Vidisha (MP), Jun 26 (PTI) Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh and others on Friday afternoon staged a sit-in here to protest ransacking of the office of local Congress MLA Shashank Bhargava.

A case has been registered against Bhargava for allegedly making an objectionable remark about a woman Union minister during a protest against rising fuel prices.

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Singh and other Congress leaders including former Madhya Pradesh ministers P C Sharma and Jitu Patwari staged the sit-in alongwith Bhargava himself.

"I strongly condemn the attack on Bhargava and demand immediate arrest of those behind the incident," Singh said.

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The Rajya Sabha member alleged that the police did not name the assailants in the FIR under pressure despite knowing their identity.

Following Bhargava's controversial remarks, BJP leaders staged a protest against him. Subsequently, unidentified persons pelted stones at his office-cum-factory and ransacked it.

Bhargava termed the attack as "life-threatening". PTI

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