Activists of the Indian Youth Congress and the BJP's youth wing Bharat෴iy🔴a Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) on Friday clashed here following protests over Rahul Gandhi losing his Lok Sabha membership.
Following the disqualification of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi as Lok Sabha member, Youth Congress workers allegedly blackened the posters of BJP leaders at the saffron party's office in Ekatma Parisar on Friday evening, a police official said.
Activists of the Indian Youth Congress and the BJP's youth wing Bharat෴iy🔴a Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) on Friday clashed here following protests over Rahul Gandhi losing his Lok Sabha membership.
Activists from both s🐓ides as well as some police ꦯpersonnel got injured as there was stone pelting, a police official said.
Following the disqualification of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi as Lok Sabha member, Youth Congress workers allegedly blackened the posters of BJP leaders at the saffron party's office in Ekatma Parisar on 🅘Friday evening, he said.
Police reached the spot soon and stopped theꦍ Youth Congre꧒ss workers, he said.
Following this, BJP workers reached the Congress party 👍headquarters, Rajiv Bhawan, where activists of both IYC and BJYM pelted stones at each other, he said.
Activists from botཧh sides and a few police personnel w✨ere injured, he added. Both sides lodged complaints against each other and probe was on, the official said.
State BJP president Arun Sao said Youth Congress wor♛kers, intoxicated by power, attacked his party's office. They were trying to disturb the▨ peaceful atmosphere of Chhattisgarh by taking law into their own hands, he added.
It was unfortunate that the administration i💖n the Congress-ruled state had become mute spectator, he added. Sushil Anand Shukla, Congress spokesperson, alleged that Bharatiya Janata Party "goons" attacked the state Congress office.
"The Lok Sabha membership of our leader Rahul Gandhi was terminated through a conspiracy. When it is being opposed in a democ🎶ratic w🌺ay, the BJP is showing its ugly face here too," he said.