Jquery trigger not working with anchor tag

I am working with jquery and php,Right now i have anchor tag and i want to click/trigger after form submit automatically, For this i am using following code,i am getting alert but button is not "triggered", Where i am wrong ?

PHP Code

if($this->session->flashdata('img_error'))
{    
    echo "<script language='javascript'>
        	alert('its working');
        	$('#kyc2').click();
    	</script>
    ";

    echo '
        <div class="alert alert-danger">
        '.$this->session->flashdata("img_error").'
        </div>
    ';
}

Here is html code

<li class="nav-item">
	<a  class="nav-link" id="kyc2" data-toggle="tab" href="#KYC" role="tab" aria-controls="KYC">
		<img src="<?php echo base_url(); ?>assets/frontend/images/icon/manage.svg" alt="Image">    
		<span>KYC</span>
	</a>
</li>

• PHP treats $ in a double quote as a variable so you have to
  escape it to return it as a raw character.
• You might also want to wait for #kyc2 to be loaded into the DOM
  before you click() on it.

Change the PHP part to something like this

if($this->session->flashdata('img_error'))
{    
    echo "<script language='javascript'>
        	alert('its working');
        	$('#kyc2').click();
    	</script>
    ";

    echo '
        <div class="alert alert-danger">
        '.$this->session->flashdata("img_error").'
        </div>
    ';
}