The Congress party shared a 54-second video yesterday, showcasing a group of people tearing down some posters and a hoarding bearing images of Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and other party leaders.
The highlight of the video was a mini-truck carrying Congress flags and a car having damaged windshields. This damage, party leaders alleged, was done by members of the BJP who had attacked Congress members putting up posters in Lakhimpur on Friday.
The Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge lashed out at the BJP over the alleged attacks on platform X, to which Assam DGP G P Singh responded, stating that no vehicles were targeted.
Rahul Gandhi's yatra is having a rough scratch in Assam as the CM Himanta Biswa Sharma and Rahul Gandhi have been involved in a war of words.
But such incidents are yet another example of how Indian politics have transcended into an era of money muscle and power with cases of political and electoral violence becoming a common norm in the country, the most prominent example being of West Bengal, it can only be hoped that free and fair electoral campaigning and polling replaces the norm of violence in the country.
Report by Rahul Kumar
Graphics by Navneet
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