In Tamil Nadu's Vellore district, due to the lack of proper road facilities, the parents of an 18-month-old child who succumbed to a snake bite, carried her body in her arms for 10 km after the ambulance dropped them midway.
Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA Nitesh Rane on Sunday described Shiv Sena (Uddhav Balasaheb Thackeray) Rajya Sabha MP Sanjay Raut as a "snake" and claimed that he will ditch Thackeray and join Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) on June 10.
"Rajasthan assembly elections are slated to be held later this year. Karnataka Assembly elections are around the corner. So the congress party is resorting to such tactics," he added.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday launched a scathing attack on Congress in poll-bound Karnataka terming the party as an "outdated engine" and said that it halts development and gives fakes guarantees.
"...PM is not just a person but an institution on its own...The manner in which Congress leaders are making personal attacks on the PM, they're shredding the traditions of a healthy democratic system...," he said.
A female passenger, who arrived from Kuala Lumpur, was intercepted at Chennai airport on Friday for carrying 22 snakes of various species in her checked-in baggage, Chennai customs said.
A day after Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge likened Prime Minister Narendra Modi to a "poisonous snake" and later expressed regret, Telangana BJP in-charge Tarun Chugh on Friday wrote to the Election Commission urging it to file an FIR against the former and bar him from campaigning
Union Minister Bhupender Yadav slammed Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge's snake remarks on Prime Minister Narendra Modi and said that the grand old party has always lowered the dignity of democracy, on Friday.
"A Karnataka BJP MLA has called Sonia Gandhi a 'Vishkanya'. People want to know what PM Modi and Amit Shah have to say on this issue, " said Bhupesh Baghel while talking to the media.