Revanth Reddy meets Kharge New Delhi, Dec 6: Telangana’s chief minister-elect Revanth Reddy met Congress president Mallikarjun Kharge here on Wednesday, a day after he was elected leader of the Congress Legislature Party. He later met Congress Parliamentary Party chairperson Sonia Gandhi and former party chief Rahul Gandhi. Reddy, who has been elected from the Kodangal Assembly seat, is slated to take oath as chief minister in Hyderabad on Thursday. He will tender his resignation from his Lok Sabha membership later on Wednesday. He represented the Malkajgiri Lok Sabha constituency in Telangana. The Congress has scripted a stupendous victory in Telangana, nine years after the state was formed by bifurcating Andhra Pradesh. The party won 64 Assembly seats to form government in the BRS-dominated state. Later, Rahul Gandhi, in a post on X, said, “Congratulations to Telangana’s CM designate Revanth Reddy. Under his leadership, the Congress govt will fulfil all its guarantees to the people of Telangana and build a Prajala Sarkar.” (PTI)
6 held with 48 kg of marijuana New Delhi, Dec 6: Delhi Police has arrested six people and recovered 48 kilograms of fine-quality marijuana from their possession, officials said on Wednesday. The accused allegedly used to sell marijuana to students of universities based in Delhi, Gurugram and Noida, they said. According to police, the arrested accused have been identified as Nongmaitham Jashobanta Singh (36), Thiyam Rabikanta Singh (32), Rudransh Gupta (33), Lakshay Bhatiya, Girik Aggarwal, a final year BBA student, and Khalid Zafar. “We received inputs that drug traffickers are very active in colleges and universities and they are supplying drugs to college students. The matter was investigated by the crime branch and teams were formed to unearth the drug trafficking gang,” said Special Commissioner of Police (Crime) Ravindra Singh Yadav. A team received specific inputs about an international gang involved in trafficking of marijuana, smuggled in from Manipur and Thailand, in the National Capital Region (NCR), he said. Lakshay Bhatiya and Khalid Zafar told police that they met each other at a Noida university and later started supplying drugs to college students, Yadav said. (PTI)