21022022 first india lucknow

Oppn parties fighting for
second position: Yogi
Lucknow: With rivals
equating the Lakhim-
pur Kheri incident to
the Jallianwala massa-
cre to target the BJP, Ut-
tar Pradesh Chief Min-
ister Yogi Adityanath
on Sunday asserted that
the law is taking its own
course in the matter
and the Opposition’s at-
tempt to derive political
mileage in the polls will
not succeed.
Asked as to who he
thinks is the main op-
ponent in the UP polls,
Adityanath said, “We
have no fight with any-
one. They are fighting
for the second posi-
tion.” “We have a strong
support base among 80
percent of the voters
while they are fighting
among themselves for
the remaining 20 per-
cent,” he said.
On the general per-
ception that he was “op-
posed” to Muslims, Adi-
tyanath dubbed it as
“opponents’ tactics as
part of their vote bank
politics.”
Asserting that he
would continue his op-
eration against crimi-
nals and mafias after
returning to power, Adi-
tyanath said, “There
will be a stick of devel-
opment in one hand
while another hand will
be on a bulldozer to run
over the anti-social ele-
ments.”
Asked if he has any
prime ministerial am-
bition, the saffron-clad
seer answered: “I am a
simple worker of the
BJP and perform the
task given by the party
to me. I have never run
after any post or chair.”
He laughed when
asked about the Sama-
jwadi Party’s claim of
being a “nayi (new) SP”.
“The distribution of
tickets to criminals,
mafias and those assist-
ing terrorists makes it
amply clear that the
party has not changed
even a bit”, he said.
“Nayi hawa hai par
wahi SP hai” (the air is
fresh but the SP is the
same old one). There is
not a bit of change in
the nature of the party
which, like in the past,
has made criminals
who are behind bars,
mafias and those assist-
ing terrorists as its
nominees in the current
election,” he said. —PTI
CM Yogi Adityanath’s roadshow in Lucknow on Sunday in support of party candidate from Sarojini Nagar seat, Rajeshwar Singh.
PHOTOS BY PTI
We have no fight with anyone. They are
fighting for the second position.We have a
strong support base among 80 percent of
the voters while they are fighting among
themselves for the remaining 20 percent.
—Yogi Adityanath, Chief Minister
LOW-GRADE POLITICS, NOT HINDUTVA:
Uddhav Thackeray, KCR hit out at BJP
Mumbai: Maharashtra
Chief Minister Uddhav
Thackeray targetted
the BJP and said that
damage to the country’s
federalism, and “low-
grade politics that is
not Hindutva”.
His Telangana coun-
terpart K Chandrashek-
ar Rao, during his Mum-
bai visit, declared they
were practically broth-
ers, since their states
shared a 1,000-km bor-
der. The Telangana CM
assured the talks will
continue. “We will sit in
Hyderabad or some-
where else in a few days
and discuss more,” he
said. Meanwhile, NCP
chief Sharad Pawar
stressed the need for all
like-minded parties to
join hands to resolve
socio-political issues.
GROOM, 8
OTHERS KILLED
AFTER CAR
FALLS INTO
CHAMBAL RIVER
IN KOTA
Bhanwar S Charan
Kota: Nine people,
including the groom,
were killed when a car
carrying a marriage
party fell into the
Chambal river in Kota on
Sunday, police said. The
deceased were travelling
in a Maruti Ertiga car to
Madhya Pradesh from
Sawai Madhopur for
his marriage when the
driver lost the control
over the car and it fell
into the river from a
bridge in the Nayapura
police station area, SP
(Kota city) Kesar Singh
Shekhawat said.
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UP: 60.46%; PUNJAB: 65.32%
BJP,SP battle for UP in third phase Punjab seals multi-cornered contest
A
n average voter
turnout of
65.32% was re-
corded in Punjab while
Uttar Pradesh, in its
third phase of the As-
sembly elections, wit-
nessed an average vot-
er turnout of 60.46%
till 5 pm on Sunday.
In Punjab, the high-
est voter turnout was
in the Mansa constitu-
ency with 73.45%.
Punjab Chief Minis-
ter Charanjit Singh
Channi claimed after
casting his vote that
the Congress party
will form government
with 2/3rd majority in
Punjab.
The Samajwadi Party
had pinned hopes in
the third phase in the
largely Yadav-dominat-
ed region to solid its
tally in the polls.
WILL HIT TON IN ANOTHER TWO
PHASES: YADAV; YOGI HITS BACK
AKHILESH IS ‘AURANGZEB’ OF
TODAY: MP CM SHIVRAJ CHOUHAN
BUTTON ON SP,
VVPAT SLIP FOR
BJP, ALLEGES SP
COPS IMPOUND SONU SOOD’S
CAR, ASK HIM TO STAY AT HOME
KANPUR MAYOR BOOKED FOR
TAKING SELFIE INSIDE POLL BOOTH
Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav said his party
has hit a Century in first two phases and even in the
next two phases, the party alliance will be ahead of
everyone else. “The maximum number of unem-
ployed youths are from Bundelkhand region. The in-
come of farmers has not doubled. From Bundelkhand
till here, the BJP has stopped development, snatched
jobs,” he added. Meanwhile, UP CM Yogi Adityanath
contradicted Akhilesh’s claim saying it is clear that
the BJP is coming back to power in the state
The Uttar Pradesh election got personal on Sunday
with Madhya Pradesh chief minister
Shivraj Singh Chouhan calling the
Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav
a modern-day Aurangzeb. “Akhilesh is
today’s Aurangzeb. The one who wasn’t
loyal to his father, how will he be loyal
to you?,” news agency ANI quoted MP
Chief Minister Chouhan while he addressed a poll
rally in Deoria district of Uttar Pradesh.
Soon after polling for the
third phase of Assembly
elections kicked off in
Uttar Pradesh, Samajwadi
Party alleged discrepan-
cies in the Electronic Vot-
ing Machine (EVM) stating
that the Voter Verifiable
Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT)
issued a slip of the BJP as
the voter cast his vote to
the former. . “BJP’s slip is
coming out after pressing
the button of Samajwadi
Party at booth number
121 of Bhognipur 208
assembly of Kanpur rural.
