Forward of Rahul Gandhi’s arrival in Gujarat’s Ahmedabad, Bajrang Dal members on Saturday staged a protest in metropolis in retaliation for Congress chief’s remarks on Hindus within the Parliament. Gandhi is about to go to to Ahmedabad on Saturday, the place he’ll deal with celebration staff.
Chief of Opposition in Parliament, Gandhi, may even meet the relations of those that misplaced their lives in varied tragedies in Gujarat within the current previous, together with the Rajkot sport zone fireplace, the boat capsize incident inIndia Vadodara and Morbi bridge collapse.
Gandhi is visiting Gujarat days after BJP and Congress staff clashed exterior the Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee (GPCC) workplace within the metropolis over alleged anti-Hindu remarks made by Gandhi within the Lok Sabha.
Following the conflict, complaints have been lodged in opposition to one another by each side and FIRs have been registered, resulting in the arrest of 5 Congress staff.
Speaking to reporters on Friday, Gujarat Congress president Shaktisinh Gohil stated Gandhi may even meet the relations of these 5 Congress staff who’re at the moment in police custody.
Throughout his go to, he’ll meet and deal with celebration staff. He may even meet the kin of the victims who misplaced their lives within the Rajkot sport zone fireplace and different such tragedies. He may even work together with the relations of these celebration staff who have been arrested by the police after the conflict, he stated.
The conflict broke out between members of each Congress and BJP exterior the Rajiv Gandhi Bhavan, Congress’s state headquarters in Paldi space of town on July 2 after BJP’s youth wing members got here there to protest in opposition to Gandhi’s remarks on Hindus.
In line with police, each side engaged in stone-pelting, during which 5 policemen, together with an Assistant Commissioner of Police, have been injured.
A day after the conflict, Ellisbridge police registered two FIRs and arrested 5 Congress staff. Whereas one FIR was registered in opposition to practically 450 staff belonging to each Congress and BJP, one other was registered in opposition to Congress staff on a criticism lodged by the youth wing of the BJP’s Ahmedabad unit.