A day after Rahul Gandhi-led Congress staff clashed with Assam police personnel on the Guwahati metropolis limits, social gathering president Mallikarjun Kharge wrote to Union Dwelling Minister Amit Shah, searching for his intervention to make sure the safety of Mr Gandhi and different individuals of his Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra.
This comes after Assam Police filed an FIR towards Mr Gandhi and different Congress leaders for the conflict. They’ve been charged with prison conspiracy, illegal meeting, breach of peace, amongst others. The case was filed after Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma stated the ”naxalite techniques” utilized by Congress staff are ”not a part of Assamese tradition”.
Shri @RahulGandhi and the #BharatJodoNyayYatra has confronted severe safety points in Assam in the previous couple of days.
My letter to Dwelling Minister, Shri @AmitShah underlining the identical. pic.twitter.com/FHLG5pg5Bz
— Mallikarjun Kharge (@kharge) January 24, 2024
In his letter to the Dwelling Minister, Mr Kharge listed ”a number of cases the place the Assam Police has been discovered wanting in offering ample safety” Mr Gandhi is entitled to as a Z+ protectee. He then referred to the defacing of Congress posters and BJP staff blocking the Congress yatra on January 21 and assaulting state social gathering chief Bhupen Borah.
”In all the troubling occasions talked about above, the Assam Police has systematically stood by and/or allowed BJP staff to come back nearer and nearer to the convoy of Shri. Rahul Gandhi, breaching his safety cordon, and endangering his bodily safety and that of his group,” Mr Kharge wrote.
None of these concerned in these incidents, he stated, had been arrested regardless of the presence of proof within the public area. ”As the chance will increase and because the Yatra proceeds as deliberate, we request your intervention to make sure that the Chief Minister of Assam and the Director Normal of Police, Assam make sure that no such untoward incident takes place which can result in grave private damage to Shri. Rahul Gandhi or any members of the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra,” he added.
Congress leaders have been alleging that Mr Sarma has been creating hurdles within the yatra. Yesterday’s conflict at Guwahati metropolis limits occurred when police stopped Congress staff from transferring on metropolis roads. The administration had earlier denied permission for the yatra to maneuver by means of the town’s arterial roads, citing congestion fears. Congress staff termed the grounds of denying permission frivolous and tried to interrupt by means of the barricades, resulting in the conflict with cops.