00:00India blocks anti-SIR stir now in Bengaluru in Karnataka.
00:05A mock arrest of Gyanesh Kumar on the streets of Bengaluru, ladies and gentlemen.
00:09Look at that.
00:10Coming up on your screens.
00:12A man looking like Gyanesh Kumar, or wearing of course a Gyanesh Kumar, the CEC mask,
00:18is arrested officially and I say that in quotes.
00:22Gyanesh Kumar is not arrested, ladies and gentlemen, of course, don't get me wrong.
00:25But a protester dressed as a cop on the stage and somebody of course from the group dressed
00:33as Gyanesh Kumar are staging a mock arrest, like mock impeachment, mock arrest is happening.
00:39Look at that.
00:40Let's go across to that visual and let's see what happened here.
01:10All right.
01:11So what I can see, not just arrested, ladies and gentlemen, Gyanesh Kumar arrested and paraded
01:18on the Bengaluru streets by the Congress workers.
01:22That's Dinesh Gundu Rao, I believe, and he's, of course, remember, senior leader of the Congress
01:27Party.
01:28So on the streets, a full-on jail has been set up.
01:32Gyanesh Kumar being paraded on the streets, of course.
01:35When I say this, I say that in quotes, in the sense that it's somebody from the group
01:40who's dressed up, wearing a mask of CEC.
01:43It's a mock arrest.
01:45A full-on jail also has come in.
01:47So one Gyanesh Kumar is outside, arrested and paraded, and one inside the jail.
01:51I don't know if it's creative or it's cringy.
01:54We leave that to the viewer to decide.
01:57But because these are not random protesters or people, there are senior Karnataka Congress
02:02unit leaders who are part of this as well.
02:04And that's Dinesh Gundu Rao, I believe, who's leading that protest.
02:10So there's a full-on cop in the uniform.
02:13And you can see handcuffs on CEC Gyanesh Kumar.
02:18Sagai Raj is joining me from Bengaluru on this.
02:21Sagai, what's happening?
02:22This is turning bizarrely creative.
02:27You notice that the Congress had called for a protest in Karnataka against Gyanesh Kumar.
02:33And this is a continuation of the old shory protest which has happened on a Sunday in Delhi.
02:41And subsequently, leaders, including the Karnataka Chief Minister, KPCC President,
02:46and the entire cabinet from the Karnataka government will take part in this particular protest against Gyanesh Kumar.
02:53What is their plan?
02:55Why do they think that such mock arrests, do you think it's going to catch attention?
03:01This could look like a mock justice as well to me because I want to understand what is the strategy
03:08here.
03:08They want to consistently ensure that on the streets of Bengaluru, Sagai, that this will be a protest that will
03:14be seen.
03:15No, it is the Karnataka Congress government in the state.
03:18And they want to send across a message that wherever the Congress is in power,
03:23they will take this particular protest to the next level.
03:28And that is the reason it is a continuation of the protest which has happened in Delhi.
03:32Now, including the Chief Minister of Karnataka and the cabinet ministers,
03:37and everybody will take part in this particular protest at Freedom Park.
03:43All right, Sagai, please stay on with me.
03:45Let's dip into the video again.
03:46Let's listen to the sounds that are coming in about a mock arrest and paraded on the streets.
03:53CEC Gyanesh Kumar.
04:06Look at that.
04:08Dinesh Gundu Rao telling this imposter CEC to walk along because I think that the CEC who's wearing the mask
04:20of CEC,
04:20the man who's wearing is slightly confused on what to do.
04:23So he's being told by the Congress leader to keep walking.
04:27Poor man is in the handcuffs and is being dragged on the streets by this, of course, a mock cop.
04:34There's a full-on jail that has been crafted.
04:38And clearly this has led to reactions from the Congress party as well.
04:41So they're ensuring, at least in the Congress-governed states, they will not let the SIR issue go.
04:46Let's listen into more reactions of Congress leaders.
04:49India bloc organizing a massive protest against Mr. Gyanesh Kumar and SIR.
04:57This is in continuation of No. 1 Ramlila rally,
05:03where my leader Rahul Gandhiji and all India Congress Committee,
05:08President Malikarjun Kargayji and all India bloc leaders had gathered in Ramlila
05:14to seek the resignation of Gyanesh Kumar and to scrap SIR.
05:20In continuation of this, India bloc has assembled today in the Freedom Park.
05:28So there's a mock impeachment, a mock parliament, so to say.
05:31There's a mock arrest.
05:33The Congress is going all out to try and put all strategies that they possibly can.
05:37And this is to help understand, as you can see Meera Kumar,
05:41who's been a former speaker as well, of course, of the Lok Sabha,
05:44and how that is now being seen.
05:46Congress believes that this is not going to happen in reality,
05:49at least with the government right now.
05:50And therefore, they will do the mock impeachment and they will do the mock arrest.
05:54So you can see what happened in Delhi.
05:57And this was the mock impeachment that was done in the parliament, so to say, of course.
06:02And a mock arrest, CEC being dragged on the streets of Bengaluru.
06:06All right, I notice here, ladies and gentlemen, before I leave,
06:09they've made the CEC wear khaki shorts.
06:13And that is, of course, not coincidental.
06:15That is symbolic of trying to show that he's affiliated to the RSS, to the SANG.
06:22So fully prepared mask, suit with khaki shorts and trousers.
06:28And he's being told to walk on the streets in handcuffs.
06:31Congress says he needs to go.
06:32He's been acting on the orders of the government and the RSS.
