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Speaking from a police bus following her detention, Trinamool Congress Member of Parliament Mahua Moitra stated that opposition MPs were brutally manhandled and bundled into buses by Delhi Police while attempting to meet the Chief Election Commissioner. Moitra noted that a delegation of 278 elected Members of Parliament sought a formal meeting with Election Commissioner Ganesh Kumar, rejecting back-channel negotiations for only a small group to enter. Pointing out physical injuries sustained by female parliamentarians, Moitra called on citizens to mobilize, asserting, 'It's high time everyone got on the streets.' She emphasized that the opposition alliance will persistently continue its public protest until Ganesh Kumar resigns from his post.

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00:00I just want to go full frame, gnat up, listen in, these are images that are coming in from inside
00:04this bus, listen in.
00:42All right, let's cut across right now to Mahua Moitra, who's inside the bus.
00:51She was detained a short while ago.
00:53Miss Moitra, I believe you and the others have been detained.
00:58Where are they taking you?
00:59Have they told you anything at all?
01:02Ranati, we are going, we are being taken to the Kingsway camp.
01:05There were about 15 of us inside.
01:08From Terenmool Congress, there was Derek and I, and they were from the left and from the Congress.
01:13And we lifted up, we were literally about a thousand policemen, policemen and women came in and just manhandled us
01:21brutally and bundled us into buses.
01:23And we are in one bus and I think Derek and Priyanka Gandhi, Rao Gandhi are the next bus.
01:29No one told us where we are going, but we managed to find out that apparently they are being taken
01:34to Kingsway camp.
01:37And all we wanted, we told them we have a list of 278 MPs.
01:41We gave it to the police, all we want, back and forth, back and forth.
01:46The director of IV, back and forth, back and forth.
01:49And we said that we need a meeting with Ganesh Kumar.
01:52That's all we wanted was a meeting with Ganesh Kumar with a list of 278 MPs.
01:56The leader of the opposition, 278, elected members of parliament and they are scared to make Ganesh meet us.
02:05Ms. Moitra, the election commission says that no formal request for a meeting till now has been submitted to the
02:12EC.
02:13There are a bunch of lying so-and-sos.
02:15There are a bunch of lying so-and-sos.
02:17There are a bunch of lying so-and-sos.
02:19We gave them in writing, this is 278 MPs, we need a meeting with Ganesh.
02:23It was public knowledge since yesterday that we're going to have this march.
02:27We want to meet Ganesh Kumar.
02:29These are the number of MPs.
02:31It was public knowledge since this morning.
02:33I will ask you from the moment we entered that Akashwani intern to right now,
02:40to how many people have come, how many cops have, how many police, DIJ have come,
02:44spoken to Bianca Gandhi ji saying, okay, this is death.
02:48You know, they're saying we are okay to do this, this, this.
02:50We want to, we, because he's a, he's a, he's a, why is he so scared of meeting MPs?
02:57I mean, what is, what, what is going on?
03:00He was scared to meet 270 MPs.
03:02All we want to do is meet the chief election commissioner.
03:06Just now the director IB was on the phone with Bianca Gandhi.
03:09They are trying to, you know, patch up one against the other saying,
03:13oh, we let 10 in, 15 in.
03:1410 of you can go, 15 of you can go through back channels.
03:17We said nothing doing, 278 MPs have shown up for the protest, 278 MPs will go.
03:22He's a constitutional authority, he's not above the constitution.
03:26And what's with Delhi police?
03:28It's biting us, catching us, I mean, what's going on?
03:30I mean, crazy.
03:32This one had four cops, four lady cops only.
03:34Like, we dragged them, we dragged them, we dragged them.
03:36It's like, you know, British Raj cops, what's going on?
03:38We paid their salaries.
03:40Elected MPs representing 14, 20 lakh people.
03:43Miss Moetra and Miss Shinde, you're saying you were manhandled by the police?
03:47Is that what you're saying?
03:51Not just now, since this morning, since this morning,
03:54the police have been all over, they didn't let us enter.
03:57They literally pushed us and all the women, whether the women, men, they didn't look.
04:01Just now, just now, let me see my hand, I don't know if you can see it.
04:04Just now, they picked us up brutally.
04:07We were a Harsha Ka, this Bombay MP, Priyanka Gandhi, I.
04:12There were four women MPs sitting on the ground and Derek and Raul on that side.
04:17Their women came here, circled us up.
04:21Because, you know, we have all...
04:22They used force, they used force.
04:24Their shoes were all over us.
04:25Yes, crazy.
04:26For no reason, for no reason.
04:28All I'm asking is to meet the CEC.
04:30Why are you...
04:32They're telling us it's a government area.
04:34We said, what are we...
04:35We've taken an oath on the constitution.
04:37Our MPs are.
04:38That's what the government is.
04:39Allow me to ask you one question before I let you go.
04:41You are being taken to Kingsway camp.
04:44What is now the future course of action for your alliance?
04:49Are you coming back to protest?
04:51Is there a plan?
04:52They can take us as many times.
04:54We will come back.
04:55We are continuing this protest.
04:57Kyanesh Kumar resides.
04:59No matter what they do to us, we're not letting.
05:02We are going to continue with it.
05:03And through your channel, we'd like to tell the people of India,
05:06we're not fighting for ourselves.
05:07We're fighting for everyone.
05:08It's high time everyone got on the streets.
05:10It's high time everyone got on the streets.
05:12This is out of control.
05:14We are fighting for those 13-per-all votes that were deleted.
05:17We are fighting for the people.
05:22We're fighting against the people who are dealing with this.
05:28We are fighting for 13-per-all.
05:31People want to vote the BJP, they'll vote the BJP.
05:34There's no problem.
05:34I don't have a problem with that.
05:36What are you so scared about?
05:39All right.
05:40Ms. Moitra, thank you.
05:42Ms. Shinde, thank you for joining us live.
05:44So you are being taken to Kingsway camp from here.
05:47And as both of them pointed out,
05:48they allege that they were mishandled, manhandled by the Delhi police.
05:52And the protest continues over to the studio, back to the studio.

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