{"id":181075,"date":"2025-08-11T14:54:41","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T09:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/?p=181075"},"modified":"2025-08-11T14:54:41","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T09:54:41","slug":"rahul-priyanka-arrested-for-protesting-against-indian-election-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/2025\/08\/11\/rahul-priyanka-arrested-for-protesting-against-indian-election-commission.html","title":{"rendered":"Rahul, Priyanka arrested for protesting against Indian Election Commission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-181076\" src=\"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/assests\/2025\/08\/23.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><br \/>\nNew Delhi: Delhi Police today detained senior opposition parliamentarians, including Congress&#8217;s Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, and Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut.<\/p>\n<p>According to Kashmir Media Service, they were arrested for launching a protest drive against Election Commission&#8217;s &#8216;collusion&#8217; with the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party.<\/p>\n<p>Joint Commissioner of Police Deepak Purohit confirmed the detention but declined to give details.<\/p>\n<p>Purohit said the opposition did not have police permission for a protest of this scale, and that only a group of 30 MPs had been allowed to march to the Election Commission and submit a complaint.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Election Commission said 30 MPs could visit them&#8230; but over 200 came marching. We stopped them to prevent any breakdown of law and order. They were then detained. Some MPs tried jumping barricades. They were also detained,&#8221; Deputy Commissioner of Police Devesh Kumar Mahla said.<\/p>\n<p>Rahul and Priyanka are grandchildren of former prime minister Indira Gandhi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Delhi: Delhi Police today detained senior opposition parliamentarians, including Congress&#8217;s Rahul Gandhi and Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, and Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Sanjay Raut. According to Kashmir Media Service, they were arrested for launching a protest drive against Election Commission&#8217;s &#8216;collusion&#8217; with the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party. Joint Commissioner of Police Deepak Purohit confirmed the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":181076,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-india"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kmsnews.org\/kms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}