The Election Commission
should take cognizance
for ensuring smooth
and fair voting,” the SP
tweeted in Hindi.
Punjab police on Sunday impounded the vehicle of
actor Sonu Sood and instructed him to stay at home
after receiving a complaint from SAD
that he was visiting polling booths in
Moga district and allegedly trying to
influence voters. Sonu Sood’s sister
Malvika Sood Sachar is the Congress
candidate from Moga constituency.
Meanwhile, the actor took to Twitter and alleged that
other candidates in Moga are buying votes.
BJP leader and Kanpur Mayor Pramila Pandey has
been booked for allegedly clicking a selfie and
making a video while exercising her franchise at
a polling booth during the third phase of voting in
Uttar Pradesh on Sunday, officials said. They said
legal action is also being initiated against another
BJP leader, former city president of the party’s Yuva
Morcha Nawab Singh, for clicking selfies inside a
polling booth. The mayor has shared her video online
that has gone viral on social media platforms.
‘Parivarvadis’ didn’t
let me work for UP
from 2014-17: Modi
Hardoi: In a veiled at-
tack on Samajwadi
Party, Prime Minister
Narendra Modi on Sun-
day said that between
2014-2017 the ‘Parivar-
vadis’ did not let him
work for the people of
Uttar Pradesh.
Addressing a public
rally in Hardoi, the
Prime Minister said
that the people of Har-
doi will celebrate the
first Holi on March 10
with the bumper victo-
ry of the BJP.
“People of Hardoi
have made prepara-
tions to play Holi twice.
First Holi will be played
with BJP’s bumper vic-
tory on 10th March. But
if you want to play Holi
on 10th March, you will
have to make arrange-
ments at polling
booths,” said PM Modi.
PM Modi said that
BJP government is for
poor, farmer and youths
of the country
.
QUEEN ELIZABETH, 95,
IS COVID POSITIVE
Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II
tested positive for Covid-19
on Sunday but her
symptoms are “mild”
and she intends to
continue with light
duties.The news
comes after Prince Charles
tested positive on February 10.
SP chief Akhilesh Yadav with wife Dimple Yadav hold
identification cards during polling in Saifai on Sunday.
Punjab CM Charanjit Channi leaves a polling
booth after casting vote in Kharar on Sunday.
AAP CM candidate Bhagwant Mann
after casting vote in Mohali on Sunday.
Punjab Cong chief Navjot Singh Sidhu
and wife Navjot after casting votes.
President of Punjab Lok Congress and candidate from Patiala constituency
Capt. Amarinder Singh shows his inked finger in Patiala on Sunday.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi
addresses a public meeting in
Hardoi on Sunday.
SP again alleges discrepancies in
working of VVPAT in Kanpur Rural
Pollpanelrestoresthenumberofstar
campaignersto40asCovidcaseswane
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President Kovind inaugurated
the three-year-long celebrations
of the 150th birth anniversary of
Srimad Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati
Goswami Prabhupad, the founder
of Gaudiya Math and Mission in Puri, Odisha today.
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statehood day. Mizoram is known
for its vibrant culture and amazing
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nation’s growth. May the state
continue scaling new heights of development.
TOP TWEETS
SPIRITUAL SPEAK
“The wise grieve neither for the living nor for the
dead. There was never a time when you and I and
all the kings gathered here have not existed and nor
will there be a time when we will cease to exist.”
—Bhagavad Gita
n anti-BJP sen-
timent is grow-
ing in Telanga-
na with Chief
Minister K.
Chandrashek
ar Rao (KCR)
leading the charge. His
meetings with Chief Min-
ister Uddhav Thackeray of
Shiv Sena and Nationalist
Congress Party’s Sharad
Pawar are being seen as an
attempt to stitch up a non-
Congress front against the
BJP before the 2024 elec-
tions. The meeting took
place at Thackeray initia-
tive. This unity effort ap-
pears to be a move inde-
pendent of Mamata Baner-
jee and Prashant Kishor’s
plans for a unified front.
While reaching out to re-
gional parties, both intend
to keep the Congress out of
their scheme of things.
Could KCR and Mamata
find a common meeting
ground for a unified oppo-
sition front? And a bigger
question that looms is
whether these regional
leaders, including KCR,
will be able to rein-in their
balloon-sized
ambitions in
the national interest?
There have to be a host
of reasons for the Telan-
gana Rashtra Samithi
(TRS) leader, who once
sided with the BJP in Par-
liament, to turn against
the BJP and Prime Minis-
ter Narendra Modi.
One of the reasons clear-
ly is the political threat to
the TRS. The saffron party
is making inroads in Tel-
angana and giving KCR
pinpricks with remarks on
bifurcation of the state
that please YSR Congress
chief YS Jagan Mohan
Reddy, the chief minister
of Andhra Pradesh.
On Chief Minister
KCR’s birthday, the Union
Ministry of Road Trans-
port issued full-page ad-
vertisements
announcing
variousprojectsinAndhra
to dilute the impact ads
greeting Rao. KCR has
blamed the BJP for not re-
leasing funds for the
state’s development.
KCR
must remember that there
is no double-engin
e gov-
ernment there.
TELANGANA’S MOVE
AGAINST THE BJP
of reasons for the
Telangana Rashtra
Samithi (TRS) leader, who
once sided with the BJP
in Parliament, to turn
against the BJP and
Prime Minister
Narendra Modi
A
or those who thought that Nar-
endra Modi doesn’t care for
Muslims should revisit the dead-
ly floods of Morbi in 1979 when
thousands of people lost their
lives to this disaster. There was
a great risk of epidemic due to
rotten bodies. Most of the people
living in that area were Mus-
lims. Soon after knowing the
pathetic condition of the resi-
dents, Modi swing into action
and took them to relief camp in
Rajkot. He took personal care of
Muslims and arranged for their
sehri during the pious Ramzan
month. Modi stayed in the relief
camp for 2-3 months and left
only after settling them.
Meanwhile in New Delhi,
Chaudhary Charan Singh took
over from Morarji Desai as
Prime Minister. But he could not
the govern for even 6 months
and the experiment of Janta
front failed. Fresh elections
were held in 1980, bringing In-
dira Gandhi back to power.
