New Delhi:
In a growing trend of political parties attacking each others headquarters, Congress workers had to be stopped with water cannons after over 200 people broke barricades and shouted slogans outside the BJP headquarters in Delhi. They were there to protest against the earlier attacks against the Prime Minister by the BJP.
Holding Congress flags and placards, around 100 activists marched from the Youth Congress office on Raisina Road and broke two barricades to reach near 11-Ashoka Road office of the BJP.
Later, the Youth Congress workers squatted on the road blocking traffic.
"The BJP leaders did not allow the functioning of Parliament. They were not allowing the passage of pro-poor legislations and were demanding resignation of the Prime Minister without any reason," a protester claimed.
The BJP's Rajnath Singh, Arun Jaitley and Vasundhare Raje were scheduled to address the media over senior Rajasthan BJP leader Gulab hand Kataria being named in the CBI chargesheet in the Sohrabuddin Shaikh fake encounter case. The protests were held just before the press conference began.
Just two days ago around 2000 workers from the BJP clashed with the Delhi Police after they defied prohibitory orders and attempted to march towards Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's 7 Race Course Road residence in central Delhi.
The president of the BJP's youth wing, Anurag Thakur, and the head of the party's Delhi unit, Vijay Goel, led the protest march in their demand for the PM's resignation over the coal scam.
The entire budget session of the Parliament was washed out over the coal scam.