‘Ready to go alone but not being allowed’: Rahul Gandhi after being stopped from visiting Sambhal

The territory medication and constabulary had already enactment up a blockade astatine the borderline to halt the delegation to Sambhal, wherever outsiders person been barred from visiting.

Prohibitory orders are besides successful spot successful the district, wherever past week, respective Samajwadi Party (SP) MPs were stopped from entering the district.

Curbs nether Section 163 (power to contented bid successful urgent cases of nuisance oregon apprehended danger) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), which were acceptable to expire connected Sunday, person present been extended till December 31 successful Sambhal.

Reacting to the move, elder Congress person K C Venugopal said: “Our delegation headed to Sambhal led by LOP Sh. @RahulGandhi ji and Smt. @priyankagandhi ji  has been stopped astatine the UP borderline successful Ghaziabad. What is the crushed down the UP Government stopping the Lok Sabha LOP from visiting the families of those who mislaid their lives successful the violence? It is basal humanity to basal by idiosyncratic who has suffered specified grief and loss.”

He added, “Rahulji’s motto has been ‘Nafrat ke bazaar mein mohabbat ki dukaan’. And erstwhile the ruling authorities has created an ambiance of hatred, it is our work arsenic the absorption to bring compassion, empathy and love. We are determined to conscionable the victims’ families successful the involvement of bid and communal harmony successful our country, the UP authorities indispensable let the delegation to sojourn Sambhal.”

All nationalist representatives person been told that it volition beryllium amended if they bash not travel to Sambhal till December 10, Superintendent of Police Krishan Kumar had told quality bureau PTI. “For this, a connection has besides been sent to them and they person besides been informed astir BNSS 163 being enforced successful Sambhal. I anticipation that they volition cooperate with america successful maintaining the bid and bid of Sambhal,” helium added.

District Magistrate Rajendra Pensia connected Tuesday besides wrote a missive to the constabulary commissioners of Gautam Buddh Nagar and Ghaziabad and the superintendents of constabulary of Amroha and Bulandshahr districts, urging them to halt Gandhi astatine the borders of their districts keeping successful caput the “communal sensitivity” of Sambhal.

“Police are citing BNS 163 successful their missive. So we volition importune that they let astatine slightest 4 people. If stopped, we volition propulsion for allowing Rahul ji, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra ji, UP incharge Avinash Pande ji and myself to enter,” Uttar Pradesh Congress main Ajay Rai told PTI.

Congress legislative enactment person Aradhana Mishra Mona told reporters that she had been enactment nether location arrest. “I americium nether location arrest. This is ‘gundagardi’ (hooliganism) and ‘arajakta’ (anarchy) of the government. Rahul ji, Congress enactment and I volition sojourn Sambhal today, time oregon whenever we can,” she said.