A mega opposition meet is scheduled to take place in Patna, Bihar on June 23. A meeting that is expected to bring a series of opposition parties from across the country together at the same table.

The meeting will be attended by Congress chief Mallikarjun Kharge and former chief Rahul Gandhi, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal, Tamil Nadu Chief Minister MK Stalin, Jharkhand Chief Minister Hemant Soren.

The meeting will also witness the presence of Nationalist Congress Party supremo Sharad Pawar, Shiv Sena (UBT) Chief Uddhav Thackeray and Samajwadi Party National President Akhilesh Yadav and Bihar’s Deputy CM Tejashwi Yadav.

Leaders of the left front are also likely to join the meeting.

The huge meeting convened by Bihar Chief Minister and Janata Dal(United) supremo Nitish Kumar was earlier slated to take place on June 12. Reports said the decision to change in dates was taken after Congress announced Kharge and Gandhi would not be able to be part of the meeting on June 12 due to prior commitments.

This will be the first mega meeting of all the opposition parties together, which was in planning for almost two months now. Bihar CM Kumar had started his bid for opposition unity against the Centre ruling BJP in April when he met Kharge and Gandhi in Delhi with his deputy Yadav and other leaders of Bihar Mahagathbandhan.

The Agenda of the meeting in Patna is expected to be deciding a common strategy for the 2024 Lok Sabha elections. Opposition parties have been throwing signals of unity for some months now, the most recent one, the boycott of the inauguration of the new Parliament building by 20 like-minded opposition parties, the show of strength- leaders of different parties shared the stage while attending the swearing-in ceremony of Siddaramaiah as Karnataka CM on May 20.

Congress leader KC Venugopal said they believe in unity and are committed to the purpose of defending democracy. He further added they would surely defeat the divisive forces which are in power at the Centre.

In yet another horrifying incident of man killing live-in partner, a 56-year old man in Mumbai allegedly killed his partner and chopped her body into pieces in a rented apartment in Mumbai’s Thane.

The man reportedly chopped his live-in partner’s body with a tree-cutter, boiled them in a pressure cooker and later filled them into plastic bags to throw away.

The accused Manoj Sahni had been in a live-in relationship with the victim Saraswati Vaidya, 36,  for the past three years. The incident is reported from Mira Bhayandar in Thane, Mumbai. Sahni, who owns a shop in Boriwali and Vaidya were living in a rented flat, 704 at Geeta Akash Deep Building in Geeta Nagar Phase 7, Mumbai.

As per the police, Vaidya was killed 3-4 days back.

Sahni was trying to flee but was captured by the police on Wednesday evening.

The Nayanagar police station on Wednesday, recieved a call from the buildingd residents complaining of a foul smell originating from the couple’s flat.

The police upon its arrival on the spot, when entered into the apartment discovered decomposed body parts of Vaidya.

As per the police, around 12-13 pieces of Vaidya’s body was recovered from the flat.

Mumbai DCP Jayant Bajbale said, as per the preliminary investigation, the victim was hacked to death and further investigation is ongoing.

Reports said, the motive behind the murder is still under investigation but the couple had an argument which led to a murder.

The case is similar to the spine-chilling Aaftab Poonawala-Shradha Walkar case. In May, last year Poonawala chopped Walkar’s body into several pieces and stored them in a fridge for weeks at his house in Delhi and later scattered them in different parts of Delhi.

After the Walkar case, several such cases have been reported.

In an unexpected turn, the father of the 17-year-old wrestler, whose complaint led to the Delhi Police filing a case against the Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) chief  Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh under the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences (POCSO) Act, the strict laws against child sexual abuse, claimed that he and his daughter had made some false allegations against the chief of WFI.

The girl’s father gave a new statement to the magistrate in New Delhi on June 5 in which he claimed, the WFI’s chief had not sexually assaulted his daughter, his actions had been biased against her.

He added in his statement that he accused Brij Bhushan was for sexual harassment out of anger because her daughter lost the Asian Championship trials final the previous year.

I received threatening calls, but I won’t say who made them. To pay for my daughter’s expenses, I sold my residence. I had re-recorded my statement on my own initiative, the girl’s father added.

The girl’s father also confessed infront of the magistrate that we don’t hold any bitterness towards Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh. On June 5, we made certain changes to our earlier statements and recorded new statements. I don’t want to get engaged in this battle.

However, the father made it clear, they had not dropped the initial allegation but rather had taken new statements.

Meanwhile, the protesting wrestlers decided to call off their strike until June 15 after the government promised to file charges against Brij Bhushan by then and organise elections for the sports organisation by the end of the month. Olympic medalists Bajrang Punia and Sakshi Malik met Union Sports Minister Anurag Thakur three days after they spoke with Union Home Minister Amit Shah about their requests. The sports minister invited them to a meeting to discuss their demands.