Lucknow: Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Sunday slammed the Uttar Pradesh government over the arrest of party worker Sadaf Zafar during protests against the new citizenship law and said it has crossed all limits of inhumanity by “levelling baseless allegations” against the social activist.
Zafar was arrested here on December 19 while she was live on Facebook from the spot where protests against the amended citizenship law had gone violent. Police said she was arrested for her involvement in clashes.
“Uttar Pradesh government has crossed all limits of inhumanity. Congress worker Sadaf Zafar in a video can be clearly seen telling policemen to arrest those indulging in violence. The police has levelled baseless allegations on Sadaf and put her in jail,” Priyanka Gandhi tweeted in Hindi.
“This insensitive government has separated children from their mother and the older generation from their children,” she added.
Youth Cong activists protest near UP Bhawan
The youth wing of the Congress on Sunday staged a demonstration near the UP Bhawan here against police “manhandling” party general secretary Priyanka Gandhi in Lucknow and demanded resignation of Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.
35 protesters, including two women, were detained by Delhi Police personnel as soon as they tried to march towards the UP Bhawan from the nearby Assam Bhawan in south Delhi’s Chanakyapuri area.
Indian Youth Congress president Srinivas BV, who led the protesters, said the Uttar Pradesh chief minister should immediately resign for the “shameful” behaviour of the state police with Priyanka Gandhi.
“The UP government has sent many people to jails and now the state police is manhandling senior political leaders. It has lost all moral and social right to remain in power,” IYC media in-charge Amrish Pandey said. (PTI)