Rahul, Opposition MPs detained during protest march to EC against Bihar SIR
The MPs took out a march to protest against the voter roll revision in Bihar. However, they were stopped by police midway at Transport Bhawan.
"Democracy being assaulted, murdered right outside Parliament," Congress's Jairam Ramesh said.
"It's a fight to protect the Constitution... We want a clean voter list," says Rahul Gandhi.
Wearing white caps with a red cross on the words 'SIR' and "vote chori", the protesting MPs raised slogans against the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) exercise in Bihar while carrying placards and banners.
Before embarking on the protest march at Parliament's Makar Dwar, they sang the national anthem.
Police had made elaborate arrangements and placed barricades next to the Transport Bhawan on Parliament street to stop the protesting MPs from moving forward, The police asked the MPs not to proceed further and made announcement through a a loudspeaker, as they were prevented from moving forward to the Election Commission headquarters, a short distance from Parliament House.
Prominent among those who participated in the march were T R Baalu (DMK), Sanjay Raut (SS-UBT), Derek O'Brien (TMC), Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Samajwadi Party's Akhilesh Yadav, as well as other MPs from opposition parties like the DMK, the RJD, Left parties.
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