However, a major political
event happened on 6th April 1980
when leaders of Jansangh found-
ed a political party - Bhartiya Ja-
nataParty-whichhasbecomethe
largest political party and is pres-
ently ruling the country
. The first
session of BJP was held in Mum-
bai where the former Prime Min-
ister and where one of the BJP’s
founding members Atal Bihari
Vajpayeehadfamouslysaid-And-
hera Chhatega, Kamal Khilega.
In 1981, the country was shak-
en up by mass conversion of Dal-
its to Muslims at Meenaxipuram
in Tamil Nadu. Sangh parivar
immediately took cognisance of
that and started Ekatm Yatra
across the country
. This embold-
ened Hindus and during these
yatra, representativ
es of Sangh
parivar connected more than 6
crore Hindus. Narendra Modi
led this campaign in Gujarat giv-
ing new dimensions to his lead-
ership skills.
Kaushik Mehta of VHP be-
lieves that the concept of this
yatra was of Narendra Modi
only
. “Every citizen of the coun-
try is one. Two raths were taken
out in the country simultane-
ously putting kumbh of Gangaji
and photo of Mother India to-
gether. This spread a meaning-
ful message to Hindus,” he said.
Meanwhile,PrimeMinisterIn-
dira Gandhi was assassinated on
31st October, 1984 and Congress
rompedhomewithgreatmajority
ridingonthesympathyvotes.The
newly formed BJP ended up win-
ning just two seats. In the next
year, assembly elections were
heldinGujaratandCongresswon
149 out of 182 seats while BJP
could manage to win just 11 seats.
This set the alarm bells on and
Sangh started sending pracha-
raks to strengthen the BJP
.
On6thDecember1986,pracha-
rak Narendra Modi was sent to
BJP by the then Sarsanghchal
ak
Bala Saheb Devras. Modi, who
was working selflessly for the
Sangh for last one and half dec-
ades, found a new path to trudge.
Soon after coming into BJP, in
1989 Modi had a tough challenge
ahead which he turned into an
opportunity. There was an elec-
tion of Ahmedabad Nagar Nig-
am. Modi took over the entire
responsibility
of poll strategy
and publicity
. He gave the slogan
– ‘Bas ab Bhajapa’. That slogan
played an important role in re-
vival of BJP and changed the
face of electoral politics. People
related with the slogan and the
political acceptability
increased
simultaneous
ly
.
After the great win at
Ahmedabad
Nagar Nigam,
Modi’s role in the party gained
prominence and he was entrust-
ed with the responsibility
of Or-
ganising Secretary in Gujarat.
Modi took out yatras to connect
with the people of the state.
While he carried out ‘Nyay yatra’
championing
the cause of farm-
ers in 1987, he also took out Lok
Shakti yatra in support of tribals
in 1988. In the same year, Modi
went on one more yatra - Kailash
Mansarovar
yatra, which was
organised by External Affairs
ministry for the first time. Soon
after he returned from the yatra,
he came to know about his fa-
ther’s ill health. He immediately
went to Vadnagar, only to see his
father taking his last breath.
Modi’s father probably was wait-
ing for the last sight of his son.
However, undeterred by his
father’s demise, Narendra
Modi left his home the next day
for a journey meant for nation
building.
F
DOWN THE MEMORY LANE…
DUSTY LANES TO CROWNING GLORY- THE MAKING OF PM MODI – PART 3
NARENDRA MODI: FROM A ‘PRACHARAK’
TO A STRATEGIC BJP LEADER !
SHASHIKANT
SHARMA
The writer is Consulting
Editor, First India
Soon after coming into
BJP, in 1989 Modi had
a tough challenge
ahead which he turned
into an opportunity.
There was an election
of Ahmedabad Nagar
Nigam. Modi took over
the entire responsibility
of poll strategy and
publicity. He gave the
slogan – ‘Bas ab
Bhajapa’. That slogan
played an important
role in revival of BJP
and changed the face of
electoral politics. People
related with the slogan
and the political
acceptability increased
simultaneously.His role
in Party also gained
prominence
However, a major
political event
happened on 6th April
1980 when leaders of
Jansangh founded a
political party -
Bhartiya Janata Party
- which has become the
largest political party
and is presently ruling
the country. The first
session of BJP was held
in Mumbai where the
former Prime Minister
and where one of the
BJP’s founding
members Atal Bihari
Vajpayee had famously
said - Andhera
Chhatega, Kamal
Khilega
PM Narendra Modi with former PM late
Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
PM Narendra Modi with veteran RSS
leader Lakshman Rao Inaamdar.
PM Narendra Modi being welcomed at Ahmedabad Airport.
Narendra Modi
BIG PLAYERS WITH HIGH-STAKES
P4
New York: The US has
intelligence that Rus-
sian commanders have
received orders to pro-
ceed with an invasion
of Ukraine, with com-
manders on the ground
making specific plans
for how they would ma-
neuver in their sectors
of the battlefield, CBS
News national security
correspondent David
Martin reported on
“Face the Nation” pro-
gramme on Sunday.
Meanwhile, French
President Emmanuel
Macron and Russian
leader Vladimir Putin
on Sunday agreed to
work for a ceasefire in
eastern Ukraine, Ma-
cron’s office said.
According to a top
diplomat, US President
Joe Biden is also will-
ing to meet Russia’s
Vladimir Putin “at any
time” to prevent a war
in Ukraine.
WON’T RESPOND
TO RUSSIAN
PROVOCATIONS:
UKRAINE PREZ
Ukraine’s president has
said his nation will not
respond to provocations
amid a deadly escalation
in fighting in rebel
Russian-backed
eastern territories. But
Volodymyr Zelensky told
world leaders Ukraine
would defend itself.
Two Ukrainian soldiers
were killed on a third
day of clashes between
Ukraine’s military and
Russian-backed rebels.
An instructor shows a Kalashnikov assault rifle during a training
of members of a Ukrainian far-right group in Kyiv on Sunday.
