Rahul on a visit to Vietnam to be 'guest' of anti-India people: BJP
New Delhi (PTI): The BJP on Saturday claimed that Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi, who recently returned from Germany, has now embarked on a visit to Vietnam to be the "guest of anti-India people" and speak against the country again.
Alleging that Gandhi travels abroad to "spew venom" against India, BJP national spokesperson Sudhanshu Trivedi demanded that the Congress make it public as to who invites him to their countries.
There was no immediate response from the Congress.
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Speaking to reporters here, Trivedi said, "After Malaysia, Colombia and Germany, according to media reports, Rahul Gandhi has now embarked on a visit to Vietnam."
"Though his whereabouts will be known only when he appears somewhere, people of India will certainly see him being a guest of some anti-India people and making anti-India statements, as he did during his previous foreign trips," he alleged, attacking the Congress leader.
The BJP had recently alleged that Gandhi had a meeting with "enemies of India" during his visit to Germany and demanded transparency in the engagements of the Leader of Opposition with "global actors abroad".
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MP boat tragedy: Death toll rises to 10 with recovery of one more body; 3 tourists still missing
Jabalpur (PTI): The body of a child was retrieved on Saturday evening from Bargi Dam in Jabalpur district of Madhya Pradesh, raising the death toll in the cruise boat tragedy that took place two days ago to ten, while search continued for three missing tourists.
The boat, operated by the state tourism department, capsized during a storm on Thursday evening with some of the survivors alleging negligence and safety lapses such as life jackets not being distributed in time.
The body recovered on Saturday evening was possibly that of six-year-old Viraj Soni, said Sub-Divisional Officer of Police (SDOP) Anjul Ayank Mishra.
"The identity will be confirmed after family members identify the body," he told PTI.
Kamraj, an employee of the Ordnance Factory at Khamaria, his five-year-old son Tamil, and another child Mayuram (5) who had come from southern India were still missing.
Authorities have arranged equipment to search deep waters of the dam and are getting a generator to facilitate diving operations, Mishra added.
Divers and disaster response teams have expanded the search radius to five km, he said.
Of the 41 identified passengers on board the ill-fated vessel, 28 were rescued, police said.
More than 200 rescuers, including around 20 Army divers airlifted from Agra, joined the search operation that resumed at 5 on Saturday morning. The operation, involving the National Disaster Response Force, State Disaster Response Force and local divers, was briefly affected at around 9 am due to strong winds, officials said.
Post-mortem examinations of nine deceased persons have been completed, Mishra said.
"Our priority is to search for the missing persons. We will also register a First Information Report in the case soon," he said.
Police said CCTV footage near the boarding point showed 43 people heading towards the boat while the identities of 41 passengers have been confirmed so far.
The state government on Friday ordered a probe into the tragedy and dismissed three crew members. It also banned operation of similar vessels in the state.
