A large political controversy erupted on Wednesday after Lok Sabha chief of opposition Rahul Gandhi claimed that two Congress staff died throughout occasion’s protests in separate incidents in Uttar Pradesh and Assam.
In a submit on X, Rahul Gandhi mourned the dying of the 2 staff and alleged “excessive police force” as the rationale behind their deaths.
This is every thing we all know in regards to the two Congress staff who misplaced their lives.
Mridul Islam
Mridul Islam, a 45-year-old advocate, was the secretary of Assam Pradesh Congress Committee’s (APCC) authorized cell. Get together spokesperson Bedabrat Bora claimed that Mridul Islam had felt suffocated when a tear fuel cell fell close to him and was taken to the Gauhati Medical School and Hospital, the place he was declared useless.
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State congress president Bhupen Kumar Borah advised The Hindu, “Mridul Islam didn’t die. The Himanta Biswa Sarma authorities murdered him by way of a deliberate crackdown on peaceable protestors.”
Congress spokespersons whereas talking to PTI claimed there had been an extreme shelling of tear fuel. In an FIR filed on the Latasil police station, the Congress had demanded motion in opposition to the cops accountable in addition to compensation for the household of Mridul Islam. They termed it as a “homicidal dying amounting to homicide.”
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Islam, who belonged to the neighbouring city of Boko, and different occasion staff had been protesting exterior the Raj Bhavan in Guwahati in opposition to the Adani group and the “lack of dialogue” surrounding the Manipur disaster by the BJP-led central authorities.
Prabhat Pandey
Prabhat Pandey, a 28-year-old native of Gorakhpur and a Youth Congress chief, allegedly died in the midst of a Congress-led protest in Lucknow after a scuffle with the police.
Police officers advised information company PTI that he was introduced useless to the Civil Hospital in Hazratganj from the Congress workplace.
DCP (Central Lucknow) Raveena Tyagi stated that Prabhat, recognized because the son of Deepak Pandey, had no seen accidents when he was delivered to the hospital at 5 pm.
“A autopsy could be achieved by a panel and the method could be videographed. Accordingly additional authorized proceedings could be carried out,” she stated.
In a submit on X, Congress chief Ajay Rai said, “We is not going to tolerate this incident in any respect. The Yogi authorities ought to give monetary help of ₹1 crore to the household of the deceased and a authorities job to at least one member of the household as compensation.”
He additionally claimed that the duty for Pandey’s dying rested on the police as they’d overwhelmed him very badly.