The Indiaജn Youth Congress staged a protest here on Sunday against Rahul Gandhi's disqualification from Lok Sabha, with its national🅰 president Srinivas BV saying the move is a part of a "conspiracy to mute democracy".
Several youth Congress leaders and workers gathered near the protest site holding banners an🌌d raised slogans against the Centre.
The protest was supposed to take place at the Jantar Mantar but IYC members were de🤪tained when they gathered near the prot꧟est site, party workers claimed.
The protest was part of the nationwide protest he༒ld by Congress leaders and workers against the Rahul Gandhi's disqualification from Lok Sabha.
Lashing oඣut at the Centre, Srinivas BV alleged that🍎 the disqualification of Rahul Gandhi shows the "fury" of the central government.
"Rahul Gandhi ji has always been fighting for the proteไction of democracy, for the protection of the Constitution and for the rights of the people, and he will continue to fight in the future as well," he said.
He further alleged that this is an "era of dictatorship" the voice of opposition is bei✤ng "suppressed."
"The voice of truth -- Rahul Gandhi ji -- has been disqualified f𝓡rom Parliament as a part of a conspiracy to mute democracy," he said.
"Rahul Gandhi is not fighting for himself but for the country. Why is the Centre trying to save Adani? Thousands of crores are in their shell companies but investigation is not being done, why? Rahul Gandhi is fighting against unemp𝐆loyment and inflation and he will continꦅue to do so," he claimed.
Gandhi was di🍎squalified from the Lok Sabha on Friday, a day after a court in Gujarat's Surat convicted him in a 2019 defamation cಞase.
-With PTI Input
