Jammu, Feb. 11 -- Deputy chief minister Surinder Choudhary on Tuesday lost his cool and hit out at BJP in the J&K legislative assembly over a question on mining.

The BJP MLA Narinder Singh Raina has lodged a protest before speaker Rather.

"Today I had a question on mining but no answers given by the minister concerned. I had asked that how closed crusher units were getting electricity tariffs how are they functioning while on the other hand electricity connections of farmers were being snapped," Raina said.

"The question didn't go down well with the deputy CM and he started using derogatory language against me," he added.

"In fact, both of them (the CM and the deputy CM) today used such language because they don't want to run the Hous...