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Uttarakhand Congress President Karan Mahra on Saturday tendered “apology” to journalists belonging to the Uttaranchal Press Club following a brawl with the party workers during a cricket match in Dehradun on Wednesday.
Mahra reached the Press Club where he offered the “apology” to its President Ajay Rana, a press club statement said. When asked to comment, Mathura Dutt Joshi, state Congress spokesperson, only said it will not make any difference whether it was an “apology or regret”. “One will not become small after tendering apology,” said Joshi.
Earlier, Mahra had expressed regret and blamed the state police for the incident which occurred inside a stadium in the police line in Dehradun. Mahra said the police brought him along with Congress workers inside the stadium where the cricket match was in progress. This brawl occurred due to some “misunderstanding”, Mahra claimed.
In this regard, Mahra asked DGP Deepam Seth to order inquiry into the Wednesday incident and take action against all those police officials who brought the Congress workers to the stadium as part of some “conspiracy”.
A cricket match was being organized by the Uttaranchal Press Club when the incident had occurred inside the stadium on Wednesday. The police later dispersed the Congress workers from the ground. The Club President Rana had claimed that “a group of Congress workers led by Karan Mahra entered into the stadium raising slogans and started disrupting the match. When we tried to stop them (Congress workers), they started roughing up journalists.”
Rana later convened a meeting of the Club on Thursday to protest against the incident. In the meeting, Rana said it was decided that Mahra must apologize before the Club President within three days failing which journalists will launch a movement against the Congress party in the state. In this context, Mahra on Saturday tendered “apology”.