Rajkot

senior Congress leader

Rahul Gupta

Vijay Rupani

A verbal duel that took place between the newly appointedcity Congress president and the Collector on Saturday has gone viral.An argument betweenAshok Dangar and Collectortook place after Dangar allegedly barged into the collector's office while the latter was in a video-conference with the chief secretary. While Dangar claimed that he had been protesting the collector's rudeness, Gupta alleged that Dangar's misbehaviour was resulted in the tiff.According to the party, around 60 huts in a slum had caught fire in Rajkot on Wednesday and Congress leaders had submitted a memorandum to the district collector, seeking aid for the victims.Dangar said, "CMwas in Rajkot on Saturday and we approached the collector, seeking a meeting with the CM. We were first asked to meet the deputy collector who was unaware of the issue. So, we entered his office, which was not closed. The collector asked us to shut up and we protested his rudeness. He is a public servant and cannot ask anyone to shut up."However, narrating a different version, the collector said, "I was in a video-conference with the chief secretary and senior officials in Gandhingar. Dangar sought a meeting with the CM at the last minute, arranging which was not possible. He bared into my office with his followers. I requested him to let me finish the conference but he became unruly. We had to call the cops to restore peace."