00:00What you're seeing right now is a very planned protest, which has gone into a complete surprise for the BJP
00:08and especially for the Delhi police, which doesn't know what to do next.
00:13Now, while we look at those visuals, let me give you a context.
00:20While we look at those pictures and we try to understand what is going to happen next, I just want
00:25to give you a context.
00:26For anybody who's outside Delhi and does not understand, let me show you where exactly this protest is happening and
00:33how it unfolded.
00:35Let's throw up the map graphic here of Central Delhi, where the entire protest is actually taking place.
00:41Alright, so this is where you are.
00:43This is where at 10.30 in the morning, the protest started.
00:47This is the parliament complex.
00:49I'm giving you a bird's eye view.
00:51This is Google Earth.
00:52This is the parliament complex.
00:54Here is the Sonsad Marg.
00:55The EC office is right over here.
00:58It's not a lot of distance, but it's still quite a bit to sort of go and walk.
01:01What happened at 10.30 in the morning?
01:03At 10.30 in the morning, you have opposition MPs who begin their march.
01:07They come.
01:09They come outside with this huge banner.
01:12Lots of them, a united opposition, India block.
01:15We see them with their posters and banners in hand.
01:18They have started that march.
01:19They are still inside the parliament as you can see in the picture.
01:21Let's move to the next one.
01:23What happened next?
01:24Next, they have now walked.
01:27They have walked further on the Sonsad Marg.
01:30You see the Sonsad Marg that will take you all the way to EC office.
01:33They have walked on the Sonsad Marg, which is where a barricade has been put.
01:38This is the visual which will be there in all newspaper headlines tomorrow,
01:42which is of Rahul Gandhi holding the India flag and standing on top of the barricades.
01:47These are the visuals again that you will see in the front pages of the newspapers,
01:52which is about, you know, Triyanka Gandhi there, along with the chief of the Yuva Sena of the Congress Party,
02:00of the Youth Congress as well.
02:02All of them on top of barricades.
02:03This is where a lot of leaders of the other political parties, the opposition parties like the SP, TMC, etc.,
02:12were detained as well.
02:13Until now, you have the entire India bloc.
02:15Now you have detentions beginning to happen.
02:19Rahul and Priyanka briefly detained, taken inside a bus, but then they come out of the bus.
02:24Because I'll show you in the next one what happened.
02:26They hopped out of the bus and then you see again, before that, Akhilesh Yadav detained as well inside the
02:32bus.
02:33It is all until here, more than, in fact, less than half way mark again of reaching the Election Commission's
02:40office,
02:40is where all the leaders are detained.
02:43But then what happens?
02:46Then what happens?
02:49Rahul Gandhi has now, and this is what our colleagues were trying to explain to you.
02:53Now imagine a road, a road like this, a barricade being put in, leaders are on top, leaders have been
03:00detained.
03:01Now what does Rahul Gandhi do?
03:02He sees an open gate, that gate is of the Akashwani Bhawan.
03:08He says, fine, you want to block me over here.
03:10He enters inside the Akashwani Bhawan and this is the gate of the Akashwani Bhawan.
03:15He's forcing his way in and saying, if you put barricades on the road, I'm going to enter inside the
03:21Bhawan.
03:21So this is Rahul Gandhi over here, trying to get his way and force his way inside the Akashwani Bhawan.
03:27Let's see what happens next.
03:30Inside the Akashwani Bhawan, now Rahul, Priyanka, other leaders, all of them have reached and they're saying,
03:37okay, now you have blocked us from all 360 sides.
03:40We are going to sit here.
03:42This is our site of protest.
03:44What is the site of protest?
03:45Let us go back to the map.
03:46You see this gap?
03:48They started here from parliament, all the way on the sunset mark.
03:52This is where Akashwani Bhawan is barely 270 meters.
03:56If you go back, you'll be 4 minutes away from the election commission office.
04:03270 meters, just 4 minutes away is where the entire leadership of the congress party is now sitting in.
