In Delhi, Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi has sat on strike outside Sansad Marg police station. His sister and Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi has also reached the police station.
Rahul Gandhi is also accompanied by Sahil Lochav, the student who was injured during the protest at Jantar Mantar. It is alleged that Sahil was injured by a pellet gun on July 20.
Rahul Gandhi demands that an FIR be registered on the basis of the written police complaint given by Sahil Lochav. He is talking to police officials regarding this demand.
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Ravi Shankar Prasad said, "The biggest thing is that the people who were victims went to the Supreme Court and the Supreme Court itself has formed a high powered committee which is headed by a retired Supreme Court judge."
Ravi Shankar Prasad also linked Rahul Gandhi's move to the controversy over Vande Mataram. He said, "Our apprehension and allegation is that the party is trapped in the stand taken by Congress on Vande Mataram."
BJP MP Ravi Shankar Prasad said, "He is sitting on a dharna outside the Sansad Marg police station without permission or prior notice. The police have told him that the incident he is referring to has already been registered and an FIR is being investigated. The Supreme Court has also formed a high-level committee to investigate it."
He asked, "Rahul Gandhi, don't you want to respect any law?"
"We suspect and allege that the Congress is now in trouble because of its stand on the national song Vande Mataram. We condemn what the Congress is doing right now under the leadership of Rahul Gandhi."
"The message has been sent to the country that just as the Congress Party was under the pressure of Muslim bias in 1937, the same is happening in 2026."
Apart from Rahul Gandhi, many big leaders of Congress have also reached Sansad Marg police station. Congress workers are raising slogans outside the Sansad Marg police station in Delhi.
Congress general secretary and communications in-charge Jairam Ramesh said, "He (Rahul Gandhi) is sitting on strike."
Rahul Gandhi is continuously insisting that the police register a case on his complaint. At present he is present in the DPC office along with Sahil Lochav and party MP Kumari Selja.
The Congress party has accused Home Minister Amit Shah of using pellet guns.
Congress wrote on Twitter, "Amit Shah fired pellet gun on the children of the country, in which Sahil suffered serious eye injury due to the pellet. Sahil and his mother were continuously going to the police and demanding to register an FIR, which the police was ignoring. Therefore, today Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi met the police officials along with Sahil and his mother and asked for information about the investigation."
Congress alleged that investigation number has not been given on Sahil's complaint, so that FIR can be registered.
Former TMC MP Saket Gokhale had obtained information through RTI on the use of pellet guns during the protest. Gokhale had said that through RTI it has been revealed that the number of people injured by pellet guns is at least five.
"Records from hospitals show that the confirmed number is at least double that, i.e. 10 people," Gokhale wrote in a post on X.
According to the information received by Gokhale, nine people injured by pellet guns were admitted to Lady Hardinge Hospital and one to Safdarjung Hospital. Gokhale is still waiting to get the records from Delhi's AIIMS and RML.
Rahul Gandhi, sitting on the dharna, said, pellet guns were used at Jantar Mantar on July 20. During this, Rahul Gandhi showed the alleged pellets kept in a box and claimed that these had come out of his body.
He said, "200 shrapnel are inside his body. Three shrapnel are in his eye."
He showed the reports of Delhi's AIIMS and Lady Hardinge Hospital.
He said, "It is clearly written in these reports that there are more than 200 shrapnel in his body. There are three shrapnel in his eye. He will not be able to see from that eye and there are shrapnel stuck very close to his heart, which cannot be removed."
"Delhi Police said that we did not fire the pellets, but if you did not fire then someone must have fired them. Maybe someone else fired these pellets at them. And if no one else fired these pellets, then perhaps they fired these pellets at themselves. We just want the FIR to be registered. We will not move from here until the FIR is registered."
