Senior Congress leader Sachin Pilot was today detained amid huge protests over Rahul Gandhi’s questioning by the Enforcement Directorate in an alleged money laundering case linked to the National Herald newspaper.
Rajasthan Congress MLA Mukesh Bhakar tweeted a video of the detention where Mr Pilot’s supporters can be seen arguing with the cops but he eventually agrees to get on the police bus amid supportive sloganeering by Congress workers.
Sachin Pilot was on his way to Congress headquarters when he was detained.
Several Congress workers were also detained from outside the party headquarters and the ED office where they held demonstrations and chanted slogans in support of Rahul Gandhi.
Videos showed some of the Youth Congress and Mahila Congress workers being dragged and taken away in buses.
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Earlier in the day, top party leaders including KC Venugopal, Bhupesh Baghel and Randeep Surjewala accused the police of forcefully entering the Congress headquarters. Delhi Police, however, have denied the claim.
The Congress slammed the Centre after police and security forces allegedly entered its party headquarters and picked up some party workers.
Congress MP Karti P Chidambaram shared a video on Twitter where cops can be seen barging into the party office and carrying away a man, presumably a party worker, as a group of them raise slogans, question the police, and record the incident on their phones.
Mr Chidambaram said the Delhi police were behaving like the “private militia” of the BJP.
News agency ANI has reported that a meeting of Congress leaders, including KC Venugopal, Bhupesh Baghel, Randeep Surjewala, and Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury is underway at Congress Headquarters over the issue of the Police’s entry into the Congress HQ.
