JAMMU: The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) employees, who had undertaken a rally to hoist the national flag at Srinagar's Lal Chowk on Republic Day attacked the automotive of Jammu and Kashmir Finance Minister Abdul Rahim Rather here on Wednesday evening.
The incident materialized when the Finance Minister's automotive was passing by the BJP workplace within the town, where the party activists had gathered for a press conference to be addressed by senior party leaders Sushma Swaraj and Arun Jaitley
The irate activists smashed the windows of the automotive and scuffled with the police personnel who were attempting to create approach for the vehicle. The clash lasted for a number of minutes, however Rather drove away unhurt.
This act has been viewed as an act of venting out their ire once these activists were barred from continuing beyond Jammu.
Earlier nowadays, BJP veterans Sushma Swaraj, Arun Jaitley and Ananth Kumar, who were arrested yesterday as they crossed into Jammu to hold on with the party's plans of hoisting the tricolour at Srinagar's Lal Chowk were released in Kathua on Wednesday.
The trio then met the many BJP employees and unfurled the national flag in Kathua.
The BJP veterans then headed to the party workplace in Jammu promising to continue their protests against the government's policies within the state.
The BJP nowadays turned down Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Omar Abdullah's invite to attend the Republic Day celebrations.
"It could be a lip service by him (Omar). we have a tendency to don't provide credence to it and switch it down," said Anurag Thakur.
"Omar initial arrested leaders of the nationalist party and then failed to enable the hoisting of national flag at Lal Chowk in Srinagar as if it's not a locality of the country. Then he invitations us as a state guest for the tricolour hoisting on the Republic Day within the state," he added.
Earlier on Tuesday, uncountable BJP activists together with party veterans Arun Jaitley, Sushma Swaraj, Ananth Kumar and Anurag Thakur were taken into custody below Section a hundred and forty four of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) whereas marching towards Jammu and Kashmir from Punjab.
The marchers carrying the national flag in their hands and shouting slogans ''Bharat Mata ki jai'' breached the barriers place up by the Jammu and Kashmir Police.
On Monday, Arun Jaitley and Sushma Swaraj weren't allowed to go away the Jammu airport.
Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha national president Anurag Thakur is leading the Rashtriya Ekta Yatra, that was scheduled to achieve Srinagar nowadays.
The Yatra was expected to hide three,037 km and enter the State on the afternoon of January twenty four at Pathankot.