A school teacher was killed and his two sons and another boy sustained serious injuries when a bike they were riding was hit by union minister Prahlad Singh Patel’s car in Madhya Pradesh’s Chhindwara on Tuesday.
The deceased was identified as Niranjan Chandravanshi, a teacher at a convent school, while the injured include his sons Jatin, 17, and seven-year-old Nikhil, and another boy, Sanskar who is eight years old.
Patel, minister of state for food processing industries and jal shakti, is also a BJP candidate from Narsinghpur assembly constituency.
He was returning to the constituency after attending a roadshow organised by his party in Chhindwara when his car met with the accident on the Singhodi bypass.
Patel also sustained minor injuries in the accident.
Following the accident, a group of Congress workers staged a protest at the hospital.
