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Congress workers stage countrywide protests against Rahul Gandhi's disqualification
Congress workers on Saturday held massive protests across the country against disqualification of Rahul Gandhi from Parliament. Read further on Dynamite News:
New Delhi: Congress workers on Saturday held massive protests across the country against disqualification of Rahul Gandhi from Parliament.
Several party workers staged a protest in Wayanad over the disqualification of Rahul Gandhi from Parliament. Rahul Gandhi was a former MP from Wayanad in Kerala.
Meanwhile, in Bengaluru, Youth Congress workers decided to march to the metro station to be inaugurated by the Prime Minister. The protestors were stopped when they were marching to the Visvesvaraya metro station near the City Civil Court in Bengaluru.
In Punjab, the Chandigarh youth Congress stopped the New Delhi-Chandigarh Shatabdi train at the Chandigarh railway station over the disqualification of Rahul Gandhi from Parliament.
In Maharashtra, MVA MLAs stage a silent protest outside State Assembly against the disqualification of Rahul Gandhi as a member of Parliament.
On Saturday, while addressing his first presser post disqualification as Lok Sabha MP, he said that Prime Minister Narendra Modi led Central government was scared of his questions on Adani and that democracy was under attack.
Stating that he was not scared of threats, disqualification and prison sentences, Rahul Gandhi said that he will not "back down" from asking questions on the Adani stocks issue.
On Friday, Gandhi was disqualified as a member of the Lok Sabha, a day after a Surat court sentenced him to two years imprisonment in a defamation case filed against him over his 'Modi surname' remark. (with ANI inputs)