Tricolour hoisted at Cong office in Srinagar, Yatra culminates

Srinagar (ANI): Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge on Monday hoisted the National flag at the party office in Srinagar.

The Tricolour was hoisted in the presence of Rahul and Priyanka Gandhi as the Bharat Jodo Yatra ended.

Srinagar had received heavy rain and snowfall on Sunday night and photographs from this morning showed the Gandhi siblings playing with snow at the Congress party headquarters.

Meanwhile, Congress leader Jairam Ramesh shared a photograph of himself with party colleague Digvijay Singh.

Ramesh tweeted, “The Do Bechare... residents of Container #12 and #14 saying farewell at the end of #BharatJodoYatra in a snowy Srinagar to their abodes for the last 135 days.”

DK Shivakumar plotted sex CD against me: Jarkiholi

Belagavi (ANI): Karnataka BJP leader and former state minister Ramesh Jarkiholi, who resigned from the Cabinet after a sex video of him surfaced in the state two years ago, attacked state Congress president DK Shivakumar on Monday and accused the latter of hatching a conspiracy against him in the sex CD case.

At a presser here, former minister Jarkiholi said that DK Shivakumar and Congress leaders including Belagavi

Rural MLA Lakshmi Hebbalkar are behind the video. “They are hatching a conspiracy to discredit me,” he said. He also demanded an inquiry by the CBI into the matter. The case had come to light on March 2, 2021, when Kallahalli, a social activist, lodged

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GODHRA CASE: SC SEEKS GUJARAT GOVT’S

REPLY ON SOME CONVICTS’ BAIL PLEAS

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Monday sought the Gujarat government’s response on the bail pleas of some convicts sentenced to life imprisonment in the 2002 Godhra train coach-burning case. A bench headed by Chief Justice DY Chandrachud was told by Solicitor General Tushar Mehta, who appeared in the matter on behalf of the Gujarat government, that it was not “merely a stone-pelting” case as the convicts had bolted a bogey of the Sabarmati Express, leading to the death of several passengers on the train.

SC JUDGE RECUSES FROM PLEA AGAINST BAIL TO MAJITHIA

New Delhi: Supreme Court judge Justice Surya Kant on Monday recused himself from hearing an appeal filed by the Punjab government against the high court order granting bail to SAD leader Bikram Singh Majithia in a drug case. As a bench took up the appeal of the Punjab govt, Justice Kant said he was part of the high court bench which had directed the setting up of a special task force to probe the case.