Meanwhile, social media platforms are abuzz with video clippings showing the police purportedly entering the Congress headquarters.
New Delhi: Senior Congress leader and party spokesperson Randeep Singh Surjewala on Wednesday alleged that personnel of the Delhi Police entered the party’s Delhi headquarters and beat up party workers. However, the Delhi Police denied the claims but said there was a scuffle that broke out but not inside the headquarters.
Surjewala said, “In an act of absolute goondaism perpetuated by the Delhi Police at the instance of the government, they (police) entered Congress office and beat up workers. This is criminal trespass. Their goondaism has reached its zenith. This won’t be tolerated and will be accounted for.”
Surjewala further said, “We demand an FIR be lodged, they (police) be suspended and disciplinary inquiry be initiated. Today all Congress leaders will hold press conferences. Tomorrow Congress will gherao all the Raj Bhavans across India. Protests will also be held at the district levels day after tomorrow.”
Meanwhile, Delhi Police Special CP (Law and Order) S P Hooda said, “Some people from inside (Congress headquarters) came out in violation of the Section 144 and threw barricades at the police jawans so there might have been a slight scuffle but claims of the police entering the headquarters or using batons are fake.”
“You are clearly seeing that in the last three days, the police have not used any force. We still request the organisers of the protest to take due permission from us and then proceed. If people assemble in violation of the Section 144, we will detain them as we have been doing,” Hooda added.
Meanwhile, social media platforms are abuzz with video clippings showing the police purportedly entering the Congress headquarters.
Congress party workers and senior leaders have been protesting in Delhi against the questioning of Rahul Gandhi by the Enforcement Directorate. On Wednesday, the central agency summoned Rahul Gandhi for the third consecutive day to interrogate him in an alleged money laundering case connected with the National Herald newspapaper.
