New Delhi, Jul 27, 2022, IANS

Amid multi-layered security arrangements outside the Congress party headquarters in the national capital, the party workers on Wednesday staged an intense protest and were subsequently detained by the police.

The party workers were protesting against the questioning of their president Sonia Gandhi by the Enforcement Directorate.

Several barricades have been placed to prevent the Congress workers from taking out any kind of march towards the ED office.

The party workers, raising slogans, attempted to cross the barricades and were subsequently detained by police.

Till now several party leaders, including Sachin Pilot, have been detained.

Meanwhile, several Congress parliamentarians were detained near Parliament on Wednesday as they tried to carry out a protest march from Parliament house to Rashtrapati Bhawan against the questioning of their president Sonia Gandhi by the Enforcement Directorate.

The parliamentarians had planned to give a memorandum to President Droupadi Murmu over the central government's alleged vendetta politics and no discussion of important issues like price rise in Parliament.

However, as they moved forward to give a memorandum to the President, the Delhi Police stopped them midway near Vijay Chowk."We wanted to give a memorandum to President Murmu but the Delhi Police has for the second consecutive time stopped and detained us," party leader Manish Tewari said.