Nothing To Hide: Youth Cong Chief Srinivas B.V. To Delhi Cops바카라� Poser On Procuring Oxygen

Lakhs of Covid-afflicted patients and their kin may see a Good Samaritan in people who are volunteering to help them with arranging hospital beds, oxygen cylinders and other life-saving drugs but not Delhi바카라�s 바카라�Dil Ki Police바카라�. On Friday, the Delhi Police바카라�s crime branch came knocking at the headquarters of the Congress party바카라�s youth wing 바카라� the Indian Youth Congress (IYC) 바카라� to seek details from its president, Srinivas B.V, on where he and his team were arranging oxygen cylinders and Covid medicines for disseminating among the needy.

 The Delhi police바카라�s probe flows from a public interest litigation filed in the Delhi High Court by a private individual who has sought the court바카라�s directions for an inquiry and necessary action against politicians of different parties involved in 바카라�illegal hoarding and distribution바카라� of oxygen cylinders and Covid medicines. The petition doesn바카라�t specifically name Srinivas or anyone from the IYC. However, the Delhi Police has said that the Crime Branch바카라�s questioning of Srinivas is in compliance of the Delhi High Court바카라�s order for an inquiry and that similar action is being taken by other politicians including former Congress MLA Mukesh Sharma and former MLA and Delhi Congress chief Anil Kumar Chaudhary.

Over the past few weeks, Srinivas, IYC volunteers and Sharma have all been hailed for helping countless Covid patients receive oxygen cylinders, plasma and Covid medicines such as Remdesivir and Tocilizumab 바카라� all of which are in acute shortage. Srinivas is also operating a Covid war room from the IYC headquarters where volunteers keep track of SOS messages on various social media platforms from Covid patients and their kin for various requirements. The IYC volunteers then reach out to those in need of help and offer the required aid 바카라� searching for availability of beds in Covid hospitals, hospital admissions, oxygen cylinders, medication, etc. The efforts have been widely recognised by common people on platforms like Twitter and in the media, with many drawing parallels between Srinivas바카라�s relief efforts and those by actor Sonu Sood during the first Covid wave. Delhi-based embassies and high commissions of countries like New Zealand and the Philippines and even some lawmakers from the BJP have, in the recent past, reached out to Srinivas with appeals for help.

바카라�The Delhi police called me this morning and told me to reach the IYC headquarters because they wanted to question me about something. I did as I was asked because I have nothing to hide. I spoke to the crime branch people and they told me that I have to give them a written statement on where we are arranging oxygen cylinders and Covid medicines from. I will do that,바카라� Srinivas told Outlook. The police team, Srinivas said, 바카라�had not formally issued me any notice for questioning nor did it have any warrant to enter the IYC premises바카라�. The IYC chief added, 바카라�I plan to cooperate with the police inquiry though I know this is selective targeting that is politically-motivated바카라� and that it 바카라�saddens me deeply to see the police wasting so much time on investigating those who are genuinely working for the needy during this tragedy while those actually indulging in black-marketing and hoarding are going scot-free.바카라�

The police바카라�s action against Srinivas has, predictably, left the Congress party incensed. Former Congress president Rahul Gandhi put out a tweet saying, 바카라�Bachane wala hamesha maarne wale se bada hota hai바카라� #IStandWithIYC.바카라� The party바카라�s media cell chief Randeep Singh Surjewala also addressed the media and claimed that the 바카라�raid against Srinivas and the IYC by the Delhi police that is controlled by the Narendra Modi government and Union home minister Amit Shah was another example of the BJP바카라�s politics of intimidation.바카라�

Surjewala said that Modi and Shah had 바카라�forgotten all about raj dharma and have enforced raid raj바카라�. The Congress media chief said that the argument that the police action was the result of directions from the Delhi High Court was 바카라�laughable바카라�. 바카라�Had the Delhi Court asked the Delhi police to investigate Srinivas and the IYC, did it tell the Delhi police to call Srinivas in for questioning and to humiliate and embarrass him바카라� there is a process of law that has to be followed in such cases; the police should have issued a formal notice to Srinivas under the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) if it wanted to question him or search the IYC office but they did not follow the procedure,바카라� Surjewala claimed.

Meanwhile, Delhi BJP leader Harish Khurana, who has also been involved with Covid-relief efforts, has claimed that the Congress is unnecessarily politicizing the whole episode and that the Delhi police was acting on the orders of the Delhi High Court. Khurana claimed that the Delhi Police has also asked him to share details of how he was sourcing relief material and that 바카라�it is wrong of the Congress to claim that Narendra Modi and Amit Shah are getting all this done.바카라�

Surjewala has hit back saying 바카라�videos of questioning of Srinivas and the police presence at IYC office are in public domain바카라� if the BJP is claiming that its leaders have also been questioned, then where is the proof바카라� has anyone seen a Delhi police team interrogating anyone at the BJP headquarters, the Delhi BJP office, office of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha or its president Tejaswi Surya?바카라