A day after Rahul Gandhi-led Congress employees clashed with Assam police personnel on the Guwahati metropolis limits, occasion president Mallikarjun Kharge wrote to Union House Minister Amit Shah, looking 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 in opposition to Mr Gandhi and different Congress leaders for the conflict. They’ve been charged with felony 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 employees 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 House Minister, Shri @AmitShah underlining the identical. pic.twitter.com/FHLG5pg5Bz
— Mallikarjun Kharge (@kharge) January 24, 2024
In his letter to the House Minister, Mr Kharge listed “a number of situations the place the Assam Police has been discovered wanting in offering satisfactory safety” Mr Gandhi is entitled to as a Z+ protectee. He then referred to the defacing of Congress posters and BJP employees blocking the Congress yatra on January 21 and assaulting state occasion chief Bhupen Borah.
“In all the troubling occasions talked about above, the Assam Police has systematically stood by and/or allowed BJP employees 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 staff,” 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 Basic of Police, Assam be certain 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 passed off when police stopped Congress employees from shifting on metropolis roads. The administration had earlier denied permission for the yatra to maneuver by way of the town’s arterial roads, citing congestion fears. Congress employees termed the grounds of denying permission frivolous and tried to interrupt by way of the barricades, resulting in the conflict with cops.