Three staff of the Congress social gathering have been suspended on Friday after they threatened a vegetable vendor in Kollam, Kerala, when he declined to present the social gathering 2,000 rupees for his or her Bharat Jodo Yatra.
The vendor, S Fawaz, reportedly complained to the three staff on the Kunnicode police station, in response to ANI.
He claimed that the employees have been livid when he gave them Rs 500 moderately than the Rs 2,000 that they had needed.
“They damaged weighing machines and threw away vegetables,” Fawaz mentioned. “They also used abusive language and attacked the staff.”
The three Congress staff have been booked beneath Indian Penal Code Sections 447 (trespassing), 427 (mischief inflicting injury), and 506 (prison intimidation).
“They do not represent our ideology and such behavior is inexcusable,” mentioned Kerala Congress President Okay Sudhakaran in a tweet on Friday. “The party is crowdfunding small donations voluntarily unlike others who get corporate donations.”
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The Bharat Jodo Yatra, a 3,570-kilometer nationwide journey organized by the Congress, will move by way of 12 states and two union territories in round 5 months.
The social gathering has described the march as its largest mass contact train since independence and a “turning point” in India’s political historical past forward of the Lok Sabha elections in 2024. The march was launched from Kanyakumari in Tamil Nadu on September 8 and the employees are in Kerala presently.
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