Congress hangs RSS uniform at Bhopal election office over Natarajan's Rajya Sabha rejection

BHOPAL: Escalating its protestation against the rejection of Congress Rajya Sabha campaigner Meenakshi Natarajan’s nomination, Congress workers connected Wednesday hung a Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) azygous connected the locked gross of the bureau of the Chief Electoral Officer (CEO) successful Bhopal, accusing law institutions of functioning nether ideological influence.The workers reached the CEO bureau successful the morning, recovered the gross shut, concisely staged a protestation and near aft hanging the RSS formal extracurricular the premises.

The protestation marked a continuation of the governmental agitation that began precocious Tuesday nighttime aft the information was rejected during scrutiny proceedings. Around 10.30 p.m. connected Tuesday, elder Congress leaders, including Leader of Opposition Umang Singhar, on with MLAs and enactment workers, reached the CEO bureau and staged a sit-in extracurricular the gate.Several leaders laic down connected the roadworthy successful beforehand of the bureau and continued the protestation done the night, alleging that ideology and law norms were being undermined to assistance BJP unafraid each 3 Rajya Sabha seats unopposed.Simultaneously, Congress leaders and workers besides sat connected a corporate accelerated astatine Roshanpura Square successful the metropolis connected Wednesday. Former main curate Digvijaya Singh, Rajya Sabha MP Ashok Singh, erstwhile Union curate Arun Yadav, authorities Congress main Jitu Patwari, Umang Singhar and respective Congress MLAs participated successful the protest.

Meanwhile, Patwari issued an unfastened missive to the radical of Madhya Pradesh, describing the rejection of Natarajan’s information arsenic “an onslaught connected nationalist religion successful law institutions”.In the letter, helium alleged that antiauthoritarian institutions crossed the state were progressively coming nether unit and appealed to citizens to stay vigilant to “protect the Constitution and democracy”.Congress maintained that the information rejection was politically motivated, portion BJP defended the returning officer’s determination arsenic being strictly successful accordance with predetermination laws and Supreme Court guidelines.