BJP's winning candidate from Rajouri Garden Assembly constituency Manjinder Singh Sirsa shared his brief conversation with Prime Minister Narendra Modi, following his victory against AAP's Dhanwati Chandela.
Sirsa also represented the constituency in the 2017 Delhi by-elections. However, in the 2020 Delhi Assembly polls, Manjinder Sirsa lost Rajouri Garden seat to AAP's same candidate, Chandela.
Sirsa further took a dig at the Aam Aadmi Party national convenor Arvind Kejriwal over his allegations of 'poaching' of AAP MLAs and candidates by BJP. Sirsa stated that Kejriwal's allegations shows that they have "already accepted their defeat".
Rajouri Police, acting on a warrant issued by the National Investigation Agency (NIA), carried out extensive searches across 25 locations in the district on Wednesday, according to a statement from the J&K police.
Union Home Minister Amit Shah is set to hold public meetings and a roadshow in the national capital on Saturday, January 25, ahead of Delhi Assembly elections in the first week of February next month.
Rajouri's Government Medical College (GMC) in Jammu and Kashmir is being strengthened after a mysterious illness claimed 17 lives in Budhal village under Kotranka Sub Division.
In view of the 'unidentified illness' in Rajouri's Badhal village, the village has been declared a containment zone, and the affected families' homes sealed; a few patients brought to Government Medical College (GMC) in Rajouri on Thursday.
Union Minister Jitendra Singh on Wednesday provided an update on the mysterious illness in Rajouri, stating that initial tests conducted by a toxicology laboratory in Lucknow under CSIR indicated the absence of any infection, virus, or bacteria.
According to Dr Amarjeet Singh Bhatia, Principal of Government Medical College Rajouri, a common factor among the deaths is the involvement of the brain and damage to the nervous system.