UP govt. encouraged SP workers to jump barricades at Phulpur rally: Digvijay Singh

New Delhi, Nov 16(ANI): Days after union ministers and some Congress legislators roughed up Samajwadi Party (SP) activists during a black flag demonstration against Congress General Secretary Rahul Gandhi, party leader Digvijay Singh alleged that everything was planned by Mayawati Government.

"Five-six boys jumped the barricades and reached the gate of helicopter. What was the police doing? The Uttar Pradesh Police is answerable for the outer security wing. I allege that everything was planned, and the state government encouraged Samajwadi Party workers to jump the barricades," Singh told media here.

"Anything could have happened, supposing there was someone else? There was definite breach of security and I think an enquiry should be ordered into that," he added.

Earlier, defending Congress leaders, Union Law Minister Salman Khurshid said: "Well, since the protestors suddenly stormed into the helipad area, someone had to stop them. How would you know what they intended to do. For all you know they could have been terrorists. So, whatever the Congress leaders did was justified."

The scuffle occurred when Samajwadi Party activists belonging to its youth-wing attempted to towards the helipad with black flags and raised slogans against Rahul Gandhi when his helicopter landed at the Phulpur ground.

Meanwhile, a case has been filled against Union Ministers of State Jitin Prasada and R P N Singh, Congress leader Pramod Tiwari and party MLA Naseeb Pathan at the Jhunsi police station of Allahabad.

The case was lodged on the basis of a complaint made by a student of Allahabad University, Abhishek Yadav, who said he was beaten up while trying to hand over a memorandum to Rahul Gandhi at the railway ground in Phulpur on Monday.

The case was registered under IPC Sections 147 (punishment for rioting), 149 (every member of unlawful assembly guilty of offence committed in prosecution of common object), 323 (punishment for voluntarily causing hurt) and 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of peace). (ANI)