Nabi Azad, got permitted to meet the President.
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Delhi Police imposed Section 144 outside the AICC Headquarters, because of which other leaders were not allowed to come out of the office. As a mark of protest, the Congress MPs sit on a dharna outside their party office, due to which police detained them. Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra was also been taken into preventive custody.
Speaking over the matter, Manickam Tagore said, "It is necessary to raise voice against the Government. Punjab MPs are protesting at Jantar Mantar but still the Modi Government is not ready to listen to their demands. This Government is anti-democratic. It has been proven again and again that they work just for two corporate giants."
He also hoped that farmers demand will be met after the party made an appeal to the President. He asserted that the Government has to bow before the farmers.
Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee Chief Anil Choudhary also targeted the Government, saying, "It is very unfortunate that the farmers, to whom this Government made huge promises, are sitting at the Delhi borders. Congress MPs just wanted to meet the President of India for which they were not permitted and infact they were detained by the police. It is an attempt to shut down the voice of protesting farmers. But this Government cannot bring down the voice of farmers."
