Delhi Police forces Priyanka Gandhi Vadra into police van; Congress accuses manhandling

New Delhi: Delhi Police forced Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra into the police van while detaining her from AICC HQ from the site of the sit-in, a video shared by the Congress party showed.

#CongressProtest: Delhi Police forces @PriyankaGandhi Vadra into the police van while detaining her from AICC HQ from the site of the sit-in. Earlier, Vadra was seen purportedly twisting Delhi Police lady officer's hand. pic.twitter.com/oryDPCqzEI

— NewsDrum (@thenewsdrum) August 5, 2022

Earlier, Vadra was seen purportedly twisting a Delhi Police lady officer's hand during the protest outside the AICC headquarters on Friday.

Taking to Twitter, BJP spokesperson Shehzad Poonawala shared the picture of Vadra purportedly twisting the hand of a Delhi Police lady officer. 

Shocking

Look at how violently Priyankaji is twisting the hand of a Delhi police lady officer ! Earlier Congress people have even spat at officers, held their collars and assaulted them! https://t.co/q2mumK6bBf pic.twitter.com/27vrDXsOLs

— Shehzad Jai Hind (@Shehzad_Ind) August 5, 2022

Poonawala also shared a picture of Congress leader Renuka Chowdhry holding a police officer by the collar in Bengaluru.

Vadra staged a sit-in protest outside the AICC headquarters as part of the party's nationwide stir against price rise, the GST hike on essential items and unemployment.

Dressed in black, as several other party members did to register their protest against the government, Priyanka Gandhi crossed the police barricades put up on the road outside the party headquarters and squatted on the road, with police personnel asking her to move from there as section 144 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) is in force in the entire area of New Delhi district except Jantar Mantar.

The Congress general secretary was subsequently put in a vehicle forcibly by police and taken away.

Earlier in the day, wearing black clothes, Congress MPs, including former party chief Rahul Gandhi, staged a protest in the Parliament House complex and took out a march towards the Rashtrapati Bhawan.

The protesting MPs of the opposition party raised slogans against the government demanding that the Goods and Services Tax (GST) hike on essential items be withdrawn, with party chief Sonia Gandhi standing with the women MPs of the party holding a banner outside gate number 1 of Parliament.

The protesters were, however, stopped by the Delhi Police and not allowed to proceed towards the Rashtrapati Bhawan. Sonia Gandhi did not take part in the march. The other Congress MPs were detained by police at Vijay Chowk.