first president of bcciThe Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Wednesday alleged that the Election Commission (EC) was working as an “extended wing” of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) as it defended its post on X against Prime Minister Narendra Modi, which was taken down after orders from the poll body.“We can rule out the fourth wave as no new variants of the coronavirus are reported. We have seen eight cases of the BA 4 variant and five cases of the BA 5 variant in the past few weeks. These are sub-variants of Omicron and more than 60 per cent of cases being reported in the state are BA 2 sub-variant of Omicron. As a majority of our population have developed hybrid immunity during the Omicron wave through infections and vaccination coverage, we do not see a threat as of now,” said Dr Rao, adding that a surge in Covid cases was inevitable as was being seen across the country.According to the publication, Akshay Kumar and Tiger Shroff’s Bade Miyan Chote Miyan sold 1.03 lakh advance tickets, Ajay Devgn’s box office hit Shaitaan sold 81,000 advance tickets for its opening day; Kareena Kapoor, Tabu and Kriti Sanon’s Crew sold Rs 65,000 tickets. Katrina Kaif and Vijay Sethupathi’s Merry Christmas, directed by Sriram Raghavan, sold the least number of advanced tickets. Janhvi has had just three theatrical releases in her career – Dhadak, Roohi, and Mili. Rajkummar, on the other hand, is coming off of the biopic Srikanth.