Rikshit’s family has appealed to Prime Minister Narendra Modi and External Affairs Minister (EAM) S Jaishankar to ensure his safe return home. “We talked to Rikshit for the last time on January 7 and are praying to God for his safe return,” his mother Reeta Devi said.

In the fifth letter to Chief Election Commissioner Gyanesh Kumar, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee stepped up his attack on the Election Commission over “logical discrepancy” in Special Intensive Revision in West Bengal.

Dhankhar, aged 74, will undergo an MRI scan after he fell unconscious twice in the last week, reports said. On Saturday (January 10), Dhankhar had “two bouts of unconsciousness” when he went to use the washroom, reports said.