Aam Aadmi Party national convener and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kerjriwal on Thursday met Nationalist Congress Party supremo Sharad Pawar in Mumbai to foster support in his fight against the Centre moved Ordinance.

The meeting was held at Yashwant Rao Chavan Centre in Mumbai.

Kejriwal was accompainied by Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann, AAP Rajya Sabha MP’s Raghav Chaddha and Sanjay Singh and Delhi Minister Atishi Marlena.

Apart from the AAP leaders having a meeting alone with Pawar, a picture of the meeting surfaced that included senior leaders from both the NCP and AAP were sitting at a table.

In the picture along with Sharad Pawar, Kejriwal and other AAP leaders who accompanied him, senior NCP leaders like Supriya Sule, Parful Patel, Chagan Bhujbal and others can also be seen.

Kejriwal’s meeting comes just a day after his meeting with former Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray.

Kejriwal also on Tuesday, had met his West Bengal counterpart and TMC chief Mamata Banrerjee in Kolkata and earlier with Bihar CM Nitish Kumar and Deputy CM Tejaswi Yadav in his Delhi residence.

Kejriwal is on a nationwide tour to seek the supporter of the leaders from various opposition parties in his fight against the Ordinance promulgated by the Centre.

On Friday, the Central government brought an ordinance that negates the Supreme Court judgement and takes back the power from the Delhi government on transfer and postings of the government officials.

Kejriwal on Saturday, addressed a press conference, where he stated that the ordinance would be challenged once the Supreme Court reopens after the summer vacations on July 1.

The AAP leader had also said he will approach leaders of all the opposition parties across the country to appeal them to vote against the ordinance in Rajya Sabha, if introduced as a bill by the Centre. Kejriwal also said he would reach out to the voters of Delhi and organise rally to seek their support in this fight.

On Thursday morning, a man accused in a rape case purportedly attempted suicide in Uttar Pradesh police custody while he was brought in for interrogation.

Accused Panna Lal brought for questioning at Budaun, UP’s Ughaiti police station, he attempted to hang himself with his pants inside the bathroom of the police station.

As per the police, a local court in Budaun issued a warrant against Lal in connection to a rape case of a minor girl in 2019. The police said they caught Lal while he was attending a function and brought him to the police station today.

An hour later, Lal asked a constable for toilet, who took him to the toilet and guarded outside the door. After some time when Lal did not open the door, the constable inform the other cops present who broke open the toilet door and allegedly found Lal attempting suicide, said the police.

Superintendent of Police(SP) OP Singh said Lal was immediately rescued and rushed to the hospital, the doctors then referred him to a Bareilly district hospital.

Lal’s family blamed the police and alleged that he was tortured by the cops for a bribe worth Rs 10,000, which he failed to arrange.

Lal’s brother Rishi Pal told media that the police personnel at the station demanded a bribe of Rs 10,000 from Lal and after he refused to their demands the cops assaulted him and tried to kill him.

SP Singh denying the allegations of Lal’s brother said, the accused is now out of danger.

In a similar incident two days ago, a gang-rape accused was found hanging in Jharkhand’s Hussainabad. Sachin Thakur was among the 6 accused in a rape case of a SC girl.

There have been similar cases in the past of rape accused committing suicide after they are caught for the heinous crime by the police.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi flagged off the first Vande Bharat Express train of Uttarakhand today via video conferencing. The express train to run between Delhi and Dehradun.

Uttarakhand has also completed the 100% electrification of railway tracks all across the state.

The hill state’s first semi high speed express train will run between Anand Vihar railway station in Delhi and Dehradun railway station.

In a special program in Dehradun railway station, PM Modi virtually inaugurated the express train in the presence of Uttarakhand Governor Lt. Gurmit Singh, state Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami, Union Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw and others.

Prime Minister Modi addressing the event said Vande Bharat’s introduction to the state will help connecting Delhi to Devbhoomi Uttarakhand at a faster pace.

He added, the travel time between Delhi and Dehradun will also be reduced.

Vande Bharat will cover the 302 KM distance between Delhi to Dehradun in 4 hours 45 minutes reducing the earlier time by almost an hour.

As per the official website of the Ministry of Railways, the train will be operational for passenger from May 29.

Train number 22457 will be running all days except on Wednesdays.

The stoppages of Vande Bharat would be Meerut City, Muzzafarnagar, Saharanpur, Roorkee and Haridwar

Here’s the timings:

The train will depart from the Anand Vihar station at 17:50 and will reach Dehradun at 22:35.

Dehradun-Delhi Vande Bharat Express:

Departure from Dehradun – 7:00 am

Arrival at Haridwar Junction – 8:04 am

Arrival at Roorkee – 8:49 am

Arrival at Saharanpur – 9:27 am

Arrival at Muzaffarnagar – 10:07 am

Arrival at Meerut City – 10:37 am

Arrival at final destination Anand Vihar Terminal – 11:45 am

Ticket Fare:

The Vande Bharat express train would have eight coaches.

AC chair car- Rs 1,065

Executive chair car- Rs 1,890