Police foil Cong protest rally
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, July 21 2022:
Taking strong exception to the repeated summon of All India Congress Committee (AICC) leaders Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi by the Enforcement Directorate, Congress workers took out a protest rally here
today.
A large number of Congress workers led by MPCC president K Meghachandra took out a protest rally starting from Congress Bhavan.
As the protesters marched toward the Kangla western gate, they were blocked by a strong police team which resulted in a tense stand-off.
As the two sides were engaged in a tense stand off for a brief period, normal traffic along the busy was thrown out of gear.
Before the protest rally, a sit-in protest was staged inside the Congress Bhavan compound.
Later speaking to media persons, MPCC president K Meghachandra decried that the Enforcement Directorate (ED) has been deliberately humiliating Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi by summoning them repeatedly even though the two Congress leaders are innocent.
He went on to claim that the people of the country are aware of the two Congress leaders' innocence even though BJP has been claiming otherwise.
Maintaining that the amount given to the National Herald by the Congress party has nothing to do with any money laundering case, Meghachandra said that the act of summoning Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi repeatedly after registering a money laundering case against them by the ED is rather unfortunate.
The National newspaper contributed a lot in the freedom struggle of the country but it ran into a debt of over Rs 90 crore.
Considering the newspaper's contribution in the freedom struggle of the country.
Congress party loaned a certain amount to the newspaper the MPCC president said.
Alleging that the ED is no longer independent but is being used by the BJP as a political tool, Meghachandra asserted that the BJP-led Government has taken total control of the ED with a motive to harass political opponents and score political mileage.
Maintaining that the sit-in-protest and the protest rally were staged to ensure that justice is delivered, the MPCC president expressed strong disapproval of how police foiled their protest rally.