Congress workers held a dharna and burnt effigies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi here on Tuesday, pressing for the resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and protesting the “forcible removal” of LoP Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi and other party MPs from the dharna site near the PM’s residence in New Delhi.
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Congress workers held a dharna and burnt effigies of Prime Minister Narendra Modi here on Tuesday, pressing for the resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan and protesting the “forcible removal” of LoP Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi and other party MPs from the dharna site near the PM’s residence in New Delhi.
The state committee of the grand old party, in a sudden move, directed all its district units to hold a dharna, demonstration and burn effigies of Prime Minister Modi at their respective district headquarters. This was done to express solidarity with the demands raised by LoP Gandhi and address issues related to the NEET paper leak and the removal of Union Minister Pradhan.
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In the state capital here, demonstration and effigy burning was organised this evening at the Ambedkar Circle in the vicinity of the state assembly complex. Former Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot, the party state president Govind Singh Dotasra many MLAs and prominent leaders were participated in the protest programme.
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Later, the police asked the protesters to disperse from the dharna site, however, the leaders including Gehlot and Dotasra refused to move away and opted to court arrests. The police had taken them to a nearby police station.
Speaking at the dharna site, ex CM Gehlot said “The goverment at the Centre has failed to to respond appropriately to the issue being raised by Rahul Gandhi Ji for past one month. The situation is worrisome in the country, after all this is matter of future and career of youth”.
The party state president Dotasra said that this stir now has taken dimensions of a mass movement and would go on.
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