Published 18:13 IST, October 12th 2019
IYC-NSUI stage protest outside FM Nirmala Sitharaman's house
A massive protest was staged by the Indian Youth Congress and National Students' Union of India a few metres away from the residence of the Finance Minister.
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A massive protest was std by Indian Youth Congress (IYC) and National Students' Union of India (NSUI) a few metres away from official residence of Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman. outr was owing to recent raids conducted by tax sleuths in residence of National Youth Congress president, Srinivas BV. protesters allege that this was carried out as part of vendetta politics and that ncies are being used as a pawn by BJP to target opposition constantly.
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“BJP doesn’t fight us political issues but hide behind ncies as a coward to target opposition. y do t have anything to say on ecomic slowdown, corruption charges but would rar threaten opposition leers via ncies,” said Media coordinator Amrish Pandey. He also ded furr, "Our single mess to BJP is don’t fight like a coward but fight like a true opponent politically on national issues."
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' governance is failing'
protesters took symbolism to a different level when y put a man inside a c and n tried to carry c towards Finance Minister’s house, trying to send out a mess that how ncies under BJP rule has become thing but a cd parrot. posters of Prime Minister Narendra Modi was also set ablaze and slogans were also raised against him and Finance Minister.
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“ governance is failing, so BJP is playing such dirty tricks. This is thing but vendetta politics by BJP,” ded IYC media coordinator Amrish Pandey.
protesters tried to breach police barrices and move furr ahe. When stopped by Delhi police and CRPF personnel, agitators carried out a sit-down protest raising anti-government slogans. Later, protesters were detained by police and were taken to nearby police station. Amidst growing internal rift within congress and lack of leership, Congress frontals IYC and NSUI came toger to protest against alleged arbitrary and vendetta driven raids being carried out on staffers/employees of AICC.
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17:40 IST, October 12th 2019