Raichur: Congress President Rahul Gandhi on Monday ate local cuisine Mirchi bhajji and tea during his ongoing ‘Jana Aashirvada Yatra' at Kalmala village in Raichur district.

Rahul also asked the vendor "How much do you earn by this day trading?", And he reportedly paid a 2000-rupee note to the vendor. Karnataka Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, KPCC President Parameshwara, Mallikarjun Kharge, Karnataka party in charge K C Venugopal and Minister DK Shivakumar accompanied Rahul Gandhi.

Earlier in the day, Rahul paid a surprise visit to the Sham Shalam Dargah.

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Chandigarh, Jan 23 (PTI): Punjab Police personnel deployed in the security of Aam Aadmi Party national convener Arvind Kejriwal have been withdrawn, the state police chief said on Thursday.

"Time to time, we get reports of threats to chief minister Bhagwant Mann and Arvind Kejriwal and we share them with the concerned agencies.

"Following the directions of the Delhi police and the Election Commission today, we withdrew the component of the Punjab police in the security of Kejriwal ji," Director General of Police Gaurav Yadav told reporters in Patiala.

"We showed our concerns to them. We will remain in touch with them. We will share our inputs with the Delhi police," he said.

The development comes ahead of the elections for the 70-member Delhi Assembly on February 5. The poll results are set to be declared on February 8.