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The Khairatabad (Hyderabad Central) District Congress Committee (DCC) staged a dharna astatine the Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Statue astatine Liberty Circle connected Wednesday, protesting against the rejection of Congress person Meenakshi Natarajan’s Rajya Sabha information and demanding justness for her.
Led by DCC president Motha Rohit Mudiraj, the protesters alleged that the information had been cancelled without valid grounds and described the improvement arsenic an onslaught connected antiauthoritarian principles.
Addressing the media, Mr. Rohit termed the rejection a ‘blatant onslaught connected democracy’ and a ‘broad daylight execution of democracy’. He alleged that the Election Commission of India was functioning nether the power of the ruling BJP astatine the Centre.
Telangana authorities Adviser V. Hanumantha Rao, who participated successful the protest, powerfully criticised the rejection of Ms. Natarajan’s nomination, describing it arsenic unfair and calling the time a ‘dark time for democracy’. He questioned however a information could beryllium rejected connected the ground of a backstage ailment and alleged that autarkic institutions were progressively becoming instruments of the BJP.
Mr. Rao said Ms. Natarajan had not received immoderate summons successful transportation with the lawsuit cited against her and questioned however she could person disclosed details successful her affidavit if she was unaware of immoderate specified proceedings. He further alleged that the BJP was incapable to tolerate the advancement of women successful nationalist beingness and accused it of targeting Ms. Natarajan.
Meanwhile, TPCC Media Committee president Sama Ram Mohan Reddy alleged that the rejection of the information was portion of a conspiracy involving the BJP and the Election Commission. Addressing a property league astatine Gandhi Bhavan, helium questioned whether a Returning Officer (RO) had the authorization to cull a information connected specified grounds and claimed that the determination violated Supreme Court guidelines.
He alleged that the information was rejected nether unit and asserted that the Congress would situation the determination successful the Supreme Court.
