Preventing protest insult to India's soul: Rahul

December 19, 2019 19:14

Hitting out at the government for trying to prevent peaceful protests against the Citizenship Amendment Act, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Thursday said doing that is an insult to Indias soul.

This government has no right to shut down colleges, telephones & the Internet, to halt metro trains and to impose #Section144 to suppress Indias voice & prevent peaceful protests. To do so is an insult to Indias soul, tweeted Gandhi who is currently out of India.

Earlier in the day, Rahuls sister and Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra warned that the more the government tries to suppress the voice of people, the louder it will become. She said the government has shut metro stations and internet services in Delhi and have imposed CrPC Section 144, which prohibits an assembly of four or more people.

Senior opposition leaders, a large number of students and activists were detained on Thursday by police on their way to two mega demonstrations against the new citizenship law as prohibitory orders and restrictions on internet and mobile phone services in parts of Delhi-NCR region inconvenienced thousands of people.

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