Rahul Gandhi among opposition leaders detained during protest against EC | Photos

Dozens of Opposition leaders were detained in Delhi on Monday as they shouted slogans, jumped barricades and marched to the Election Commission in a public protest against what they say are electoral malpractices. Around 300 opposition leaders, including Leader of Opposition (LoP) Rahul Gandhi, marched from parliament to the office of the Election Commission but were stopped by Delhi police some distance away. "This fight is not political. This fight is to save the constitution," Gandhi told reporters. "We want a clean, pure voters' list." (Image: ANI)

Dramatic scenes unfolded at the INDIA bloc protest to the ECI, with Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav seen jumping over a police barricade. (Images: ANI)

Amid the chaos, two Trinamool Congress MPs, Mahua Moitra and Mitali Baugh,fainted. Fellow politicians were seen attempting to revive them with water and first aid. Baugh was reportedly shifted to hospital. (Images: PTI)

As Mahua Moitra fainted, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and Shiv Sena (UBT) MP Sanjay Raut were seen attending her in the bus. (Images: PTI)

As the MPs were stopped by the police from moving forward, several of them sat on the road and raised slogans in protest of the Special Intensive Revision (SIR) of Bihar electoral rolls. (Images: PTI).

Priyanka Gandhi was also detained as Delhi Police stopped the leaders marching from Parliament. She said, "Dare hue hai. Sarkaar kaayar hai." (They are scared, the government is coward)". (Images: ANI/PTI)

"We wanted to take out a peaceful protest march from Parliament to the Election Commission office. However, we have been stopped by the Delhi Police from moving forward. We had already written to the EC that all MPs collectively wanted to hand over a memorandum to the EC," Congress leader Jairam Ramesh told PTI. (Image: PTI)

LoP in Rajya Sabha Mallikarjun Kharge with others during a protest march by INDIA bloc MPs from Makar Dwar of Parliament to the Election Commission of India office over the poll fraud issue. (Image: PTI)

Congress said its president Mallikarjun Kharge was arbitrarily detained by the police for peacefully protesting against the brazen vote chori by BJP and EC. "This is a stark reminder of the Modi government's desperation to silence dissent," the party wrote on X. (Image: Screengrab/ANI)

Samajwadi Party MPs Akhilesh Yadav, Dharmendra Yadav with others during the protest march. "They are using the police to stop us...," said Akhilesh Yadav as he sat down to protest while police stopped the opposition MPs from marching towards the Election Commission of India. (Image: PTI)