Priyanka Gandhi stopped from visiting Sonbhadra clash victims, Rahul Gandhi calls it BJP government’s insecurity

NEW DELHI: Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi was on July 19 stopped in Mirzapur district from proceeding towards Sonbhadra to meet the victims of a clash that claimed 10 lives.nnNineteen people were injured in the incident on July 17 in Uttar Pradesh. Some of them were admitted to a hospital in Varanasi and the others at a health facility in Sonbhadra district.nnPriyanka Gandhi after meeting the victims at Varanasi was scheduled to go to Sonbhadra, but the Congress general secretary was stopped in Mirzapur, following which she staged a sit-in along with party workers and leaders.nn”I want to peacefully meet the family members of the victims who had fallen to the bullets in the clash. I want to see the orders under which I have been stopped to meet them,” Priyanka Gandhi said while sitting on the dharna.nn”I can move ahead only with four people. I want to meet the victims,” she stressed.nn

The illegal arrest of Priyanka in Sonbhadra, UP, is disturbing. This arbitrary application of power, to prevent her from meeting families of the 10 Adivasi farmers brutally gunned down for refusing to vacate their own land, reveals the BJP Govt’s increasing insecurity in UP. pic.twitter.com/D1rty8KJVq

— Rahul Gandhi (@RahulGandhi) July 19, 2019

nnCongress chief Rahul Gandhi condemned the “illegal arrest” of his sister in Sonbhadra saying that it “reveals the BJP government’s increasing insecurity in UP”.nnOn July 17, a village head and his supporters allegedly opened fire on a rival group in a land dispute in Sonbhadra killing 10 people, including three women, and leaving 19 injured on Wednesday, police said.nnSource: Press Trust of Indiann