Congress’s Black Day protest against suspension of 25 MPs

About 50 Congress leaders protested outside Parliament, including former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi and other senior party leaders who raised slogan against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the NDA government’s “high-handedness”.

A day after 25 of 44 Congress MPs were suspended from Lok Sabha, party president Sonia Gandhi on Tuesday led her leaders to the Parliament complex with a black band around their arms. Addressing reporters after the protest, Sonia called their suspension murder of democracy. On Monday, she had called Speaker Sumitra Mahajan’s move a Black Day.

About 50 Congress leaders protested outside Parliament, including former Prime MinisterManmohan Singh, Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi and other senior party leaders who raised slogan against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and the NDA government’s “high-handedness”. The Rashtriya Janata Dal, the Nationalist Congress Party and the Samajwadi Party also participated in the Congress protest at the Gandhi statue in Parliament.

“The way they suspended our leaders indicates democracy is being murdered in the country,” Sonia told reporters. “What has been done to our MPs is also being to academic institutions, the Internet and India’s farmers,” Rahul said, adding that there is enough evidence against the BJP ministers whose resignation has been demanded by the Congress. “Let them throw us out of Parliament. We will take the fight to the nation,” he added.

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