A candidate for the Movement for Social Justice’s candidate for Fyzabad, Radhaka Gualbance has reported to the police that a man who seemed to be a supporter of the United National Congress physically attacked her.

Ms. Gualbance says she was assaulted while on a walk about in Fyzabad last Thursday.

In a Facebook post yesterday morning, Ms. Gualbance said the elderly man tailed her and hurled verbal insults, before eventually physically assaulting her.

She believes she was targeted as a woman because her fellow candidates in the walkabout were not attacked.

Ms. Gualbance said the man stopped his vehicle in the center of the road, jumped out, hurling insults at her before calling on a constituent by name to chase her out of the area.

She said both she and the constituent she was speaking with paid no mind and the man got back into his vehicle and left.

But the MSJ candidate said while at another constituent’s place on Berridge Trace, Dow Village, Fyzabad, she saw the man again.

This time the man is reported to have grabbed Ms. Gualbance by the arm and demanded money to vote for her.

Some of her colleagues went to her rescue.

A report was made to the Fyzabad Police Station.