Rahul Gandhi detained during protests, Congress tweets video with patriotic song

Rahul Gandhi, and many other senior leaders of the Congress were detained by the police in Delhi on Friday while protesting against the Central government over price rise.

The protesting Congress MPs, all wearing black clothes, were stopped at Vijay Chowk while moving towards the Rashtrapati Bhawan and then bundled into buses.

The party shared on Twitter a video of Rahiul Gandhi looking out of a bus window at India Gate, with the popular patriotic song as 'Ae Watan Ae Watan Humko Teri Kasam' as background. The song is from the 1965 film 'Shaheed' based on the life of Bhagat Singh, with Manoj Kumar playing the role of the martyr.


"We come bearing the flood of tears of the poor," begins the caption addressed to 'dictatorial rulers".

There was another tweet too with a photo of Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi with other leaders in police detention, apparently at the New Police Lines in the national capital. The tweet said these Congress leaders could be incarcerated but their stentorian voices would not be silenced

Congress had announced a nationwide protest on Friday against the policies of the Central government and inflation. The MPs led by Rahul Gandhi tried to take out a march from the Parliament House to the Rashtrapati Bhawan.

The protesting MPs, led by Rahul Gandhi, raised slogans against the government demanding that the Goods and Services Tax (GST) hike on essential items be withdrawn. They were stopped by the Delhi Police and not allowed to proceed towards the Rashtrapati Bhawan.