Jammu, June 25 -- Several BJP workers-led by party MLA from Udhampur East, Ranbir Singh Pathania, on Wednesday, staged a protest and showed black flags to deputy chief minister (CM) Surinder Choudhary during his visit at Udhampur's Majalta.

"Deputy CM had a public outreach programme in my constituency today but despite being an elected representative, I had not been invited at the programme. It amounts to violating the precedence. I have moved a privilege motion before the speaker of the J&K legislative assembly and have escalated the issue before LG Manoj Sinha and home minister Amit Shah," Pathania told HT.

"The party workers were charged up because their elected representative was not invited at the programme. They shouted slogans of...