Cong to gherao DD over airing of Bhagwat speech
Delhi Congress workers on Sunday protested the live telecast of RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat’s speech by Doordarshan. Raising slogans against Bhagwat and Information & Broadcasting Minister Prakash Javadekar, Congress workers and leaders voiced their dissent slamming the live telecast on October 3 in Nagpur by the State broadcaster as a gross “misdeed”.
Congress protesters started assembling at the Pradesh office at Rajiv Bhavan at 4 pm and proceeded to Mandi House but were stopped midway at ITO Chowk. They were detained but subsequently released. Delhi Congress has planned to stage a gherao at Mandi House on Monday.
Addressing protesters, Delhi Congress president Arvinder Singh lovely said the live telecast of the RSS chief’s address is another tear in the secular fabric of the country. Mounting a direct attack on the BJP, he said the whole country knows the RSS is an organisation which stokes controversies to spread communalism.
lovely said the direct telecast of the speech has hurt the sentiments of those people in the country who strongly uphold the principles of secularism. lovely demanded an apology from the Prime Minister. Congress legislative Party leader Haroon Yusuf said the chief of a communal outfit, who does not hold any Constitutional post, being allowed to misuse the State broadcaster is unacceptable.