Mumbai: Security has been tightened outside office of a leading Marathi weekly 'Chitralekha' following angry threats by Congress workers to burn copies of the weekly over objectionable photograph of their president.

"We have demanded an apology from the publishers and will burn copies of the magazine this afternoon to display our displeasure against the magazine," a party worker said adding that the copies will be burnt outside the party's Tilak Bhavan office at Dadar.

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Congress was protesting an objectionable photograph of Sonia Gandhi and Deputy Prime Minister L K Advani with a caption Wah Kya Scene Hai.

The security personnel have formed a cordon round the magazine's office to prevent any untoward incident, police sources said.

Last night (May 3, 2004) the activists had also burnt copies of the magazine.