{"id":304703,"date":"2018-10-26T09:19:05","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T09:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=304703"},"modified":"2018-10-26T09:23:51","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T09:23:51","slug":"congress-president-rahul-gandhi-leads-protest-march-against-governments-cbi-move","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/congress-president-rahul-gandhi-leads-protest-march-against-governments-cbi-move\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress President Rahul Gandhi leads protest march against Government\u2019s CBI move"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-304704 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/rahul-gandhi-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"521\" height=\"391\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/rahul-gandhi-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/rahul-gandhi-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/rahul-gandhi.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/rahul-gandhi-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/rahul-gandhi-265x198.jpg 265w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/rahul-gandhi-696x522.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/rahul-gandhi-560x420.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 521px) 100vw, 521px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Congress president Rahul Gandhi along with senior leaders of other opposition parties on Friday led a protest march in the national capital to demand the reinstatement of CBI Director Alok Verma and an apology from Prime Minister Narendra Modi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Congress tweeted, \u201cCongress President @RahulGandhi participates in the protest at the CBI Headquarters in Delhi. #ModiSeCBIBachao.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThousands of protesters join Congress President @Rahul Gandhi in a protest at the CBI Headquarters in Delhi. #ModiSeCBIBachao, Congress added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Rahul Gandhi courted arrest after staging a protest outside the CBI headquarters and was later taken to\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">the Lodhi Colony police station.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Gandhi earlier in the day urged people to join them in the protests.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">They began their march from Dayal Singh College on Lodhi Road to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Head Quarters to protest the Prime Minister Narendra Modi disgraceful &amp; unconstitutional attempt to block an investigation into the Rafale scam by removing the CBI Chief.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">TMC&#8217;s Nadimul Haque, Loktantrik Janata Dal leader Sharad Yadav and CPI&#8217;s D Raja also joined the Congress protest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Hundreds of security personnel were positioned outside the CBI office on Lodhi Road as protesters streamed into the area.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Gandhi on Thursday said that Verma being sent on administrative leave was to pre-empt an investigation into the Modi\u2019s alleged role in the Rafale deal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Congress president Rahul Gandhi along with senior leaders of other opposition parties on Friday led a protest march in the national capital to demand the reinstatement of CBI Director Alok Verma and an apology from Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Congress tweeted, \u201cCongress President @RahulGandhi participates in the protest at the CBI Headquarters in Delhi. #ModiSeCBIBachao.\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":304704,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[9033,1124,1277],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304703"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=304703"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":304709,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304703\/revisions\/304709"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/304704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}