In protest against CBI-fiasco, RaGa leads Opposition march against Centre

Prominent leaders from several parties join Congress in protest

Congress was joined by leaders of Trinamool Congress, Aam Aadmi Party, CPI(M) in the protest. The protesters covered a distance of 4.2 km from Dayal Singh College at Central Delhi's Lodhi Road to CBI headquarters. The prominent leaders who walked with RaGa were Ahmed Patel, Veerappa Moily, Motilal Vohra, Kumari Selja, Ambika Soni, PC Chacko, D Raja, Sharad Yadav, and Ashok Gehlot.

Watch: Massive show of force plays out in Delhi

#WATCH Congress President Rahul Gandhi and Ashok Gehlot lead the protest march to CBI HQ against the removal of CBI Chief Alok Verma. pic.twitter.com/7FNkhoWQCb

— ANI (@ANI) October 26, 2018

Man put in cage, presented to RaGa

Adding a bit of sarcasm to the protest, a daily wage laborer, Hari Ram, was put in a cage and presented to Rahul Gandhi. "It symbolizes CBI, which is a 'caged parrot'," the party said. In Delhi, some of the protesters were detained by police. Similar protests were held in Chandigarh, where police sprayed water on protesters.

Earlier, SC ordered probe to be finished in two weeks

Earlier today, the Supreme Court ordered CVC to wrap up investigation within two weeks. The top court was hearing a petition filed by CBI Director Alok Verma against the forced leave. The probe will be supervised by a sitting Supreme Court judge. CJI Ranjan Gogoi headed bench also ruled that acting chief M Nageswar Rao will not take any policy decisions in the agency.

Meanwhile, Arun Jaitley calls the controversy a positive development

The current CBI controversy is an extremely positive development. Government has no interest for or against any individual. Govt is interested in maintaining professionalism, image constitutional integrity of #CBI: Finance Minister Arun Jaitley pic.twitter.com/no5OWyDrNN

— ANI (@ANI) October 26, 2018