LUCKNOW: Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra gave the heavy police cordon in Lucknow the slip to head off towards Lakhimpur Kheri late on Sunday night. She managed to reach Sitapur before she could be stopped, by tracking her movement through her cellular phone data.
Priyanka took on the cops for stopping her in Lucknow and Sitapur. Citing provisions of the law, she demanded an arrest warrant to be produced and dared police to formally arrest her. Making her sit inside any police vehicle without these, she said, would amount to kidnapping and assault.
“Where is the order? Show it to me…how can you stop me if you have no order to show,” she asked police officers, who had arranged for her to be restricted to Kaul House, her residence in Lucknow, on Sunday night after she arrived by flight from Delhi.
From there, within minutes, she dodged the police and sneaked out of the bungalow. Police took help of cellular phone data to track her on National Highway 24, connecting Lucknow with Lakhimpur via Sitapur.
Anticipating that police might stall her at the Khairabad toll booth, she took a detour from Sidhauli to take the road to Lakhimpur Kheri 22km away.
Despite this, police intercepted her in Hargaon where she dared them again as they reportedly misbehaved with her.
“Don’t think that I do not understand your designs. The way you are behaving invites legal action. This amounts to attempt to molest, physical assault, attempt to kidnap and harm under the law. Show me the warrant. Learn to talk to women,” she warned the officials.
Videos of the argument are doing rounds on social media.
From Hargaon though, she was taken to Sitapur to a government guest house. While in detention there, Priyanka took to “Gandhigiri” and decided to sweep the floor of her room.