In what could embarrass the Congress party, Delhi BJP leader Harish Khurana on Monday shared a picture of grand-old-party leaders eating at a restaurant before sitting on a protest and observing fast at Rajghat over atrocities on Dalits.

Khurana tweeted a picture in which Congress leader Arvinder Lovely, Delhi Congress chief Ajay Maken and others were seen eating in a small restaurant.

"This picture (of Congress leaders eating before fast) reveals double-standard of Congress. On one hand they are claiming to observe fast, on the other hand they are seen having food at a restaurant. The picture is authentic. Let them deny it," said Harish Khurana.

However, reacting to the image shared by the BJP leader, Lovely said that it is symbolic fast from 10.30 am to 4.30pm and the photograph was taken before 8 am.

"It is not an indefinite hunger strike. This is what is wrong with these (BJP) people. Instead of properly running the country, they concentrate on what we eat," Lovely said.

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The development comes amid Senior Congress leader and accused in the 1984 anti-Sikh riot case Jagdish Tytler left the stage of a Congress programme at Rajghat.

When reporters saw Tytler leaving the stage, then they questioned him whether he was asked to leave as one of the mottos of the programme was communal harmony.

Tytler replied: "No! No! Ajay (Maken) is calling me."

Then Delhi Pradesh Congress Committee President Ajay Maken was heard whispering into Tytler's ear and was seen escorting Tytler to few yards and coming back when Tytler left.

Rahul Gandhi is leading a protest at the Raj Ghat as part of a nationwide "fast" of the party to protest against the Narendra Modi government and its failure to hold discussion in Parliament on key issues such as the CBSE paper leak, the multi-crore PNB scam, Cauvery issue and Special Category Status to Andhra Pradesh.

Congress workers are holding a day-long fast at all state and district headquarters to protest against the BJP government and promote communal harmony and peace across the country.

The BJP has also announced that its MPs will observe a fast on April 12 to protest the impasse in Parliament.