*Journalist assault in J&K’s Kathua while covering BJP protest over terror attack*

Jammu, Apr 24 A senior journalist was hospitalised after he was allegedly assaulted while covering a BJP protest over Pahalgam terror attack in Jammu and Kashmir’s Kathua district on Wednesday.

The journalistic circles have strongly condemned the attack on Dainik Jagran reporter Rakesh Sharma at Kalibari chowk and demanded registration of an FIR against the accused.

A purported video of the incident, showing the assault on the scribe, has gone viral on social media.

Sharma said he was covering a BJP protest led by legislators Devinder Manyal, Rajiv Jasrotia and Bharat Bhushan when a party activist Himanshu Sharma accused the journalists of speaking the “separatist language” for raising questions related to security which is the domain of the union home ministry.

Manyal was responding in a cordial atmosphere to the questions and said they are writing to the Prime Minister to request for a “decisive action” against