Chandigarh, Feb. 25 -- Tensions flared in the UT on Wednesday as senior Haryana Congress leaders and workers clashed with the Chandigarh Police during a planned march to gherao the state Assembly.
The protest, led by state Congress president Rao Narendra Singh and leader of Opposition Bhupinder Singh Hooda, was organized to voice opposition against recent changes to the MNREGA scheme.
The confrontation occurred near the party's headquarters in Sector 9, where police had established multi-layered barricades to halt the procession.
The situation turned volatile when Congress supporters attempted to scale the barricades to proceed toward the Assembly complex. This led to a heated standoff and physical scuffles between the protesters and sec...