{"id":795,"date":"2023-03-28T16:17:39","date_gmt":"2023-03-28T15:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/loktaknews.com\/police-crack-down-on-congress-protest-at-red-fort-leaders-detained\/business\/"},"modified":"2023-03-28T16:17:39","modified_gmt":"2023-03-28T15:17:39","slug":"police-crack-down-on-congress-protest-at-red-fort-leaders-detained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/loktaknews.com\/?p=795","title":{"rendered":"Police Crack Down On Congress Protest At Red Fort, Leaders Detained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/c.ndtvimg.com\/2023-03\/rktjp85s_congress-protest-red-fort_625x300_28_March_23.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" id=\"ins_storybody\"><!-- \n\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"sp-cn ins_storybody\" id=\"ins_storybody\">--><\/p>\n<div class=\"ins_instory_dv\"><span itemprop=\"video\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/VideoObject\"><meta itemprop=\"headline\" content=\"Police Crack Down On Congress Protest At Red Fort, Leaders Detained\"\/><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"Police Crack Down On Congress Protest At Red Fort, Leaders Detained\"\/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"Police Crack Down On Congress Protest At Red Fort, Leaders Detained\"\/><meta itemprop=\"thumbnailUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/c.ndtvimg.com\/2023-03\/rktjp85s_congress-protest-red-fort_625x300_28_March_23.jpg\"\/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2023-03-28T20:00:48+05:30\"\/><meta itemprop=\"embedUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/video\/embed-player\/?id=690582&amp;category=embed&amp;autostart=1&amp;pWidth=650&amp;pHeight=403&amp;embed_type=story&amp;mute=1&amp;autostart=1&amp;mutestart=true&amp;ctitle=1&amp;miniplayer=1&amp;cache=2022\"\/><meta itemprop=\"ContentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/ndtvod.pc.cdn.bitgravity.com\/23372\/ndtv\/28032023_n_CongressProtest_177154_149847_320.mp4\"\/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"T6M17S\"\/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe id=\"videoembed\" class=\"videembedload\" src=\"https:\/\/c.ndtvimg.com\/2023-03\/rktjp85s_congress-protest-red-fort_625x300_28_March_23.jpg?im=FeatureCrop,algorithm=dnn,width=650,height=400\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/video\/embed-player\/?id=690582&amp;category=embed&amp;autostart=1&amp;pWidth=650&amp;pHeight=403&amp;embed_type=story&amp;mute=1&amp;autostart=1&amp;mutestart=true&amp;ctitle=1&amp;miniplayer=1&amp;cache=2022\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:100%; height:403px; padding-bottom: 0px;padding-left:0px;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"ins_instory_dv_caption sp_b\">The Congress has announced a month-long protest programme over the disqualification of Rahul Gandhi.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><b class=\"place_cont\">New Delhi: <\/b><\/p>\n<p>The Delhi police cracked down on the Congress&#8217; &#8220;Save Democracy&#8221; march held near the Red Fort this evening against the disqualification of Rahul Gandhi from parliament. Many of the MPs, including former Uttarakhand Chief Minister Harish Rawat, have been detained.<\/p>\n<p>Visuals from the spot showed slogan-shouting leaders being taken away in police vehicles. Sources said the Delhi Police had denied permission for the &#8220;Loktantra Bachao Mashal Shanti March&#8221; &#8212; from the Red Fort to the Town Hall in old Delhi&#8217;s Chandni Chowk &#8212; citing possible law and order issues.<\/p>\n<p>The Congress has announced a month-long protest programme over the disqualification of Mr Gandhi after he was found guilty and sentenced to two years in prison in a defamation case from 2019 last week.<\/p>\n<p>In the campaign ahead of the 2019 Lok Sabha polls, Mr Gandhi had apparently said, &#8220;How come all thieves have the common surname Modi?&#8221; The BJP alleged it was an insult to the OBC (Other Backward Classes) community and a party leader in Gujarat, Purnesh Modi, filed a defamation case against him.<\/p>\n<p>The Gujarat court, which sentenced him to two years in jail, also granted him bail and suspended the sentence. On Friday, he was formally disqualified by Lok Sabha.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, the Congress held a &#8220;black&#8221; protest in parliament, in which they were joined by members of several other opposition parties including the Trinamool Congress and Telangana&#8217;s ruling Bharat Rashtra Samithi.<\/p>\n<p>The month-long protest programme was announced later in the evening following a meeting between the Congress and 16 Opposition parties. The dinner meet was held at the home of party chief Mallikarjun Kharge.<\/p>\n<p>The party also held press conferences in 35 cities, where they flagged their concerns about Mr Gandhi&#8217;s disqualification and the &#8220;danger to democracy&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The Congress has said that it would take to the streets in a big way against Mr Gandhi&#8217;s disqualification and reach out to the public on the issue.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndtv.com\/india-news\/police-crack-down-on-congress-protest-at-red-fort-leaders-detained-3900718\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] The Congress has announced a month-long protest programme over the disqualification of Rahul Gandhi. New Delhi: The Delhi police cracked down on the Congress&#8217; &#8220;Save Democracy&#8221; march held near the Red Fort this evening against the disqualification of Rahul Gandhi from parliament. Many of the MPs, including former Uttarakhand Chief Minister Harish Rawat, have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/loktaknews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/loktaknews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/loktaknews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loktaknews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loktaknews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/loktaknews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loktaknews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/loktaknews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loktaknews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/loktaknews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}