Click to play videoAgra: Samajwadi Party workers on Thursday attacked a tourist bus in Agra while protesting against the execution of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.
The workers threw stones at the bus thinking it was carrying foreign tourists but inside were Indians from Goa who had come to visit the Taj Mahal.
A guide was injured and tourists, who were on their way to the Taj after visiting Fatehpur Sikri, cowered under seats as party workers shouted slogans against the US.
Two persons have been arrested for the attack, which the party’s senior leader Beni Prasad Verma described as a “minor incident.”
The protest was planned days ago but no policeman could be seen at the demonstration venue.
The party on Thursday organised a black day in Uttar Pradesh by holding sit-ins, burning effigies of US President George W Bush and stopping trains at various places.
Wearing black ribbons and holding placards, protesters took out marches in Aligarh, Shravasti, Bahraich, Hardoi Varanasi and other places.
In Lucknow, party MP Bhagwati Singh demanded that the execution of Bush.
In Unnao, party activists tried to shut down shops leading to incidents of stone pelting. The situation was, however, under control due to deployment of police force.
Party MP Akhilesh Yadav, who is the Chief Minister Mulayam Singh Yadav, led the protest in his constituency Kannauj.
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