Congress Protest: Rahul, Priyanka Gandhi Protest Outside PM's House Over Paper Leaks | NEET

[00:00:00]Well, let me just give you a sense because I am just, you know, a step away from where the Congress leaders are. But let me just tell you exactly what is happening. This is the Prime Minister's Residence and that is the back entrance of the Prime Minister's Residence. And this is where Congress leader Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi and all the senior Congress leaders have come. And you would see massive police deployment. They have been caught.

[00:00:26]The security operators have completely been caught by a surprise with what has happened with what Rahul Gandhi and you know his team has done and you would see behind these cameras this massive ah you know the contingent of the media that is standing here behind that you would see Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi and other Congress leaders MP standing as we speak and they have they are sitting here saying Rahul Gandhi tweeted and said and on x and said that this is happening because of the kind of you will see on your visuals on my camera right now Rahul Gandhi standing there and the whole idea is that they want ah this because the silence of the Prime Minister and they have been saying that you know what happened with the students yesterday ah is something that they are protesting. So this is you know one of two days where Rahul Gandhi ah you know Congress MP Congress ah MP Parinidhi Shinde is also here she the police in fact trying to stop her ah and and and and all across there are Congress leaders who are standing. Mr. Jairam Ramesh is on the other side, he is also here standing along with other Congress leaders, MPs of the Congress parties, all of them.

[00:01:47]ah at this moment it seems to be you know from the Parliament it seems to be converging here as soon as they have they have heard with what's happening ah what what I will try and do I will try and get few words in as well Miss Shinde yes I just want to very quickly ask you ma'am what what is the protest why why why protesting here against the atrocities committed against the students so the need paper leak and you can see how the police are handling you can see how for the police.

[00:02:18]R ah man handling everybody. Here, the police are literally throwing themselves on all of us. The Congress Party MPs are here.

[00:02:27]ah ah all the Congress party leaders are here we are protesting for the students and the police are torturing. Like they torture the students. They are man handling and the.

[00:02:37]While your Congress MPs are here. The BJP is already saying that you are putting the Prime Minister's security at risk. You are right at the doorstep of the Prime Minister. We are not at the door step. We are outside, we are peacefully protesting. Like how we do in Parliament. Like how they are doing at Jantar Mantar. It's a peaceful protest. This is the murder of democracy because the police and the forces have been called here to pick us up.

[00:03:00]And not pick us up peacefully but pick us up violently as you can see. Please ban the camera.

[00:03:05]All right. So as you would see there are you know, the Congress leaders and others who are being detained. I don't know there is some commotion here. There was this ah there is this gentleman who came here and I don't know why this commission is there is suddenly ah you know the police and ah a lot of confrontation between the Congress workers and the police as we see.

[00:03:27]I will pan around and also show you. Some of the Congress leaders who have been already detained. Congress leaders who have come here.

[00:03:34]The police have got their vehicles and the ah you know at this moment. The ah the police argument is that this is the ah the rear entrance of the Prime Minister's residence and ah while the Congress leaders have come here unannounced. They are putting the security of the Prime Minister's residence under threat where the Congress party says that Rahul Gandhi and others are peacefully protesting and they should be allowed to continue with their protest.

[00:04:05]So you know, a massive dramatic moment as far as the politics here in the national capital is a concern, especially at a time when yesterday we witnessed, you know, the students being dragged and beaten up, the policeman also being injured. The demand of course has been It all started with the demand of resignation of the Education Minister. Now when you when you stand here you would see that a lot of these people have been saying that now it has gone down to the ah to the top offices. Alright here you know one by one the police is picking up the leaders of the ah Congress party and the workers who had come with to support their leaders and the police is trying to clear the senior IPS officers, senior officers have also come immediately. Now This You Know The Protest on One Hand. But once this gets over, there are going to be very serious questions that would be asked? As far as the Delhi Police is concerned and also of the security and the intelligence of the Delhi Police, the LIU of the Delhi Police that is how it is, that the top leadership of the Congress party was able to come here, stand here. ah without the police having any inkling, dev completely been taken, by surprise as we speak, ah in the national capital. And a and this tell you ladies and gentlemen. How this entire protest of these students. This has now taken a very very different in fact level. With this direct in fact confrontation that you are seeing between the Congress party politically it is going to be in fact something that the Congress has been saying they are not being allowed.

[00:05:48]ah to stand to speak in the Parliament. In fact, I can see some of the Congress leaders using those, you know, hand strips, using them as handcuffs and trying to say that they are not being allowed to protest peacefully.

[00:06:06]So one by one the police here the slogans are being raced and what the police is trying to do they are trying to pick up the supporters first before in fact they move in to the inner cordon where Rahul Gandhi Priyanka Gandhi and others are sitting are in fact sitting Rahul Gandhi standing right in between and and and you will see again ah Congress lead workers being picked up ah here from this protest I can see the Congress coming in fact which is taking place here picking up ah the you know the supporters of Rahul Gandhi of the Congress party ah those who have come here and and they are being picked up ah one by one that is the police you know what they what they are doing first pick up the supporters and then ah ah they are in fact ah hoping to make their way in the inner corner ah Congress MPs are also here sir sir, the police is picking up your supporters now one by one. Their argument is that this puts the security of the Prime Minister and his office in his house in Jaipur at risk. We are very clear that 20 MPs have come here. We are protesting against the decision of the Prime Minister not to sack Mr Pradhan. And he is not the Prime Minister and is not sitting in the Parliament. The Home Minister is not sitting in the Parliament.

