Congress workers today staged protests across Gujarat condemning the attack on the car of party vice president Rahul Gandhi in Banaskantha district.
Members of the opposition party blocked the roads and burnt effigies of BJP as part of their protests against attack on Gandhi's vehicle at Dhanera yesterday.
The protests were carried out in cities including Ahmedabad, Surat, Rajkot and Gandhinagar.
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They demanded that the persons responsible for throwing stone at the vehicle be booked under section 307 (Attempt to murder) of the IPC.
However, police detained the protesting members as they blocked roads and affected traffic movement.
In Rajkot, two Congress workers were detained when they were moving towards the residence of Chief Minister Vijay Rupani situated at Prakash Society to stage a protest, police said.
Police officials rushed to Rupani's residence after the incident. Nobody is residing there as of now, they said.
Twenty more people were also detained for blocking a road in the city, thereby affecting traffic movement, Rajkot police said.
At Dhanera, dozens of Congress workers gheraoed police station demanding arrest of the culprit who had pelted stones at Gandhi's vehicle yesterday. They dispersed only after police announced the arrest of one person in this connection.
Gandhi had yesterday faced protests in flood-hit Gujarat where a man pelted a stone at his car.
The glass pane at the rear of his car was shattered as a piece of stone smashed through it when Gandhi was on his way to the helipad in Dhanera from Lal Chowk in flood-ravaged Banaskantha district, police said.
Police today arrested one Jayesh Darji, a BJP youth wing member, in this connection.
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