Chandigarh: The Congress party today staged a massive protest against the continued and prolonged harassment of the party leader Rahul Gandhi by the Enforcement Directorate at the behest of the BJP government at the centre.
Hundreds of party workers led by the Punjab Congress president Amainder Singh Raja Warring and the Leader of the Opposition in the Punjab Vidhan Sabha, Partap Singh Bajwa took out a march from the Congress Bhawan here and wanted to go to Raj Bhawan and stage a protest there.
However, they were stopped on the way. The Chandigarh Police had set up barricades. As the party workers tried to march past the barricades, the Police used water cannons to stop them. Even then the Congress workers did not relent. A huge contingent of Police surrounded the party workers and leaders and detained them in the Sector 3 police station.
Speaking on the occasion, the PCC president Warring pointed out, the ED’s intentions were very clear as they only wanted to harass Rahul Gandhi. They have been questioning him for hours together for so many days, only to call him again the next day, he said, while adding, even the ED did not know what charge was against Gandhi.
He said the prolonged harassment had actually mobilized and galvanized the Congress party and every worker and leader was ready to fight against the tyranny and dictatorship of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government. Speaking on the occasion, the LOP Partap Bajwa said, the BJP government and the Prime Minister were scared of the Congress party and Rahul Gandhi.
He said, that is the reason Modi wants a “Congress-mukt Bharat”. But let me tell him that millions and millions of Congress workers across the country will shatter all such dreams of his. Bajwa said it was unprecedented in the democratic history of the country that the political opposition was being intimidated, threatened and harassed.
“This only happens when you don’t have the courage and confidence to fight the opposition politically and democratically and you end up using dictatorial tactics which will be defeated at all costs”, he asserted.
Among others present on the occasion included Deputy CLP Leader Dr Raj Kumar Chabbewal, former Speaker Rana KP Singh, former Deputy Chief Minister OP Soni, former ministers Tripat Rajinder Singh Bajwa, Aruna Chaudhary and Pargat Singh, Capt Sandeep Sandhu, Punjab Youth Congress president Brinder Singh Dhillon, MLAs Sukhpal Khaira, Vikram Chaudhry, Hardev Ladi, Sukhwinder Kotli, Balwinder Dhaliwal former MLAs, Kuljit Nagra, Lakhwinder Lakha, Gurpreet GP, Madan Lal, Tarlochan Singh, Indu Bala, Devinder Gubaya, Deepinder Dhillon, and others.
