The political controversy in Kerala over the SilverLine semi-speed rail hall mission discovered an echo in Delhi on Thursday with the police stopping Congress MPs from the state from marching to Parliament. Some leaders even alleged they had been manhandled by the police.
The Congress MPs from the state, who had been marching to Parliament after addressing a press convention at Vijay Chowk, had been stopped by the police, resulting in a scuffle. The MPs had been allegedly pushed round, and no less than considered one of them – Ernakulam MP Hibie Eden – was stated to have suffered blows to his face. Amid the scuffle, Palakkad MP VK Sreekantan was heard asking police personnel why they had been stopping MPs from going to Parliament.
#WATCH , Delhi: A scuffle breaks out between police forces & Kerala’s UDF MPs whereas they had been protesting at Vijay Chowk towards Kerala’s Okay-Silver line mission pic.twitter.com/V1Ll3HlqJJ
— ANI (@ANI) March 24, 2022
The police denied claims of manhandling the MPs. Suman Nalwa, Delhi Police PRO, stated, “A few people came to the North Fountain barricades point from the media lawn shouting in Malayalam. They were stopped by the staff at the barricades. They claimed to be MPs and continued shouting. They were asked to show their ID cards, which they denied. Meanwhile, staff from the security picket at Gate No 1 of Parliament were called to identify the MPs. The staff came and identified them, and they were then allowed to go forward.”
The incident got here on the identical day Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan met Prime Minister Narendra Modi to debate the mission, which has come to be often called the Okay-rail. The Congress has been waging an agitation in Kerala towards the mission.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan in New Delhi on Thursday (ANI Photo)
Meanwhile, elevating the problem in Lok Sabha, the MPs approached Speaker Om Birla for motion towards the police.
RSP MP NK Premachandran stated within the House it was a matter of privilege because the MPs had been “assaulted and attacked” by the police regardless of speaking to them that they had been members of Parliament and had been going to the Parliament House. “What’s the authority of the Delhi Police to dam us MPs on the gate of Parliament House? They even entered the premises of Parliament,” Premachandran stated.
Congress MP Okay Suresh stated, “Twelve of us had been strolling in protest towards the Okay-rail from Vijay Chowk to Parliament House. We had been protesting as a result of it’s a mission towards the pursuits of the folks of Kerala. But we had been assaulted, brutally attacked by the Delhi police.”
Rajya Sabha MP KC Venugopal tweeted a video of the incident, and known as it a “preposterous misuse of state power”.
The preposterous misuse of State energy to silence our nation’s democratic voice is unacceptable!
While the CPIM destroys Kerala’s future via its Silver-line mission & bulldozes the folks’s voice of protest, BJP’s diktat has led to manhandling of MPs by Delhi Police.
Shame! pic.twitter.com/L0JgnVbsxF
— KC Venugopal (@kcvenugopalmp) March 24, 2022
In response, Speaker Birla known as the MPs into his chamber to hunt particulars on the incident.
According to the Kerala MPs, the Speaker instructed them he had summoned the Delhi Police commissioner and there could be an inquiry into the incident. He additionally instructed them they may give a privilege discover, the MPs stated.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
