Chaos in ZP as members fight

AMRAVATI: Utter chaos prevailed in the Amravati Zilla Parishad on Monday when members of Congress, NCP and Shiv Sena exchanged blows. The incident took place during the election of subject committees.
Seeing the situation going out of control, the election officer called police, who resorted to lathi-charge. Soon afterwards, party chiefs of Shiv Sena, NCP, BJP and RPI met the collector and demanded action against the cops.
The ruckus started when zilla parishad vice-president and BJP office-bearer Jaiprakash Patel, told BJP members - Manohar Sune and Sunil Uike - to sign the whip of the party. But both refused. Enraged with their behaviour, Shiv Sena's Sudhir Suryavanshi and NCP's Shirpal Pal criticized Sune and Uike.
Former ZP president Bablu Deshmukh intervened and an heated exchange took place between Deshmukh and Suryavanshi with both hurling expletives at each other. A BJP member who tried to intervene was manhandled by Congress members.
This led to the commotion and the events took an ugly turn as Deshmukh and Suryavanshi started exchanging punches. Activists of NCP, BJP and Congress started throwing chairs.
Seeing the situation going out of control, the election officer called police, who resorted to lathi-charge. ZP president Surekha Thakre of NCP, BJP, Shiv Sena and BSP members staged a walkout.
Thakre said, "The scuffle was started by Congress members as they used pressure tactics in the hall."
Bablu Deshmukh of Congress said, "Whatever happened in the hall was unfortunate, NCP members started it all, we just reciprocated."
MLA Abhijit Adsul of Shiv Sena, MP Anand Adsul, former MLA Prakash Bharsakle, former MLA Sulbha Khodke, Rajendra Gavai of RPI met the collector and demanded suspension of the cops.