YAD district chief injured in protest

Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, November 6

As the Shiromani Akali Dal today took out a massive protest outside the official residence of Punjab CM Charanjit Singh Channi in Chandigarh, Youth Akali Dal district chief Sukhminder Singh Rajpal was among those who got injured in the face-off between the party leaders and the Chandigarh Police.

Rajpal, who was leading about 30 youth workers from the city, said he had climbed upon the barricades during the protest during which a cop thrashed him. “My right arm got badly hurt and I was not able to move it. I fell off and a few of my fellow workers in the party took me to a hospital at Sohana village in Mohali. They did X-ray and I was told that there was a fracture. They plastered my arm and told me to give it complete rest for the next three months”, he said.

Rajpal said the police was too brutal against the party workers today as they were protesting over the issue of rising fuel prices in Punjab and inflation. The party leaders have also alleged that the Congress and BJP were playing a friendly match over various Centre-state issues including allowing BSF to operate up to 50 km from the international border.

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