Parliament scuffle: Congress files police complaint alleging misbehaviour with Kharge

The Congress filed a complaint at Parliament Street Police Station on Thursday alleging BJP leaders misbehaved with its chief Mallikarjun Kharge, an officer said.

The delegation of Congress MPs, including Digvijaya Singh, Mukul Wasnik, Rajiv Shukla and Pramod Tiwari, filed the complaint visiting the station in person, the officer said.

A delegation of BJP leaders was still inside New Delhi DCP Devesh Kumar Mahla's office there, when the Congress leaders came with their complaint and were asked to wait inside the ACP's room.

A senior officer said police have received the complaint and are looking into it.

"Eighty-four-year-old Dalit leader Mallikarjun Kharge was pushed and misbehaved with. We have come here to file a complaint against this act," Tiwari told the media at the station.

Earlier in the day, a face-off between the opposition and NDA MPs in Parliament premises over the alleged insult to B R Ambedkar injured former minister Pratap Chandra Sarangi.

The BJP accused Rahul Gandhi of pushing the senior member, a charge the Congress leader rejected.

The Congress also claimed that BJP MPs pushed its chief Mallikarjun Kharge and "physically manhandled" the Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha.

In a letter to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, Congress MPs asked him to order an investigation into the incident. PTI ALK BM ALK VN VN