November 05, 2024 19:28 (IST)
Follow us:
facebook-white sharing button
twitter-white sharing button
instagram-white sharing button
youtube-white sharing button
Union Minister HD Kumaraswamy booked for threatening cop probing into mining case | Supreme Court upholds validity of Uttar Pradesh Madrasa Education Act | Not all private properties are community resources that govt can take over: Supreme Court | Pakistan's Lahore has become world's most polluted city with an AQI of 1900 on Sunday | Indian Army 'successfully completes' patrolling to a key point in Ladakh's Depsang region
MP: Security guard allegedly beaten up by supporters of Congress leader

MP: Security guard allegedly beaten up by supporters of Congress leader

| @indiablooms | 22 Jan 2019, 06:54 am

Jabalpur, Jan 22 (IBNS): Days after the murders of two Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) workers in the state, a security guard for the civic body in Madhya Pradesh's Jabalpur has been allegedly beaten up by the supporters of local Congress leader Priyawat Singh, media reports said.

Harish Patel, the victim, was taken to hospital by his co-workers.

Witnesses had alleged that the attackers were the supporters of Singh, whose party came to power in Madhya Pradesh in the last month of 2018.

Following the incident, the civic staff lodged a complaint at the Jabalpur police station and demanded an immediate action with the workers threatening to go on a strike.

Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) lawmaker Rakesh Singh has been quoted by NDTV as saying, "While we were protesting against the deteriorating law and order situation in the state, some Congress workers beat up an ex-serviceman working as a security guard."

On Sunday,  Madhya Pradesh BJP leader Manoj Thackeray was found dead in an open field in Barwani.

He is the second BJP leader to get murdered in less than a week.

Former Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, who is from the BJP, has blamed the Congress government for the murder.

He alleged that the "death of BJP leaders one after another a cruel joke."

"One after the other, the killing of BJP leaders is a serious matter. The state government is not taking it seriously and making a cruel joke of it. Popular BJP leader Manoj Thackeray was killed in broad daylight in the state home minister's backyard," Chouhan wrote in a tweet.

On Thursday last week, BJP leader Prahlad Bandhwar was shot in public.

Image: Screenshot grab from Times Now video

Support Our Journalism

We cannot do without you.. your contribution supports unbiased journalism

IBNS is not driven by any ism- not wokeism, not racism, not skewed secularism, not hyper right-wing or left liberal ideals, nor by any hardline religious beliefs or hyper nationalism. We want to serve you good old objective news, as they are. We do not judge or preach. We let people decide for themselves. We only try to present factual and well-sourced news.

Support objective journalism for a small contribution.