A protest by the Congress cadre near the BJP district office in Hanamkonda demanding scrapping of the Centre’s Agnipath scheme for the armed forces turned tense on Friday leading to fisticuffs between Congress and the BJP activists.
The incident coincided with the visit of the BJP MP Om Prakash Mathur from Rajasthan to the tri-city of Warangal, Hanamkonda and Kazipet in connection with the party’s “Sampark Abhiyan”, a mass contact programme, a day ahead of the BJP’s national executive scheduled to be held in Hyderabad on July 2 and 3.
Trouble erupted when the Congress and the BJP cadre clashed near the BJP district office after the latter put up stiff resistance to the attempts by the Congress functionaries to hold a demonstration in front of their party’s office, sources said.
