Berhampur, Jan. 4: Youth Congress activists today hurled eggs and rotten tomatoes at food supplies and consumer welfare minister Sanjay Das Burma's car near the Chhatrapur Science College during a protest against irregularities in preparing ration card beneficiaries' list.

Today's incident follows the same mode of protest the Congress's youth wing resorted to yesterday when a few Youth Congress activists had hurled eggs at Das Burma's car at Puri's Circuit House.

"We waved black flags and hurled eggs and tomatoes at Das Burma's car to protest against irregularities in preparation of ration card beneficiaries' list and flouting rules and modalities of the National Food Security Act. The zilla parishad chairmen, MLAs, councillors and party workers of the BJD have managed to get ration cards, depriving the poor," said Youth Congress's Ganjam unit president Biswajit Patra.

"This is a warning. We will continue the agitation as long as the rich and ineligible persons continue to violate the norms," he said.

However, no arrest was made till the filing of this report. Chhatrapur police station inspector-in-charge Bishnu Prasad Patra said they were taking action. "Those who were involved will be arrested shortly," he said.

The attack on the minister's car occurred when he was on his way to the Berhampur University to attend the inaugural function of its students' union. However, the minister managed to attend the function.

The police have conducted raids on the houses of some Youth Congress activists in search of the perpetrators. "As it was a secret mission, we involved only 25 activists to demonstrate," Patra said.

Das Burma, however, blamed "a former MLA", in a reference to Brahmagiri's former Congress MLA Lalatendu Bidyadhar Mahapatra, his constituency rival.

"This is the game plan of a former MLA," Das Burma said.

In a related incident, Puri Sea Beach police today arrested five Congress workers in connection with yesterday's egg-pelting incident. Three activists surrendered before the police.