Congress party on Saturday staged nationwide protests over the disqualification of Rahul Gandhi from Lok Sabha.
In Punjab, the Chandigarh youth Congress stopped the New Delhi-Chandigarh Shatabdi train at the Chandigarh railway station over the disqualification of Rahul Gandhi from Parliament. The former Wayanad MP was disqualified from the lower house of Parliament a day after he was convicted by a Gujarat court in a 2019 criminal defamation case.
Indian Youth Congress, the student wing of the Congress party held a protest in Shimla on Saturday afternoon against the Narendra Modi government.
The protesters took out a procession in the streets of Shimla city signifying the death procession of the BJP government.
Shouting slogans against the union government, Prime Minister Narendra Modi, protesting youth alleged that there is no freedom of speech in India under the BJP regime
The state vice president of the youth congress Jaivardhan Khurana said that disqualifying Rahul Gandhi as a Member of Parliament cannot suppress the voice of the people of India.
“This kind of attempt by the Union government is an attempt to throttle the voice of democracy in the country,” Khurana said.