Senior Congress leader and former Union Minister P Chidambaram suffered a fracture in his left rib after he was pushed away by Delhi Police during the party’s protest in support of Rahul Gandhi who was summoned by the Enforcement Directorate in connection with the National Herald case, said the party.

The Congress party organised a ‘Satyagrah’ march against the government and in support of Gandhi across the country in which many party leaders were detained during the day by the police.

According to the sources, Chidambaram has consulted a doctor who advised him to take rest and medication.

The Congress leader, however, is not hospitalised and is under observation at his residence.

When three big, burly policemen crash into you, you are lucky to get away with a suspected hairline crack! Doctors have said that if there is a hairline crack, it will heal by itself in about 10 days. I am fine and I will go about my work,’ he tweeted.

This comes after Congress MP Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, who was detained by the Delhi Police on Monday during the ‘Satyagrah’ march in support of Gandhi, alleged manhandling by police personnel on the way to the ED office.

Chowdhury wrote a letter to SHO Tughlaq Road alleging manhandling by Delhi Police personnel and asked to take action against them.

This is to intimate you that today I have been badly manhandled by the Delhi Police on the way to the ED office without even an iota of provocation. During the phase of police atrocities, I got an injury in the upper jaw of my mouth. May I request you to treat my letter as an allegation against those police personnel and do the needful, he said in a letter.