Bhubaneswar, Mar 27 (UNI) At least 12 policemen and several Congress workers were injured as the Odisha Assembly gherao protest by the Congress on Thursday turned violent, transforming Mahatma Gandhi Marg into a battleground for hours.
In an attempt to reach the State Assembly, agitated Congress workers dismantled barricades and clashed with police forces deployed near the Lower PMG Square.
The police resorted to a lathi charge, used water cannons, and eventually fired tear gas shells to disperse the Congress workers, who had started throwing chairs at the police, pelting stones, and hurling eggs and tomatoes at them to prevent their march to the State Assembly.