An outdoor broadcasting van of Doordarshan caught fire on Saturday while it was stationed outside the Punjab Congress headquarters.
The van was stationed to cover a function for anointing new Punjab Congress Chief Partap Singh Bajwa. A number of Central and State Congress leaders, including Union Minister Manish Tewari attended the ceremony inside the PPCC headquarters at Sector 15.
No one was injured as the engineers and driver accompanying the van were standing outside the vehicle. A senior officer of the Jalandhar Doordarshan Kendra said that the cause of the fire was not known. "The cause of the fire and the condition of the van will be examined by technical experts after which it would be known whether it can be repaired or not," he said. He said that the van was sent from Jalandhar as the Chandigarh Doordarshan Kendra does not have such Outdoor Broadcasting van.