00:00Congress, meanwhile, as political elected representatives, are initiating their own level of protest and asking all opposition parties, civil society
00:08groups and citizens to join in.
00:10What is the BJP saying in response to all of this? Let's listen in.
00:59This is strong.
00:59तो मानने नयायले को काड़ घरे में खड़ा करने का प्रियास भारत की जनता लोक्तांत्रिक दिस्से बहुत जागरूक है वह
01:13इस अराजकता को स्विकार नहीं करेगे
01:16Rahul Gandhi's anarchic attempts to politicize our constitutional institutions repeatedly,
01:25this time our judiciary, is nothing but sinister conspiracy to weaken our national unity.
01:34For more than a decade after facing repeated political failures, Rahul Gandhi has now become
01:40unstable and unhinged. And in this desperation, he is trying to threaten and intimidate our
01:46constitutional institutions to pro-purpose fail political career.
01:52Heading our National Affairs Bureau, Munish Pant is on the ground speaking to the Himachal Pradesh
01:57Chief Minister. He's now joining me. Munish, you tell me, what does it look like for the
02:01Congress show of strength? They are getting all the chief ministers together. Where did you get
02:05the chief minister to be speaking? What is the protest looking like?
02:14Well, Pooja, at this point of time, we are at Himachal Bhawan, which is in Mandi House area. And you
02:19can see
02:19thousands of the Congress workers have gathered here. This is one of the gathering points where
02:25the Congress workers were asked to come and then they will be marching towards the Barakhamba road.
02:32From Barakhamba road, they will be joined by Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi and other India bloc leaders
02:38like Akhilesh Yadav, Mamata Banerji. But as far as, you know, it is concerned, you know, today's gathering
02:46is concerned. Congress has made a mass mobilization and they will be marching from Barakhamba road to
02:52Supreme Court. I spoke to the chief minister just a while back and they, he is saying that their demands
02:59is very clear. Their demand is that Ganesh Kumar, the chief election commissioner, should resign. But at the
03:05very same time, Pooja, it has to be seen that whether, you know, when the matter is already subjudice,
03:11whether that decision will be taken by or not. Because as far as the election commissioner is concerned,
03:17you know, they have made the declaration before the Supreme Court that nothing was done, which was illegal.
03:24So in that situation, whether that call will be taken by the CEC or, you know, by any other person,
03:33that will be seen. As far as Bharti Janta Party is concerned, they are saying that the Congress
03:37Party, the India bloc members are politicizing this matter. There is nothing wrong with the SIR process.
03:44But Congress, today they are saying that it will be a huge mass mobilization of Congress leaders and
03:50they will be marching towards the Supreme Court today, which is plotted from 1.30 p.m. to 4 o
03:57'clock, Pooja.
03:581.30 p.m. to 4 o'clock can extend as well, depending what we have seen in the past
04:04few weeks.
04:04Mudish, I request you to please stay on. Rahul Gautam, who closely tracks the opposition,
04:08especially the Congress Party, is also joining me. Rahul, where are you presently?
04:12What do you think the arrangements are like for the Delhi police? Because what we have seen with
04:16the CJPs, absolutely no chances are being taken. Nobody is being allowed to even touch
04:21down to the protest venue. What do you understand about this protest?
04:30Pooja, currently I am at Indra Bhavan, where Rahul Gandhi is going to hold a press conference
04:35just a short while from now. And in fact, I'll just show you some visuals here. You can see
04:41Jairam Ramesh, who's the General Secretary of Communication, along with Pawan Kheda. They're
04:45already here. And in fact, we've been informed from our sources that at 1 p.m., the entire
04:51opposition block leaders are going to meet at Constitutional Club, wherein they're going
04:56to have tea over there. They're going to strategize over the future calls of action. And from there,
05:02they'll proceed towards Barak Kamba Road, which is actually the assembling point for all the
05:07Congress workers, opposition workers, opposition leaders, you know, for march. And from there,
05:12around 1.30, we can say that the march will begin towards Supreme Court of India. We already know
05:19that how CGI has already declined the request. However, sources are telling to us that Congress
05:24had an inkling about it, that the request might not be entertained. And they are saying that they
05:31fully respect the decision that has been taken by CGI. However, they just wanted to go and apply
05:36CGI, just wanted to go and hand over a memorandum, you know, listing the Elish malpractices,
05:42all the wrongdoings of CAC Gyanesh Kumar. So therefore, they are saying that that's absolutely
05:49fine with them, that if CGI is not wishing to meet with them.
