Hyderabad, March 27: Hundreds of Congress activists in Hyderabad, led by DCC President Sameer Waliullah, joined hands in a show of solidarity for Rahul Gandhi as part of the nationwide Sankalp Satyagraha protests.
The protest, organized by former Corporator and TPCC General Secretary Cherukuri Srinivas, was held at the Moosarambagh Cross Roads, near SBI Bank in the Malakpet constituency on Monday.
TPCC Working President and former MP M. Anjan Kumar Yadav, former minister K. Pushpa Leela, TPCC Vice President Chamla Kiran Reddy, TPCC General Secretaries G. Niranjan, Uzma Shakir and Kanhaiya Lal, all division and block presidents and other prominent leaders participated in the programme.
According to a press release, the Congress leaders began their protest by washing the statue of Dr BR Ambedkar with milk and then it was garlanded. They also submitted a petition to the statute condemning Rahul Gandhi’s disqualification as MP and called it a murder of democracy.
During the protest, Sameer Waliullah said that Rahul Gandhi’s disqualification from the Lok Sabha was unfair and accused the BJP government of using defamation to target opposition leaders and suppress dissent. Waliullah clarified that Rahul Gandhi did not claim all ‘Modis are thieves,’ but only questioned why some thieves, like Nirav and Lalit, have the Modi surname. Waliullah linked the case’s revival to Rahul Gandhi’s questioning of the Adani group in Parliament, stating that it aims to undermine democracy and silence dissent.