Srinagar, Oct. 13 -- There was a face-off between BJP and Congress workers outside the Congress office here on Monday, with rival groups raising slogans against each other before police intervened to disperse the protesters.

The episode unfolded when BJP workers, including women, assembled outside the Congress headquarters on Maulana Azad Road here carrying party flags and raised slogans targeting Congress leader Rahul Gandhi and his party.

Accusing the opposition Congress of electoral malpractices, the BJP protesters chanted, "Rahul Gandhi is a thief," and "Where will you find vote thieves, only in the Congress office?"

Tensions escalated when the BJP workers sought to stage a sit-in outside the Congress headquarters. A large number o...