One of the AAP supporters who was attacked in Varanasi on Monday. One of the AAP supporters who was attacked in Varanasi on Monday.

Two AAP volunteers were attacked in Varanasi on Monday evening and on Tuesday, a war broke out between AAP supporters and BJP supporters on social media. On Twitter, the two trending topics of the day were #BJPkeGundey and #AAPkeSharabi. #BJPkeGundey because AAP said the attackers were from the BJP. #AAPkeSharabi because BJP supporters accused the victims of creating a ruckus at Assi Ghat.

While the AAP said BJP supporters attacked the duo without provocation while they had stopped at a shop to drink water, a right-leaning journalists claimed a fight had ensued after AAP supporters were seen drinking beer and urinating in the Ganga.

Aaj Tak correspondent Anurag Dhanda said both the AAP volunteers underwent a medical examination before filing an FIR and none of them were found to be under the influence of alcohol.

AAP leader Arvind Kejriwal, who is contesting from the Varanasi Lok Sabha seat against the BJP's prime ministerial candidate Narendra Modi, called a press conference and said: "Earlier, only I was being attacked. But now even common people are being attacked."

He also accused the BJP of hatching a conspiracy to spread fear and keep AAP supporters away on the polling day. He also sought central forces to monitor the voting process.

Earlier, the two AAP supporters, Nandan Mishra and Ankit Lal, recounted the way they were attacked while they were at a shop to drink water.

"We were returning from campaigning and we had stopped at a shop to drink water. Generally, on seeing AAP caps, people come to us and talk. One of the groups there was of the BJP and it began shouting 'Modi, Modi'. When they saw we could be influencing people, they told us to leave. Then one of them came and began hitting us," Mishra, with a bloodied nose, told reporters.

"It seemed they were from the BJP. They were wearing BJP caps. It all began with an argument. They said 'you are absconders; you have come to defend an absconder'. We asked them to sit down and discuss. They regrouped and came back and four or five of them manhandled us. Nandan was hit on the nose and I was hit on the head," Lal told reporters.

But Hashmi Shams Tabreed, a writer who clearly leans to the right and is a Modi supporters, kicked up a storm after he tweeted these lines:

"Word is that AAP folks were engaged in a fight yesterday with people who objected to their drinking beer at Assi ghat & Urinating in Ganga."

BJP supporters picked up these lines and tweeted in enough numbers to make #AAPkeSharabi trend the whole day.

"Yesterday's scuffle is hurting AAP more. With AAP campaign entirely driven by outsiders, they don't realize Ganga is an emotional issue here.

"I've talked to a lot of people today, autodrivers, shopkeepers, govt. servants and most sounded pretty upset with AAP disrespecting ganga."

Word is that AAP folks were engaged in a fight yesterday with people who objected to their drinking beer at Assi ghat & Urinating in Ganga &; Hashmi Shams Tabreed (@hstabreed) April 29, 2014