Embassy in Kyiv
advises Indians, its
staff families to
leave Ukraine
Putin gives Russian commanders orders
for Ukraine invasion, US channel claims
Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao along with Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray and
Sanjay Raut. (Right) KCR with NCP chief Sharad Pawar, Praful Patel and Prakash Raj in Mumbai.
Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray assured support to Telangana
counterpart K Chandrashekar Rao’s efforts to form an anti-BJP front

UTTAR PRADESH
LUCKNOW | MONDAY, FEBRUARY 21, 2022
02
Shravasti: Bharatiya
Janata Party (BJP) na-
tional president JP
Nadda on Sunday said
that nations like Af-
ghanistan, Pakistan,
Bangladesh, Iran, Iraq
and Indonesia do not
have Triple Talaq but
our secular nation had
it and it was Prime Min-
ister Narendra Modi
who gave freedom to
crores of Muslim wom-
en by bringing a law
against Triple Talaq.
Addressing a public
rally at Sharavasti in
Uttar Pradesh, Nadda
said, “Those appeasing
Muslims don’t know
that there’s no Triple
Talaq in Afghanistan or
Pakistan or Bangladesh
or Iran or Iraq or Indo-
nesia. These Muslim
nations did not have
Triple Talaq but our
secular nation had it.
PM Modi gave freedom
to crores of Muslim
women.” Attacking
Congress and Samajwa-
di Party, he said, “When
Prime Minister Modi
talked about Swachh
Bharat from the ram-
parts of the Red Fort,
then Congress and SP
leaders born with a sil-
ver spoon used to laugh
and joke. Ram Manohar
Lohia ji had also ex-
pressed concern in 1960
over the lack of toilet
facilities for women in
Parliament.”
After the formation
of Modi government in
2014, work was done to
give respect to women
by constructing 11 crore
toilets across the coun-
try, he added. —ANI
PM Modi gave freedom to crores of muslim women: JP Nadda
ON TRIPLE TALAQ

Nadda not only
praised the
efforts made by
the PM for
upliftment of
women, but also
attacked SP for
attacking Kar
Sewaks in 1990
JP Nadda waves to the crowd a political rally in Shravasti.
‘AKHILESH JI NOW
GOING TO TEMPLES’
Furthering his attack
on Akhilesh Yadav,
Prime Minister Modi
said, “During the SP
government, bullets
were fired on kar
sevaks. But nowadays
Akhilesh ji is going to
the temple and ring-
ing the bell”.
OPPN SOFT ON TERROR DUE TO
VOTEBANK POLITICS: PM MODI
SP withdrew cases against terrorists responsible for 13 attacks in UP, alleged PM
Hardoi: Prime Minis-
ter Narendra Modi on
Sunday said that the
Samajwadi Party and
other opposition par-
ties were soft on terror,
adding that SP had
withdrawn cases
against terrorists re-
sponsible for 14 inci-
dents in the state when
they took over in 2013.
Addressing election
rallies in Hardoi and
Unnao, which are going
to polls in the fourth
phase on February 23,
PM said: “Our country
has been facing terror-
ism of Jehadi organisa-
tion for past several de-
cades. When a terror
attack takes place, it
hurts the poor and the
middle class the most.
Tourism and trade get
affected. However, op-
position parties are soft
on terror because of
their votebank politics.
SP withdrew cases
against terrorists re-
sponsible for 14 attacks
in UP, some of whom
were given capital pun-
ishment and life impris-
onment by courts later
on. They withdrew cas-
es against those respon-
sible for attack on
Sankat Mochan Temple
in Kashi and Lucknow
court. Congress leaders
called a terrorist lika
Osama Bin Laden ‘Osa-
maji’ and shed tears on
the killing of a terrorist
in Batla House encoun-
ter. And we have built
National War Memorial
and National Police Me-
morial.”
Modi. in his address
said that during their
governments a series of
blasts took place in Del-
hi Mumbai, Ahem-
dabad, Hyderabad etc,
adding that when he
saw blood shed of inno-
cent people in Ahem-
dabad, he took the
pledge to give the cul-
prits a lesson and re-
cently the court award-
ed them death sentence.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses a poltical rally in Hardoi
on Sunday.
They could hardly
give houses to the
poor and built only
34,000 toilets
while the Yogi-Adi-
tyanath Govern-
ment has built
70,000 houses and
5 lakh toilets in
Hardoi alone.
—Narendra Modi,
Prime Minister
Samajwadi Party sympathises
with terrorists,points out Yogi
Lakhimpur Kheeri:
UP CM Yogi Aditya-
nath on Sunday ac-
cused the Samajwadi
Party of being sympa-
thetic towards terror-
ists, alleging that the
father of one of the
convicts in the 2008
Ahmedabad serial
blast case has links
with the party
.
The Uttar Pradesh-
chief minister made
the allegation while
addressing an elec-
tion rally here in
Lakhimpur Kehri
which goes to the polls
on fourth phase of the
seven-phase state as-
sembly elections.
“Why does the Sam-
ajwadi Party have
sympathy towards
these terrorists? Will
the people support
those who play with
the security of the Na-
tion?” the CM asked
while urging people to
vote for the BJP to let
the state stay riot free.
Yogi Adityanath
posted the twin query
while referring to
Ahmedabad’s an-
ti-terror court ruling
in the 2008 serial
blasts in the city
.
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath participates in a political rally
organised in Lakhimpur Kheeri on Sunday.
YOGI AGAIN MAKES ‘KABRISTAN’ JIBE
Gujarat blasts
linked to
appeasement
politics: BJP MP
Prayagraj: BJP gener-
al secretary and Rajya
Sabha member Arun
Singh on Sunday target-
ed the Samajwadi Party
and the Congress, say-
ing the 2008 Gujarat
bomb blasts were the
result of their appease-
ment politics.
A special court on
Friday handed down
the death penalty to 38
people and sentenced 11
others to life imprison-
ment for the Ahmed-
abad serial blasts,
which killed 56 and in-
jured over 200 in 2008.
Five of those given
death penalty belonged
to UP’s Azamgarh.
The BJP leader here
said everybody has seen
how those given death
penalty went to Gujarat
from UP for bomb
blasts.
