District Congress Committee Chief along with 200 party workers were booked for allegedly raising slogans against the country during a martyr's pride rally in Thakurdwara here, police said today.
According to police sources, 'Nation and Martyr's Pride' rally of Congress workers of Thakurdwara unit, lea by district president Arun Prakash Singh and other leaders, was passing from Kashipur road to SDM office in Thakurdwara on Saturday when anti-national slogans like "Pakistan zindabad" were raised by them which is a cognisable offence and an FIR (U/S 124-A of IPC) has been lodged against them.
SO, Thakudwara, Dhruv Kumar said that from local newspaper and a local channel we came to know that some anti-nation slogan "Pakistan zindabad" was "raised three times" by Congress workers in the rally.
The FIR was lodged yesterday by the Kasba Chowki in-charge Amit Kumar Sharma, he said.
Kumar said police is probing the matter.
However, Singh said not a single anti-national slogan was raised by the Congress workers as the rally was conducted to highlight the martyrdom of soldiers killed in Uri.
He said FIR was lodged on the source of local newspapers which, according to him, was done on the "directions of anti-congress people".
He alleged that it is being done to create interruptions or cancel the Kishan campaign rally on September 28 by Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi.
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