Congress party leaders and workers observed the first anniversary of demonetization on Wednesday as ‘Black Day’ in the city.
On the other hand the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) observed the day as ‘Anti Black Money Day’.
The Congress party alleged that the action of Central Government has crippled the economy while BJP claimed that it has brought out the black money into banking system in the country.
Workers of both parties also clashed at Gudhiyari locality where the Congress party was holding a programme.
At Pahadi Chowk of Gudhiyari where AICC’s Chhattisgarh In-charge P.l. Punia and senior Congress party leaders were staging a demonstration, some miscreants who were alleged to be from BJP came and took out black flags and threw bangles.
The suspected BJP workers also started throwing stones in the public meeting of Congress party. The Congress workers also retaliated and the conflict started. later in the evening some suspected Youth Congress leaders and workers also went to BJP office at Ekatma Parisar and threw black ink.
The BJP workers caught the miscreants and informed the police which later arrested some of them.