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Relativistic jets from supermassive blackholes are an important driver of feedback in galaxies with an active black hole. They impact the nearby environment over different physical scales during their lifetime, with varying effects. The jets can act as an important agent of injecting energy in the host's ISM, as confirmed both in observations of multi-phase gas, as well as in simulations. Such interactions have the potential to impact the kinematics of the gas, as well its star formation. However, to what extent such feedback is efficient in impacting the large scale gas in the galaxy is still a question of debate. We have undertaken a multi-faceted approach to understand the impact of such relativistic jets and related phenomenon through a wide ranging campaign of high resolution simulations. Such simulations include new sub-grid physics such as acceleration and evolution of non-thermal electrons, which provide more accurate predictions of non-thermal emission. The results have been further augmented by spatially resolved observations of multi-phase gas in galaxies with such jets, to corroborate the theoretical findings. I will outline the recent results from such on-going works and future directions of research in this context.