Mysuru: G Parameshwara leads protest by Congress against Sonia Gandhi’s interrogation by ED

MYSURU: Scores of Congress workers led by former deputy chief minister G Parameshwara and former minister HC Mahadevappa were detained by the city police when they tried to take out a rally to I-T office to register their opposition to ED’s interrogation against Congress top leaders Sonia Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi.
The Congress workers gathered at the historic Gandhi Square and staged a protest. They accused the Centre of targeting the Nehru-Gandhi family. They accused the Centre of misusing powers of the central investigating agencies to muzzle opposition parties.
According to them, BJP has directed the central investigating agencies against the Congress. They contested that the ED has filed a case against Sonia and Rahul even when there is no evidence of wrongdoing. This is a ploy to defame them ahead of the Lok Sabha polls, they said. The agitators said Sonia refused to occupy the PM’s post but is now subjected to humiliation.
Parameshwara asked the party workers to take the fight to the BJP camp. “Unlike BJP, we have activists spread over across the length and breadth of India. But BJP has cornered power in many states by poaching into opposition camps, including Congress,” he said. Though Sonia Gandhi is not well, she is harassed by summoning her for questioning, he said.
They later started the march to reach the I-T office when they were stopped by a strong posse of cops. Angered, the leaders sat on the road in protest. Though the cops asked them to drop it, the Congress workers did not budge. Police later detained them and took them in their vehicles. They were later released.
Congress activists also protested in Mandya and Chamarajanagar too.