Chhatarpur, May 13 -- Madhya Pradesh Congress president Jitu Patwari and several others were booked for allegedly entering a restricted forest area of Panna Tiger Reserve illegally, a forest official said on Wednesday.

The Congress leader, along with a few party workers, on Tuesday reached out to meet villagers staging protests after being displaced due to the construction of a Dhodhan dam under the Ken-Betwa river linking project in Dodhan village, Chhatarpur district.

The affected villagers have been raising objections over compensation distribution and have been staging protests for the past several days.

Speaking to ANI, Chief Conservator of Forest Bijendra Shrivastava said that Patwari, along with Congress workers, had reached Bhu...