Bahraich: UPCC chief Rita Bahuguna Joshi on Thursday removed the party`s district and city unit presidents after a section of party workers had staged demonstration during Congress leader Rahul Gandhi`s public meeting here protesting "discrimination" in assembly poll ticket distribution.

A group of about 200 Congress workers had demonstrated during Rahul`s meeting in protest against alleged discrimination in nominating candidates for coming assembly elections in the state. "The supporters of district unit president Jitendra Pratap Singh and city unit president Sheikh Zakaria had demonstrated near the meeting ground in an act of indiscipline. Both these persons have been removed from their posts," Joshi said. Former city unit president Ram Narain Mishra has been made the working president of the district unit, Joshi added.

PTI