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The Congress filed a complaint at Parliament Street police station on Thursday alleging that BJP leaders misbehaved with party president Mallikarjun Kharge, an officer said. The delegation of Congress MPs, including Digvijaya Singh, Mukul Wasnik, Rajiv Shukla and Pramod Tiwari, filed the complaint by visiting the station in person, the officer said. A delegation of BJP leaders was still inside deputy commissioner of Delhi Police Devesh Kumar Mahla's office there when the Congress leaders came with their complaint and were asked to wait in an assistant police commissioner's room.
A senior officer said the police has received the complaint and is looking into it. "Eighty-four-year-old Dalit leader Mallikarjun Kharge was pushed and misbehaved with. We have come here to file a complaint against this act," Tiwari told the media at the station.
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The BJP accused Lok Sabha Leader of the Opposition Rahul Gandhi of pushing the senior member, a charge the Congress leader rejected. The Congress also claimed that BJP MPs pushed Kharge and "physically manhandled" Gandhi. In a letter to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, Congress MPs asked him to order an investigation into the incident.
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