BJP functionary instigated violence in Jabalpur: Digvijaya

Senior Congress leader Digvijaya Singh on Saturday accused a BJP functionary of instigating violence in Jabalpur city, where the police were caught on video damaging parked vehicles after an anti-Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) protest.

The BJP, on the other hand, blamed Singh and the Congress for "spreading lies" through their claim that the incident of police personnel vandalising properties in Jabalpur, as seen in the video, had actually happened in Uttar Pradesh.

Taking to Twitter, Singh said, "I have come to know from Jabalpur that the whole incident where police is seen on video throwing stones and vandalising property in Muslim dominated areas, was instigated by a Muslim office bearer of BJP."
Reacting to Singh's tweet, state BJP spokesman Rajnish Agrawal said, "Initially, the Congress circulated the video of the police smashing car windows and vandalising properties at Jabalpur in Congress-ruled Madhya Pradesh, stating that it had happened in BJP-ruled Uttar Pradesh."
The Uttar Pradesh police's Twitter handle (@UPPViralCheck) claimed that "the incident shown in the video is not related to @UPPolice, it is a video of Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh."