Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi.
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Scores of protesting Opposition MPs including Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi and Congress General Secretary Priyanka Vadra were detained by the Delhi Police during the protest march to Election Commission over voter roll revision issue.
"We want clean, pure voter list,: said Rahul after being detained by police while taking out protest march to EC.
Earlier, Congress leader Jairam Ramesh had written to the to the Election Commission to allow them to hold a meeting with them and discuss the SIR, among other issues.
Police had made elaborate arrangements and placed barricades next to the Transport Bhawan on Parliament street to stop the protesting MPs from moving forward.
The police asked the MPs not to proceed further and made an announcement through a loudspeaker, as they were prevented from moving forward to the Election Commission headquarters, a short distance from Parliament House.
Prominent among those who participated in the march were T R Baalu (DMK), Sanjay Raut (SS-UBT), Derek O'Brien (TMC), Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, Samajwadi Party's Akhilesh Yadav, as well as other MPs from opposition parties like the DMK, the RJD, Left parties.
TMC MPs Mahua Moitra and Sushmita Dev and Congress' Sanjana Jatav and Jothimani climbed the barricades at Transport Bhawan and raised slogans against the EC when they were prevented from moving forward by the police.
A banner in front of the protesting MPs read "SIR+Vote Theft=Murder of Democracy". Another banner carried by the protesting MPs read "SIR - Loktantra Par Vaar".
With PTI inputs