Senior RSS leader Brig (retd) Jagdish Gagneja was on Saturday nigh shot at by some bike-borne persons at Jyoti Chowk area here, police said.

Jalandhar Commissioner of Police Arpit Shukla said Gagneja, Sah-sarsanghchalak of RSS’s Punjab unit, was shot at around 9 PM near Makhdumpura colony here.

He was rushed to a private hospital where his condition is stated to be critical.

Local BJP MLA Manoranjan Kalia said that three bullets hit Gagneja.

Police have started probe in the matter.