A scuffle broke out between the supporters of a BJP MP and Congress workers today over the laying of the foundation stone of a power sub-station here following which an FIR was lodged against the legislator and 12 others.
Additional Superintendent of Police Ramji Singh Yadav said the incident took place when Jaunpur BJP MP KP Singh went to the site of the proposed power sub-station in Sipah area accompanied by electricity department officials.
Around 15 Congress supporters led by district Youth Congress president Satyaveer Singh reached the spot and started raising slogans against BJP.
They said that since local Congress MLA Nadeem Javed got the sub-station approved during the previous UPA regime, he should lay the foundation stone.
Thereafter, a scuffle ensued between the two groups in which KP Singh and other Congress workers sustained minor injuries, ASP Yadav said, adding that, on the basis of a complaint by Youth Congress members, an FIR has been lodged against 12 people, including KP Singh, Parvinder Chauhan and Santosh Tripathi of BJP.
