Police officers, party cadre injured in stone pelting by BJP, Congress workers in Puducherry

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Congress workers gathered adjacent   the BJP bureau   successful  Puducherry connected  Saturday greeting  to protestation  successful  retaliation to the burning of an effigy of Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi connected  Friday night.

Congress workers gathered adjacent the BJP bureau successful Puducherry connected Saturday greeting to protestation successful retaliation to the burning of an effigy of Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi connected Friday night. | Photo Credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT

Several persons, including constabulary officers, sustained insignificant injuries successful chromatic pelting by the BJP and the Congress workers successful Puducherry connected Saturday.

The chromatic pelting occurred adjacent the BJP bureau aft Congress workers gathered determination to protestation successful retaliation to the burning of an effigy of the Leader of Opposition, Rahul Gandhi, connected Friday night. 

The BJP workers had burnt the effigy of Mr. Gandhi arsenic a people of protestation against the objection by the Youth Congress successful an accumulation hallway astatine the AI Impact Summit venue successful New Delhi connected Friday. On Saturday morning, Congress workers tried to barge into the BJP bureau to registry their protestation for the burning of the effigy of Mr. Gandhi. As immoderate Congress workers tried to interruption the barricades and pain the effigy of the Prime Minister, BJP workers pushed back.

When the workers started hurling stones astatine each other, the constabulary resorted to mild caning to disperse the protesters. Superintendent of Police Vamseedhar Reddy, a fewer different constabulary officers and workers belonging to some the parties sustained insignificant bruises successful the chromatic pelting. 

A delegation of Congress leaders led by erstwhile Chief Minister V. Narayanasamy and Pradesh Congress Committee main and MP V. Vaithilingam staged a objection successful the municipality to protestation the burning of effigy successful beforehand of the PCC office. Cases person been registered against workers of some the BJP and the Congress successful transportation with burning of effigies and chromatic pelting. 

Published - February 21, 2026 09:11 p.m. IST

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