Nadda accuses INDIA bloc rally of seeking disorder

The INDIA bloc held its Chalo Dilli protest at Ramlila Maidan in Delhi on November 1, campaigning against alleged electoral irregularities and seeking the resignation of Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar. Union minister J.P. Nadda condemned the rally, accusing the opposition of seeking to create disorder and destabilise an elected government. Those allegations were not independently established in the reporting. The protest was part of the bloc’s campaign over alleged irregularities in elections and electoral rolls. Nadda described the demonstration as a planned political drama and alleged that Rahul Gandhi’s political strategy involved spreading rumours, prompting unrest, damaging the economy and ultimately destabilising the government with foreign support. He offered no independently verified evidence for those claims in the reported remarks. Nadda also criticised the choice of November 1, the anniversary of the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. He accused Gandhi of showing insensitivity to the Sikh community by holding the rally on that date and said the Congress party had not offered a sincere apology for the violence. The allegations and historical accusations were Nadda’s...