Phagwara (Punjab), Apr 4 (PTI) Two men riding a motorcycle fired at an AAP activist and injured him in Phagwara district of Punjab on Monday, police said.

AAP activist Vipin Kumar, alias Gora, was rushed to a civil hospital in Phagwara from where he was referred to a facility in Jalandhar Cantonment.

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He told reporters from his hospital bed that he was driving his car when the two unidentified men fired at him and fled away.

The incident took place in a village along the Phagwara-Jalandhar national highway.

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Several activists of the state's ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) assembled at the civil hospital and demanded immediate arrest of the culprits.

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