New Delhi: After sharing a video of the Delhi Police “blocking” the road to the Congress headquarters, senior grand old party leader Jairam Ramesh on Wednesday (August 3) said the party is “under siege” and called it the “worst form of vendetta politics”. “Congress is under siege. Delhi police has surrounded our HQs, and homes of INC President & ex-President. This is the worst form of vendetta politics. We will not submit! We will not be silenced! We will continue to raise our voice against injustices and failures of Modi Sarkar!” the Rajya Sabha MP wrote on Twitter.
Earlier today, he had shared a video showing police forces deployed outside the AICC headquarters. “Delhi Police blocking the road to AICC Headquarters has become a norm rather than an exception! Why have they just done so is mysterious…,” Ramesh tweeted.
.@INCIndia is under siege. Delhi police has surrounded our HQs, and homes of INC President & ex-President.This is the worst form of vendetta politics. We will not submit! We will not be silenced! We will continue to raise our voice against injustices and failures of Modi Sarkar!
— Jairam Ramesh (@Jairam_Ramesh) August 3, 2022
Additional forces of Delhi Police have been deployed outside the Congress office and 10 Janpath – the residence of Sonia Gandhi. “We have received inputs from our special branch that some protesters might gather at the Congress Office situated on Akbar Road. So, as a preventive measure, we have put barricades and deputed our personnel to avoid any untoward situation,” a senior Delhi police officer was quoted as saying by PTI.
Retweeting Ramesh’s post with a video showing police presence outside Congress headquarters in the national capital, Rajasthan Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot said in a tweet in Hindi, “Today’s action to convert Congress headquarters and 10 Janpath into a police camp is an undeclared emergency. The office of the National Herald (Young India) was forcibly sealed. If the general public does not stand with the Congress against this dictatorial government of NDA, then the whole country will have to bear the brunt of it.”
Today’s action to convert Congress headquarters and 10 Janpath into a police camp is an undeclared emergency. The office of the National Herald (Young India) was forcibly sealed. If the general public does not stand with the Congressmen against this dictatorial government of NDA, then the whole country will have to bear the brunt of it. https://t.co/DnPNLDQQyA
— Ashok Gehlot (@ashokgehlot51) August 3, 2022
The development came after the Enforcement Directorate (ED) today ‘temporarily sealed’ the premises of the Young Indian Pvt Limited (YIL) in the Congress-owned National Herald office in Delhi. A day before, the ED had raided multiple locations including the National Herald office as part of its ongoing money laundering investigation.
(With agency inputs)