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KOLKATA: A scuffle broke out between the two groups of Congress supporters at Lokosanskriti Bhawan in Panihati, North24 Parganas this afternoon just before Pranab Mukherjee, President of Pradesh Congress Committee was to address a ‘party workers meeting’, was organised by the North 24 Parganas district committee of Congress.
The chaos begun when Mukherjee arrived at the hall to address the party workers. A group of Congress supporters led by Kalidas Dutta, a district Congress leader demanded that Dutta should be invited to address the gathering and he should be allowed to share the podium with Pranab. But another group of Congress supporters, backed by Devi Ghoshal, president of North 24 Pargans district Congress tried to resist Mr Dutta, while he was trying to sit in the podium, soon the scuffle broke out between the two groups.
Meeting was delayed for half an hour following the chaos. Later Mukherjee met the press.
11 MAY, 2010
