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Shashi Tharoor reacts to Rahul Gandhi's detention during Delhi protest
- •Congress MP Shashi Tharoor expressed deep shock and disturbance over the manhandling and detention of Rahul Gandhi by Delhi Police during an opposition march.
- •Tharoor, who was away in Berlin, Germany for a conference, shared his solidarity from afar via social media platform X and condemned the government's response.
- •Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, and other INDIA bloc MPs were detained after attempting to march to the Election Commission office to demand CEC Gyanesh Kumar's resignation.
- •The detained leaders, including Rahul Gandhi, were later released from Kingsway Camp late at night.
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Rahul Gandhi and INDIA bloc MPs were detained by the Delhi Police after staging a sit-in protest at Akashwani Bhavan against Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar. They were marching to the Election Commission office to protest the denial of voting rights to 130 million voters when their convoy was stopped and they were manhandled near All India Radio.
Congress MP Shashi Tharoor expressed that he was deeply disturbed by images of Rahul Gandhi being roughed up and detained by authorities. Writing from Berlin where he was attending a conference, Tharoor called the government response shameful while expressing full solidarity and confidence that justice would be served.
Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra were released from the New Police Lines located in Kingsway Camp late at night. They had been taken there following their detention by Delhi Police during the protest march near the Election Commission headquarters.
