Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi arrested by UP Police on their way to Hatras

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• Previous Congress president Rahul Gandhi and party’s general secretary responsible for Uttar Pradesh Priyanka Gandhi have been captured by Uttar Pradesh police while on their way, by walking, to Hathras on Thursday.

The two were joined by other Youth Congress pioneers as they endeavored to advance towards Boolgarhi, the town in Hathras where a 19-year-old Dalit lady was gangraped, and who later surrendered to her grave wounds. 

The Gandhis, who were held after a series of lathicharge on them and other gathering laborers, are being taken back to New Delhi in the midst of tight security. 

 

The two have been held under Section 188 of IPC (relating to defiance of a request by a local official). 

The Gandhis' guard was first halted at Greater Noida by Uttar Pradesh police at a cost entryway, following which every one of them chose to walk the 142-kilometers to Boolgarhi. 

Nonetheless, a couple of kilometers into the walk, some police authorities halted Priyanka and Rahul once more. The Congress guaranteed that when the team attested that they would proceed with their walk, they were abused. 

A couple of Congress laborers who are going with the pair disclosed to The Wirethat both Priyanka and Rahul are steadfast in their desire to arrive at Boolgarhi. 

The Congress, alongside other resistance groups, have been fighting the nation over against the asserted misusing by the Adityanath-drove BJP state legislature of the incineration cycle following the death of the person in question. The fierce gangrape of the adolescent wherein she had her tongue cut off and spine completely broken shot to more prominent spotlight when her relatives affirmed that the Hathras region organization secured them, and incinerated her dead body in the dead of the night without their assent. They said the authorities didn't permit them to see the adolescent's carcass even once.

Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi on their approach to Boolgarhi. Photograph: By course of action 

Additionally read: UP Police Locked Us Up, Didn't Allow Us to See Body, Cremated Her at 3 am: Hathras Victim's Family 

On Wednesday, 13 Youth Congress pioneers, who were fighting external the gathering in Lucknow, were lathicharged, at that point confined and sent to jail. Comparable police activity against party laborers was accounted for from different areas of UP and in Delhi, where Youth Congress pioneer Amrita Dhawan and some others were hauled during a dissent into a transport that was confining protestors. 

 

The oppressive conduct was generally announced by the media on Wednesday. From that point forward, fights have been sorted out the nation over, with the Congress driving them in numerous parts. The gangrape case has from that point forward become symbolic of auxiliary position chain of command and its exploitative working in the state. 

While Priyanka, as the state in-control, has been driving the charge against the Adityanath government, the top Congress initiative has likewise tossed its cap in the ring.

Congress spokespersons have just begun inquiring as to why their gathering chiefs are not being permitted to visit the casualty's family. While the BJP has advocated the utilization of police activity, asserting that it was important as the Congress team is just attempting to politicize the ruthless episode of sexual brutality, other resistance groups have likewise assaulted the UP government for fiercely limiting tranquil fights. 

The situations which have developed since Wednesday are probably going to snowball in the days to come as different resistance groups and huge areas of common society have arranged various fights against affirmed UP government's showcase of exemption and lack of care in the Hathras assault case.