Indore: Madhya Pradesh's Indore police lashed out at several persons using water cannons to disperse protesting Youth Congress workers. Many of the workers were injured here on Wednesday, the party claimed.

The Youth Congress workers came in a huge number for a protest march from the party office on Link Road no 1 to the chief minister’s residence against inflation. The protest was held at the issues of rising fuel prices and unemployment. But police stopped the march near the Congress office by putting up barricades. As protestors tried to climb the barricades, police used water cannons and arrested many of them. The protest by Congress workers was in demand for the permission of the administration in Madhya Pradesh to allow the public celebration of upcoming festivals by relaxing the COVID-19 curbs. Congress workers, who were staging a silent protest holding the tricolor and saffron flags started entering the district collector's office in the Moti Tabela area by removing barricades were then stopped by the water cannons, eye-witnesses said.

The police action resulted in a stampede-like situation, eye-witnesses claimed. Reacting to the incident, Madhya Pradesh Congress president Kamal Nath accused the Shivraj Singh Chouhan government of adopting "double standards". He alleged Union minister Jyotiraditya Scindia's recent "Jan Ashirwad Yatra" was allowed without restrictions in Indore but when Congress workers demanded permission the force was used to suppress them. Former ministers and Congress MLAs Vijaylaxmi Sadho and Jitu Patwari led the protest.

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