00:00And we have breaking news coming at this point.
00:02This is security which has been beefed for flash protests by Congress.
00:06We've been showing you the visuals of the lunch meet that is undergoing at Janpath Road.
00:11Now, roads leading to Jantar Mantar have been blocked
00:13and the Delhi police has received intel on Congress's flash stir.
00:18So, additional forces of riot police have been deployed at the spot.
00:22There's heavy security outside Congress's lunch venue.
00:25And as per sources, Delhi police is gearing up for a flash protest by the Congress party.
00:30Inputs have been received by the police that a flash protest could be undertaken by the Congress party.
00:37So, heavy security is already in the area.
00:39And now with the intel that a possible protest could also be taken by the opposition MPs,
00:45the police is there on standby as well.
00:47There's heavy security towards all the roads leading towards Janpath.
00:51Janpath is also where Jantar Mantar is very close to the spot.
00:54And this is right there where at a restaurant all the opposition MPs are meeting
00:59and they want to sign a letter to meet the election commissioner.
01:03All the roads leading towards Jantar Mantar have been blocked
01:06with additional forces of RAF and Delhi police has been deployed.
01:10As per sources, the strategy of Delhi police is to wait and watch.
01:14If the MPs move towards CP, they won't be stopped.
01:18But if they try to move towards Jantar Mantar or Windsor Palace or towards any other place,
01:23the buses there will stop them and then action will be taken by Delhi police.
01:28So, so far, Delhi police has decided to wait and watch what the opposition MPs' next steps would be.
01:34And as per that, they will also either take an action or let them pass by freely.
01:39So far, we do not know if a flash protest will be taken up by the opposition MPs.
01:44But likely from the intel that has been received by the Delhi police as well,
01:48heavy security has been deployed in the area because this lunch has been going on for a while now
01:53where all the MPs are meeting.
01:54And this has been hosted by Congress leader Khadge,
01:58where all the MPs are meeting at Janpat at the lunch venue.
02:01And they have decided to write a letter requesting meeting with the election commissioner of India.
02:07Now, we really have to see if how well this lunch goes
02:11and what really will be the decisions taken inside that meeting as well.
02:15Since morning, we've been getting various reactions from MPs saying that there might be some action,
02:21but they're not really hinting towards anything.
02:23Now, as per the inputs received by the Delhi police,
02:26there is likely to be a flash protest.
02:28So, they are now waiting and watching.
02:30If these MPs move towards CP and try to go away from that area,
02:34then there will be no action.
02:36But if they find that the MPs are trying to stage a protest or trying to sit in somewhere,
02:41they will likely take an action against these MPs as well.
02:45Many members of the opposition parties are present at the side.
02:49These are also the visuals which have been pouring in since morning,
02:52since 1pm, since they have been meeting together for this lunch meet as well.
02:56Now, they're going to sit there and write a letter,
02:59draft a letter to the election commission of India till yesterday.
03:02The election commission said that when the opposition parties were staging a stir
03:07and sitting in at Akashwani Bhavan yesterday,
03:09election commission said they hadn't received a request from them till 4pm.
03:14This is of yesterday.
03:15But today now, this is a fresh meeting being undertaken by the opposition MPs
03:20where all of them have decided to sit together and draft a letter
03:23to the election commission of India seeking an appointment with them.
03:27So, all of the MPs have been pouring in to the restaurants in Jandpat
03:31where they're likely at a South Indian eatery
03:36where they're likely to sit together and write this letter.
03:39So, we've been seeing visuals of all of these MPs being there since morning.
03:43All the roads have been packed at Jandpat as well.
03:46This is central dairy very close also to Jantar Mantar
03:49which has been the protest site for a lot of action
03:51that we've been seeing against the government as well.
03:54So, now we're seeing that there could be a possible protest by the opposition MPs
04:00but the Delhi Police is on standby in case of any action.
04:04The MPs will be stopped and action will be taken by the Delhi Police.
04:07But so far, they're only waiting and watching
04:09because the opposition MPs haven't really revealed their plan of action so far.
04:14So, in the next few moments, we could see,
04:16especially given the kind of protest we saw yesterday,
04:19we could see some sort of a flash protest happening as well.
04:22Remember, as we're talking also, Aam Admi Party had also,
04:25yesterday was not part of the protest.
04:27It said that it would join the protest today.
