India, Oct. 7 -- Even as 17 children in Madhya Pradesh and four children in Rajasthan died due to cough syrup, the Congress on Tuesday hit back at the BJP government's in both the states and demanded for a judicial probe.

Addressing a press conference at the party headquarters here, Congress Legislature Party (CLP) leader in Rajasthan Tikaram Jully hit back at the state government for not banning the cough syrup that had led to death of several children in the state.

Firing salvos at the state government, Jully asked, "I also have a question for this government that why it has to take supplies from those companies which are blacklisted or infamous and against which allegations are made again and again?"

He said that this is not the fir...