NEW DELHI: Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge has requested Union dwelling minister Amit Shah to intervene to make sure the security of Rahul Gandhi in Assam, saying there had been a number of cases the place the state police allowed Bharatiya Janata Get together (BJP) activists to breach his safety cordon and endanger the safety of the Congress chief and his group.
The Congress president, who wrote to Amit Shah late on Tuesday, listed 5 cases during which the Assam Police didn’t present satisfactory safety to Gandhi, who’s main the 6,600km Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra. On Wednesday, he additionally shared a replica of the letter on X, previously Twitter.
“In all of the troubling occasions talked about above, the Assam Police has systematically stood by and/or allowed BJP employees to return nearer and nearer to the convoy of Shri Rahul Gandhi, breaching his safety nook, endangering his bodily safety and that of his group,” Kharge stated within the letter, pointing that not one of the miscreants had been arrested and an investigation was but to initiated in a number of cases.
Gandhi’s yatra first entered Assam on January 18 however handed by means of Arunachal Pradesh and Meghalaya over two days earlier than re-entering Assam on Tuesday. The yatra will stay in Assam until January 25 when it would transfer into West Bengal.
Kharge’s letter to the Union dwelling minister got here hours after the Assam Police put up barricades to forestall the yatra from continuing to a busy space in Guwahati, citing potential visitors disruptions. Congress employees clashed with the police and broke by means of barricades on Tuesday, main the police to e-book Rahul Gandhi and different occasion leaders.
The Congress president’s letter didn’t consult with Tuesday’s conflict however centered on 5 incidents involving occasion employees of the ruling BJP. “As the chance will increase, and because the Yatra proceeds as deliberate, we request your intervention to make sure that the Chief Minister of Assam and the Director Normal of Police, Assam be certain that no such untoward incident takes place which can result in grave private harm to Shri. Rahul Gandhi or any members of the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra,” Kharge stated in his letter to Shah.
Itemizing the incidents throughout which safety points had been confronted by Gandhi, Kharge stated that the Assam Police was discovered defending the posters of the BJP in Amguri, Sibsagar district on January 18, the primary day of the yatra in Assam. as a substitute of guaranteeing its secure passage.
The next day, “miscreants related to the BJP” had been caught defacing and taking down posters and hoardings of the yatra in Lakhimpur district, he stated.
Later, when the yatra returned from Arunachal Pradesh, there was “one other outrageous assault” in Sonitpur district, the place chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma’s brother is the native superintendent of police, Kharge stated.
“He (Sonitput SP) watched to see that BJP employees attacked and manhandled the Indian Nationwide Congress Social Media group, together with our Normal Secretary Shri. Jairam Ramesh. Shri Ramesh’s automobile was attacked, whereas miscreants shouting anti-BJNY (Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra) slogans, tearing off the BJNY sticker on the car, and trying to throw water on the passengers inside,” the Congress chief stated.
“On the identical day in Sonitpur district, the BJP’s district occasion employees approached and blocked Shri. Rahul Gandhi’s convoy. The BJP’s employees then bodily assaulted the Assam Pradesh Congress Committee President Shri Bhupen Borah, leading to him bleeding profusely,” he stated.
On January 22, in Nagaon district, BJP employees blocked Gandhi’s convoy, coming extraordinarily near him, and creating an especially unsafe state of affairs, Kharge alleged.
The yatra, which comes a yr after the Bharat Jodo Yatra, is the final main public outreach programme by the Congress earlier than this yr’s common elections and shall be primarily undertaken on bus. The route will cowl 100 Lok Sabha seats and 337 meeting seats throughout 15 states, and finish on March 20 in Mumbai.