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Three persons including an All India Radio correspondent were injured when irate Youth Congress workers attacked the Bharatiya Janata Party headquarters in New Delhi, pelting stones and setting ablaze hoardings, demanding the dismissal of the National Democratic Alliance government in the wake of the tehelka.com expose.
The Congress activists came in half-a-dozen vehicles at the BJP headquarters on Ashoka Road and started indulging in arson, even as BJP central office bearers were meeting to consider the resignation of party president Bangaru Laxman, eye witnesses said.
An AIR Correspondent Sudarshanam was injured in the stone pelting when media persons covering the BJP meeting came rushing out to witness the incident. He was taken to the Lok Nayak Jai Prakash Narain Hospital, from where he was discharged after first aid.
Two BJP workers were also injured in the incident, party sources said, adding two cars were damaged, lamps at the gate broken and some hoardings torn in the attack.
The Congress workers fled as police arrived even as one person was detained for questioning.
In a statement, Youth Congress President Randeep Singh Surjewala demanded immediate dismissal of the NDA Government and arrest of "its corrupt and maligned senior leaders."
Reacting to the attack, senior BJP leader and Union Rural Development Minister Venkaiah Naidu said, "This expose will have no effect on the government. Rather, it (the attack) has exposed the Congress."
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