April 3 – Senior Congress leader Madhusudan Mistry (pic), contesting against Gujarat Chief Minister
Narendra Modi from Vadodara, was detained along with more than 100 supporters after a row over pasting of posters in the city on Thursday.
Police action came after Mistry’s supporters tried to paste his poster over Modi’s on electricity poles across the city. Congress supporters also tore off many Modi posters.
Subsequently, over 100 supporters were held. Soon, Mistry and another Congress leader Narendra Rawat were also taken into custody.
Mistry has been peeved over Modi’s posters on poles across the city and had written to the Vadodara Municipal Corporation to give him space too to paste his posters. But the permission was apparently denied.
He then asked the Election Commissioner and sought permission before 11 am on Thursday. When they denied permission too, Congress workers began pasting Mistry’s posters on the poles and police was called in.
However, Mistry accused police of bias and said it used force on Congress workers.
“I am now at the police station along with party workers. Police used force to disperse party workers putting Congress posters as Election Commissioner did not allot us space. We are not going to budge from our demand to allot us space for advertisement,” he told reporters.
-India Today
