Chandigarh, Sept. 20 -- BJP leader and former union minister Ravneet Singh Bittu was detained by Punjab Police today after eggs and tomatoes were allegedly thrown towards Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann's convoy during a protest outside Punjab Agricultural University (PAU) in Ludhiana.
Reports differed on whether Bittu himself threw the items or was part of the group doing so; video reports showed him protesting with eggs and tomatoes as the cavalcade passed.
Bittu also held up a liquor bottle towards the passing convoy, saying he was "returning" it to Mann. The protest came a day after Bittu alleged that eggs and tomatoes had been hurled at his own cavalcade near Batala while he was travelling to Pathankot to join the BJP's "Nasha Mukt Punj...