Rajasthan Police has booked Manikanta Rathod, a BJP candidate in upcoming Karnataka assembly poll, and local BJP MLA Madan Dilawar with charges of murder and criminal intimidation for their remarks against Congress leader Mallikarjun Kharge, a senior officer said on Monday. The FIR has been filed at Sanjay Circle Police Station here at the complaint of Congress state secretary
The Congress in Bihar led by its state unit chief Akhilesh Prasad Singh has lodged an FIR against Karnataka BJP leader Manikant Rathore at the Patliputra police station over a purported audio clip wherein Rathore could be heard threatening Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge with dire consequences.
Making an emotional appeal to voters in his home turf on the last day of campaigning, Congress national president Mallikarjun Kharge on Monday asked them to take pride.