The Congress alleged on Sunday that a journalist was beaten up at Union Home Minister Amit Shah's rally in Rae Bareli in Uttar Pradesh for talking to women who told him that they were paid to attend the event.
In a post in Hindi on X, Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said, "@moliticsindia journalist Raghav Trivedi was brutally beaten up by BJP men at the Home Minister's rally in Rae Bareli. The Home Minister kept speaking and the police kept watching as mute spectators. The journalist was beaten up only because he had spoken to some women who said they were paid to attend the rally." Former Congress chief Rahul Gandhi said his party stood by the brave journalist who was thrashed at Mr. Shah's rally.
"Such hooliganism under police protection against a hard-working journalist who was simply doing his job at a meeting of the country's Home Minister explains why India ranks 159th in terms of press freedom under Narendra Modi. We all stand with this brave young man," Mr. Gandhi said in a post in Hindi on X.
