Congress leaders yesterday took out rallies and stopped trains at
several places across Uttar Pradesh to protest against the court
summons issued against former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in a coal
scam case.
Congress workers, lead by Rita Bahuguna Joshi, yesterday stopped the Howrah-Amritsar Express at Lucknow's Charbagh railway station for over an hour.
Earlier, the entire top Congress leadership including Sonia Gandhi yesterday took to the streets to express solidarity with former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who has been summoned as accused in a coal scam case, with the party President calling it "outrageous".
Sonia Gandhi collected leaders at the party headquarters early in the morning and immediately led a march to Singh's residence about half a km away in the heart of the capital in which several of Singh's cabinet colleagues P Chidambaram, Anand Sharma, Ambika Soni, Veerappa Moily and K Rehman Khan were present.
The Congress leaders also attacked the government accusing it of maintaining a "studied silence" after the CBI had told the court that there was no criminality involved in the allocation of Talabira coal blocks II to Hindalco company of Aditya Birla group in Odisha in 2005.
Congress workers, lead by Rita Bahuguna Joshi, yesterday stopped the Howrah-Amritsar Express at Lucknow's Charbagh railway station for over an hour.
Earlier, the entire top Congress leadership including Sonia Gandhi yesterday took to the streets to express solidarity with former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who has been summoned as accused in a coal scam case, with the party President calling it "outrageous".
Sonia Gandhi collected leaders at the party headquarters early in the morning and immediately led a march to Singh's residence about half a km away in the heart of the capital in which several of Singh's cabinet colleagues P Chidambaram, Anand Sharma, Ambika Soni, Veerappa Moily and K Rehman Khan were present.
The Congress leaders also attacked the government accusing it of maintaining a "studied silence" after the CBI had told the court that there was no criminality involved in the allocation of Talabira coal blocks II to Hindalco company of Aditya Birla group in Odisha in 2005.
