Uttar Pradesh Congress stages protest against booking of its leaders in Sangipur incident

The Congressmen demanded a judicial probe into the case.

The Uttar Pradesh Congress on Tuesday staged a demonstration in Lucknow demanding the revocation of an FIR, accusing its former MP Pramod Tiwari of leading a mob of party men and assaulting BJP MP Sangam Lal Gupta and its workers during a function in Sangipur block of the Pratapgarh district.

The Congressmen, led by party U.P. unit’s chief Ajay Kumar Lallu, alternatively demanded a judicial probe into the case in which the name of Mr. Tiwari’s daughter Aradhana Mishra, the Uttar Pradesh Congress legislature party leader, too figures.

Congress workers belonging to the district and city unit gathered at the Makbara Road in Lucknow and raised slogans against the U.P. government, a party release said, adding the party men also handed a memorandum, addressed to Governor Anandiben Patel, to her ADCP Rajesh Srivastava.