New Delhi [India], August 12 : Congress MP Rajiv Shukla on Tuesday expressed disappointment over the Election Commission of India's (ECI) response to the opposition delegation, stating that the ECI should have at least accepted their memorandum despite citing space constraints.
"If the ECI couldn't meet the opposition because of a lack of space, they should have at least taken our documents, the memorandum we had gone to submit. They should have sent a representative and accepted our letter. 300 is not a big number..," he said.
On Monday, the Election Commission requested to submit the names of upto 30 people along with their vehicle numbers for the interaction due to the limitation of space.
Meanwhile, today, Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson Sonia Gandhi and party president Mallikarjun Kharge joined fellow INDIA bloc members in staging a protest in Parliament over the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) issue.
Several Opposition MPs arrived wearing white T-shirts emblazoned with the slogan '124 Not Out'.
Prominent leaders such as Nationalist Congress Party (Sharad Pawar), MP Supriya Sule, and DMK MP Kanimozhi were seen holding onions during the protest.
On Monday, Leader of Opposition in Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, Congress MP Priyanka Gandhi, and other INDIA bloc MPs were detained by the Delhi Police while marching from Parliament to the Election Commission office in protest against alleged irregularities in Bihar.
Rahul Gandhi said that the Opposition's fight is not a political fight but a fight to save the constitution.
"The reality is that they cannot talk. The truth is in front of the country. This fight is not political. This fight is to save the Constitution. This fight is for One Man, One Vote. We want a clean, pure voters list," the Congress leader said.
Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut, TMC MP Sagarika Ghose, and other MPs were also among those detained by the police.
The detained MPs were corralled into a bus and taken to the Parliament Street police station.