Mumbai Congress today took out a candlelight march over ex-serviceman Subedar (Retd) Ram Kishen Grewal's alleged suicide over the 'One Rank, One Pension' (OROP) issue in New Delhi on Tuesday.
City Congress chief Sanjay Nirupam led the march from Metro Cinema to Azad Maidan here.
Condemning the detention of party vice-president Rahul Gandhi, who was prevented by the police from meeting the family members of Grewal, Nirupam said the Congress will not tolerate this kind of "high-handed behaviour" of the Narendra Modi government.
"We will continue to discharge our responsibilities as an opposition party and the government has no right to prevent us from doing our duty," he said while accusing Prime Minister Modi of being "anti-soldier".
Nirupam also criticised the one-day ban on TV news channel NDTV India, describing the move as "dictatorship".
"The BJP government should have the decency to accept its mistakes," he said.
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