00:13And that is, of course, Rahul Gandhi leading the protests, taking them to the protest venue.
00:20And, of course, for the second day in a row, Rahul Gandhi, for the third day in a row, in
00:24fact, Rahul Gandhi continues to be in the stick of controversy as he is being surrounded
00:30by MPs as they proceed towards a protest demanding the resignation of CEC Gyanesh Kumar.
00:38And this is, of course, the lunch politics 2.0 after they had, once again, another lunch
00:42meeting in which they all met together and strategised the strategy for the road ahead.
00:48And now they are bevoting buses as they are on their way towards the lunch venue at this
00:55point.
00:57Yesterday, the venue for the protest was Jantar Blanca, today they are on their way to Radhaj.
01:03Of course, officially there has been no permission which has been given to the Delhi police, by
01:08the Delhi police to opposition MPs to protest, but Rahul Gandhi remains undeterred.
01:13Let me go across to my colleague Anjali Pandey who is joining us from the protest site, covering
01:18all the action for us.
01:19Anjali, over to you.
01:19What do you see around you?
01:28Absolutely, Ritangshu, the visuals are very similar to what we saw yesterday.
01:32The opposition MPs after the luncheon have already boarded the buses.
01:37The three buses that were present over here yesterday, the three same buses can be seen
01:43here.
01:44All the opposition MPs are seated inside the bus, they have boarded the bus and now what
01:48we are learning is that they will be moving towards Raj Ghat.
01:52The youth congress workers, the NSUI workers had already gathered even before the lunch meeting.
01:58Now the lunch meeting is over.
01:59At around 2.15 is when Rahul Gandhi had arrived and at 2.45 is when Priyanka Gandhi Badra had
02:06arrived.
02:07And now all the opposition MPs, we saw Karthi Chidambaram, we saw Charanjeet Singh Chani.
02:12The faces today are also very similar to what we saw yesterday.
02:16All the opposition MPs who were present yesterday for the meeting and for the protests are present
02:21today as well.
02:22They have boarded the buses.
02:23Today even Samajwadi party is in attendance.
02:27After a lot of questions were being raised on the opposition unity today, Samajwadi party,
02:32TMC, all are in attendance and they have boarded the buses and the buses in just a while from
02:38now, they will start moving from here.
02:41Raj Ghat is the venue, is what we are learning.
02:44So on Tuesday they were marching towards the election commission's office.
02:48On Wednesday it was Jantar Mantar.
02:51Today, which is the third day of the protest, on Thursday today, they are moving towards
02:57Raj Ghat.
02:57They will start moving in just a bit from now.
03:00But the opposition MPs have already boarded the buses.
03:04The buses are all set.
03:05These buses had arrived even before the lunch meeting that was supposed to begin at 1.45
03:10PM.
03:11And now the workers are also ready.
03:15In fact, the NSUI and youth congress workers have already started moving.
03:19Earlier they were here, standing here, raising slogans against the chief election commissioner.
03:24And now they have already started moving.
03:26It remains to be seen when do the buses start to move.
03:28The opposition MPs have already boarded these three buses.
03:31These are the same buses that were there yesterday also.
03:35And we saw all the drama that took place, the confrontation between the opposition MPs and the cops.
03:41We saw how there was a confrontation between Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi, Wadra and the cops.
03:46And how they were eventually detained as well.
03:48That was the second detention in two days.
03:51Now, it remains to be seen what happens today.
03:53There is heavy police deployment as well.
03:55And, Ritankshu, it is also important to note that this is the North Place area.
04:00It is in the heart of the national capital.
04:02And I will request my camera person to also show the kind of inconvenience that is being caused to the
04:07residents.
04:08Because there is a long traffic jam also.
04:11Because there is heavy barricading that has happened here.
04:14There is heavy police deployment also.
04:16It is the road.
04:17This is the outer circle of the Cannot Place which is fully choked.
04:21The vehicles are not even moving.
04:22So, it is also causing a lot of inconvenience.
04:25Every day, there is a new protest.
04:27There is a mega protest that is being staged by the opposition MPs.
04:31And the residents of Delhi are bearing the brunt of it.
04:35This is a Cannot Place.
04:36This is a very busy road.
04:38And because of the security, heavy security that is deployed, heavy police deployment,
04:44this particular road is fully choked.
04:46Cannot Place is fully choked.
04:48And now, we are just waiting for the buses to move.
04:52The opposition MPs have already boarded the bus.
04:54Yesterday, we saw how Rahul Gandhi after the meeting had made this announcement
04:59that how they will be marching, moving towards Jantar Mantra.
05:02Today, we did not see anything of those sort.
05:05But the opposition MPs had, even before the meeting, given an indication that today it could be Rajgat.
05:10Everyone was speculating that what could be the venue today.
05:13And we have been seeing how this game has been going on since three days.
05:21In fact, not just against the election commission,
05:24we have also seen what happened during the protest against Dharmendra Pradhan.
05:29How the opposition, the Congress MPs were celebrating Malik Arjan Khadge's birthday.
05:33And then suddenly, we saw the opposition MPs staging a protest outside the Prime Minister's residence.
05:39Now, that is exactly what happened yesterday also.
05:41So today, of course, it was not that much of a surprise because today everybody had anticipated that,
05:47yes, there is going to be a protest after this lunch meeting.
05:50In fact, today, even before the meeting could take place, the workers, the Congress workers were already staging protests,
05:57had already gathered here.
06:01And they had already gathered here.
06:03The slogan had already begun.
06:05So today, it was not that much of a surprise.
06:08Everybody knew that there is going to be a protest that's going to happen after the lunch meeting.
06:12…
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06:18…
06:55All right, so that is, of course, our colleague Anjali giving us those reports from Connaught Place at this point.
07:00And we, of course, are listening in to Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi also holding a protest from Rajiv Chok,
07:08going all the way to what their protest waiting for today has been.
07:12And that is, of course, we understand is Rajgat.
