The Opposition Bharatiya Janata Party staged a demonstration against the Congress government near the State Secretariat in Jaipur on Tuesday.
The protesters were forced to abandon their plan of laying siege to the Secretariat building after the police resorted to a mild lathicharge and used water cannons to stop them.
BJP State unit president C.P. Joshi and senior party MPs and MLAs led the protest after a meeting at the party headquarters here and sat on a dharna at Statue Circle. While the BJP leaders courted arrest after the protest, about a dozen party workers sustained injuries in a scuffle with the policemen and were shifted to the trauma centre of a government hospital.
