Yogi, Maya target Priyanka over Kota deaths

Lucknow/Jaipur: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and BSP chief Mayawati on Thursday targeted the Congress over infant deaths at a Rajasthan hospital, suggesting that party leader Priyanka Gandhi should have gone there to console the children’s mothers instead of “playing politics” in UP. Both appeared to refer to Gandhi’s visit to Uttar Pradesh after violent protests over the amended citizenship law. PTI

Sonia summons Raj party incharge, seeks explanation from Gehlot

New Delhi: Amid the uproar over the deaths of children in a hospital in Kota district, Congress interim president Sonia Gandhi summoned party in-charge in the state Avinash Pande on Thursday, and also sought an explanation from Chief Minister Ashok Gehlot. Pande met Sonia Gandhi and briefed her about the situation in Kota. An upset Gandhi has asked why no steps were taken when the children were dying. IANS