Jammu, April 3 -- Former education minister and president of the J&K National Panthers Party (India), Harsh Dev Singh, on Wednesday, lodged a written complaint with police against deputy chief minister (CM) Surinder Choudhary for alleged assault by his staff and abusive language hurled by the latter.

Talking to media persons here, Singh, who has a law degree and won the best legislator and the best minister awards, said, "Today, I had gone to the office of the deputy CM Surinder Choudhary to give him a memorandum regarding bad roads. He was in a meeting discussing stone crushers."

"Eventually, when I handed over the memorandum to the deputy CM, he flung it in the air and started hurling abuses at me. The deputy CM reminded me that I had...