Congress Workers Clash With BJP In Bhopal Over Digvijaya Singh’s Detention

Bhopal:

Dozens of staff of the ruling Congress had been detained on Wednesday for looking to pressure their means into the places of work of the BJP in Bhopal regardless of a ban on massive gatherings within the Madhya Pradesh capital. The Congress activists clashed with their BJP opposite numbers forcing the police to make use of batons.

The police additionally a First Data Record or FIR towards 58 folks for rioting and legal intimidation right through the protest towards detention of Congress’s Digvijaya Singh and different birthday party leaders in Bengaluru whilst looking to meet MLAs who’ve rebelled towards the crowd.

BJP spokesperson Rahul Kothari alleged the Congress staff wearing rods and sticks attempted to make their means into the BJP state HQ and hit them on his head along side different BJP leaders provide outdoor the birthday party workplace, a rate refuted via the ruling Congress.

“We now have registered an FIR towards Rahul Rathore amongst 8 unidentified individuals and 50 unidentified individuals at the grievance of BJP district president Vikas Virani,” senior police officer Bhupendra Singh informed information company PTI.

The incident came about only some hours after some Congress staff had been detained for demonstrating outdoor the Raj Bhawan within the afternoon, whilst the 90-odd Congress MLAs had been assembly the governor Lalji Tandon within for challenging the protected go back in their birthday party MLAs, who the Congress alleges were held captive via BJP leaders in Bengaluru to topple the Kamal Nath executive in Madhya Pradesh.

One of the crucial protesters had been detained, however no person was once harm right through the demonstration, police assets mentioned.

“The Congress executive’s go out is approaching in Madhya Pradesh, which is why they attacked our workplace. We had been sitting quietly when protesters hurled stones and rained lathis on us,” Mr Kothari alleged.

Refuting Mr Kothari’s claims, state Congress spokesman Bhupendra Gupta mentioned his birthday party staff did pass there (BJP workplace), however had been detained via the police.

“They went to protest towards the BJP-led Karnataka executive for no longer permitting our chief Digvijaya to fulfill our MLAs in Bengaluru,” he mentioned.

The BJP is cooking up tales and growing drama over a calm protest, Mr Gupta alleged.

Top drama opened up on Wednesday morning when Mr Singh staged a protest close to the hotel in Bengaluru the place revolt Congress MLAs are staying, accusing the police of no longer permitting him to fulfill the legislators.

The senior Congress chief, who was once detained via the police, accused the BJP of protecting the MLAs captive and threatened to head on a ”starvation strike”.

The BJP has persistently denied protecting the revolt Congress MLAs in captivity and claimed they’re within the Karnataka capital on their very own.

After former Union minister Jyotiraditya Scindia give up the Congress, 22 MLAs of the ruling birthday party, additionally submitted their resignations, pushing the 15-month-old Kamal Nath executive to the threshold of cave in.

Of those, the speaker has accredited the resignations of six MLAs.