Updates: "Objective Served": Priyanka Gandhi After Meeting Victims Of UP Shootout

Finally met the families of the Ubbha massacre. What they have been through is unimaginably brutal and unjust. Every single Indian should stand with them in the name of humanity. pic.twitter.com/232oJITUjj

- Priyanka Gandhi Vadra (@priyankagandhi) July 20, 2019

Priyanka Gandhi Vadra (Congress General Secretary for Uttar Pradesh East) will be visiting Kashi Vishwanath temple & Kaal Bhairav temple, in Varanasi to offer prayers, later today. (file pic) pic.twitter.com/OqyEgy37mb

- ANI UP (@ANINewsUP) July 20, 2019

• A UP official said the Congress leader is "free to go anywhere" but the site of the shootout in Sonbhadra, where 10 people were killed over a land dispute earlier this week.
• She said, "the responsibility for the Sonbhadra massacre is with the Yogi government and not with Nehru." She also said the Congress will compensate the families affected by the shootout with Rs. 10 lakh each."
• She also made 5 demands to the state government: Rs. 25 lakh compensation for the affected families, fast track court for trial in Sonbhadra case, land titles for the tribals, security for the affected families and withdrawal of case against the villagers in the last few years over land dispute. 
  

• Congress leaders Deepender Hooda, Mukul Wasnik, Raj Babbar, RPN Singh, Jitin Prasad and Rajeev Shukla reached Varanasi but were stopped at the airport.

• Deputy Chief Minister of Rajasthan Sachin Pilot issued call for protest in Jaipur.
• Sachin Pilot tweeted, "Against the detention of General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi, state Congress committee will be organising a protest at Gandhi Circle Jaipur today."
• Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh also issued an appeal to all party workers from Uttar Pradesh to reach the Chunar guest house in Mirzapur where Priyanka Gandhi Vadra is housed since after her detention.
• Digviajaya Singh tweeted, "I appeal to all Congress people to reach Chunar immediately for supporting Priyankaji. Long live Priyanka."
• Senior Congress leaders PL Punia, Pramod Tiwari, Ajay Kumar Lallu, Ajay Rai, Laliteshpati Tripathi have been camping at Chunar fort since Friday with Priyanka Gandhi. 
• She was joined by Congress Women's Wing chief and former legislator Sushmita Deb on Saturday. 

• Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra met family members of those killed in a shootout in Uttar Pradesh's Sonbhadra at the Mirzapur guest house where she is detained.
• "The families of those who were killed and injured have come from Sonbhadra to meet me on their own. Two relatives of the victims have come here to meet me but 15 others are not allowed to meet me, are being stopped. Even I am not allowed to meet them. I do not understand what the Uttar Pradesh government and police administration want," Priyanka Gandhi told mediapersons.

• Priyanka Gandhi Vadra and Congress party workers continue to sit on dharna at Chunar Guest House. 
• She says, "It has been 24 hours. I am not going to leave until and unless I am allowed to meet the victims of Sonbhadra's firing case."
• Families of victims come to meet Priyanka Gandhi at Chunar Guest House
• Priyanka Gandhi says those whom I had come to meet, have come to meet me.

• Trinamool Congress delegation sit on dharna at the Varanasi airport

• A parliamentary delegation of Trinamool Congress (TMC) was stopped by Varanasi police at Lal Bahadur Shastri International Airport.

• TMC leader Derek O'Brien, who was leading the party delegation to Sonbhadra, tweeted that they were stopped at the airport. 
• Derek O'Brien said the police officers, while stopping them at the airport, said they were "doing as told from topmost".

• "If the government wants to put me in jail for meeting the victims, I am fully prepared," tweeted Priyanka.

• BJP leader Shrikant Sharma said, "Congress is upset, which is fair after their poll defeat. Priyanka Gandhi should have taken permission. We would like to request the Congress to not politicize the deaths in Sonbhadra. If Priyanka Gandhi is so concerned, why didn't she raise voice against the rape case in Rajasthan."

• Congress chief spokesperson Randeep Surjewala claimed that there was "jungle raj" in Uttar Pradesh as Priyanka Gandhi Vadra was taken by police to the Chunar Guest House in Mirzapur, where electricity and water supply were cut off.

• Congress workers protest Priyanka Gandhi being stopped from visiting Sonbhadra.

• Priyanka Gandhi, the Congress in-charge of eastern UP, was seen in visuals sitting on a road in Mirzapur near Sonbhadra, surrounded by her security and Congress workers. 
• She was stopped on moving to Sonbhadra. 
• Priyanka Gandhi said, "I only want to meet the affected families, whose members have been mercilessly shot dead. A boy of my son's age was shot at and is lying in hospital. Tell me on what legal basis I have been stopped," Priyanka Gandhi told NDTV.

• She was stopped in Uttar Pradesh on Friday on her way to a village in Sonbhadra. 
• The Congress general secretary sat on the road and protested until she was taken away in a government car to a guest house.