New Delhi: Dalit leader Jignesh Mevani today denied making any inflammatory speech in Pune and said he was being targeted by the BJP and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.

An FIR was filed against the Gujarat MLA and Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) student leader Umar Khalid yesterday for their alleged provocative speeches during an event in Pune on December 31.

"Neither did I make any inflamatory speech nor did I take part in the bandh in Maharashtra. "I am being targeted by the BJP and Sangh," Mevani told reporters at the Press Club of India here.

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Shivamogga (Karnataka) (PTI): Thirty-six people were injured on Monday after a private bus allegedly went out of control and plunged off a bridge in the district, police said.

The incident occurred at around 1.30 pm near Kagehalla in Veerapura village of Bhadravati taluk, they said.

According to police, the bus was travelling from Channagiri in Davanagere district to Bhadravati when the driver allegedly lost control of the vehicle near a bridge across a stream.

The bus hit the bridge’s side barrier and overturned into the stream below, which had a very low water level.

A total of 36 people, including the driver and conductor, were injured in the accident, a senior police officer said.

Of them, 25 sustained minor injuries and were shifted to a nearby hospital for treatment, he added.

A case has been registered at the Bhadravati Rural police station, and further investigation is underway, police said.