Top News Of The Day: Sonia Gandhi Holds Opposition Meet, No Invite To Trinamool Congress

The Prime Minister's second day in his constituency today included a 1 AM visit at various Varanasi development projects also his meeting with BJP chief ministers and deputy chief minister today, also in Varanasi. Meanwhile, the opposition seems to have united to take on the prime minister's Varanasi visit and the Ganga Darshan; a strategy session was held Congress chief Sonia Gandhi's Delhi residence this evening to devise a way forward on scrapping the suspension of 12 MPs of Rajya Sabha, which has led to an impasse in parliament. Mamata Banerjee's Trinamool Congress, which is at loggerheads with the Congress, was not invited, sources said; the killing of farmers at Uttar Pradesh's Lakhimpur Kheri was a "planned conspiracy" with intent to commit murder and not a case of death by negligence, the Special Investigation Team has said, in the case in which Union Minister Ajay Mishra's jailed son Ashish Mishra is the main accused and other top stories.