The All India Fishermen Congress (AIFC) will undertake a march from Jantar Mantar to Parliament in solidarity with Rahul Gandhi on Monday with party chief Mallikarjun Kharge and general secretary organisa🦄tion K C Venugopal expected to participate. Kharge will inaugurate the 'Parliament march' at Jantar Mantar at 10 AM.
The party wing will also raise issues being faced by fishermen across the country, a statement issued by AIFC chairman S Armstrong Fernando said.Congress leaders K C Venugopal, K Raju, T N Prathapan and several other party MPs will attend the pro🎐test march.
The AIFC's Parliament march will be a show of strength of fishermen from across the country and it will reflect the agitation of the organisation towards the "undemocratic witch-hunt" against Rahul Gandhi by the Modi government, t𒆙he state♋ment said.
"Rahul Gandhi has been standing for the rights of fishermen. The ongoing intimidation of Rahul Gandhi is affecting the poor sections of this country as we﷽ll as the fishermen also," it said. Gandhi was disqualified from Lok Sabha on March 23 after a court in Gujarat's Surat convicted him in a 2019 defamation case over his 'Modi surname' remark.
