Cong MLAs to stage night-long protest in House today
CHENNAI: Condemning the disqualification of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi as Member of Parliament, Congress MLAs in Tamil Nadu has decided to stage a sit-in protest inside the state Assembly on Monday night.
K Selvaperunthagai, Congress floor leader in the Assembly, told reporters that Congress MLAs will wear black attire and participate in the proceeding of ongoing budget session on the day.
“We will hold placards saying #StandWithRahul and stage sit in protest by staying in the Assembly throughout the night to show our opposition,” he said.
He added that the party will move a special resolution in the Assembly to prevent murder of democracy.
Hunger strike
On Sunday, cadre of Congress party conducted hunger strikes at various places and also in front of former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi’s memorial in Sriperumbudur condemning the disqualification of Rahul Gandhi.
TNCC president KS Alagiri, who led the protest in Cuddalore termed Rahul’s disqualification an act of injustice and political vendetta.
The disqualification is a deliberate attempt to avoid him from raking up Adani issue inside Parliament.Alagiri said there would be more protests including rail roko and street-corner propaganda meetings to make it a people’s movement against the ‘autocratic’ Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led Centre.
Protest fast in Puducherry today
Meanwhile, the Puducherry Pradesh Congress Committee will hold a dawn to dusk fast on Monday.
Former Puducherry chief minister and senior Congress leader V Narayanasamy told participants in a protest rally organised by the PPCC here on Sunday that, “the disqualification of Rahul Gandhi is a clear case of political vendetta unleashed by the BJP heading NDA government at the Centre.”
Rahul was convicted and sentenced to two years in jail by a Surat Court on March 23 in a 2019 criminal defamation case over his “Modi surname” remark.
A day later, the Lok Sabha Secretariat in a notification said that his disqualification was effective from the day of his conviction.