Gujarat Congress MLA and tribal leader Anant Patel was injured after he was allegedly attacked by a local BJP functionary and his supporters in Navsari district, police said on Sunday.
The incident took place on Saturday evening and an FIR was registered at Khergam police station in the wee hours of Sunday in which Mr. Patel accused local BJP leader Babu Ahir, who is the district panchayat president, and his supporters of attacking him after being upset over a song sung in Mr. Patel's support at a garba event.
Senior Congress leader Rahul Gandhi condemned the attack on Mr. Patel, who has been leading an agitation against the Centre's Par-Tapi-Narmada link project in Gujarat, and claimed it was a result of the "anger of the BJP government".
