One of the most dramatic days in post-Independence Indian politics unfolded in New Delhi on Tuesday when Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi led a Congress protest against paper leaks and the “attack” on students to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s residence, only to be dragged away hours later.

Seeking to pile on the pressure on the Centre a day after the Cockroach Janta Party-led march to Parliament, Gandhi, Mallikarjun Kharge and Priyanka Gandhi gathered outside the Congress President’s house at 10, Rajaji Marg on Tuesday afternoon and marched to the PM’s residence at 7, Lok Kalyan Marg, just over a kilometre away. In an unprecedented development, Union Minister Jitendra Singh later visited the protest site and spoke to Rahul Gandhi, but the protest was broken up hours later and Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi and others were detained and taken away in a bus.