Congress protests near Red Fort over Rahul Gandhi's disqualification, leaders detained

© Provided by India Today Congress protests near Red Fort over Rahul Gandhi's disqualification, leaders detained

Congress leaders assembled near the iconic Red Fort on Tuesday with burning torches in their hands against the disqualification of Rahul Gandhi from Parliament.

Visuals from the protest site showed leaders being taken away in police vehicles. Many Congress leaders, including former Uttarakhand Chief Minister Harish Rawat, were detained by the Delhi Police.

The party's 'Loktantra Bachao Mashal Shanti March' was scheduled to start from Red Fort at 7 pm but the police barricaded the Red Fort area. 

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Several Congress leaders and BRS MP Keshav Rao were spotted at the protest site. The Congress MPs were asked to gather at Red Fort with burning torches in their hands during the march. But they were either detained or stopped by police from reaching the protest site. 

Senior leader P Chidambaram was also stopped from reaching the Red Fort, from where the party had planned a protest march to Town Hall in old Delhi's Chandni Chowk. 

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The march was part of a month-long protest programme over the disqualification of Rahul Gandhi after he was sentenced to two years in prison in a defamation case.

Yesterday, the Congress held a 'black protest' in Parliament, in which they were joined by members of several other opposition parties. 

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