MEERUT, April 11 -- Panic prevailed in the Surajkund area of Meerut district on Thursday after a BJP councillor allegedly opened fire near the municipal corporation depot, injuring a garbage truck driver, police said. Outraged by the broad daylight incident, sanitation workers announced to strike work, demanding the arrest of the accused.

According to the police, Ravindra Singh, the BJP councillor from Ward 18 (Sarai Qazi), had a heated argument with depot in-charge Rajesh Kumar earlier in the day. Although onlookers managed to defuse the situation, Singh, while leaving, allegedly threatened to teach Kumar a lesson.

Shortly after the confrontation, Singh returned to the depot with 2-3 associates and opened indiscriminate fire with a pis...