Chandigarh, December 20: Accusing the ruling BJP government of trying to suppress the anti CAA protest with ‘brute force’, the Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Friday assured the protestors that the party was solidly behind them.
In a short three minute video statement, Sonia Gandhi accused the government of showing “utter disregard” for people’s voices in the nationwide protests against the citizenship law.
“The BJP used brute force to suppress dissent, it is unacceptable in democracy,” the Congress president said.
She said that several educational institutions and Universities had turned into a sea of protests against the `divisive agenda’ of the BJP government. “In democracy the wrong decisions of the government have to be challenged, the people reserve the right. But instead of listening to these voices, the BJP government was trying to suppress them,’’ she remarked.
The Congress president said that her party will make an all out effort to stand by the people for safeguarding their fundamental rights. “The concerns are genuine and the fundamental rights of the people cannot be trampled upon,’’ she said.