04:14We are now getting reports that they're calling for mattresses, etc.
04:18And saying, we're going to sit in here with three demands.
04:20They're saying, either let us meet the chief election commissioner or give us a place to protest because you're not
04:27letting us sit anywhere else.
04:28We all know what happened over the weekend when protests were being held by CJP, by other ISA groups, by
04:35other left outfits as well, by some young outfits as well.
04:39And all of them were detained.
04:40They said, Janatar Mantar will not be open for protests at the moment.
04:43Or he's saying, you detain me.
04:45Now the Delhi police is in a fix.
04:47They had planned for a protest on the sunset mark.
04:49They did not plan for what is going to happen inside Akashwani Bhawan, where it has actually, the entire scene
04:55has unfolded.
04:57So that's the picture.
04:59That's the picture for you on where it is going and how the protests, this entire thing has taken six
05:05hours and counting.
05:06We don't know what is going to happen next.
05:09But in the process, lots of soundbites came in.
05:12Lots of leaders spoke about what they want.
05:14Why don't you take a look at that while we take you through the next report.
05:49What are you, sir?
05:55You're done.
05:55And you're written.
05:56Sir, what do you see?
05:58Sir, what do you see from the election commissioners?
06:04How will you see from the election commissioners?
06:04Sir, I will have to get them from the election commissioners.
06:06They will their own safety.
06:08They will get them from the election commissioners.
06:10Sir, what do you see from the DCP?
06:16We are very comfortable here.
06:20We are very comfortable here.
06:25The sound of the country is being heard.
06:32The sound of the country has been disrespected.
06:35We have not done anything wrong.
06:37We just want to go to the election commissioner.
06:39We want to ask questions.
06:42They want to ask questions.
06:43They want to ask questions.
06:44We want to ask questions.
06:46What are you going to do?
06:49Sir, how long are you going to sit here?
06:52How long are you going to sit here?
06:52How long are you going to stay here?
06:57Look, we have no problem here.
07:01Our children are running.
07:03We have put a bag here.
07:06There is also toilet.
07:07We have a toilet.
07:07We have also got tea.
07:09We have no problem here.
07:10We will sit here.
07:12Sir, you are going to sit here.
07:15You are going to be detained.
07:16That is why you have to be abandoned.
07:19You are going to be abandoned.
07:19You are going to be abandoned.
07:21You are going to be abandoned.
07:24Yes, it is.
07:25He said, if you want to go out to be abandoned,
07:29no problem.
07:30You are going to be abandoned.
07:32I have also said,
07:34If you are uncomfortable,
07:36if you don't sit here,
07:39you have been here from the door,
07:41If you are uncomfortable,
07:43tell us,
07:44Any place to give us, in Delhi, where we sit.
07:48Sir, one last question.
07:50We sit, comfortably sit.
07:52We are protesting in the constitution of Hindustan.
07:57Thank you, sir.
08:00Gandhi giving his latest statement over there,
08:03saying he is very comfortable in that protest.
08:05He is saying he is getting tea, there is a toilet,
08:08everything is fine and he will not move
08:11until Delhi police either removes him by force
08:15or gives him an alternate place to go and protest.
08:19That's Rahul Gandhi now six hours into the protest,
08:23talking about how they are committed at the moment
08:26to ensure that there is indeed an interaction that he gets with the CEC.
08:32The demands for the Congress party are simple.
08:35They want the ouster.
08:36They want the ouster of the CEC.
08:40The chief election commissioner, Yanesh Kumar.
08:44And they are saying they will not stop till the time it happens.
08:46In fact, he is so comfortable inside under the banyan tree
08:49that there are selfies happening.
08:50There are chai pakodas happening.
08:53And there is no dearth of cameras,
08:55as you can see in those visuals already.
08:57Rahul Gandhi in the latest statement saying,
08:59we are not moving.
09:01So what exactly is EC saying on that?
09:04Let's bring you the next update.
09:05You
