GURGAON: Just three months ago, he had toured these parts extensively as a Lok Sabha candidate from Gurgaon, trying to canvass support for the Aam Aadmi Party . But on Monday, a day after a communal clash in Tauru left 15 injured, Yogendra Yadav was asked to “get out” of the town by some angry residents, who accused him of trying to woo a particular community.

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The video, apparently clicked on a cellphone as Yadav visited the family of the 22-year-old man whose death in an accident triggered the clash, had gone viral on the social media by evening.

Yadav, however, said the whole episode seemed “stage-managed”, claiming he was surrounded by about 25 BJP and RSS workers , who got agitated and started shouting at him because he had refused to give a byte to a TV channel.

“In the morning, I went to AIIMS to visit the driver and conductor (of the dumper involved in the accident) who were injured in the violence. The doctors there told me they are out of danger. After this, I went to Tauru, where I visited the deceased’s family and spent about half an hour there. Then I met an advocate, who was a Muslim, and he started telling me how the events unfolded. At this point, another person by name Mittal came and asked me to come to his house and hear the other version, and I readily agreed,” he said.

“After I reached his place, a TV reporter came to interview the people already here. I was later informed they are local RSS people. These pro-RSS and BJP people gave a one-sided version of the entire sequence of events. The reporter then asked me to give a byte, but I refused, saying I will not comment till the time I have met enough people to know what exactly happened,” he added.

This was the point, according to him, when tempers flared. “At this, the people became very aggressive verbally and started accusing me of not believing them. However, they did not harm me physically. ‘We told you the truth, why don’t you believe us’, is what they said. They asked me get out of that place, saying I am not convinced of what they told me. I am told that somebody made a video of the incident, which is now being circulated. Everything seemed to be stage-managed. I told the host that I had come to his place only because he had invited me, else I would not have gone there,” Yadav said.