04:30So, we saw some sort of action from the Aam Admi Party as well
04:34but they were stopped when they were trying to cross the barricades.
04:37Now, all of the opposition MPs are here at the venue.
04:41There will be conversations going on about what their likely next plan of action will be.
04:45Now, yesterday we had seen that Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi,
04:49when they were not allowed to go to the Election Commission's office,
04:52they were not allowed to march,
04:53they decided to sit in and crash the Akashwani Bhawan
04:56and FIR has also been registered against them
04:59for trespassing the Akashwani Bhawan
05:01because it is a government office.
05:04And now, late in the night, we saw them getting detained as well
05:08and briefly being detained
05:09and after that, they were released as well.
05:11So, these are the opposition MPs now meeting at the lunch menu.
05:14For more on that, we have Anshul Singh joining us.
05:16Anshul, so now we're seeing that the opposition MPs are lunching at Janpat.
05:22What is likely their next plan of action?
05:24Because as per Delhi Police,
05:26they are on standby in case there is any flash protest by the MPs as well.
05:33Well, yes, inputs have been received
05:34and there could be a flash protest that could be carried out
05:36by the senior leaders of the Congress Party
05:38and they could actually go towards Jantar Madhar.
05:40Currently, I'm reporting from right outside Sagar Ratna,
05:43near Janpat where all these MPs are currently having their lunch
05:47and they haven't started to step out.
05:49But if I could just give you a sense of these visuals over here,
05:53every security deployment has been made throughout this entire route.
05:56And remember, I'll just try and show you on the other side as well.
06:00Over here, this is the road that leads straight from Janpat
06:05towards Jantar Madhar.
06:06And you can see the kind of deployment that has been made over here.
06:09ITBG personnel, Rapid Action Force personnel,
06:11scary police personnel,
06:12all of them have been deployed in huge numbers
06:14because the inputs that have now been received,
06:17it says that the Congress Party could actually try to go ahead
06:19and carry out a flash protest at Jantar Madhar.
06:23And hence, this massive security deployment
06:25has been made at this point in time.
06:41Let me also cut across to Shriya who's been at the site
06:44and she's been also tracking the lunch meet.
06:46Shriya, what is the sense that you're picking up from the MPs there?
06:49They've been there for a while now.
06:51The plan is also to possibly go and do a flash protest.
06:54The police says they are on standby
06:56in case there is any action that will happen.
07:01Oh, absolutely, Jessica.
07:03As we speak, in fact, the number of policemen,
07:07the number of cops, RAF, CRPF that was deployed here
07:12before the politicians had arrived here was much less.
07:18In fact, I'm asking my camera person, Sanjay Kumar,
07:21to point out at the exact bus.
07:23This bus has arrived roughly around 30 minutes back at this very location,
07:28which only amps up anticipation about perhaps a flash protest that will take place.
07:35But again, at the same time, if the flash protest is to take place at Jantar Madhar,
07:40then we do not understand the requirement of the bus.
07:42Is this a bus from the cops' side for detentions, if at all, they tried for a protest or not?
07:49Well, these are questions that are mounting.
07:51But let me tell you, as I'm speaking, by the clock, it is 3-5.
07:56And there are several of the political leaders that have started exiting.
08:00In fact, you can see the flag, the Indian flag that was brought in,
08:06that was hoisted and brought in by the leader of the opposition of the Lok Sabha, Rahul Gandhi.
08:11That's yet again right outside the gate of Sagar Ratna.
08:15In fact, Pawan Khera, Manikam Tagore,
08:18we saw some of the veteran leaders,
08:19Kapil Sipal, a little while back, they were coming out.
08:23So, what exactly is going to happen next?
08:26Well, the tensions here currently are running high.
08:30Everybody's anticipating that a flash protest is probable.
08:34Whether it'll be at Jantar Mantar,
08:36which is just as I speak, I can spot Jantar Mantar from here.
08:39It's that close by, just a few kilometers away.
08:42But then why the bus?
08:43Is the bus for more detentions to take place today?
08:46We now see that all of these MPs are exiting from the Lounge
08:50because it's been a while since they've been there as well.
08:53So, now we're seeing that there are preparations underway.
08:55The MPs are exiting.
08:56So, soon, possibly, we could see some action
08:59if that's been decided by the MPs.
09:01A protest of some sort happening at the spot as well.