“This is the result of
appeasement politics,”
he said, blaming the
Congress and the Sam-
ajwadi Party (SP) for it.
The Congress, Sama-
jwadi Party always has
stood for terrorists, sep-
aratists, he said. —PTI
Arun Singh
Akhilesh humiliated father
to seize party, now pleading
him to save his seat: Modi
Unnao: Attacking Sa-
majwadi Party chief
Akhilesh Yadav,
Prime Minister Nar-
endra Modi on Sun-
day said that the
CM-candidate is “in-
secure” about his seat
and had to plead to his
father, whom he had
“humiliated” to cap-
ture the party, to save
him from defeat in the
constituency
.
“You can gauge the
direction of wind...
The seat, which these
people were consider-
ing as the safest, is
also getting out of
their reach,” Modi
said in an apparent
reference to the Karh-
al seat from where Ya-
dav is contesting in
the family-stronghold
of Mainpuri.
Ahead of polling in
the third phase, SP pa-
triarch Mulayam
Singh Yadav had cam-
paigned for his son
Akhilesh Yadav on
the seat though he has
maintained a low pro-
file during this elec-
tion.
The Karhal seat
with a majority of
Muslim and Yadav
voters is considered
safe for the Samajwa-
di Party supremo
Akhilesh Yadav as the
communities have
over the years fa-
voured the SP in the
caste-dominated poli-
tics of Uttar Pradesh.
Modi targeted Akh-
ilesh Yadav who was
seen in a video pur-
portedly pushing Mu-
layam Singh Yadav on
the stage during a
power struggle within
the party before 2017
assembly elections.
“You must have
seen, the father who
was pushed from the
stage was humiliated
and the party was cap-
tured, he had to plead
to him for saving the
seat,” the prime min-
ister said.
Batting for a second
term for Yogi Aditya-
nath as the next chief
minister, Modi said,
“Today in UP there is
only one echo every-
where- ‘2017 me
haraya tha, 2022 me
phir se harayenge, UP
ke log keh rahe hain
yogiji ko layenge”
( People of UP are say-
ing that you will be
defeated in 2022 as in
2017, and we will bring
Yogiji again). —PTI
Prime Minister Narendra Modi waves to the cheering crowd in Unnao on Sunday.
PM MODI GETS ROUSING WELCOME IN
UNNAO, AS PEOPLE CHEER FOR HIM
As Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s helicopter
landed in Uttar Pradesh’s Unnao on Sunday
afternoon, he received a grand welcome as
people thronged on terraces and buildings
near the helipad to catch a glimpse of the
BJP leader.Loud cheers could be heard as the
PMstepped down from the helicopter. —ANI
‘Yogi govt
exploited
people’
Bahraich: Na-
tional President
of Vikassheel In-
saan Party and Bi-
har Animal and
Fisheries Minis-
ter Mukesh Sah-
ani, who is in alli-
ance with BJP in
Bihar but is fight-
ing the Assembly
elections in Uttar
Pradesh alone, has
slammed the Yogi
Adityanath gov-
ernment for hav-
ing exploited the
people of the state.
Vikassheel In-
saan Party is the
BJP ally in Bihar
along with JD(U).
Addressing a pub-
lic meeting on Sat-
urday, Sahani
said, “The food
that the govern-
ment is giving for
free today be-
longed to people.
The government
of Uttar Pradesh
is only exploiting
the people.” —ANI
VIP’s Nat’l Prez Mukesh
Sahani at a press meet.
Lakshmi does not ride bicycle or elephant,
but visits people on lotus: Rajnath Singh
Patti: Goddess Laksh-
mi does not visit people
on a bicycle or an ele-
phant but goes around
sitting in a lotus, De-
fence Minister Rajnath
Singh said here on Sun-
day, seeking to link peo-
ples’ prosperity and
state’s development
with the BJP’s poll
symbol.
Addressing an elec-
tion rally in Jagdishpur
near here, Singh said
only the BJP is the true
well-wisher of the poor
and the weak.
“Goddess Lakshmi
never goes to anyone’s
house riding a cycle or
an elephant or on
(someone’s) hand. God-
dess Lakshmi visits
people only sitting on a
lotus, said Singh.
The PM-Kisan Sam-
man Nidhi, Ujjwala Yo-
jana and Pradhan Man-
tri Awas Yojana are the
indicators of goddess
Lakshmi’s arrival,” he
added.
The defence minis-
ter said even interna-
tional agencies have
said only the BJP is
running a good govern-
ment in India.
Attacking the Sama-
jwadi Party, he said,
“Socialism (Samajwad)
has not even touched
the Samajwadi Party.
Socialism makes the so-
ciety free from the fear
and crime which is
what the BJP is doing,
he said.
Rajnath Singh with Aparna Yadav in Lucknow on Sunday.
BLAMES OPPN
All criminals, goons, rioters linked to
Samajwadi Party, says Anurag Thakur
Lucknow: Union
Minister Anurag
Thakur on Sunday
slammed the Sama-
jwadi Party saying
that all criminals,
goons and rioters
have links with the
party
.
His latest attack on
the party comes a day
after he had ques-
tioned its chief Akh-
ilesh Yadav on the al-
leged involvement of
his party’s leader in
the 2008 Ahmedabad
serial blasts case. “All
criminals, goons and
rioters have their
links to the Samajwa-
di Party
,” said Thakur
to ANI.
He called out chief
Yadav for his silence
on the alleged connec-
tion of his party’s
leader with 2008
Ahmedabad blasts,
saying that ‘Aantanki-
yo ka abbujaan, Sam-
ajvadiyo ka bhaijaan,
isliye band hai
zubaan’ (father of ter-
rorists, brother of so-
cialists, that is why
tongue is silent).
A special court in
Gujarat on Friday
pronounced the death
sentence to 38 out of
49 convicts in the
2008 Ahmedabad seri-
al bomb blast case.
