00:00But the big story that we are breaking and the visuals that we want to bring you, Rahul Gandhi and
00:04Priyanka Gandhi-Wadra have been detained by the Delhi police after nine hours of a dharma. Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka
00:12Gandhi-Wadra are detained by the police.
00:15Gandhi is forcibly dragged out of the protest site. Gandhi's were demanding a meet with Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar
00:24and were on a dharma at Akashwani Bhavan.
00:27EC has clarified, says no appointment was sought before 4pm. EC says requests came to meet 240 MPs at Parliament
00:35Annex. EC considered the meet request unusual due to the venue.
00:39So clearly those visuals that you can see and that is the bus that is taking the MPs now to
00:45Kingsway camp where they have been detained for now and are expected to be released shortly afterwards.
00:51But Rahul Gandhi on the right being taken away by the police after having spent nine hours at that dharma
00:59site.
00:59Those are the visuals that have come in. His sister Priyanka Gandhi-Wadra was there along with congressmen on the
01:06side.
01:07Moshmi Singh and Shriya Chhattaji are now joining us. Moshmi, to you first.
01:12Rahul Gandhi, we have been told, has been taken to the Kingsway camp along with about at least two dozen
01:18other MPs.
01:19Can you give us more details?
01:24That's right, Rajdeep. We were trying to chase the bus. We lost him midway. He's about 200 metres, 300 metres
01:32away in this Jhandewala stretch.
01:36And the other leaders who are there with him tell me that he is being frisked away to Kingsway camp.
01:42Now, this has been a long haul throughout the day. It started at 11 a.m. Around 1 p.m.,
01:49Rahul Gandhi sat, went back to Akashwani and sat there on a dharma.
01:54And we've seen, we are also told that Priyanka Gandhi and Rahul Gandhi have been split in different buses because
02:01that's been a part of the strategy of the Delhi police.
02:03But all day long, we saw a sit-in protest under a tree, gaddas and mattresses and bedsheets being brought
02:12in, talks about subcommunication and mediation between the top cops and the Congress leaders there over a meeting with the
02:23CEC and the EC.
02:24But Rahul Gandhi has been adamant on that one.
02:27And then very quickly, I think, within 10 minutes, Rajdeep, I was right there. The Delhi police moved in really
02:34fast to frisk away Rahul Gandhi, detained Priyanka Gandhi there.
02:39Even I saw Rahul Gandhi resisting that a lot. He fell on the ground and then was using his techniques
02:46to not be detained.
02:48So he resisted for quite a while where we had dozens of cops putting him in that bus.
02:54So it's been a long haul throughout the day.
02:57Okay, so he's on his way to Kingsway camp. You're saying they're in separate buses.
03:01Shriya Chatterjee, give us more details that you're picking up. What is Delhi police's strategy now?
03:07They were very swift as Moshmi just reported to whisk them away.
03:13But clearly, they are very careful to ensure that there are no, that since these are MPs, there is no
03:20question of creating any situation between the MPs and the police.
03:28Well, absolutely, Rajdeep. And you know, swift, yes, but also after eight to nine long hours, they were allowed to
03:34sit inside Akash Vani Bhavan.
03:36Now, two press releases have dropped right now, Rajdeep. One from the election commission, the second from the Delhi police.
03:42To sum up what really transpired, because I was there the whole day. I saw the DCP New Delhi coordinate
03:48this.
03:49It was he who was talking to Priyanka Gandhi. The request went in from Rahul Gandhi that he wants to
03:55meet the election commissioner along with 200 MPs at the parliament annex.
04:00Now, this was turned down by the election commission saying that this is an unusual protocol.
04:05There is a proper method in which you can take permission. They also said that if need be, where the
04:12protesters are protesting, one of the representatives from the election commission can go and meet the protesters.
04:18But even that was turned down. So all these transpired since that eight to nine long hours.
04:23And when finally, the Delhi police could not make any headway communicating between Rahul Gandhi and the election commission, they
04:31have mentioned it in their press release that in order to maintain law and order, we had to take action.
04:37So, yes, there was a strategy on the ground to ensure utmost patience is maintained while tackling because they are
04:45member of parliament.
04:46They've learned a lesson from the last time Rahul Gandhi protested outside the PM house.
04:52So clearly, there was a wait and watch procedure, but there was also a to and fro communication that was
04:57being done by the DCP New Delhi between Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi and the election commission when that did not
05:04happen.
05:04At 8 PM, they were detained.
