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The Congress president, Sonia Gandhi, the Delhi Chief Minister, Sheila Dikshit, and other party leaders staging a dharna in New Delhi on Tuesday demanding the dismissal of the Gujarat Chief Minister, Narendra Modi
The hunger strike, organised by the Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee, is part of the month-long agitational programme chalked out by the All-India Congress Committee. A large number of AICC leaders, including the Delhi Chief Minister, Shiela Dikshit, and the DPCC president, Subhash Chopra, took part in the countrywide agitation, launched by the Congress to seek the resignation of the Gujarat Chief Minister, Narendra Modi. Ms. Gandhi reached the Raj Ghat at 9 a.m. and stayed for an hour before proceeding to Parliament. An all-religion prayer meeting for the restoration of peace and harmony in Gujarat was held after Ms. Gandhi's arrival. She was also joined by the Deputy Leader in the Lok Sabha, Shivraj Patil, the AICC general secretaries, Ambika Soni, Kamal Nath and Oscar Fernandes, the CWC member, Arjun Singh, the party spokesman, Jaipal Reddy, the JKPCC president, Ghulam Nabi Azad, and the senior AICC leaders, Ahmed Patel and Natwar Singh. Many MLA, Councillors, the Leader of the House in MCD, Ram Babu Sharma, and Ministerial colleagues of Ms. Dikshit also took part in the protest. A visitor's book was placed at the venue to enable people to record their opinion about the Gujarat situation. The Congress workers displayed placards seeking the removal of Mr. Modi and decrying the BJP for "unleashing communal violence in Gujarat." Later, addressing the party workers, Mr. Kamal Nath said the BJP had been making a determined bid to murder the principles of Mahatma Gandhi at his own birthplace. And it was probably for the first time that a Chief Minister had played a lead role in "inciting communal clashes." Demanding the immediate ouster of Mr. Modi, he called for strong legal action against him to strengthen the secular credentials of the country.
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