U'khand BJP, Congree workers conflict over Rafale deal issue

Dehradun, Dec 20 The BJP and the Congress specialists conflicted over the Rafale deal issue at Congress Bhawan here, a senior police official said.

Minutes before senior Congress leader Kumari Selja was to address a question and answer session over the Rafale deal issue at the party office here Wednesday, the BJP specialists purportedly raged into its regions and began removing the publications and flags prompting a conflict with the Congress workers, who opposed, he said.

The BJP workers even conflicted with police personnel when they attempted to stop them, Pradesh Congress president Pritam Singh said.

The BJP workers, who had gathered at Astley Hall to burn an effigy of Congress president Rahul Gandhi, who they claimed was "misleading the nation over Rafale". They broke the blockades and walked towards Congress Bhawan found close-by, Additional Director General peace Ashok Kumar said.

According to a protestation held up with police by the Congress leaders, the vandalism by the BJP workers at the gathering office was intended to disrupt a press conference session by Selja on the Rafale deal.

The deputy inspector general has been requested to investigate the charges made by the Congress, the ADG said.

The BJP workers said the Congress president was "spreading lies" about Rafale despite the fact that the Supreme Court had found nothing wrong in the deal.

"In spite of the chinks in his own covering, Rahul Gandhi has utilized unparliamentary dialect against the head administrator, considering him a criminal and bringing down the pride of the best office, " BJP Mahanagar president Vinay Goel said.

At the point when gotten some information about the vandalism at the Congress office, Goel said the BJP laborers were just gently challenging.

Censuring the incident, Pradesh Congress Committee chief Pritam Singh said it mirrored the frustration prevailing in the BJP ranks over the party's electoral loss in Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan.

He said the Congress will exhibit against the BJP everywhere throughout the state by burning the Bharatiya Janata Party's likeness at every district headquarters.