00:00That's Rahul Gandhi there. When the Delhi police was with him, the Delhi cops constantly asking him, what will it
00:06take for you to end this particular detention?
00:08I just want to highlight for you the images now of Priyanka Gandhi being detained on that bus.
00:13She's holding the constitution booklet on display there as she is in fact being taken away in that bus, detained
00:21by the Delhi police.
00:22Strong messaging by Priyanka Gandhi. The Congress has repeatedly done this, holding up the red booklet of the Indian constitution.
00:31Remember that the Congress leaders have been questioning why they're not being allowed to protest, why they're not being allowed
00:37to meet with the CEC, Gyanesh Kumar.
00:40And that is the messaging there by Priyanka Gandhi saying it's well within my democratic right to protest.
00:45It's well within my democratic right to demand a meeting with the CEC.
00:49That is the messaging there. As she's taken away in that bus, you can see she's fighting it out, trying
00:55to get out of the bus constantly.
00:56There are cops holding her, pushing her in. She is sending across a message to the media personnel all outside,
01:03holding up that constitution booklet.
01:06Speaking earlier to the media, she also questioned the manner in which the Delhi police has really handled this entire
01:12agitation.
01:13They were there in huge numbers, fully prepared for this moment, took all of these leaders into custody.
01:18But she says she was thrown to the ground, she was scratched.
01:21And even now, as she's being pushed inside, you can see her resisting all of those attempts, holding up the
01:27constitution booklet.
01:29As dramatic as it gets, this is messaging by the opposition right now on the issue of Gyanesh Kumar,
01:36that they will not stop till Gyanesh Kumar steps down.
01:39Or in this case, their specific demand is that they want a meeting with the CEC.
01:44If yesterday it played out just a stone's throw away from the EC office, today it played out just a
01:49stone's throw away from Jantar Mantar,
01:51where the Delhi police put on record their statement that it takes prior permission 10 days before a protest for
02:00any agitation to be allowed in Jantar Mantar.
02:02Which is why, in this case, this flash protest, which started off as a luncheon meeting, has now become this
02:10dramatic moment outside the Jantar Mantar.
02:12Let's cut across to more reports.
02:13Let's cut across the Jantar Mantar.
03:10Let's cut across the Jantar Mantar.
03:13Here's a very-her sense of the situation on ground.
03:15It's quite a humid day in Delhi.
03:17And through the day, the Congress leaders, the opposition leaders have been out there staging a protest.
03:22They've all been detained.
03:23We understand they're all being taken to one particular spot now.
03:27But like I said, it started off hours ago with a lunch meeting, meant to be a message of show
03:32of unity by the opposition.
03:33you had several members of the India bloc coming together in that particular huddle
03:37and from there dramatically turned into a flash protest
03:41where all of the leaders decided we want to protest the Jantar Mantar.
03:45Not allowed, their buses were stopped, they got out of their buses, staged the sit-in dharna
03:49and that quickly turned into a lie-down dharna
03:52because Priyanka Gandhi in the heart of that particular protest
03:55decided to lie down flat on the ground
03:58to send across a message to the Delhi police that she isn't being allowed to protest.
04:02This is a democratic right, which is why you see her now hanging out of the bus just moments ago
04:07holding up a copy of the constitution to send out a message
04:11that I have every right to go ahead and protest in this country.
04:14Rahul Gandhi, on the other hand, was carried and shoved into the bus
04:17much like what we saw last night at the Akashwani Bhavan.
04:21Again, resisting detention, refused to cooperate with the police.
04:24He is carried from that spot and taken into the bus.
04:28So, several images on your screens there of the moment that we really saw this showdown peak.
04:34Whether it was a moment of Priyanka Gandhi being detained.
04:37She was lying on the ground of the women Delhi police personnel, as you can see there.
04:41Four, five of them picked her up, scooped her up from the ground
04:45and then took her in and detained her.
04:47Middle of your screens is the image that I have been referring to
04:50of Priyanka Gandhi holding up the constitution.
04:52And then Rahul Gandhi, who is detained in the same manner as he was yesterday,
04:57carried into the bus and using his leg to actually stop himself
05:00from being taken into that bus.
05:03Shriya, take us through what's happening right now.
05:05With the Gandhi siblings being detained,
05:08it looks like things are now calming down.
05:10Most of the congress workers have been taken into custody.
05:13This now seems to be routine.
05:15We saw it yesterday, we saw it today.
05:17There's a likelihood that tomorrow also we'll see a similar stir now.
05:26We're trying to get you a reaction from Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi
05:30as he's being taken away in that van by the Delhi police personnel.
05:42Keep an eye out for that reaction if he chooses to speak.
05:45I'll bring back Shriya Kundu on this broadcast for the latest.
05:49Shriya, over to you.
05:54Yes, absolutely, Akshita.
05:55So I can tell you one thing.
05:57Over the span of the last four or five hours,
06:01we've taken an entire round of basically Janpat, Jantar Mantar,
06:06and we are almost nearing the same spot where all of this begun.
06:10That is the Sagar Ratna restaurant.
06:12So yes, most of the congress protesters and leaders who have been detained,
06:18other party, India Bloc Party members also who've been detained,
06:21senior members of the parliaments who've been detained,
06:24they've been taken away to police camps.
06:26But one thing was very clear, Akshita,
06:28that today the police personnel seemed extremely prepared.
06:32They have said since day one of protests that 163 BNSS is and has been imposed in the national capital.
06:40So nobody will be allowed to protest.
06:43Now yesterday when we had seen that there was an announcement,
06:46or rather the Congress Party and the India Bloc parties were mulling for another protest
06:50that they would be holding on the 9th of October,
06:55a day before the CJP had announced their protest for October 10th.
