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Congress MPs and INDIA bloc supporters gathered near Connaught Place to march towards Raj Ghat in Delhi. Following confrontations with police near Jantar Mantar a day prior on 7 October, where clashes and barricading took place involving the Rapid Action Force and Delhi Police, protesters embarked on a route connecting Central and Old Delhi. Passing commercial hubs, Lok Nayak Hospital, and Arun Jaitley Stadium, the march poses major management challenges for traffic and law enforcement. Meanwhile, demonstrators at Raj Ghat have gathered to chant and sing bhajans associated with Mahatma Gandhi.

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00:00Just for the viewer watching, if you're thinking yesterday he was in Karnat place as well,
00:03but that was near Jantar Mantar or heading to election office.
00:06How is he heading from the same place to the Rajgat?
00:09Let me just take you through the map of Anashree Capital, Rajdhani, Delhi.
00:13Now, the place where he's heading to right now connects old Delhi and new Delhi.
00:17Central Delhi is that intersection point, extremely busy all the time.
00:22And diversity when it comes to classes, commercial, residential.
00:27So this is what you're looking at.
00:28So this was Jantar Mantar entry.
00:30This was Sagar Ratna, where they went yesterday and then after that immediately launched a flash protest.
00:35This was October 7th.
00:36So this march, we know, stopped by cops.
00:38There was confrontation, allegation of either a bloodied cop or someone scratching and biting the congress workers.
00:45Jantar Mantar entry too.
00:47This was where the cops and the protesters were clashing.
00:49So this route that you saw yesterday was completely barricaded,
00:53where the deployment was of the Rapid Action Force of the Delhi police as well.
00:57What happened now?
00:58So unlike that location, Mohit's an extremely popular, prestigious, old school eatery when it comes to Connaught Place.
01:06That was where the congress MPs gathered.
01:08They are taking this turn, ladies and gentlemen, to Rajghat.
01:12So while this was a direct road, this goes through streets that connects the Delight Cinema, the Lok Naik Hospital,
01:20there is Arunjaitli Stadium as well here.
01:23There are commercial complexes.
01:24On the other side is what the old Delhi area begins.
01:28On this side is a busy area of central Delhi.
01:30So to pass all of this would be a nightmare for traffic police and the Delhi police to manage, but
01:35also ensure no confrontation takes place.
01:38This is bustling with the supporters and workers of the India bloc right now.
01:43Will they be allowed to touch down Rajghat, where already some of the protesters have reached and are chanting, singing
01:49the songs of the bhajans associated with regard to Mahatma Gandhi?
01:53See, all of that and more, this is the route that the protesters and our colleagues also are taking.

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