India, April 25 -- A senior journalist was hospitalized after being assaulted while covering a BJP protest in Jammu and Kashmir's Kathua district on Wednesday, following the recent terror attack in Pahalgam. Rakesh Sharma, a reporter for Dainik Jagran, was attacked at Kalibari Chowk while documenting the protest led by BJP legislators Devinder Manyal, Rajiv Jasrotia, and Bharat Bhushan. The assault has sparked strong condemnation from journalistic circles, with calls for an FIR against the accused.

A video of the incident, showing the assault on Sharma, has gone viral on social media, further fueling outrage. Sharma claimed that while he was covering the protest, a BJP activist named Himanshu Sharma accused the journalists of speaking th...