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Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra on Tuesday. Congress MP Rahul Gandhi was stopped from entering the city, triggering protests from party workers who broke barricades and raised slogans. He later addressed party supporters on the outskirts of the city, and said, "We have broken barricades, but will not break the law".

“You should not think we are weak. We have broken the barricades. They have cancelled my programme at the university.

My programme was cancelled, but the students heard me outside," he told his workers and supporters, calling them "babbar sher" (lion). "Congress workers do not fear anyone," he said, adding that “we will defeat the BJP in Assam and form the Congress government soon." "We know that police officers have done a good job and followed orders, with one person coming and lying down before the (yatra) bus. We are not against you.

We are against the most corrupt chief minister. Our fight is with him," Rahul Gandhi added. The police, which had set up barricades at two places to prevent the Yatra from entering the city limits, had to use force to stop the Congress workers.

Gandhi was earlier accorded a boisterous welcome as he tried to enter Guwahati and addressed some varsity students on the way. The Congress leader later proceeded from the designated route on the ring road. The Yatra, which entered Meghalaya on Monday, returned to Assam for its last leg and will travel through the outskirts of the state's largest city Guwahati.