Protest against Shatru

Patna, April 22

A demonstration was staged here Monday outside the state Congress headquarters by a group of persons who carried placards dubbing actor-politician Shatrughan Sinha as a ‘dalaal’ (broker) of Lalu Prasad’s RJD and raised slogans demanding cancellation of his candidature from the Patna Sahib Lok Sabha constituency.

BPCC spokesman HK Verma, however, asserted that the demonstrators were “not in any way associated with the party” and suspected that they were sent to the Sadaqat Ashram by rivals at a time when Sinha was not inside the premises. Sinha trashed the incident as meant for publicity by a handful of people who might have been sent by the BJP.

The state Congress office said that police has been informed about the incident. — PTI