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Kiran Bedi's office vandalised by lawyers, three BJP workers injured
New Delhi, Feb 2: A group of around 150 lawyers
Monday vandalised the office of BJP's chief ministerial candidate Kiran
Bedi in her Delhi assembly constituency of Krishna Nagar, in which
three party workers were injured, police said.
According to
police, the incident took place around 4.30 p.m., when the lawyers -
protesting the announcement of Bedi as the Bharatiya Janata Party's
chief ministerial candidate for Delhi - marched towards her office
raising slogans against her and the party.
Due to the commotion,
around 25 workers inside Bedi's office came out and a heated argument
ensued between the two groups that led to a clash.
Three BJP workers - Harihar, Kapil and Manoj, all in their early 30s - were injured and later hospitalised, police said.
The lawyers then entered Bedi's office and broke some furniture, a party leader said.
Police
said the lawyers were protesting against Bedi ever since she was named
the chief ministerial candidate, because in 1988 when she was the Delhi
Police deputy commissioner, a group of protesting lawyers were caned on
her orders.
Joint Commissioner of Police Sanjay Beniwal told IANS
that a probe would be ordered into the incident as soon as police
receive a written complaint.
Bedi visited the injured workers in hospital and said their statements have been recorded.
Bedi,
in a series of tweets, said: "My BJP constituency office in Krishna
Nagar am informed has been attacked. Informed some injured too. Cutting
short Rallies, rushing back."
"Met the injured. Their statements
recorded. Will give all evidence to the police and await the findings of
police investigation.
"Thanked all our BJP volunteers who bore
the assault and did not get provoked! Appealed to them to remain calm,
civil and peaceful," she said in another tweet.
BJP's Delhi unit
president Satish Upadhyay "strongly" condemned the attack and accused
"some activists" of the Aam Aadmi Party of being behind the attack.
"We
strongly condemn the attack. This is a repetition of the attack on the
BJP national headquarters by AAP activists before the 2014 Lok Sabha
elections," he said.
"Before the birth of the AAP, there was no
place for violence or abusive misconduct in the politics of Delhi. It is
up to the people of Delhi now to totally reject the politics of
anarchism," Upadhyay added.