Congress leaders and workers are protesting nationwide for the summoning of All Indian Congress Committee (AICC) Chief, Sonia Gandhi for questioning by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) for the second day on Tuesday. In this sequence, from 10 am, Jharkhand Pradesh Congress Committee (JPCC) protested through Satyagraha at Bapu Vatika, Morhabadi, Ranchi. Senior Congress leaders including Ministers in the State Government, the party MLA, District President participated in this Satyagraha program.
Addressing the Satyagraha programme, Health Minister in the State Government, Banna Gupta said that the Central Government is adopting all kinds of tactics. “Constitutional institutions are being used against the Congress party. ED is continuously questioning Congress leaders but not able to tell what is the fault of Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi,” he added.
Speaking on the occasion, Agriculture Minister Badal said that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) led Central government is targeting the opposition leaders through ED to divert the attention of the common man from inflation and unemployment. Today, Congressmen across the Country are taking to the streets and fighting for the protection of democracy and constitutional values in the Country, he added.
State Congress Working President Bandhu Tirkey said that when the voice of the people of the Country becomes against the Center in opposition, then the Central Government is misusing the agencies against the top leadership of the Congress. He said that if the Modi government makes lakhs of efforts, it will neither scare the Congress nor the democracy.
Among those who addressed the Satyagraha Sabha were MLAs, Vixal Konagadi, Uma Shankar Akela, Rakesh Kachhap, Mamta Devi, Shilpi Neha Tirkey after that the party leaders, Sukhdev Bhagat, Keshav Mahto Kamlesh, Sultan Ahmed, State Spokesperson Rakesh Sinha, Amulya Neeraj Khalkho, Satish Paul Munjani, Rakesh Kiran Mahto, M Tauseef, Sanjay Lal Paswan, Nelly Nathan, Kumar Gaurav, Kumar Raja, Gajendra Singh, Rajesh Sinha Sunny, District President Shyamal Kishore Singh, Manoj Sahai Pinku, Naresh Verma, Jaish Ranjan Pathak, Suresh Baitha, Awadhesh Kumar Singh, Brijendra Singh, Roshan Barwa, Anoop Keshari, Manzoor Ansari, Shamsher Alam, Suren Ram, Anand Bihari Dubey and Shiv Kumar Bhagat.
Pradeep Tulsyan, Madan Mohan Sharma, Ravindra Singh, Sunil Singh, Azhar Pappu and Alok Dubey were present in the programme.