Clashes broke out between police and Congress workers in Assam on Tuesday after Rahul Gandhi’s ‘Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra’ was denied permission to enter state capital Guwahati.
The clashes broke out after Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma announced that Rahul Gandhi’s Yatra will not be allowed to enter Guwahati and police stopped it outside the city.
Angry Congress workers took down the police barricading and shouted slogans against the Assam chief minister.
In a video shared by Congress leaders, Congress workers chanting Rahul Gandhi Zindabad slogans are seen confronting police personnel, who resorted to lathicharge to disperse the crowd.
Addressing the gathering near the the Guwahati border, Rahul Gandhi said that a rally of BJP Chief JP Nadda took place along the same route but his yatra has been stopped.
“The rally of Bajrang Dal and JP Nadda took place through this route but our march has been stopped. Congress workers have removed the barricades installed on the road. Therefore, do not think that the Congress worker is weak,” Gandhi said.
He further said that Congress workers are law abiding citizens and the yatra proceeded through the allowed route.
“Barricades were put up on the route of ‘Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra’ in Assam today. Brave Congress workers removed the barricade. But we follow the law, so the journey was carried out through the route from which we have received permission,” he added.
Rahul Gandhi and the Assam CM have been indulging in a bitter war of words ever since the ‘Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra’ entered Assam.
Earlier on Monday, Gandhi was stopped from visiting ‘Batadrava Than’, the shrine of iconic Vaishnavite saint Srimanta Sankardeva.
Hitting out at the BJP-led Assam government, the Congress alleged that the Bordowa Than Management Committee was pressured by Chief Minister Himanta Sarma, who, in turn, was instructed from Delhi, to stop the Gandhi scion.
After negotiations, only the local MPs and MLAs, including Cong MP Gaurav Gogoi, were allowed to visit Bordowa Than.