Prayagraj,

18 Dec (HS): City and district Congress workers clashed with the police and

laid siege to the local BJP office after the court refused to take cognizance

of the ED chargesheet against top leaders Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi and five

others in the National Herald case.

It

was foiled. As soon as the Congress workers gathered at Subhash Chowk at 1 pm

and moved towards the BJP office, they clashed with a heavy police force. The

party workers were raising slogans like Down with Narendra Modi,

Vote thief, leave the throne, Shame on NDA government,

etc. The Congress workers had barely moved 100 steps ahead when a heavy force

from Civil Lines police station along with the ACP forcibly stopped them. After

a lot of struggle, the police did not let them go beyond Lucky Sweets, during

which many workers fell and got injured. The Congress workers sat on the road

but the police removed them from there.

Later,

a meeting chaired by city president Fuzail Hashmi condemned the police action

at the behest of the government and called it anti-democratic. It was stated

that Prime Minister Modi had been dragging the fake National Herald case filed

by Subramanian Swamy for 11 years, in which no money was exchanged, nor did any

party financially benefit, yet a money laundering case was fabricated to create

a false narrative. The court also dispelled this narrative, refusing to take

cognizance of the ED's charge sheet and dismissing it. Congress members alleged

that Rahul and Sonia Gandhi were interrogated for 80 to 90 hours in this

fabricated case as a vindictive act, without even knowing that an FIR had been

filed.

Congress

members stated that the case, founded without legal basis, collapsed under its

own weight. The government has been exposed by this malicious and illegal

action. Congressmen also said that Congress neither fears nor is afraid of

anyone. District presidents Ashok Patel and Ashfaq Ahmed, Sudhakar Tiwari,

Kishore Varshney, Harkesh Tripathi, Mukund Tiwari, Sanjay Tiwari, Parvez

Siddiqui, Shekhar Bahuguna, Irshad Ullah, Sharad Upadhyay, Arshad Ali,

Rammanorath Saroj, Md. Naseem, Pratima Tripathi, Afroz Ahmed, Rakesh

Srivastava, Shahnawaz Qureshi, Sushil Tiwari, Ishtiyak Ahmed, Nayan Kushwaha,

Nagendra Mishra, Ahmedullah, Amar Singh Patel, Saurabh Srivastava, Mukhtar

Ahmed, Vishal Sonkar, Rizwana Begum, Nasreen Bano, Daraksha Qureshi, Sambhav

Sahu, Ramanand Yadav etc. were present.

Hindusthan Samachar / Abhishek Awasthi