‘IB questioning people who met Rahul Gandhi on yatra’: Jairam Ramesh’s big claim

India

oi-Deepika S

The
Congress
accused
the
BJP
of
trying
to
stop
the
Bharat
Jodo
Yatra,
using
many
tactics
and
the
latest
being
the
Covid
pandemic.

New
Delhi,
Dec
25:
The
Congress
on
Sunday
claimed
that
the
Narendra
Modi
government
is
using
Intelligence
Bureau
(IB)
personnel
to
question
activists
and
others
who
interacted
with
Rahul
Gandhi
during
the
Bharat
Jodo
Yatra.

Taking
to
Twitter,
Congress
general
secretary
Jairam
Ramesh
said
that
the
Intelligence
Bureau
has
been
“interrogating”
a
number
of
people
who
have
interacted
with
Rahul
during
the
yatra,
as
the
G2
Prime
Minister
Narendra
Modi
and
Home
Minister
Amit
Shah
are
“rattled”.

“IB
has
been
interrogating
a
number
of
people
who
have
interacted
with
Rahul
Gandhi
during
#BharatJodoYatra.
The
spooks
have
been
asking
all
sorts
of
questions
and
also
wanting
copies
of
memoranda
submitted
to
him.There’s
nothing
secretive
about
the
Yatra
but
clearly
G2
are
rattled!,”
Ramesh
said.

IB
has
been
interrogating
a
number
of
people
who
have
interacted
with

@RahulGandhi
during

#BharatJodoYatra.
The
spooks
have
been
asking
all
sorts
of
questions
&
also
wanting
copies
of
memoranda
submitted
to
him.There’s
nothing
secretive
about
the
Yatra
but
clearly
G2
are
rattled!

—
Jairam
Ramesh
(@Jairam_Ramesh)

December
25,
2022

The
Congress
also
said
that
it
has
submitted
a
complaint
with
Sohna
Police
Station
in
Haryana
after
“unauthorised”
people,
who
it
believes
are
state
intelligence
personnel,
entered
containers
where
yatris
are
staying.

“On
the
morning
of
Dec
23,
some
unauthorised
people
entered
one
of
our
containers
and
were
caught
coming
out
of
it.
I
on
behalf
of
the
Bharat
Yatris
filed
a
complaint
at
the
Sohna
City
PS.
Copy
is
enclosed.
Informally
I
gather
they
were
state
intelligence
people,”
tweeted
Congress
leader
Vaibhav
Walia.

On
the
morning
of
Dec
23,
some
unauthorised
people
entered
one
of
our
containers
and
were
caught
coming
out
of
it.
I
on
behalf
of
the
Bharat
Yatris
filed
a
complaint
at
the
Sohna
City
PS.
Copy
is
enclosed.
Informally
I
gather
they
were
state
intelligence
people.#BharatJodoYatra
pic.twitter.com/bj2XLDiz8Y

—
Vaibhav
Walia
(@vbwalia)

December
25,
2022

The
Congress
accused
the
BJP
of
trying
to
stop
the
Bharat
Jodo
Yatra,
using
many
tactics
and
the
latest
being
the
Covid
pandemic.

The
attack
comes
after
Union
health
minister
Mansukh
Mandaviya
wrote
to
Rahul
Gandhi
asking
him
to
consider
stopping
the
yatra
amid
fresh
health
concerns
triggered
by
a
surge
in
Covid
cases
in
China.

The
Kanyakumari-to-Kashmir
yatra,
a
mass
contact
initiative
of
the
Congress
which
started
on
September
7,
has
so
far
covered
Tamil
Nadu,
Kerala,
Andhra
Pradesh,
Karnataka,
Telangana,
Maharashtra,
Madhya
Pradesh
and
Rajasthan
and
is
currently
passing
through
Haryana.

The
Yatra
has
covered
around
3,000
km
and
it
will
culminate
in
Jammu
and
Kashmir
by
the
end
of
January.