The police deployed water cannons to disperse the protesters as they attempted to gherao the Secretariat. BJP state president C P Joshi and other party workers and leaders were later detained.
Om Prakash Pahadia, son of former Rajasthan CM and Congress leader, late Jagannath Pahadia, and Vijendra Singh Shekhawat, nephew of former President Patil, joined the saffron party in the presence of BJP's Rajasthan in-charge Arun Singh and state unit president C P Joshi.