Rahul heckled during Nyay Yatra, Cong alleges its leaders 'attacked'

Nagaon (Assam): The Congress on Sunday alleged that its leaders were "attacked" during the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra by BJP supporters, with Rahul Gandhi, who was heckled by a crowd chanting "Jai Shri Ram" and "Modi, Modi" slogans, asserting that his party is neither scared of the prime minister nor the Assam chief minister.

As political temperatures soared in the state on the eve of the Ram temple consecration ceremony in Ayodhya, the opposition party alleged that its leaders, including Gandhi, Jairam Ramesh and Assam unit chief Bhupen Kumar Borah, were targeted at the behest of Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma and hurdles were being created "every hour" for the Yatra which re-entered Assam from Arunachal Pradesh on Sunday.

After a group of BJP workers chanted "Jai Shri Ram" and raised "Modi, Modi" slogans in front of Rahul Gandhi's Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra bus in Nagaon, the Congress leader waved, gave flying kisses and stepped down to meet them but was quickly escorted back by the security personnel amid jostling.

"Our 'Mohabbat ki dukaan' (shop of love) is open for everyone. 'Judega Bharat, Jeetega Hindustan'," Gandhi said in a post on X while sharing a video of the incident.

Gandhi later also said at a public meeting that "around 20-25 BJP workers carrying sticks came in front of our bus, and when I came out from the bus, they ran away".

Congress leader Jairam Ramesh's vehicle was allegedly attacked and reporters accompanying the party's yatra were "manhandled" by unknown men.