Wayanad on Saturday witnessed robust protests, together with the burning of an effigy of Prime Minister Narendra Modi by Congress employees and its youth and scholar wings, over the disqualification of Rahul Gandhi as an MP who represented the constituency.
Congress leaders, together with MLA T Siddique, who had been a part of the protest march to the workplace of BSNL in Kalpetta in Wayanad, had been by power faraway from the location and carried away by the police to their bus.
Besides them, a number of Youth Congress (YC) and KSU leaders had been additionally arrested and faraway from the protest website.
NSUI HCU protested in opposition to the unjust suspension of @RahulGandhi ji from the Loksabha. We burnt the effigy of Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla and PM Narendra Modi, as they trampled upon the freedoms of Indian political opposition. pic.twitter.com/qmmWO9r1Nq
— NSUI (@nsui) March 24, 2023
Protests by the celebration, its youth and scholar wings had been additionally seen in Kochi, Kozhikode and Pathanamthitta areas of the State.
In Pathanamthitta, protesting YC activists entered a put up workplace and had been arrested and eliminated by power by the police as they shouted slogans in opposition to Modi.
In Kochi and Kozhikode, many celebration and YC employees held protest marches and shouted slogans in opposition to the BJP and the Centre.
Earlier within the day in Kalpetta, leaders and employees of the celebration and its youth and scholar wings, after marching to the BSNL workplace sat down on the street in entrance of it, which led to the blocking of site visitors motion, in keeping with visuals aired on TV channels.
Some YC employees had been additionally seen climbing over police barricades into the BSNL workplace compound.
As the Congress, YC and KSU leaders and employees had been being hauled away, they saved shouting slogans like ‘INC zindabad’.
In the morning, Leader of Opposition within the State Assembly and senior Congress chief V D Satheesan informed reporters in Kochi that the celebration and the UDF could be holding protests throughout the State in opposition to the disqualification of Gandhi.
The celebration would additionally maintain a protest march to the Kerala Raj Bhavan on March 27, he stated.
Gandhi was convicted and sentenced to 2 years in jail by a Surat Court on Wednesday in a 2019 felony defamation case over his “Modi surname” comment.
A day later, the Lok Sabha Secretariat in a notification stated that his disqualification was efficient from March 23 — the day of his conviction.
