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Opposition Members of Parliament convened for a lunch meeting hosted by Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge in Connaught Place, New Delhi. The gathering follows a series of demonstrations by opposition groups, with youth wings including the National Students' Union of India and the Indian Youth Congress staging protests and chanting slogans outside the venue. Protesters and leaders reiterated demands concerning Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, alleging electoral misconduct and calling for resignation and accountability. The meeting comes in the wake of recent protests where opposition leaders boarded buses to move towards protest venues, leading to confrontations and detentions by the police. Leaders mentioned that opposition parties had been invited to deliberate on joint strategies and peaceful agitation plans, while arrangements such as buses were deployed to move together without disrupting public traffic. Delhi Police maintained security arrangements around the venue as leaders arrived.

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00:00Another day, another lunch meeting. I'm Anjali Pandey, currently at Cannot Place, just outside the lunch venue, which is Mohitz.
00:08So it seems like after the South Indian lunch that the opposition leaders had yesterday at Sagar Ratna, which is
00:15just adjacent to Mohitz,
00:17today they're in mood to have a North Indian lunch menu. And so Mohitz has been decided as the venue.
00:23Malik Arjun Kharge will again be hosting the opposition leaders. All the Rajasabha and Lok Sabha opposition MPs have been
00:30invited for the lunch at 1.45pm today.
00:34We're just minutes away from that. But action has already started here outside Mohitz.
00:41We can see NSUI workers, youth congress workers already staging protests already.
00:47Already the sloganeering has already started. They are raising slogans against the chief election commissioner, Gyanesh Kumar,
00:54Vot Chor, Gaddi Chor are the slogans which we've been hearing since last three days.
00:59Remember, this is the third day of the protest.
01:02Now, yesterday we saw what happened is that there was a lunch invite that was given to the opposition MPs
01:08first.
01:09All the opposition MPs had gathered at Sagar Ratna where they had their lunch.
01:12And shortly after the lunch, we saw Rahul Gandhi announcing that the MPs will be moving towards Jantar Mantar.
01:19They boarded the buses. There were three buses that were already parked.
01:23And then the MPs boarded the buses.
01:26The cops tried to stop the buses from moving to Jantar Mantar.
01:30There was heavy barricading that was in place after which the opposition MPs got down off the bus.
01:36And that is when the real drama took place.
01:39That is when the opposition MPs started staging protests.
01:42There was a confrontation between Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi-Wadra and the cops.
01:46And eventually we saw detention.
01:49That was the second detention of Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi-Wadra in two days.
01:52And it remains to be seen if similar things will be happening even today.
01:57If there will be after lunch as dessert, there will be protests which will be served or not.
02:03And that remains to be seen.
02:04But given the atmosphere that we are witnessing here currently, there's a high possibility that there could be another protest
02:12today
02:12because the NSUI, the Congress Save Adal workers, the Indian Youth Congress workers are already here.
02:18They've already gathered over here.
02:20My colleague Moshrami Singh and Aishwarya Paliwala are also joining us now.
02:26Moshrami, it seems like we are gearing up for another round of protests
02:32by the opposition.
02:33We saw what happened yesterday.
02:35First, the lunch in white.
02:36The opposition MPs had the lunch and then suddenly it was time for flash protests.
02:41So it seems like perle pet puja, fir kaam duja seems to be the strategy
02:46that the opposition MPs seem to be following now.
02:53So the paid puja is a part of the entire strategy and tactic.
02:57We are on the other side where you are, Anjali.
03:01And these are the buses.
03:03Remember yesterday we had spoken about these buses, not gotten by the police, but the party,
03:09Congress party itself, to in fact ferry the MPs outside, out from this place.
03:17So there is an action plan in place, surely.
03:21And you can be more vocal about it, perhaps.
03:25Imran Saab, now we are just there, we are prepared.
03:29So the rule of the Raja Ghats?
03:30So the rule of the Raja Ghats is a part of the Raja Ghats, the Raja Ghats is a part
03:50of the Raja Ghats.
04:28The Raja Ghats is a part of the Raja Ghats when theévred
04:28चोरी करने के लिए रणनीती बनाते हैं ये लोग चोरी के खिलाफ कोई रणनीती नहीं बनती बस जजबा लड़ता है
04:34अच्छा जजबा लड़ता है हम लोग आउटर सरकल में हैं तो ये हम एक और एक मिला रहे थे कि
04:42आप लोग राजगाट सबसे पास यहां से सीधा रास्ता
04:45राजगाट को जाता है पिछली बार आप लोग वहां जन्पत पे थे तो जन्तर मंतर पास में था तो क्या
04:51माने कि ये लोकेशन चुनी जा रही है कौन चुन रहा है और किसी को पता भी नहीं चल रही
04:56है बार बार एक आएक आता है ओचक यही तो सस्पेंस है ये नया भारत ह
05:00नए तरीके से प्रोटेस्ट कर रहा है ये राहुल गांधी जी के आईडियाज है और राहुल गांधी जी पास का
05:06रास्ता नहीं चुनते हैं वो लंबा रास्ता चुनते हैं उन्होंने 4000 किलोमेटर भारत जोड़ो यात्रा की थे तो क्या पता
05:11आज राजगाट न जा करके कह
05:20आएगा जाएं जो बहुत सर्प्राइजिंग हो तो दिल्ली पूलिस भी तैयार रहें सरकार भी तैयार रहें उनके केंधरी मंतोरी
05:42legal process that you possibly are exploring so why also take the national
05:46capital because a lot of BJP objections are that you are taking national
05:51capital for hostage there are anarchist element in the protest the police is
05:55being attacked all of these allegations have been made out and you must have
05:58heard it already BJP is clueless BJP is unable to understand what is the
06:03issue itself the issue is that we want BJP leaders involved in next become
06:08expert in vote shawri has been caught red-handed and the person who helped
06:13them that vote shawri is Janeshit Kumar they are trying to protect that person
06:17who is involved in a vote shawri we are demanding for his resignation who has
06:22been caught red-handed has been we are asking for his removal and the
06:26government is not going to do it if they are not going to do it we are going to
06:29protest peacefully we will as leader of opposition Rahul Gandhi has clearly
06:34stated we will fight till Janeshit Kumar Gupta resigns
06:40yesterday we saw several of your allies were missing from the meeting today what
06:44is the change in the strategy all all party leaders has been informed whenever
06:48the morning where we are going to meet it who more is able to many leaders would
06:52have been gone to constituencies many leaders would have had some other issues
06:55but our focus is not this kind of smaller absence but we are very focused that
07:01the issue is very important all other parties will be there every but party has
07:07been invited everybody will come for this meeting and this luncheon meeting then
07:11maybe what what we have to discuss we will deserve the leaders will decide then we
07:15will do whatever it has been decided in the meeting I can see the buses lined up
07:20here three buses so are you headed towards Rajghat or there will be a pedal march of
07:25sorts walking towards Jantar Mantra no we are very clear in the meeting it will be
07:29decided we are the buses are there yesterday also buses are because we
07:33don't want to our hundred MPs moving in hundred cars will create a lot of
07:37anarchy traffic jams therefore only we are asking every MP to drop their cars and go
07:42back to their houses and automatically we can go in a bus without creating any kind
07:46of inconvenience to the public we don't know after the meeting is decided I'll inform you
07:54outside you can see KC Venu Gopal has come out and possibly that means that the leaders from the
08:03India block will now start entering moits restaurant where entire corridor has been created by the Delhi
08:10police for entrance of these leaders with video journalist Manish Vidhudi this is Amit Bhardwaj reporting from yesterday from Delhi

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