Ahmedabad: Four persons, including the Congress candidate from Kadi Assembly
constituency in Mehsana district of Gujarat, were injured following an alleged
attack by a group of Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) supporters on December 9, police
said.
The candidate, Baldevji Thakore, in his first information report (FIR) has named
nine supporters of BJP for attacking him with ‘dharia’ (a sharp edged weapon) and
sticks when he was campaigning in a society building on Kadi highway, police said on
December 10. However, no arrests have been made so far, police added.
All the injured were admitted to civil hospital here and their condition was stated
to be ‘stable’, police said. This was the second incident of attack in the past one
week on Congress candidates campaigning for December 12 assembly polls. Earlier
Salvi constituency candidate was also attacked by BJP workers, in similar manner,
Gujarat Pradesh Congress Committee (GPCC) sources said.
PTI