[00:07:34]They are not ready to allow the opposition party leader to speak in the Parliament. The Speaker is not allowing the Parliament to function. The whole Parliamentary Affairs Ministry is not allowed to speak to Park the Opposition leader to raise the issue. Where Will We Rise? We are 120 MPs, we have come here and we have been stopped here and we are protesting here. What Else? This is a democratic way we are protesting. There is no security risk involved here.

[00:07:58]It is a protest because the HO students have been brutally attacked yesterday. And the way Home Minister is responsible, Mr. Prime Minister is responsible and Prime Minister is not ready to speak about it.

[00:08:07]This whole protest, the initial demand of this protest was the resignation of the Education Minister Rao Mr. Gandhi now seems to be saying that the responsibility lies on the top office.

[00:08:18]Exactly. Yesterday is the Home Minister, the Home Minister has ordered the police to attack the students yesterday and the youth of this country. There for Home Minister is responsible for the misconduct of the police officers. Yesterday the how the police officers behaved. This is the it is under the direct instructions of Mr. Home Mr. Amit Shah. But like you said Democratic right to ah there has to be permissions taken. Did the Congress party try to take any permission for this protest from the Delhi Police.

[00:08:44]To understand we are 120 emus who head come here.

[00:08:46]We are MPs who are protesting, we have been told we wanted to tell the Prime Minister because he is not in the Parliament. He is sitting not in the Parliament. He came yesterday left in 3 minutes after the official is over. What else we will do as parliamentarians. We have to tell the Prime Minister. We came here, we are they have stopped us in the gate and there we are sitting in for aware.

[00:09:04]So so the so the police is now looks like they're going to pick up your leaders as well. One by one your PL MPs and everybody has been picked up. Is Mr. Gandhi and everybody else ready to court arrest? Yes.

[00:09:14]We Are We Are Not Afraid About This Kind of Arrest and others. We are fighting for their costs. Paper leak: Government must take responsibility. 152 times in these 10 years paper leak has happened the whole India's youth's future is at stake that is our problem what would you say to the BJP leaders those who are saying it is now a one- upmanship game they are trying to in fact see who can get maximum political mileage out of it whether it is the other opposition parties of the Congress they are competing for two years Congress party the leader of opposition is fighting for it in the parliament he has raised it more than six times and Mr Pradhan has answered five times on that thing on the paper leak and there four it is not that one day we are one upshid. BJP and their MPs must understand that they are living in an ivory tower. They are not knowing the pain of the people. They are not able to understand the pain the way the youth of India has been treated yesterday. There for we need to understand that they are they are living in somersault fool's paradise. They will be They will be punished by the people of. Thank you. Thank you so that was public go speaking to NDTV ah to speaking about the fact that you know it's not a game of one-upmanship. We are not trying to try and take some sort of credit as far as this entire issue is a concern because this is something that the Congress party has continuously been, in fact, continuously been, you know, by raising and Pawan Khera and other Congress MPs with their hands tight. Rajiv Shukla I can see is also here. So most of the Congress MPs protested and they have all made their way right in front of the rear entrance of the Prime Minister's residence at Seven LKMR and this is where this entire protest continues ah you know as we speak we are waiting for how this spends out because the police has already started moving in and while they are one by one trying to pick up ah the eventually it is going to go into a showdown, it is going to go into a massive have to wait and see how Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi along with others are taken off from here.

[00:11:33]Back to you, back to you in this too.

[00:11:34]Right. Right. ah that's that's Ankit joining us live from the appy center where the hesitation is taking place as we speak.

[00:11:42]And and this is of course happening they are demanding now. Not just Ankit, Ankit over to you.

[00:11:52]You know ah ah lot of our colleagues are also here so what I will try and do because you know I have just I want to I want to just turn around the camera. And I want to show you the kind of deployment which is taking place at this moment. As they have been caught completely by surprise by the Delhi Police and and and and and you know the security situation here. You would see there are a lot of contingent suddenly there has been rush and while we are speaking you would see a lot of the police men and those who are in right protection gear have been brutal in this is the worst of the leader of opposition Rahul Gandhi, his Esco team, his security team are also here and all of them were able to reach this place and they were able to start this protest it has just been about half an hour when all this started and while I was trying to make my way here, I came from the front entrance of the Prime Minister's residence at 7 LKM and while I was coming there suddenly there was and you know a lot of police deployment security teams which were coming in, and there were also in fact a lot of other CRPF and other security forces which were Rushed out immediately. They were right on to a main road. All of them ah standing ah preparing a wall.

[00:13:17]Ah ah you know ah front entrance is concern and then they started the entire movement was at this rear entrance where we are standing at this moment. So, a confrontation which is going to be the most dramatic visuals on your television this evening ladies and gentlemen.

[00:13:40]Because while we are standing here, ah the police is getting ready to remove the Congress leaders from this very space. Ah Aishwarya, ah my colleague is also here, he covers the Parliament. You also came from the Parliament? Was this the plan, how did this all happen because suddenly in just about 20 minutes, we saw the Congress MPs coming in, belong with Rahul Gandhi, and this entire stage was back? Well, there was a meeting early up in the morning of the Congress Party that was called by Mallikarjun Kharge. At that point in time it was not decided. Ah later Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi reached RML Hospital and then from there they went to 10 Raji Mar.

[00:14:22]That all of these leaders will come out of Mallikarjuna Karkar residence and will march towards Seven RCR at Prime Minister's residence. So this was definitely a sudden call by the Congress party what we are looking forward and there are they have now how many MPs of the Congress party are there along with Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi well there are Chief Ministers of Kerala Chief Minister of right we will come back to key