Rahul Gandhi to appear before ED today, Delhi Police's no to Congress protest

Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is set to appear before the Enforcement Directorate on Monday in the National Herald case in Delhi. The Congress was planning a mega ‘Satyagrah’ protest in the city but they’ve now been denied the permission to hold the rally in the national capital.

The grand old party’s march was planned from the party headquarters to the probe agency office. Visuals shared by news agency ANI showed huge police presence outside the office of Enforcement Directorate on Monday morning.

Several top leaders were expected to take part in the Congress show of strength. But the Delhi Police could not allow the rally due to the “communal situation” in the capital and VVIP movements in the jurisdiction, deputy commissioner of police, New Delhi, Amrutha Guguloth, said.

Some leaders were detained on Monday morning amid sloganeering, ANI reported.

Congress leader Manickam Tagore last week had said that party was preparing to hold demonstrations at around 25 offices of the probe agency across the country against the political vendetta and the "misuse" of the central investigative agencies by the central government to "silence the voice of opposition’.