Lights Are Dimming: Rahul Gandhi, on way to Hathras, Assaulted by UP Police, then Arrested together with Priyanka

[Sukla Sen]

Uttar Pradesh police attack Rahul Gandhi as he marched to meet Hathras rape victim’s family - https://gulfnews.com/world/asia/india/uttar-pradesh-police-attack-rahul-gandhi-as-he-marched-to-meet-hathras-rape-victims-family-1.1601550233062

Yet another straw in the wind. 

Just watch the video clip: <https://twitter.com/brijeshkalappa/status/1311614314374074368>.

He and Priyanka arrested as well: <https://www.bloombergquint.com/politics/party-leaders-rahul-gandhi-priyanka-gandhi-arrested-by-up-police-congress>.

<<The Uttar Pradesh police, which reports to Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, today attacked, hit and pushed to the ground former Congress president Rahul Gandhi.

The provocation: Gandhi and his sister Priyanka Gandhi, Congress party general secretary for Uttar Pradesh, were on their way to Hathras to meet the family of the teen who was gang raped and murdered and whose remains were forcibly cremated by the Uttar Pradesh police. The Uttar Pradesh police first stopped Gandhi’s cavalcade and then attacked him when he and his sibling tried to march to Hathras. Congress chief spokesman Randeep Surjewala told me for Gulf News that Gandhi was actually attacked with lathis (sticks) by the Uttar Pradesh police. Some perspective here. Gandhi is protected by Z plus security and has lost two members of his family - former prime ministers Indira Gandhi (grandmother) and Rajiv Gandhi (father) to assassinations.>>