Lucknow, Nov 16 (IANS): Four Congress leaders, including two union ministers, were Tuesday booked on charges of assaulting Samajwadi Party activists in Uttar Pradesh's Allahabad district during party general secretary Rahul Gandhi's rally, police said.

A case against union ministers R.P.N. Singh and Jitin Prasad, and state legislators Pramod Tiwari and Naseeb Pathan, was lodged Tuesday night at the Jhunsi police station.

All the four had roughed up a handful of SP workers who broke through the security cordon of Gandhi, who was holding a rally in Phulpur area Monday.

"The case against the four has been registered under multiple sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), including 147 (punishment for rioting) and (7) criminal law amendment act,'' Deputy Inspector General of Police Prakash D. told IANS on telephone from Allahabad, some 200 km from Lucknow.

"The case has been registered on a compliant made by Abhishek Yadav, a student leader of the Samajwadi Party in Allahabad," he added.