00:00A symbolic stir where the Congress leaders, the opposition leaders have shown off their numbers saying,
00:04look, this is the might, this is the support that we have on the ground on the streets of the
00:08national capital.
00:09Shreya Chatterjee is also live with us on this broadcast.
00:12Shreya, the original plan was that Rahul Gandhi would attempt to meet the CGI,
00:16that he would attempt to enter the Supreme Court.
00:18But because of the sheer crowds that have gathered in the streets of Delhi this evening as a part of
00:23this agitation,
00:23he simply couldn't make it in time.
00:25So the petition has been filed, just not personally by Rahul Gandhi.
00:29And so the demand itself of the opposition MP saying, we want to meet the CGI, that no longer stands.
00:41Well, absolutely.
00:42You know, they tried to go to the Supreme Court.
00:45They tried to reach the doors of the CGI.
00:48The CGI obviously clearly said that it is not something which is fit right now.
00:52The primary reason is because there have been multiple petitions of the SIR
00:56that has already been moving in the Supreme Court.
01:00And that's why he said that if you want to meet or if you want to come to the court,
01:03come by the route of the petition.
01:05So that's what they did.
01:06They filed a petition by the Registrar General today.
01:10And this is the road, Akshika, that they were trying to use to march forward to the Supreme Court.
01:15But here is where they were stopped.
01:17And finally, after a long hour of tussle between the police and the protesters,
01:22finally the roads have been cleared.
01:23And they've agreed to move back.
01:25But it was a pretty chaotic situation over here.
01:27Because huge numbers of crowd actually turned up at this very point.
01:31They didn't quite go till the Supreme Court.
01:33But the kind of visuals that we saw, the kind of mobilization that we saw,
01:38that kind of looks like a success for this India Bloc protest march that was called today.
01:44It looks like things are now calming down in Delhi.
01:47You know, there's been no clash, fortunately.
01:49No sort of ugly showdown between the cops and the protesters.
01:54None of that that really played out.
01:55Because the cops seem to have allowed all of the opposition MPs to continue with their dharna
02:01to walk right up till a certain barricaded spot.
02:04The opposition too has largely cooperated with the police,
02:07stopping and turning off just before the barricaded spot,
02:10making it very clear that with the petition being filed now before the Supreme Court,
02:14which I will remind you once again, will be heard tomorrow in the top court,
02:18they feel that it's mission accomplished for the day.
02:21Now, what will tomorrow bring a new form of protest?
02:24Or is the focus spotlight going to completely be on the Supreme Court?
02:27Nobody really knows, because that's how Rahul Gandhi has kind of been playing it,
02:31where every single day he's been changing up strategy,
02:33he's been whipping up a new game of how to really take on the CEC,
02:37how to target the Election Commission.
02:39Now, this petition, remember, the respondents in the case have been named
02:42as the Election Commission, the CEC, as well as the two ECs in the case.
02:47So that will come up for hearing tomorrow.
02:49It will be interesting to see what really comes out as a result of that particular hearing,
02:54but I will highlight once again that this isn't the first petition
02:57that's been filed in this matter in the top court.
