Delhi Congress held a protest march at the Jantar Mantar on Friday and slammed the Modi Government for withdrawal of the ‘Special Protection Group’ (SPG) cover given to the Gandhi family.
The protesters tried to march towards the Parliament House but were stopped at a police barricade. The protesters carrying placards and raising slogans against the Modi government were detained as they tried to topple a police barricade to march forward. They were released later.
Addressing the gathering, Delhi Congress president Subhash Chopra alleged that the decision by the Modi government to remove the SPG security cover to the Congress leaders is a political conspiracy.
“Gandhis are a family which lost two members, both Prime Ministers,” Chopra said alleging “conspiracy” behind the withdrawal of their SPG security cover. He demanded the government to restore SPG security to the Gandhi family and former prime minister Manmohan Singh
The protesters included a large number of senior Delhi Congress leaders, including former presidents Jai Prakash Agarwal, Arvinder Singh Lovely, former parliamentarians Parvez Hashmi, Ramesh Kumar, Mahabal Mishra, Jagdish Tytler and Krishna Tirath, Delhi Mahila Congress president Sharmistha Mukherjee, and working presidents Haroon Yusuf, Devender Yadav and Rajesh Lilothia.
The Centre had earlier this month withdrawn the SPG protection given to Congress president Sonia Gandhi and her children, Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, after almost three decades.