Meghalaya Congress on Wednesday was not given permission to hold silent protests inside the Secretariat campus.
Informing this Meghalaya Pradesh Congress Committee president Vincent H Pala said following this the party had to change the program venue to Congress Bhawan Shillong.
Citing two probabilities for the denial of permission, Pala said “The proposed program was schedule to be held inside the Secretariat campus in view of the recent law and order situation may be one of the reason and secondly the letter for permission was submitted yesterday. “
Meanwhile, the Opposition Congress on Wednesday staged a silent protest against the recent conviction of its leader Rahul Gandhi in a defamation case.
Speaking to reporters, Pala said, “Our intention is to stand with Rahul Gandhi. It is to show that we are with you whatever may be the case.”
“We started our meeting with prayers for his future relief. People should know and India should be safe and they should know that freedom of speech, freedom of expression should be there – with that in mind we started our prayers today.”
Pala said that the party was supposed to organize the protest in a big way. “However, it is difficult for us to organize a big protest within two days. You are right, we are planning to organize in a big way. We will definitely do something,” he added.
CLP leader Ronnie V Lyngdoh said the party had lodged a silent protest against the ruling of the Gujarat High Court against Rahul Gandhi. “We have lodged a silent protest throughout the country and MPCC has done the same to hold this silent protest against the action against our leader Rahul Gandhi,” he said.