Minister Anand Singh's sister Rani Samyuktha joins Congress after BJP denied ticket from Hoskote
Bengaluru: Rani Samyuktha Singh, sister of Forest Minister Anand Singh, quit the BJP and joined the Congress party on Saturday.
She is learned to have changed sides owing to disappointment on being denied the BJP ticket to contest the upcoming Assembly elections from Hoskote. Incidentally, her nephew Siddharth Singh, son of Anand Singh, is being fielded by the BJP.
Rani Samyuktha Singh, who was the vice-president of the BJP Women's Wing, was welcomed into the Congress by senior Congress leader Jairam Ramesh and Opposition Leader in the Legislative Council BK Hariprasad on Saturday. The formal function was held at the KPCC office.
Singh is learned to have met and discussed the matter with Randeep Surjewala, Karnataka Poll In-charge of the Congress on Friday night.
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Hoarding crash in Mumbai: 2 more bodies located under debris; rescue ops continue
Mumbai (PTI): Two more bodies were located under the debris at the site of a giant hoarding collapse in Mumbai as the search and rescue operation continued on Wednesday, an NDRF official said.
The bodies were spotted last night, but were yet to be pulled out, a civic official said.
Rescue teams had earlier recovered 14 bodies from the hoarding crash site, while 75 persons were injured in the incident, as per officials.
A small fire broke out at the incident site in Ghatkopar during the search and rescue operation on Wednesday morning, but it was immediately doused by the fire tenders deployed there, an NDRF official said.
"There was a small fire but it was extinguished immediately," the official said.
The search and rescue operation continued even 40 hours after the incident, officials said.
The illegal hoarding that stood on a piece of land in possession of the Government Railway Police (GRP) crashed on a petrol pump in Chheda Nagar area on Monday evening when the city was hit by dust storms and unseasonal rains.
