Mitali hurt, Mahua faints as Del cops detain oppn MPs
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Kolkata: Trinamool MP Mitali Bag was injured on Monday and hospitalised, while party MP
Mahua Moitra
fainted in the prison van as TMC MPs, along with INDIA bloc MPs, were detained by
Delhi police
during their protests against the special intensive revision (SIR) at the
Election Commission
's Nirvachan Sadan headquarters.
TMC said that the very fact that BJP was the only party to defend the EC's actions "shows clearly who the so-called 'independent constitutional body' is working for.
"
TMC's leader in the Rajya Sabha, Derek O'Brien, who, along with Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav, was taken to a prison van, later posted on X, "These were four key issues which we wished to convey to the EC on SIR (vote chori): 1) Initiate an FIR against former CEC Rajeev Kumar for manipulation of the voters' list.
2) Going forward, implement digitisation of the voters' list. 3) No SIR should be conducted now. No bulldozing SIR in opposition-ruled states.
(If the current voters' list is full of flaws, the Union govt should resign) 4) No political party will share BLA-2 details (profile, contact and photo) with the EC, as these will promptly reach the BJP."
O'Brien said, "MPs from opposition parties asked the EC for an appointment.
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We were not allowed by police to reach the office of the EC. We were told we were being taken to the EC, but instead, we were hustled into a police station. We were released at 2.10 pm. So, the entire opposition could not reach Parliament on time."
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TMC in a statement on X said, "In their desperation to crush dissent, Delhi police didn't even spare women MPs. When elected representatives are manhandled for standing up for people's rights, it's a flashing red alert for the death of democracy.
Amit Shah's Delhi police perfected the art of political kidnapping today. Opposition MPs protesting Vote Chori were lied to, misled and ambushed. Told they were being taken to the EC headquarters, they were instead dragged to a police station and locked up till 2.10 pm, while Parliament was in session.
This was a premeditated assault on democracy, engineered to muzzle dissent and sabotage Parliamentary debate."
TMC spokesperson Kunal Ghosh, speaking to reporters in Kolkata, said, "What the Delhi police did today was fascist, undemocratic and blatantly illegal. Even women MPs were harassed and manhandled. And this was a scheduled pre-announced programme. Delhi police come under the MHA. When BJP leaders cry hoarse in Kolkata about being allowed to stage protests anywhere and everywhere, they should take a long hard look at what the Delhi police do.
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