Former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Congress President Rahul Gandhi and United Progressive Alliance chairperson and senior Congress leader Sonia Gandhi will attend the swearing-in ceremony of Prime Minister-elect Narendra Modi on Thursday, party leaders said.
A senior Congress leader told IANS: "Rahulji and Soniaji will attend the ceremony."
Manmohan Singh will also attend the ceremony, the party leader said, adding that senior party leader Anand Sharma will also be present.
The police had found the body of a man in his thirties in Mazgaon area on March 25. He was later identified as Abdul Rehman, a ship worker.
PM Modi began his speech by paying tribute to Choudhary Charan Singh, former prime minister and father of RLD leader Ajit Singh who has aligned with the BSP and the SP in this election.
In reference to PM and Mr Shah, he tweeted that such a move was expected from an "autocratic rule of one man show and two men army".
Noted economist Jean Dreze was detained in Jharkhand's Garwah district on Thursday for allegedly holding a public meeting without permission, an official said. He was later released.
A class seven student was allegedly hacked to death by his seniors and his body buried by school authorities inside the campus near Rishikesh to hush up the matter, police said on Thursday.
SP Sambhal district president Firoz Khan had allegedly said Jaya Prada would “enthral the people of Rampur with her ghungaroos and thumkas”.