At least 5,000 Delhi Police are on standby since morning. Deployed RAF, Central Force. But as the morning progressed, there was a big gap in the preparations and plans of the Delhi Police. The crowd spread to India Gate via Raichina Marg, Janpath Road, Rafi Marg, Ashok Road and Rajendra Prasad Road.
The central government was as confused as the Delhi Police during the Janata Party’s parliamentary campaign on Monday. BJP is also surprised. The government is also angry at the intelligence failure.
The Delhi Police could not have foreseen that General G would be overrun like this. As a result, he handled the whole situation with an immature mindset. So the picture of aggression and repression is clear in heavy lathi charge, tear gas, beatings and arrests. The Delhi Metro Corporation (DMC) has stopped departures from one station after another in central Delhi since morning. Bahadur Shah Zafar Road or Ashok Road was closed.
The government is very concerned about one question. In other words, where did this huge crowd come from? It was later learned that General Ji had come by bus and train from Haryana, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and parts of Punjab over the past few days. The police had no idea of such a gathering of nearly one lakh people.
So is there any anger across the country? And on Monday, Delhi saw the first glimpse of that anger? Jai Bheem to Vande Mataram, Inkilab Zindabad to Jai Hind. The streets vibrated with the slogans of all kinds of non-partisan people.
There were slogans of hunger strike and hunger strike demanding the resignation of Dharmendra Pradhan. Protesters on Monday also called for the Prime Minister’s resignation as their campaign slogan.
The BJP claimed that the slogans showed that the movement was purely politically motivated. And the Telapoka Janata Party is reviving the 51-year-old slogan in reverse, “vacate the throne, the people are coming.” This was the slogan of Jaiprakash Narayan’s movement against Indira Gandhi in 1975!