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Evening briefing: Jagdambika Pal remembers TMC MP's 'fury'; Sakshi Malik on Brij Bhushan, and more

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Published on: Oct 23, 2024, 18:51:03 IST
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Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) chairman Jagdambika Pal on Wednesday alleged that TMC MP Kalyan Banerjee threw broken glass at him with “anger and fury” and that he narrowly escaped the alleged assault. "Yesterday during the Joint Parliamentary Committee meeting, TMC MP Kalyan Banerjee broke a glass bottle and threw it with such anger and fury and the way he threw it at me, it is God's grace that I narrowly escaped," he said. The alleged incident took place during the JPC's meeting on the Waqf (Amendment) Bill. Dig deeper.

Union Minister of State for External Affairs Kirti Vardhan Singh and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Jagdambika Pal at the Parliament House in Delhi. (ANI)
Union Minister of State for External Affairs Kirti Vardhan Singh and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Jagdambika Pal at the Parliament House in Delhi. (ANI)

Olympic bronze medallist Sakshi Malik has made explosive allegations against former Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh. In her recently released autobiography "Witness", the wrestler accused Singh of trying to sexually harass her in 2012. In her book, Malik claims that during the Asian Junior Championship in Almaty, Kazakhstan, Singh summoned her to his hotel room under the pretext of speaking with her parents. However, upon ending the call, Singh allegedly tried to molest her. Malik asserts that she pushed him away and fled the room, tearfully. Dig deeper.

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