00:00More Congress workers being detained, that's the latest visual on your screen.
00:03This is the Parliament Street, where, remember till now, Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi, Vajra, KC Venugopal,
00:09senior leaders of the Congress, were sitting.
00:11Now we know that the workers are being detained, and the visuals that are on your screens, look at that.
00:16On one side, Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi, Vajra, sitting, but that visual being pushed by the Delhi police into the
00:22police bus.
00:24With the office hour, the peak hour that's set to begin, they'll have to clear the roads,
00:30or they'll have to give a certain spot to the protesters as well.
00:35Because otherwise, there's going to be a massive traffic snarl also for the police to manage.
00:39Look at those visuals on your screen. I do not see Rahul Gandhi or Priyanka in it yet,
00:44which means they're possibly still on a protest, but we definitely see other protesters.
00:49Let's dip into the sounds coming in. What are these protesters saying?
00:53And then we'll go across to our colleagues on the ground as well.
00:56All right, that big bus of the protesters has been taken away.
01:00So many of them who've been detained by the Delhi police, high drama that's being reported.
01:07So this is the Akashwani Bhawan.
01:09And the reason that you see protests there is because protesters believe that they could have used
01:15at least Akashwani Bhawan's way to go to an election commission.
01:19That, of course, was not allowed.
01:20And that, on the streets, has been barricaded.
01:24So you cannot cross that area, which is about possibly 500 metres before the election commission.
01:31And the Congress leaders are not being permitted.
01:35And Rahul Gandhi saying,
01:36Gyanesh, it's done, bro.
01:39Inspired and taking a cue from what Salman Khan had said about Sonam Wangchuk.
01:44Now, Rahul Gandhi, sitting with his sister, fellow MP, Priyanka Gandhi, Bajra.
01:49And they're refusing to move.
01:50Rahul Gandhi is saying, give us a spot.
01:52We'll be sitting there on dharana.
01:53But we are not moving.
01:55So this means two scenarios, ladies and gentlemen.
01:58Either he continues to sit with Priyanka Gandhi, Bajra, and other senior leaders of the Congress,
02:02under this tree and then near the election commission.
02:06Or the Delhi police forcibly picks up Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi, Bajra,
02:11and then pushes them inside the police bus and detains them.
02:15If that happens, it will be all on camera and clearly a brownie point for Rahul Gandhi.
02:21Possibly that's one of the reasons that the Delhi police would want to avoid it.
02:24Negotiations are on.
02:26Election commission is not calling the delegation to meet the CEC or the ECs.
02:32So which means the showdown continues.
02:34The standoff is still on.
02:36That's Dipendar Hudda, Rahul Gandhi, KC Venugopal, Priyanka Gandhi, Bajra.
02:41The sibling duo clearly have managed to at least grab the headlines.
02:45And sitting there also is Pawan Khera, an old confidant and aide of former chief minister,
02:50Sheila Dixit.
02:51These are all senior leaders of the Congress party.
02:54Amit Bhardwaj is also on the ground.
02:56Amit, take us to the visuals.
02:58What is happening?
02:59The protesters are being detained.
03:01But is Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi, Bajra still there on the spot?
03:08Pooja, you know, since morning we have seen different kind of visuals unfolding right here
03:13on this stretch from Parliament complex to Sunset Mark.
03:20And this particular point where we are standing on the other side,
03:23are the barricades where the India Bloc MPs were stopped from marching forward towards
03:28the Election Commission of India.
03:30But that was possibly part one of this protest.
03:33And after that started the, you know, part two, chapter two for the day.
03:37What was that?
03:37India Bloc MPs protesting, many of them got detained.
03:44Akhile Shadav, Abhishek Banerjee, all of these leaders got detained.
03:48And I saw Rahul Gandhi, who was on the top of the barricade,
03:51stepping down from the barricade and running right across this lane that you see towards
03:58the Parliament.
03:59And when he returned, he immediately entered Akhaswani Bhavan and everybody was taken by
04:05surprise.
04:06And that's something that, again, as we had seen during 7LKM protests, nobody was prepared
04:14for that process.
04:15Delhi police was not prepared for the protest.
04:17And Rahul Gandhi had managed to pull off, the Congress party had managed to pull off good
04:22four to five hours of, you know, dharna in front of 7LKM.
04:28As we speak, it's been nearly five hours now.
04:31Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi Badra, still inside Akhaswani Bhavan, the gate number four
04:35of the Akhaswani Bhavan.
04:37You would see the rapid action force deployed in the ground.
04:40Delhi police on its toes.
04:42They don't know what's going to happen next.
04:43There have been different conversations with the Congress party leaders and Rahul Gandhi
04:49himself to, you know, convince him that he must end this dharna because this is a government
04:54office, the office of the public broadcaster, the radio broadcaster.
04:59And that's in a way, now the employee, it's also the time when the office would get shut
05:04down.
05:05Most of the employees are supposed to step out.
05:07So there are different communications which have been made.
05:09But Rahul Gandhi is saying that, look, I have no intent to sit here.
05:13I want to go to Election Commission of India or tell me where I can sit on dharna.
05:18Give me a space where I can sit on dharna.
05:19So that's what is happening right now.
05:22One more change in the strategy that we have seen is that instead of putting all the force
05:27at once, Congress party today strategized it well.
05:32First India block MPs and after that you have different worker groups or the frontal groups
05:38of the Congress party who have been coming here every half an hour or one hour.
05:43So you had youth Congress, NSUI workers reaching here.
05:46Some of them also managed to breach into the Akaswani office in the noon, by the way.
05:51Now there's, you know, peace right now, but we do not know whether the other bunch of protesters
05:55So for now at least, it's a big test for the Delhi police to, how to ensure for Rahul Gandhi
06:00and Priyanka Gandhi-Wadra to move because they're refusing to do so.
06:03Thank you very much.
06:04Amit will be tracking all the latest from this protest.
06:06It's been a whole day of drama that we've seen in Central Delhi.
06:10We'll be tracking the India block protest agitation strategy and how the government is doubling
06:14down, saying there is nothing wrong with SIR and we continue to defend it.
