00:00Rahul Gandhi has realized the opportunity at hand and there could be now a showdown with the Delhi police
00:05because unlike the previous protest, no permission granted this time and the police is prepared.
00:10What sources are telling us, flash protest, which is unplanned, unscheduled and can take the authorities by surprise.
00:18That protest on your screen, ladies and gentlemen, Rahul Gandhi is in a bus, my colleague Shreya Kundu on the
00:24ground.
00:25Protest continues against CEC, against the Election Commission functioning, against the Modi government
00:30and on a day when 25 years of public service of Prime Minister Modi being celebrated.
00:34So that's the latest on your screen.
00:36The strategy of Delhi police is, however, to wait and watch.
00:39If the members of parliament want to march toward Knot Place, that is where they won't be stopped.
00:44But if they try toward Election Commission, that is when Delhi police will intervene.
00:50Roads leading toward Jantar Bantar have been blocked.
00:52Additional forces of Rapid Action Force and Delhi police deployed, which means heavy security barricading in Central Delhi.
00:58If you are heading to that location, toward Jantar Bantar or areas or buildings around it, double check your routine
01:04because that is where a lot of detours are going to be planned.
01:07Shreya Kundu continues to be on the ground.
01:10I immediately want to bring her in on the news break.
01:13Shreya, quick points about what is the planning of Rahul Gandhi.
01:16He is in that bus right now, unlike last time he walked with Priyanka Gandhi Badra, sat on a dharna
01:22on the street.
01:23This time he is fully prepared.
01:24But is it going to be from one bus to another if the police detains him?
01:34All very good questions, Pooja, and a very good afternoon to you and all our viewers as well.
01:38Just to show you a bit of what's happening, as we have been tracking the developments,
01:43we have been walking along with the bus on this very road that leads from Janpat toward Jantar Bantar.
01:49Little by little, the bus is inching forward.
01:52What we could see is, toward the beginning, right outside Sagar Ratna, there was police presence.
01:58It was heavily guarded.
02:00But if you can now see, the entirety of the street has been lined up with police personnel.
02:05Be it cops on one side or even RAF personnel or CRPF personnel.
02:10They are all here.
02:11Now, in the middle of an entire reaction, reaction that was being given by Rahul Gandhi,
02:18the leader of the opposition, who was present at the very meeting today at Sagar Ratna,
02:22we could see more and more protesters were starting to gather.
02:25And then there were two buses that came in.
02:27Initially, while we were off the thought process that these buses might be for detentions
02:32if they try to, in fact, execute a flag.
02:36But we realized these buses were called by the political leaders themselves.
02:39So there was a quiet plan going on at the sidelines of this very meeting.
02:45And as Derek...
02:46We can't do this kind of damage.
02:48The decision is not possible to cut the vote.
02:50We could not see the поступ khut.
02:52We could second charge again be um IDE government.
03:08All right.
03:08So these are the leaders speaking.
03:10Rahul Gandhi is set to be speaking right now.
03:13We'll be waiting for that opportunity.
03:15Shreya, over to you now.
03:21Yes, so Pooja, as I was mentioning,
03:23so at this given point, Malik Arjun Kharge, Derek O'Brien,
03:26while we were speaking to them a little while back,
03:28they have come out to say that, look, the government's not allowing us to protest.
03:31The police is not allowing us to protest.
03:33The election commission is not even listening to us.
03:36They're that invincible.
03:37These are all claims coming in.
03:39But at the same time, they have said they're not going to leave the protest ground.
03:43They have said they're not going to leave the streets or the field.
03:45They will continue to protest detention or otherwise.
03:49Some of those dramatic visuals that came in yesterday from some of the protest sites,
03:53be it on the Parliament Street or even at the Akashmani Bhawan,
03:57those were very symbolic.
03:59And even in today's protest, Pooja, let me mention one thing very clearly.
04:03There's not a single party flag.
04:05That is very clear amongst all of these political leaders
04:08that no matter which political party they belong to,
04:11they will not be representing political ideologies,
04:14at least individual political ideologies here.
04:17But they're very sure that they are here for a cause in unison
04:21and that cause is to save the democracy.
04:23So the only flag that we can see around on the streets here is the Indian flag.
04:27Yes, some of the young protesters who have joined from the NSUI,
04:30they are carrying certain flags of their own,
04:33certain banners of their own.
04:35But that is just few and far in between.
04:38More and more of these political leaders or even protesters for that matter we see.
04:42In fact, Rahul Gandhi in a show of unity and very symbolic importance that it holds,
04:48because yesterday also we saw him dramatically hoist the flag from up on a barricade.
04:53Today as well we saw him enter Sagar Ratna with one such flag.
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