Opposition march to ECI LIVE: Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi detained as INDIA bloc protest stopped, few MPs faint

New Delhi: Delhi police on Monday detained protesting INDIA bloc MPs as they were leading a march from the Parliament House to the the Election Commission of India (ECI) against the special intensive revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar and alleged electoral malpractices. The police have also detained Leader of the Opposition (LoP) in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi.

Rahul was leading the protest march from Makar Dwar in Parliament to the ECI office at Nirvachan Sadan. As they proceeded from the Parliament House, they were stopped by the Police who had erected barricades. While some MPs including TMC’s Mahua Moitra and Samajwadi Party’s Akhilesh Yadav were seen climbing the barricades,. others including Mallikarjun Kharge began a sit-in protest at the site.

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