An office-bearer of the Chhattisgarh Youth Congress has alleged the local police had beaten him up for asking a question to Chief Minister Raman Singh at a farmers' meeting held in Raipur on October 7.

Youth Congress general secretary for Raipur Lok Sabha constituency Anwar Hussain, 30, charged he was bashed up by the police for putting a question to chief minister after the farmers' meeting held, leading to a rupture in his left ear drum and he was experiencing excruciating pains in his stomach and back since the incident.

"I tried to hand over a memorandum to Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar attending a programme on October 7. Since he (Pawar) did not accept my petition, I asked the chief minister during the programme organised by Indira Gandhi Agricultural university about the reason behind an anomaly between production of paddy and actual area under cultivation," Hussain told PTI.