The UP Congress demonstrated in lucknow protesting against what they termed as a conspiracy of the NDA government to harass and set up Opposition leaders in the country.
Youth Congress activists also burnt the effigy of PM Narendra Modi at the busy Hazratganj crossing. Congress leaders led by UP Congress chief Nirmal Khatri, AICC secretary and in-charge UP, Prakash Joshi and former AICC Minority Cell chairperson, Imran Kidwai along with hundreds of party activists took out a padyatra from the Mall Avenue party headquarters to the statue of Mahatma Gandhi at GPO Park to lodge their protest against the ruling dispensation at the Centre.
Congress leader Maroof Khan later said that the demonstration was a success with local people too joining the protest. He alleged that the recent raid of the CBI at the office of Delhi CM is a clear proof as to how the Centre was targeting Opposition leaders. "Hence the National Herald case in which senior Congress leaders have been framed is politically motivated," he alleged.