UP Congress Protest: Uttar Pradesh Congress Committee has announced to siege the UP Assembly on Wednesday. Since then, thousands of Congress workers have started reaching Lucknow. A large number of workers have gathered around the Congress office, while the administration also seems to be tight and is trying to stop the big leaders of the party. Congress’ UP in-charge Avinash Pandey has been placed under house arrest by the police in a hotel in Lucknow. Expressing displeasure over this, Avinash Pandey said, this government wants to suppress the voice of the people. We have come to raise public issues, but we are not being allowed to express our views.
Police made strict security arrangements
While on one hand Congress workers are busy gheraoing the Assembly, on the other hand the police administration has made strict security arrangements. Lucknow Police has started stopping people moving towards the Congress office and has placed big leaders under house arrest in their homes or hotels. So that Congress workers cannot reach the assembly, the police have installed high barricades with sharp iron on them. Section 163 has been imposed in the entire area. The administration has appealed for security reasons that the Assembly session is going on and the demonstration may jeopardize the safety of the members, which may lead to deterioration of law and order.
Police alert on announcement of Congress demonstration. Heavy police force was deployed around the Congress office. Security forces deployed in view of the assembly session. pic.twitter.com/LQGXVUHL6d
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Preparations are underway to surround the assembly.
The Congress party has made major preparations for the assembly siege on Wednesday, and workers from many districts have reached Lucknow. Meanwhile, the police has sent notices to more than two dozen senior leaders including state president Ajay Rai, outgoing state general secretary organization Anil Yadav, Dinesh Singh. The police have started keeping a strict vigil on the houses of these leaders since evening. In the notice, the police have said that the Assembly is in session, and the siege could pose a serious threat to law and order and the safety of specific people. On this, Congress state president Ajay Rai said that a program of gheraoing the assembly has been fixed against the failure of the BJP government. He said that thousands of workers from different districts have reached Lucknow and they will not back down from their movement despite the repressive attitude of the police administration.
