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Foreign diplomats to visit Indore

New Delhi, Nov 13: A three-member delegation of foreign diplomats based here will be visiting Indore on November 14-15 to experience and get first hand insight in the BJP’s election campaign, the party said on Monday. Michael Rees, second secretary in the Australian high commission, Bazil M Lyakinana, minister plenipotentiary (consular affairs) in the high commission of Tanzania, and Mayumi Tsubakimoto, second secretary in the Japanese embassy will be part of the delegation. Indore is in Madhya Pradesh where campaign is in full swing ahead of the assembly polls on November 17. The BJP said similar delegations comprising representatives of diplomatic missions from Nepal, Australia, New Zealand, Denmark and Singapore had visited Himachal Pradesh and Gujarat during assembly polls in the two states in November and December 2022 to observe the party’s election campaign. The programme is part of the “Know BJP” initiative launched by the party’s national president J P Nadda. (PTI)

 

Death toll in hooch case climbs to 20

Yamunanagar (Haryana) , Nov 13: With two more people losing their lives, the death toll in a suspected case of consuming spurious liquor in Haryana has risen to 20, officials said on Monday. The two deaths were reported in Yamunanagar in the last 48 hours, where 16 people had died earlier while two died in Ambala. Police said 14 people have been arrested in the case, including two from Ambala. Police had earlier asked villagers not to consume liquor whose source of procurement they were unaware of. The deaths so far have taken place in villages, including Mandebari, Panjeto Ka Majra and Saran in Yamunanagar. On Monday, state Congress chief Udai Bhan visited the house of a victim in Mandebari village and met his kin. Later, talking to reporters, Bhan said the Congress demands probe into the suspected spurious liquor deaths by a sitting judge of the high court. This is not for the first time that such an incident has occurred as only a few years ago, many lives were lost due to spurious liquor in the state, he alleged. He further alleged that on the day when some spurious liquor deaths were reported in Yamunanagar, CM Manohar Lal Khattar did not go to meet the victim families although being.there. (PTI)

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