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Pune Congress claims to have blackened Togadia's face

Pune Congress president Mohan Joshi said party activists led by him had gheraoed Togadia on Tuesday night outside a Jain temple and blackened his face 'to teach him a lesson for denigrating Sonia Gandhi'.

Deputy Commissioner of Police Sukhvinder Singh said the Congress activists did make an attempt to blacken Togadia's face, but failed.

Togadia termed it a publicity stunt by Congressmen to make Gandhi happy. "No such thing happened," he insisted. "They had made an attempt and created a scene, but did not succeed as I had already left the premises after the function. So I do not know whose face they blackened."

Reacting to the Congress campaign against him, Togadia accused the party of "singling out Hindu leaders and targeting them to feather their own nests".

"When a man like Imam Bukhari makes inflammatory statements, Congressmen keep mum, but when Hindu leaders like me or Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray utter anything, they raise a hue and cry."

The recent case registered by the Mumbai police against Thackeray is a classic example of how the Congress wants to single out Hindu leaders and target them, he added.

PTI

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