The terror attack had
led to the death of 56
people who were
killed at various plac-
es in the city due to
the bomb blasts and
over 200 people were
also injured. —ANI
Anurag Thakur

UTTAR PRADESH
03
CRUCIAL READ
BJP WORKER SHOT AT DURING
ELECTION VIOLENCE IN MAINPURI
Mainpuri: A Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) worker
was shot in dispute between SP and BJP workers
during voting in Awadh Nagar area in Mainpuri as-
sembly area here. Police sources here said that BJP
worker Aman Pandey was shot after dispute between
SP-BJP workers during voting in Awadh Nagar area.
He was rushed to the district hospital. BJP support-
ers thronged at hospital and protested against SP.
In another incident stone pelting occurred between
two groups after heated arguments during voting in
Fareinzi village under Kishni assembly seat.
KHURSHID, WIFE
CAST VOTE IN
FARRUKHABAD
Farrukhabad: Senior
Congress leader Salman
Khurshid and his wife
Louise Khurshid cast
their votes at a polling
booth in the Farrukhabad
Sadar constituency on
Sunday.Louise Khurshid
is also the Congress’
nominee from the seat.
“Feeling euphoric.
Because of Priyanka
Gandhi everywhere I
went, women expressed
interest in voting,”
she said. Polling in 59
constituencies for the
third phase of UP elec-
tions began at 7 am on
Sunday.
DELHI, UP POLICE
ARREST TWO WITH
115-KG CHARAS
New Delhi: The Special
Cell of Delhi Police and
UP Police conducted
a joint operation and
arrested two persons
with 115-kg charas
from Jangalgram Nahar
near Neelawala Pul on
Meerut Expressway
under Masoorie police
station, Ghaziabad. They
were identified as Ankur
Verma (30) and Sanjeet
Singh (30). A case
was registered under
section 08/20/29/30 of
the Narcotic Drugs and
Psychotropic Substanc-
es (NDPS) Act, 1985 at
Masoorie police station.
First India Bureau
Lucknow: Over 100
students from 18 de-
partments and insti-
tutes of Lucknow Uni-
versity have qualified
in UGC NET and JRF
held in November
2021, the results of
which were declared
on Sunday.
The examination is
the basis for stepping
into the world of aca-
demics as it is an es-
sential qualification to
get entry into any
higher education insti-
tution as an assistant
professor.
V-C Alok Kumar Rai,
said, “It is a prestigious
moment for an educa-
tion institute when
erstwhile students
achieve new heights
and bring laurels to it.”
UGC conducts the
exam twice every year
and post graduate stu-
dents from across India
appear in it. UGC also
gives Junior Research
Fellowship (JRF) to
students with higher
merit for pursuing PhD
from recognized varsi-
ties. Over 40 students
of the university have
qualified JRF. At the
same time more than 60
students have qualified
the UGC NET.
Archit Pandey a stu-
dent of Political Sci-
ence has got 100 percen-
tile which is a monu-
mental achievement.
The Department of So-
ciology has the maxi-
mum achievers with 11
students qualifying for
JRF and 11 in NET fol-
lowed by Department
of Political Science
with 5 JRF’s and 12
NET’s. Students of De-
partment of education
bagged 5 JRF’s and 6
NETs. Other depart-
ments include Applied
Economics, Sanskrit,
Geography, Home Sci-
ence, Library Science,
Western History, Mod-
ern History
, Psychology
,
Persian, Journalism,
Modern Indian History,
Statistics, Tourism, En-
glish and Economics.
Moment of pride for LU as more than 100 alumni qualify UGC-NET, JRF
ORDER OF MERIT
HC SEEKS GOVT RESPONSE ON STRAYS
First India Bureau
Lucknow: Expressing
concern over the condi-
tion of stray cattle in
rural areas of the state,
the Allahabad HC
sought a counter-affida-
vitfromtheChief Devel-
opmentOfficer,whoalso
serves as the Chairman
of a Committee formed
to ensure the safety of
cattle in cattle shades.
Abenchof JusticeDe-
vendra Kumar Upadhya
and Justice Mohd Faiz
Alam Khan also ordered
theStateCounseltoseek
instructions in the mat-
ter within two weeks.
The Lucknow Bench
further appointed Advo-
cate Yogendra Misra,
assisted by Advocate S.
M Singh Royekwar, as
Amicus Curiae to assist
the court in the matter.
The order was passed
onaPILfiledbyRaviKu-
mar Singh, alleging that
respondentno5,whoisa
candidate for election to
the UP Legislative As-
sembly (from Harchand-
pur constituency in Dis-
trict Raebareli), gath-
ered thousands of stray
cattle/animals on his
private land with no pro-
vision for fodder, drink-
ing water, or shade.
The plea also claimed
that respondent no 5
made a public an-
nouncement in order to
entice the electors/vot-
ers of the area that he
would pay Rs 50 per ani-
mal to anyone, who
brought such stray cat-
tle to the aforesaid land.
The court found the
current proceedings
were a proxy petition in-
stitutedbythepetitioner
on behalf of a person,
who was running for
election as a rival candi-
date for UP Assembly
, in
which respondent no.5
was also running from a
different political party
.
Thebenchcondemned
the petitioner’s conduct
in initiating these pro-
ceedings ostensibly in
public interest, and as
such, it deemed it appro-
priate to dismiss him as
a petitioner.
However, consider-
ing the poor condition
of stray cattle/animals
kept in a shabbily erect-
ed and constructed cat-
tle shade, the court en-
tertained the writ peti-
tion on the limited issue
of appropriate arrange-
ment for stray cattle in
rural areas.
It, however, directed
that the cause title of
the writ petition be de-
scribed as ‘Yogindra
Misra vs State of U.P.
and others’.
Before dismissing the
order, the bench im-
posed a cost of Rs 10,000
on the petitioner for un-
necessarily abusing the
court’s process in an at-
tempt to advance his
personal interests.
First India Bureau
Lucknow: Police
havearrestedtehsil-
dar, his wife and
other accomplice
for murder of wom-
an police constable
inPGIpolicestation
area here.
Police said de-
ceased cop Ruchi
Chaudhary and ac-
cusedtehsildarPad-
mesh Srivastava
were in a relation-
ship. Ruchi was
married and had
dispute with her
husband Ankit
Gupta, constable
postedinPrayagraj.
