Mahila Congress member tries to garland Shobha Karandlaje with onions; MP retaliates with a slap
Chikkamagaluru: Udupi/Chikkamagaluru MP and BJP Karnataka General Secretary, Shobha Karandlaje on Tuesday stirred controversy after she allegedly retaliated with a slap to an attempt of garlanding her with onions by a Mahila Congress Minority Wing’s Secretary Nagina.
The incident took place when members of District Mahila Congress were staging protest against the inflation and hike in prices of onions and other commodities. The protest was being held at the Zilla Panchayath office here. The protesters were also wearing garlands of onions as a part of their protest and to express their dissent over the increase in prices of onion.
Shobha arrived at the Zilla Panchayath office to attend an event when the MP’s car was parked outside the Panchayath office, Nagina tried to garland Shobha with onions. Irked by this, Shobha allegedly tried to slap Nagina but she could only hit on her lips. Nagina’s lips were later seen bleeding.
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Rickelton's ton in vain as SRH beat MI by 6 wickets
Mumbai (PTI): Ryan Rickelton's whirlwind unbeaten ton was overshadowed by Heinrich Klaasen's unbeaten 65 as Sunrisers Hyderabad defeated Mumbai Indians by six wickets in an IPL match here on Wednesday.
Chasing an imposing 244-run target, Travis Head (76 off 30) and Abhishek Sharma (45 off 24) shared 129 runs for the opening wicket to set the platform for SRH.
Klaasen (65 not out off 30 balls) then displayed his all-round hitting abilities to guide SRH home with the help of Nitish Kumar Reddy (21) and Salil Arora (30 not out off 10) in 18.4 overs.
Earlier, Rickelton's knock powered MI to 243 for five.
MI rode on a 93-run stand between Rickelton (123 not out off 55 balls) and Will Jacks (46 off 22) in 7.1 overs for the opening stand to power the side.
MI skipper Hardik Pandya scored a valuable 31 off 15 balls before being dismissed.
Praful Hinge (2/54), Eshan Malinga (1/29), Sakib Hasan (1/39) and Nitish Kumar Reddy (1/31) were the wicket-takers for SRH.
Brief Scores:
Mumbai Indian: 243 for 5 in 20 overs (Ryan Rickelton 123 not out; Praful Hinge 2/54).
Sunrisers Hyderabad: 249 for 4 in 18.4 overs (Travis Head 76, Heinrich Klaasen 65 not out; AM Ghazanfar 2/51).
