Madhya Pradesh: Bajrang Dal ransacks Congress office in Jabalpur over proposed ban in party's Karnataka manifesto

Bajrang Dal workers assembled at the Congress' Jabalpur office located at Baldev Bagh and later barged into the office premises and ransacked it.

Jabalpur: Bajrang Dal workers on Thursday ransacked Congress office in Madhya Pradesh's Jabalpur over the party equating the Hindu right-wing outfit with the banned Popular Front of India (PFI) and proposing to ban it in its recently released manifesto for the Karnataka assembly election. The Congress has questioned the lack of police deployment at its Jabalpur which encouraged the Bajrang Dal activists to attack the office.

Local sources said that more than 100 Bajrang Dal workers assembled at the Congress' Jabalpur office located at Baldev Bagh at around 12 pm today and staged a sit-in against the Congress over the proposed ban on the Bajrang Dal in its Karnataka manifesto. After protesting on the road outside the Congress office for about half an hour, the protesting Bajrang Dal workers barged into the Congress office premises and started throwing stones at the building.

There were no reports about damage to property or injury to anybody when reports last came in. The Madhya Pradesh Congress has slammed the local authorities for failing to deploy police at the spot which allowed the Bajrang Dal activists to attack the office. The Congress questioned the lack of police force despite the Bajrang Dal having planned the protest a day before.

“The Bajrang Dal protested for half an hour, but not even a single policeman turned up as against minor demonstrations when normally hundreds of policemen are deployed,” a Congress spokesman said. The Congress spokesman said that less damage has been done to the office of the Congress and more to the property of other private owners in the area.