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A massive protest march by Congress and INDIA alliance leaders progressed from Mandi House along Bhagwan Das Road towards the Supreme Court, marking day 10 of demonstrations on the Ganesh Kumar issue. Protesters breached the initial barricade as columns of the Rapid Action Force and paramilitary personnel were deployed to secure the remaining perimeters. Alongside an eleven-member delegation, large crowds accompanied buses and trucks toward the court, with security arrangements stepped up including the potential use of water cannons. The mobilization brought together various wings of the Congress party, including the Seva Dal and state cadres, alongside alliance leaders in a coordinated show of strength.

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00:04Preeti, if I were to take the last location of this bus, which what Maria was trying to show to
00:10us before we lost her connection, it was around Mandi House.
00:13Now, if I map the area a little bit, it's roughly about 8 minutes by bus, but it's not the
00:19regular route.
00:20If you were to walk, it would take about 16 minutes.
00:23From your vantage point where you are, where do you see this protest going?
00:33Well, Sonal, I've walked it right from Mandi House.
00:37I've walked it all the way down Bhagwanda's Road to Supreme Court from the other side.
00:41And now I'm on the other side. So right up front, they've breached the first barricade.
00:45There are two barricades left and you can see Varun there, right there.
00:50And in all probability, they, you know, protesters, if they continue to come in and at the speed that they
00:56will come in, you know, with,
00:57it seems they could also be the use of water cannon.
01:01Till now, there has been hardly any use of force, actually no use of force at all.
01:07They have had a pretty much free run and they have come all the way here.
01:11Now, they have breached one barricade. There are two barricades left.
01:14We've seen bolstering of paramilitary forces and even from Supreme Court,
01:20I just saw one column of Rapid Action Force march towards, you know, Bhagwanda's Road.
01:27So I have been managed, you know, I've come to the other side.
01:30And this is where you will see the Congress leaders and the India Alliance leaders coming in,
01:38but not just the delegation of 11 leaders.
01:43It's a sea of protesters that flank the buses and the trucks they were on and now all of them
01:51marching in.
01:52The kind of show of strength that we have seen from the India Alliance has,
01:56in the number of years that I have covered, you know, the opposition parties is rare.
02:04They would be very happy with that, understandably.
02:07You can also see scenes of jubilation on ground.
02:11Multiple barricades here now being put.
02:13Priti, would it be fair to say that this is the strongest show of strength
02:17on the issue of Ganesh Kumar that we've seen from the political party so far?
02:22It's day 10 of the protest, remember.
02:242nd of October is when it all started.
02:26Would you say, would it be fair to say that today what we see on the streets of national capital
02:32is the biggest show of strength?
02:39100 percent.
02:40You know, 100 percent.
02:41I wouldn't deny it.
02:43And you can see that on your television screen,
02:47because what you're just seeing, Maria, sorry, Sonal,
02:50is the fact that not only various arms of the Congress party,
02:54that is the principal opposition,
02:56one allegation that has always come to the Congress's doorstep
02:59is that they just don't find it in themselves to energize their own cadre.
03:03They've managed to do so.
03:04What we've seen on ground from the Congress party is unprecedented
03:08in terms of the Seva Dal and...
03:10You mean, take no question.
03:12State cardership, in full force.
03:14The chief ministers...
03:15Yeah, so it's...
03:17Go ahead.
03:20State cardership, in full force.
03:20State cardership, in full force.
03:22State cardership, in full force.
03:22State cardership, in full force.
03:22State cardership, in full force.
03:24State cardership, in full force.
03:25State cardership, in full force.
03:26State cardership, in full force.

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