Supporters of the ruling AAP and Congress clashed with each other forcing the Batala Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Dr Mehtab Singh to rush to the incident site with a team of senior officials to control the situation.

Sporadic clashes took place in the Dera Baba Nanak SDM's office since morning even as Congress workers, aligned to Gurdaspur MP Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa, claimed that they were not allowed to submit their papers.

The process of submitting nomination papers for the Zila Parishad and Panchayat Samiti elections was underway when AAP supporters allegedly manhandled Congress workers.

A Congressman, Gurmej Singh, who was attacked when he went inside the office to file his nomination papers, claimed that apart from him, at least four or five Congressmen, all prospective

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