Four Youth Congress workers arrested for protest at AI summit, police seek probe

A Delhi court on Saturday sent the four Indian Youth Congress IYC workers who were arrested for protesting at the AI Impact Summit venue a day ago to fiveday police custody A detailed order is awaitedThe arrested protesters were Krishna Hari national secretary of Youth Congress from Bihar Kundan Yadav IYC state secretary Bihar Ajay Kumar IYC state president Uttar Pradesh and Narasimha Yadav from TelanganaBJP protests take over the nation PICSPTIDelhi Police sought fiveday custody of the arrested protesters arguing that they raised antinational slogans and wore tshirts with objectionable images of Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the event venue Tshirts spoke of the IndiaUS Trade Deal and the Epstein Files and read ldquoPM is compromisedrdquo with pictures of the PM and US President Donald TrumpCounsel for the police argued that it was a ldquoseriousrdquo matter An attempt was made to stop the police following which three personnel were injured he said Delhi police said the protests were similar to Nepalrsquos Gen Z protest last yearBesides the conspiracy behind organising the protest the source of funding and where the tshirts were printed needed to be ascertained the counsel said The counsel appearing for the arrested protesters argued that they were associated with a political party and had exercised their democratic right to protest peacefullyThe advocate claimed that their arrest greatly diminished the dignity of democracy and that if arrests are to be made for protesting then MPs protesting in Parliament should also be arrestedBJP holds nationwide protestsMadhya PradeshNearly 10 persons including a policeman and two journalists were injured after Congress and BJYM pelted stones at each other during a protest in Indore on Saturday BJYM members reached Congress office and tried to lay siege to it During the clash water bottles oranges and tomatoes were also thrown To bring the situation under control police used water cannonsNew DelhiDelhi BJP president Virendra Sachdeva and Lok Sabha MP Manoj Tiwari termed Congress demonstration as an act of ldquotreasonrdquo BJP leaders like state general secretary Vishnu Mittal and MLA Raj Kumar Bhatia showed up for protests in Delhi Police personnel stopped them at a barricade as they tried to march towards Congress headquartersHaryanaBJYM held a demonstration against the led by senior BJP leader and former Haryana Assembly Speaker Gian Chand Gupta assembled at Sector 5 and raised slogans against Congress leader Rahul Gandhi They also burnt an effigy of the Leader of the Opposition in Lok Sabha accusing him and his party workers of trying to insult India at the mega event demanding an apology from Gandhi for allegedly defaming the country ldquoThe way some lsquogoondasrsquo of Rahul Gandhi held a demonstration and insulted India there can be no bigger crime than thisrdquo Gupta saidRajasthanBJYM led by state president Shankar Gora on Saturday staged a demonstration outside the Rajasthan Pradesh Congress Committee headquarters ldquoA large number of women were also present there In opposing the Prime Minister and the BJP the Congress has now started opposing the nation itselfrdquo Gora said A scuffle broke out as some protesters attempted to cross the barricades but police stopped them The demonstration continued for around half an hour moreUttar PradeshIn the presence of police officers hundreds of BJYM workers expressed their anger BJYM district president Chandan Narayan Singh said Following the protest BJYM workers submitted a memorandum demanding the identification and strict legal action against the perpetrators behind the incident to the District Magistrate and City Magistrate Preeti Jain at the CollectorateThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever