UP CONGRESS LEADERS PROTEST AGAINST ED SUMMONS TO RAHUL GANDHI
LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh Congress leaders held a demonstration in front of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) office at Ashok Marg in Lucknow on Monday as part of their satyagraha against the ED summoning senior party leader Rahul Gandhi for questioning in the National Herald/ Young India case in New Delhi.
“Congress Legislature Party (CLP) leader Aradhana Mishra ‘Mona’, along with other party leaders, was placed under arrest at her residence here while a large number of party leaders reaching the ED office to hold demonstration were detained and released later,” said Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee (UPCC) spokesperson Krishna Kant Pandey in a press statement here.
“Summoning Rahul Gandhi for questioning is political vendetta,” said Pandey.
Pandey said the party condemned the state administration’s move to place party leaders under house arrest .Despite the restrictions, a large number of party leaders reached the ED office and held a demonstration there, he said.
Both Congress president Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi were raising the issues concerning the people and the BJP government was using central agencies to suppress their voice, the UPCC spokesman said.
He said the contribution of National Herald in the freedom movement and its connection with the Congress cannot be denied.
LUCKNOW : Even as Uttar Pradesh police crackdown on those involved in violence and arson during protests in some districts of the state last Friday continued on Monday, the All India Majlise-Ittehadul Muslimeen (AIMIM) called upon its leaders, office bearers and workers to not participate in any dharna or demonstration organised in any district.
Addressing a press conference at party office in Lucknow, AIMIM state unit president Shaukat Ali said, “The party does not support any dharna or demonstration that are unconstitutional. Messages have been sent to all the state unit office bearers, district presidents and workers to maintain a distance from them.”
Slamming the Prayagraj police for lodging case against party leaders, Ali said, “Without any evidence or testimony of witness, the Prayagraj police blamed the AIMIM for the Friday violence. They lodged an FIR against party district unit president