Ruchiwasasking
Padmesh for mar-
riage and dispute
occurred when he
told her that he was
married. Ruchi
wanted to marry
Padmesh and asked
him to divorce his
wife. When matter
escalated Padmesh
conspired to mur-
der Ruchi.
During interro-
gation it was re-
vealed that Pad-
mesh planned her-
murder with his
friend Namvar
Singh. On Febru-
ary 12 Padmesh and
Namvar offered her
intoxicated sub-
stance and when
she fell uncon-
scious, they stran-
gulatedhertodeath.
Kanpur: BJP leader
and Kanpur Mayor Pra-
mila Pandey has been
booked for allegedly
clicking a selfie and
making a video while
exercising her franchise
atapollingboothduring
the third phase of vot-
ing in Uttar Pradesh on
Sunday
, officials said.
They said legal action
is also being initiated
against another BJP
leader, former city pres-
identof theparty’sYuva
Morcha Nawab Singh,
for clicking selfies in-
side a polling booth.
DM Neha Sharma
said Mayor Pandey took
her mobile phone in-
side the polling booth at
Hudson School, and
clicked a selfie while
voting.
Sharma said the Kan-
pur Mayor Pramila Pan-
dey has violated the
rules of the Election
Commission by reveal-
ing the name of the par-
ty she voted for.
Themayorhasshared
her video online that
has gone viral on social
media platforms.
At a separate polling
booth, Nawab Singh
also violated the EC
rules by taking a mobile
inside the booth and
shooting a video ans
clicking a selfie while
casting his vote. —PTI
PLEA SAYS SEVERAL CATTLE
GATHERED SANS FACILITIES
FILE PHOTO
‘MARRIAGE CERT NOT MUST TO ADOPT’
Knp mayor booked for
clicking selfie inside
booth against EC norm
Officials said legal action
was being initiated
against another BJP
leader, former city pres-
ident of the party’s Yuva
Morcha Nawab Singh,
for clicking selfies inside
a polling booth.
ACTION AGAINST
ANOTHER LEADER
WOMAN COP
MURDER:
TEHSILDAR,
WIFE, AIDE
ARRESTED
WE THE WOMEN
MARCHOF
DEMOCRACY...
Women voters of all ages and communities across rural and urban areas of Saifai, Mainpuri,
Etawah, Kannuaj, Karhal came out in large numbers to cast their vote as the state went into
the third phase polls on Sunday. —PHOTOS BY SUMIT KUMAR
(L-R) Archit Pandey, Mohit, Shreya Katiyar and Anand Mishra, who have scored above 99 percentile
in the exams.

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President Kovind inaugurated
the three-year-long celebrations
of the 150th birth anniversary of
Srimad Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati
Goswami Prabhupad, the founder
of Gaudiya Math and Mission in Puri, Odisha today.
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Extend my warm wishes to the
people of Mizoram on their
statehood day. Mizoram is known
for its vibrant culture and amazing
people, passionate about the
nation’s growth. May the state
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TOP TWEETS
SPIRITUAL SPEAK
“The wise grieve neither for the living nor for the
dead. There was never a time when you and I and
all the kings gathered here have not existed and nor
will there be a time when we will cease to exist.”
—Bhagavad Gita
n anti-BJP sen-
timent is grow-
ing in Telanga-
na with Chief
Minister K.
Chandrashekar Rao (KCR)
leading the charge. His
meetings with Chief Min-
ister Uddhav Thackeray of
Shiv Sena and Nationalist
Congress Party’s Sharad
Pawar are being seen as an
attempt to stitch up a non-
Congress front against the
BJP before the 2024 elec-
tions. The meeting took
place at Thackeray initia-
tive. This unity effort ap-
pears to be a move inde-
pendent of Mamata Baner-
jee and Prashant Kishor’s
plans for a unified front.
While reaching out to re-
gional parties, both intend
to keep the Congress out of
their scheme of things.
Could KCR and Mamata
find a common meeting
ground for a unified oppo-
sition front? And a bigger
question that looms is
whether these regional
leaders, including KCR,
will be able to rein-in their
balloon-sized ambitions in
the national interest?
of reasons for the Telan-
gana Rashtra Samithi
(TRS) leader, who once
sided with the BJP in Par-
liament, to turn against
the BJP and Prime Minis-
ter Narendra Modi.
One of the reasons clear-
ly is the political threat to
the TRS. The saffron party
is making inroads in Tel-
angana and giving KCR
pinpricks with remarks on
bifurcation of the state
that please YSR Congress
chief YS Jagan Mohan
Reddy, the chief minister
of Andhra Pradesh.
On Chief Minister
KCR’s birthday, the Union
Ministry of Road Trans-
port issued full-page ad-
vertisements announcing
variousprojectsinAndhra
to dilute the impact ads
greeting Rao. KCR has
blamed the BJP for not re-
leasing funds for the
state’s development. KCR
must remember that there
is no double-engine gov-
ernment there.
TELANGANA’S MOVE
AGAINST THE BJP
of reasons for the
Telangana Rashtra
Samithi (TRS) leader, who
once sided with the BJP
in Parliament, to turn
against the BJP and
Prime Minister
Narendra Modi
A
or those who thought that Nar-
endra Modi doesn’t care for
Muslims should revisit the dead-
ly floods of Morbi in 1979 when
thousands of people lost their
lives to this disaster. There was
a great risk of epidemic due to
rotten bodies. Most of the people
living in that area were Mus-
lims. Soon after knowing the
pathetic condition of the resi-
dents, Modi swing into action
and took them to relief camp in
Rajkot. He took personal care of
Muslims and arranged for their
sehri during the pious Ramzan
month. Modi stayed in the relief
camp for 2-3 months and left
only after settling them.
Meanwhile in New Delhi,
Chaudhary Charan Singh took
over from Morarji Desai as
Prime Minister. But he could not
the govern for even 6 months
and the experiment of Janta
front failed. Fresh elections
were held in 1980, bringing In-
dira Gandhi back to power.
However, a major political
event happened on 6th April 1980
when leaders of Jansangh found-
ed a political party - Bhartiya Ja-
nataParty-whichhasbecomethe
largest political party and is pres-
ently ruling the country
. The first
session of BJP was held in Mum-
bai where the former Prime Min-
ister and where one of the BJP’s
founding members Atal Bihari
Vajpayeehadfamouslysaid-And-
hera Chhatega, Kamal Khilega.
