Prayagraj: More than 100 members of the City Congress Committee, led by City President Fuzail Hashmi, reached Mandi House in Delhi to participate in a protest organized by the INDIA Alliance under the leadership of Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi against vote theft and the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls. The protesters marched from Mandi House via Barakhamba Road towards the Supreme Court.

The Congress members asserted that the movement would continue until Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar is removed, the SIR process is scrapped, and the electoral system is reformed to ensure free and fair elections. During the protest, they also met several senior Congress leaders, including UPCC President Aradhana Mishra ‘Mona’, In-charge Rajendra Pal Singh Gautam, Pramod Tiwari,Varun Chaudhary, and others.

The Congress members alleged that Delhi Police personnel resorted to physical assault and excessive force against protesters. They claimed that women protesters were subjected to indecent behaviour and that some were kicked in their private parts. They further alleged that several leaders sustained injuries to their eardrums and eyes due to police assault. The protesters also accused the police of detaining demonstrators at the behest of the BJP and the RSS. Kishore Varshney, Harikesh Tripathi, Vijay Mishra, Parvez Ansari, Arshad Ali, Vinay Dubey, Shashi Prakash, Anoop Tripathi, Tabrez Ahmed, Dr. Anil Gaur, Nafees Qureshi, Ram Manorat Saroj, Afroz Ahmed, Bharat Lal, Spokesperson Shah Nawaz Qureshi, Nayan Kushwaha, Rakesh Patel, Manha Khan, Rakesh Srivastava, Sachin Kushwaha, and several others participated in demonstration.