I too was injured, says Congress MLA

Congress MLA J N Ganesh, who allegedly hit his lawmaker colleague Anand Singh during an alleged brawl at a private resort, Monday claimed he too was injured in the scuffle, an incident that has given an embarrassing twist to the party's bid to keep its flock together.

The legislator said no "bottle attack" had taken place as projected in the media, while indicatingthat some kind of a brawl had taken place between him and Singh at Eagleton Resorts on the city outskirts late Saturday night.

A jittery Congress had shifted its legislators to the resort on Friday last, as it feared that the BJP might lure some of them in its alleged bid to destabilise the Congress-JDS coalition government in the state.

Singh, who suffered injuries in the scuffle, was admitted to a private hospital on Sunday.

Both had come to blows, according to party sources.

"Whatever media has created about (my) hitting (Singh) with bottle...

14 to 20 stitches... are allcompletely false.

There were also reports about (me) having bitten our gun man. He is physically present here. This is also a lie," Ganesh said.

Stating that Singh is like an elder brother to him, Ganesh said he and his family have respected Singh, whom they knew for the last 15-20 years.

"I have not done this to him purposefully. On someissue Bhima Naik (another Congress MLA) and Anand Singh (had differences), (I) tried to bring them together (compromise)... but some wrong events happened.

If the events that happened there have pained him (Singh), I would apologise to his family. This did not happen intentionally.

He was unwell and was hospitalised. Things have been created by the media," headded.

Asked about Singh being injured, Ganesh said "nothing as you think...I also have (injuries) I cannot say...leave it, nothing as you are thinking."
Asked whether Singh fell as he was drunk, he said, "I don't know about it...I don't want to commentwhether he had taken drinks.. But he fell. Other than that, nothing has happened."
Meanwhile, a medico legal register of the private hospital where Singh is undergoing treatment, in its report said "history of traumatic injury at around 1 AM on January 20 at Eagleton Resort, Bidadi, and sustained injury to head, face and left side chest pain."