Delhi Police personnel on Tuesday detained senior Congress leaders during a march for restoration of democracy from the iconic Red Fort in the national capital.
Launching an attack on the expelled Lok Sabha MP Rahul Gandhi and Congress party, Bharatiya Janata Party Rajya Sabha MP Deepak Prakash on Monday said that both of them have no faith in democracy and the Constitution.
Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Monday hit out at the Centre over the Adani issue and Rahul Gandhi's disqualification as Lok Sabha MP and said that the opposition leaders are wearing the black attire to show that democracy is being trampled in the country.
Two MPs of the Trinamool Congress participated in a meeting called by Rajya Sabha LoP Mallikarjun Kharge in the Parliament on Monday, a move which the Congress president welcomed.
"I'm against this, be it Rahul Gandhi or Lalu Prasad Yadav. Until the last court announces the sentence it (disqualification) shouldn't happen. It isn't good for democracy," Azad said.
Days after Congress leader Rahul Gandhi was disqualified as a member of the Lok Sabha, Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot on Sunday said that Gandhi's motive is to save democracy in the country.
"My brother went to PM Modi and hugged him in the Parliament and said he has no hatred for you. We might have different ideologies but we do not have the ideology of hatred," Congress General Secretary said at Raj Ghat.
CPI Rajya Sabha MP Binoy Viswam on Saturday urged all political parties, which are committed to democracy, to come together to resist and defeat the RSS-BJP game plan.
Unable to face Rahul Gandhi's truth, the Narendra Modi government has disqualified him from Lok Sabha membership and displayed cowardice. This is a dark day in Indian parliamentary democracy," he said in a press statement.
"The expulsion of Rahul Gandhi from parliament is a deep betrayal of Gandhian philosophy and India's deepest values. This is not what my grandfather sacrificed years in jail for. @narendramodi you have the power to reverse this decision for the sake of Indian democracy," Khanna tweeted on Fr