06:58So we see today the situation took a complete 180 degree turn.
07:03What was supposed to be just a strategy meet,
07:06and perhaps we were also speculating that there might be a press conference,
07:10joint press conference like we had seen on September 30th.
07:14Today the scenes were completely different.
07:16They were very sure that they were going to hit the streets.
07:19It was going to be a flash protest.
07:21They will continue exactly with the same momentum that they had left off yesterday night.
07:26And they will not let it die down.
07:28Because their point is, enough is enough.
07:30If we are not allowed to raise our voices,
07:32we will continue to fight back.
07:34We will continue to fight detention, whatever comes our way.
07:38While yes, strategically speaking, they have moved forward.
07:40They have written to the president, asked for an appointment with her.
07:44But at the same time, they are not abandoning the streets.
07:47That is what's different about this protest.
07:49And I think that's a page they have taken from the CJP protests
07:54during the month of July.
07:56That the momentum of a protest cannot be dying away
07:59and that the protests have to be led by the leaders.
08:03And if that requires you to, in fact, throw a surprise
08:07and a googly towards the police or the government, so be it.
08:10But they will continue no matter what.
08:12And that's perhaps what we saw develop in the national capital today.
08:17Just a highlight what's happened in the last few minutes.
08:21Shriya, stay with us.
08:22I want you to take a look at the footage that's emerged now
08:25of the manner in which Rahul Gandhi was detained.
08:28Much like yesterday, refused to, you know, be taken away by the Delhi police.
08:32Students Brown said, nothing doing.
08:34I'm going to continue with my protest, as did Priyanka Gandhi.
08:37And so they were lifted off the ground by a handful of Delhi police personnel
08:42and taken it to that bus.
08:44You can see the manner in which Rahul Gandhi is resisting, boarding that bus.
08:47This is the sequence there, the full footage.
08:49Look at the sea of Delhi police personnel there.
08:52He's trying to block off all the other congress workers.
09:06As he resists the detention, you can see him using his legs to block off
09:11being taken into that bus.
09:13These are the Gandhi siblings leading from the front as far as the opposition fight
09:17and opposition attack on the election commission is concerned.
09:22And they're making it very clear that they're not going to stop here.
09:24The next few days, there are more such protests planned in the national capital
09:28as they are saying that we have every right to hit the streets.
09:33We have every right to hold these protests.
09:34The Delhi police says that that's not the case.
09:37There will be, in fact, permission that must be granted.
09:44And if permission is not granted for a protest,
09:47you simply cannot gather there for what is called now as a flash protest by the congress.
09:52So that's the Delhi police version.
09:53They say that if you want to protest in Jantar Mantar,
09:56you need permission 10 days prior.
09:58None of that was done.
09:59Instead, during the lunch meeting, it was decided that these MPs will gather at Jantar Mantar.
10:03And that cannot happen.
10:05So these are the images on your screen.
10:07You can see a sea of Delhi police personnel there.
10:09All of them working towards detaining Rahul Gandhi.
10:14As we speak, Rahul and Priyanka, both of them are being taken right now to, in fact,
10:19either police station or a setup that the Delhi police have identified.
10:23We're just not sure at this point as to where that is.
10:25Shreya, do we have any confirmation on that?
10:32We are at present, Akshita, following the very, we did see a cavalcade leave because there was an entire bus
10:43as well,
10:44remember, of members of parliament who have not been detained, right?
10:46So they had several of their personal security cars as well, cavalcades that were moving towards this road itself,
10:55Janpath Road.
10:56So we are just following them up right now towards the end.
11:00Where exactly, because as many as 10 buses have left from the Jantar Mantar entrance.
11:04So where exactly are each of the leaders being taken, that's still something we are trying to follow up on.
11:10But as far as I can tell you, the buses were all on this very road itself.
11:14And I can see up ahead, there is quite a bit of commotion and quite a bit of a blockade,
11:20a chicken neck of sorts that's formed.
11:22So there is a possibility that several of those buses might have gathered there.
11:27We are just following up on this very road to go and check where exactly is it that both the
11:33Gandhi siblings as well as the other leaders,
11:35along with the protesters, have been kept in detention.
11:38Yesterday, it was the Kingsway camp that Rahul was taken to from Akashmani Bhawan.
11:41Today, it might be that or it might be a different camp that is being taken to.
11:45But yes, we keep tracking that for you and bring you those details in a little while.
11:50Delhi police choose to keep Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi at two separate locations.
11:54expectations expect again more drama to play out because once again, Priyanka Gandhi, like last night,
12:00when she attempted to climb the gates and reach her brother, in all likelihood could resort to something similar once
12:06again.
12:06So as we get you all the latest updates, I can confirm for you that the Congress's protest has more
12:11or less ended now,
12:12with the Gandhi siblings being detained.
12:14Most of the senior leaders have also been taken into custody.
12:17And the Delhi police has pretty much cleared up the entire area.
12:21The Congress continuing to put out posts on social media, where they're in fact alleging that their bid to go
12:28ahead and protest has once again been stopped.
12:31They're also attempting a show of unity here.
12:34The opposition came together for a lunch meeting and then quickly moved on to this particular protest.
12:39And while you had several representatives of political parties,
12:41I will highlight that the Samajwadi party was missing in action.
12:45Why?
12:46Because they say that they weren't given a formal or a proper invite,
12:50which is why they decided to skip the lunch meet as well as the subsequent protest.
12:54And this a day after Akinesh Yadu was right there,
12:56alongside Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi yesterday in the national capital.
