Those who speak against this government are viciously attacked, thrown in jail: Rahul Gandhi India News – Times of India

New Delhi: East Congress President Rahul Gandhi He alleged on Friday that today there is a dictatorship of four people in India and the country is witnessing the “death of democracy”.
Addressing a press conference at the AICC headquarters in the national capital, Rahul Gandhi said, “We are witnessing the death of democracy. India built brick by brick almost a century ago, which is being destroyed before your eyes.” ” Anyone who stands up against this idea of ​​the beginning of a dictatorship is viciously attacked, imprisoned, arrested and beaten.”

We are witnessing the death of democracy, Rahul Gandhi targeted the Center
* Gandhi said that the only agenda of the government is that people’s issues like price rise, unemployment and violence in the society should not be raised.
* He said, “Today there is no democracy in India, there is a dictatorship of four people. Those who speak against this government are viciously attacked, put in jail, are not allowed to raise the issues of the people.”

* “You all know, all the people of India know it. Whoever stands against this idea of ​​the beginning of dictatorship, no matter who he is, where he comes from, what state, what religion Whether male or female, that person is viciously attacked, put in jail, arrested, beaten up,” he said.

* The idea is that people’s issues, be it price rise, unemployment, violence in society, should not be raised, Gandhi said.
* He alleged that the government is being run to protect the interests of four-five people and this “dictatorship” is being run in the interest of “two-three big businessmen by two people”.

Stop blaming Indian democracy for repeated rejection of you by people: BJP to Rahul Gandhi
* Hitting back at Rahul Gandhi, the BJP accused him of “blaming” Indian democracy and its institutions for the Congress’s repeated defeat in elections under him and the ongoing ED probe against him in the National Herald case.
* Soon after Gandhi’s press conference, former Union minister Ravi Shankar Prasad said the Congress leader made “shameful and irresponsible” remarks and said that it was his grandmother and then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi who took away the democratic rights of the people by imposing emergency. was suspended.

* The former Congress president had earlier alleged that India was witnessing a “death of democracy” and “vicious attack” on anyone who stood up against the government’s dictatorship.
* Condemning them, Prasad said, “Stop degrading the institutions of India to protect your corruption and misdeeds… If people don’t listen to you then why are you blaming us.”
* If people saw dictatorship, during the Emergency people including opposition leaders and editors were jailed, judges were removed and censorship was imposed. He said Indira Gandhi had then spoken of being “committed to the judiciary”.
* “Why do you blame democracy when the people of India reject you regularly again and again,” he said and asked Gandhi if there was democracy within his party that had some “good leaders”, but it was Gandhi Is about family.
Congress workers gathered at the party headquarters in Delhi
*Meanwhile, the Congress party is holding massive nationwide protests on the issues of inflation and unemployment today.
, Lok Sabha And “Chalo Rashtrapati Bhavan” will be organized by Rajya Sabha MPs ParliamentThe party said in a statement.
* Protesters, including members of the Congress Working Committee (CWC) – the party’s highest decision-making body – are expected to participate in the “PM” House gherao” later in the day. State units of the party will hold similar protests across the country.
* Delhi Police has imposed section 144 of CrPC in the entire area of ​​New Delhi district except Jantar Mantar. Police said that in view of security, law and order and traffic reasons, protest/dharna/gherao cannot be allowed in the area of ​​New Delhi district on August 5.

Senior Congress leader Ajay Maken said earlier this week that he had received a letter from the DCP that they could not protest on August 5 and the AICC (All India Congress) was converted into a police cantonment. “The government can suppress us as much as it wants, but we will oppose inflation, unemployment, GST on food items and carry forward our program even if we go to jail,” he said.
Leader of Opposition in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge with Leader of the House Piyush Goyal on Thursday issue of ED summons to Congress leaders. Kharge accused the central government of demoralizing and intimidating the opposition, while Goyal responded by claiming that the government does not interfere in the working of law-enforcement agencies.
Earlier, the Enforcement Directorate on Wednesday sealed the office of Young Indian Limited located at the National Herald Building in New Delhi as part of a money laundering probe. The agency has already questioned Congress President Sonia Gandhi and her son and party leader Rahul Gandhi in the matter.
Congress MP Jairam Ramesh on Thursday said that Mallikarjun Kharge was questioned by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) in a money laundering case related to the National Herald.
Notably, the National Herald case pertains to alleged financial irregularities under the Prevention of Money Laundering Act (PMLA) and was registered about nine months ago after a trial court took cognizance of an Income Tax Department investigation conducted on the basis of a private criminal went. Former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Subramanian Swamy had filed the complaint in 2013.
The petitioner had approached the court alleging that the assets of Associated Journals Limited (AJL), which published the National Herald newspaper, were fraudulently acquired and transferred to Young Indian Private Limited (YIL), in which Congress It was owned by leader Sonia Gandhi and her son Rahul Gandhi. 38 percent shares each.
(with inputs from agencies)