I too was injured, says Congress MLA

Congress MLA J N Ganesh, who allegedly hit his lawmaker colleague Anand Singh during an alleged brawl at a private resort, Monday claimed he too was injured in the scuffle, an incident that has given an embarrassing twist to the party's bid to keep its flock together.

The legislator said no "bottle attack" had taken place as projected in the media, while indicatingthat some kind of a brawl had taken place between him and Singh at Eagleton Resorts on the city outskirts late Saturday night.

A jittery Congress had shifted its legislators to the resort on Friday last, as it feared that the BJP might lure some of them in its alleged bid to destabilise the Congress-JDS coalition government in the state.

Singh, who suffered injuries in the scuffle, was admitted to a private hospital on Sunday.

Both had come to blows, according to party sources.

"Whatever media has created about (my) hitting (Singh) with bottle...

14 to 20 stitches... are allcompletely false.

There were also ...