PDP President Mehbooba Mufti's motorcade was attacked by stone-pelters in Anantnag district of Jammu and Kashmir on Monday, 15 April, while she was returning from a shrine there, officials told PTI.
Mehbooba had gone to a shrine at Khirram in Anantnag district to pay obeisance and was returning to Bijbehara when the incident took place, they added.
One of the spare vehicles in the former Jammu and Kashmir chief minister's motorcade was damaged in the stone-pelting and the driver was hurt, the officials said.
Others in the entourage, including the PDP president, escaped unhurt.
Mehbooba is contesting the ongoing Lok Sabha election from the Anantnag seat, which she had won in 2014. The south Kashmir constituency, spread over the four districts of Anantnag, Kulgam, Pulwama and Shopian, is going to the polls in three phases from 29 April to 6 May.
This was a day after Mufti tweeted that the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was creating fear psychosis by using national security as a “guide to prepare ground for another Balakot like strike.”
(With inputs from PTI)
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