Launching his party's campaign for this year's Gujarat Assembly elections at an adivasi satyagrah rally' in tribal Dahod district, Rahul said, Gujarat is the only state where we need to have permission to protest.
Gujarat court on Thursday has sentenced Gujarat MLA Jignesh Mevani and 12 others to three months imprisonment and a fine under section 143 Indian Penal Code (IPC) over a 2017 case of carrying out Azadi march without permission.
Supporters of Dalit leader Jignesh Mevani on Saturday said they were withdrawing their call for "jail bharo" (courting arrest) agitation as the independent MLA from Gujarat has been released from jail in Assam. The agitation had been announced to protest Mevani's arrest by Assam Police last week. A court in the northeastern state on Friday granted him bail in a case where he