New Delhi: Veterans Mallikarjun Kharge and Sharad Pawar elevating slogans with clenched fists; Akhilesh Yadav, Mahua Moitra, and Sushmita Dev clambering over police barricades; and Rahul Gandhi dashing to assist Trinamool Congress MP Mitali Bag after she fainted—the Opposition-planned march from Parliament to the Election Fee of India on Monday produced hanging visuals.

The protest in opposition to the Particular Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls, amongst different points, bumped into barricades put up by the Delhi Police close to Transport Bhawan on Parliament Road.

The ECI agreed to satisfy a delegation of 30 leaders from the opposition events, citing paucity of area in its headquarters. Nevertheless, the Congress-led Opposition has insisted that every one MPs want to meet the fee “collectively”.

“The MPs want to collectively meet with the Fee on a bunch of points, together with however not restricted to Particular Intensive Revision of electoral rolls being undertaken in Bihar and proposed to be undertaken in different states, as properly,” Congress Rajya Sabha chief whip Jairam Ramesh wrote to the ECI on 10 August. “We sit up for assembly with the Fee, which will probably be in step with the very best custom of our parliamentary democracy.”

Accordingly, the Opposition MPs, together with leaders of the AAP which has exited the INDIA bloc, gathered within the Parliament advanced at 11 am and commenced marching to the ECI at 11.30 am, however the police stopped them close to the Transport Bhawan.

Chatting with reporters from contained in the police automobile that took him to the Parliament Road Police Station, Rahul Gandhi stated Monday, “The fact is we are able to’t discuss, however the reality is in entrance of the nation. This struggle isn’t political, however it’s about saving the Structure. And, the struggle for one man, one vote. That’s the reason we’d like exact electoral rolls.”

Later, in a put up on X, Rahul wrote, “At this time, once we have been going to satisfy the Election Fee, all of the MPs of the INDIA alliance have been stopped and brought into custody. The reality of vote theft is now earlier than the nation … The united Opposition and each voter within the nation demand a clear and clear voter listing. And, we are going to safe this proper in any respect prices.”

Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, additionally detained, held up a duplicate of the Structure of India and raised slogans in opposition to the Modi authorities contained in the police automobile after her detention.

Holding posters in opposition to the Modi authorities and the ECI, Akhilesh Yadav climbed over a barricade on Parliament Road as his supporters and different Samajwadi Occasion MPs cheered him on. TMC MPs Mahua Moitra and Sushmita Dev and the Congress’s Jothimani and Sanjana Jatav amongst others jumped over a barricade.

Within the melee, TMC Lok Sabha MP Mitali Bag fell unconscious. Fellow MPs, together with Rahul Gandhi, rushed to assist her. After marching briefly, Kharge and NCP (SP) chief Sharad Pawar have been made to take a seat on chairs laid out on the highway. Different MPs, together with Congress’s Kumari Selja, gathered round them.

The 2 veteran leaders continued to boost slogans in opposition to the Modi authorities.

Most of the leaders remained within the police station, whilst parliamentary proceedings which began at 2 pm. In a video recorded on the police station, Congress Lok Sabha MP Manickam Tagore stated that the parliamentary proceedings had began with out the Opposition MPs, who have been nonetheless in detention.

After Rajya Sabha proceedings resumed at 3 pm, Kharge tried to boost the electoral roll subject, drawing opposition from the treasury benches.

(Edited by Madhurita Goswami)

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