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Hours after Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma asked the DGP to register a case against former Congress president Rahul Gandhi for “provoking the crowd” to break barricades during the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra, the Congress leader claimed that “fear in their hearts” has led to such a direction.
As per PTI report, The Gandhi scion further said, he does not get ‘intimidated’ and fights for truth even if the world stands against it, remarks that come amid repeated confrontations between his party and the Himanta Biswa Sarma-led Bharatiya Janata Party government in Assam during the ‘Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra’.
Gandhi also said he was happy and wanted the BJP to disrupt the yatra as it was helping it in getting publicity.
The Rahul Gandhi-led yatra was stopped from entering Guwahati, triggering protests from Congress workers who broke barricades and raised slogans.
Gandhi also claimed that he was ‘not allowed’ to interact with students of a private university in Meghalaya as part of the ‘Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra’ at the ‘instructions’ of the Union Home Minister Amit Shah.
“The BJP had the experience of the earlier yatra, it started from Kanyakumari and they maintained that it would not have any impact. Slowly its impact started being felt and a crescendo was formed in Jammu and Kashmir. Now their thinking is to disrupt it first. The problem for them (BJP) is that by disrupting the yatra, they end up helping it,” he said at a press conference in Hajo.
Earlier Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma directed Director General of Police G P Singh to register a case against Gandhi for allegedly provoking a crowd to break barricades erected along a highway to prevent Congress leaders and supporters taking part in the Yatra from entering the main thoroughfares of Guwahati, the largest city of the state.
Gandhi is leading the Manipur-to-Mumbai Yatra, which entered Assam from Meghalaya on Tuesday for the second and final leg of its travel through the state. It will travel through Assam till Thursday.
