Congress leaders have greatly been coming to the defence of the Indian Youth Congress (IYC) and its national president Uday Bhanu Chib after the Delhi Police arrested him in relation to the shirtless demonstration last week at the AI Impact Summit venue in the national capital.
On Tuesday Chib was arrested and later a Judicial Magistrate had remanded him to four days of police custody. This arrest provoked demonstrations of Youth Congress workers who assembled in front of Patiala House Court and had demonstrations, interrupting the traffic in the place temporarily.
In support of the young leader, the Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge attacked the current Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), ruling it on the grounds of the two-sidedness. In reaction to the BJP leaders who referred to the protest as anti-national and unsuitable in an international event that hosts foreign dignitaries, Kharge gave parallel comparisons to protests that were held during the 2010 Commonwealth Games. He accused BJP leaders such as the then Union Minister Nitin Gadkari of disrupting official functions, as well, at the time.
Kharge wondered about the reason why the BJP raised the issue of nationalism, given that when the protests were made, the Commonwealth Games was going on. He claimed that the ruling party tried to censor opposition and unjustly attacking the opposition youth leaders.
Requesting the authorities to set the members of the detained Youth Congress free, Kharge abided by the government to cease harassing them and instead look back to its track record.
The arrest has turned the political tension into a major controversy and the congress leaders have made the arrest an assault on the democratic rights and the BJP continues to argue that such protests damage the Indian image in the international arena.
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