The Congress said that BJP members in Assam’s Sonitpur district on Sunday “manhandled” its senior leader Jairam Ramesh’s car and the video crew accompanying the party’s Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra.
On its fourth day in the state, the yatra led by Rahul Gandhi is making its way from the Biswanth district to Sonitpur and Nagaon. The said assault took place prior to Rahul Gandhi’s planned speech at a rally in the Nagaon district’s Kaliabor.
As many vehicles of the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra were travelling through an area in Jamugurihat, the party claimed that BJP supporters were conducting a march on Rahul Gandhi’s path before to his arrival. They allegedly assaulted the reporters covering the Congress yatra and vandalised many cars, including Ramesh’s.
In response to the event, Assam Chief Minister Himanta Sarma requested that the Assam DGP file a case and look into the Congress’s accusations.
Mahima Singh, the communications coordinator for the All India Congress Committee (AICC), that a BJP function was reportedly taking place nearby and that some journalists had exited their cars to get some images.
They put us in a very scary situation. They won’t give up the vlogger’s camera, saying it wasn’t stolen, the woman.
“The car of Ramesh ji and some others were moving to join the main yatra entourage near Jamugurighat when it came under attack,” she stated.
Singh said that the assailants tried to place a BJP flag on Ramesh’s car, almost shattering the back glass, and that they also removed the Congress Jodo Nyay Yatra stickers off the car.
“A vlogger covering the yatra had his camera, credential, and other equipment stolen. The Congress leader said that party social media team members were similarly mistreated.
“We informed the police and the additional superintendent of police is at the location now,” she continued.
“GOONS” FROM HIMANTA SARMA ACCUSED OF ATTACK, CONGRESS SAYS
Using a video that he tweeted, Ramesh claimed that Sarma was responsible for the purported attack on his car, with a number of people waving BJP flags around it.
He added that he waved to the BJP activists before departing the area, where they were hurling water and yelling anti-yatra chants.
Supriya Shrinate, an important member of the Congress, criticised Sarma, claiming that he and “his goons” were powerless to halt the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra in Assam. Such attacks, according to her, “won’t stop them” since they “were warriors of justice”.
YATRA OF CONGRESS EARLIER ATTACKED
The Congress claimed on Saturday that “BJP goons” had damaged and pulled flags from the trucks participating in its Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra in North Lakhimpur, Assam. Mallikarjun Kharge, the head of the party, declared that the party will not submit to such threatening methods.
According to Assam Congress president Bhupen Kumar Borah, party workers who went to the town where the yatra was scheduled to pass on Saturday were assaulted and all of the hoardings and banners that had been set up to welcome it were ripped down.
The Assam DGP, however, said that no cars were attacked and that the yatra entered Arunachal Pradesh amicably.
“Dear Sir, no political party’s vehicle, much less the yatra, has been targeted. Throughout the state, @Assam police has meticulously planned for L&O and security for the yatra. After the first leg in Assam, the yatra has peacefully reached Arunachal Pradesh “DGP Singh replied to Kharge’s post on X.
The march’s Assam leg started on January 18 and will go until January 25. It will cover 17 districts over a distance of 833 kilometres.
