The Lucknow bench of the Allahabad High Court granted anticipatory bail to Sandeep Singh, personal secretary to Congress general secretary Priyanka Vadra, considering that Singh was just a messenger for a letter from the party offering 1,000 buses to transport stranded workers.
The war of words between the Uttar Pradesh government and the Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi showed no signs of abating as the state Deputy Chief Minister Dinesh Sharma hit out at the Congress leader over the issue of buses arranged by them for migrant labourers.