Jammu, Feb. 19 -- The BJP MLAs on Wednesday staged a walkout from the legislative assembly over police lathicharge on students, who were protesting against government's move to set up proposed national law university in Kashmir's Budgam.

During fag end of the second sitting, BJP MLA RS Pathania drew attention of the chair (Mubarak Gul) on a point of order and said that male cops lathicharged female students, who were protesting against the government's move to set up NLU in Kashmir.

Soon other party MLAs stood up from their seats and staged a protest. They also took out placards and showed it to the chair. BJP MLA Vikram Randhawa said, "Party MLA RS Pathania had raised the issue on a point of order. All the BJP MLAs, around 27 or 28, st...