Beginning his probe into the incident of assault on Haryana Congress chief Ashok Tanwar on October 6 in New Delhi, former Union Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde on Monday met Tanwar.
During the meeting, Tanwar has blamed close supporters of former Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda for the attack on him. It is learnt that Tanwar has apprized Shinde about the previous party events where Hooda supporters had booed and troubled him.
Haryana Congress party chief has also submitted photo and video proofs of October 6 incident alleging involvement of Hooda supporters and has demanded strict action against the culprits. Earlier, Tanwar had also met party’s vice president Rahul Gandhi to apprize him about the violent clash between his and Hooda supporters.
Meanwhile, Kiran Choudhry, Haryana Congress legislative party leader also met Shinde and informed him about the ongoing situation in the party. Choudhry, a close aid of Tanwar is learnt to have expressed her unhappiness over the factionalism in the state party unit which led to party workers’ clash on the day Rahul Gandhi’s Uttar Pradesh Yatra culminated in the capital.
Tanwar had sustained head and spine injuries during the incident. Meanwhile, state MlAs would meet Shinde on Tuesday to submit their account on the issue.