In 1981, the country was shak-
en up by mass conversion of Dal-
its to Muslims at Meenaxipuram
in Tamil Nadu. Sangh parivar
immediately took cognisance of
that and started Ekatm Yatra
across the country
. This embold-
ened Hindus and during these
yatra, representatives of Sangh
parivar connected more than 6
crore Hindus. Narendra Modi
led this campaign in Gujarat giv-
ing new dimensions to his lead-
ership skills.
Kaushik Mehta of VHP be-
lieves that the concept of this
yatra was of Narendra Modi
only
. “Every citizen of the coun-
try is one. Two raths were taken
out in the country simultane-
ously putting kumbh of Gangaji
and photo of Mother India to-
gether. This spread a meaning-
ful message to Hindus,” he said.
Meanwhile,PrimeMinisterIn-
dira Gandhi was assassinated on
31st October, 1984 and Congress
rompedhomewithgreatmajority
ridingonthesympathyvotes.The
newly formed BJP ended up win-
ning just two seats. In the next
year, assembly elections were
heldinGujaratandCongresswon
149 out of 182 seats while BJP
could manage to win just 11 seats.
This set the alarm bells on and
Sangh started sending pracha-
raks to strengthen the BJP
.
On6thDecember1986,pracha-
rak Narendra Modi was sent to
BJP by the then Sarsanghchalak
Bala Saheb Devras. Modi, who
was working selflessly for the
Sangh for last one and half dec-
ades, found a new path to trudge.
Soon after coming into BJP, in
1989 Modi had a tough challenge
ahead which he turned into an
opportunity. There was an elec-
tion of Ahmedabad Nagar Nig-
am. Modi took over the entire
responsibility of poll strategy
and publicity
. He gave the slogan
– ‘Bas ab Bhajapa’. That slogan
played an important role in re-
vival of BJP and changed the
face of electoral politics. People
related with the slogan and the
political acceptability increased
simultaneously
.
After the great win at
Ahmedabad Nagar Nigam,
Modi’s role in the party gained
prominence and he was entrust-
ed with the responsibility of Or-
ganising Secretary in Gujarat.
Modi took out yatras to connect
with the people of the state.
While he carried out ‘Nyay yatra’
championing the cause of farm-
ers in 1987, he also took out Lok
Shakti yatra in support of tribals
in 1988. In the same year, Modi
went on one more yatra - Kailash
Mansarovar yatra, which was
organised by External Affairs
ministry for the first time. Soon
after he returned from the yatra,
he came to know about his fa-
ther’s ill health. He immediately
went to Vadnagar, only to see his
father taking his last breath.
Modi’s father probably was wait-
ing for the last sight of his son.
However, undeterred by his
father’s demise, Narendra
Modi left his home the next day
for a journey meant for nation
building.
F
DOWN THE MEMORY LANE…
DUSTY LANES TO CROWNING GLORY- THE MAKING OF PM MODI – PART 3
NARENDRA MODI: FROM A ‘PRACHARAK’
TO A STRATEGIC BJP LEADER !
SHASHIKANT
SHARMA
The writer is Consulting
Editor, First India
Soon after coming into
BJP, in 1989 Modi had
a tough challenge
ahead which he turned
into an opportunity.
There was an election
of Ahmedabad Nagar
Nigam. Modi took over
the entire responsibility
of poll strategy and
publicity. He gave the
slogan – ‘Bas ab
Bhajapa’. That slogan
played an important
role in revival of BJP
and changed the face of
electoral politics. People
related with the slogan
and the political
acceptability increased
simultaneously.His role
in Party also gained
prominence
However, a major
political event
happened on 6th April
1980 when leaders of
Jansangh founded a
political party -
Bhartiya Janata Party
- which has become the
largest political party
and is presently ruling
the country. The first
session of BJP was held
in Mumbai where the
former Prime Minister
and where one of the
BJP’s founding
members Atal Bihari
Vajpayee had famously
said - Andhera
Chhatega, Kamal
Khilega
PM Narendra Modi with former PM late
Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
PM Narendra Modi with veteran RSS
leader Lakshman Rao Inaamdar.
PM Narendra Modi being welcomed at Ahmedabad Airport.
Narendra Modi

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INDIA
05
New Delhi: The out-
come of the five state
elections will have an
impact on the Presiden-
tial poll and will also
bring some change in
the Upper House of
Parliament as except
for Punjab the other
four states were ruled
by the BJP with brute
majorities in UP and
Uttarakhand.
The Bharatiya Janata
Party may not be that
comfortably placed in
the Presidential elec-
tion which is likely to be
conducted in June-July
2022, as the President is
indirectly elected by an
electoral college con-
sisting of the elected
members of both the
Houses of Parliament
and the assemblies.
The electoral colleges
comprises 776 MPs of
both the Houses and
4,120 MLAs of all the
states and Union Terri-
tories. The electoral col-
lege has 1,098,903 votes,
and a majority is 549,452
votes. As far as the value
of votes is concerned,
Uttar Pradesh has the
highestnumberof votes,
approximately83,824fol-
lowed by Maharashtra
and West Bengal.
The BJP has a brute
majority in the assem-
blies of UP and Uttara-
khand and any reduc-
tion of seats will put the
game in the opposition
camp as the Chief Min-
isters of different re-
gional parties are try-
ing to join hands.
If they join hands
and put up a joint candi-
date, the BJP will find
it difficult to get
its nominee
e l e c t e d .
The only
way would
be a divi-
sion in the opposition
camp which may be a
difficult task. After
West Bengal Chief Min-
ister Mamata Banerjee
who is trying to expand
her party, Trinamool
Congress’ footprints at
the national level, Tel-
angana Chief Minister
K. Chandrashekhar
Rao (KCR) had a
meeting with Maha-
rashtra Chief Minister
Uddhav Thackeray
.
Not only is the Mum-
bai meeting important
but KCR is also meeting
Tamil Nadu Chief Min-
ister M.K. Stalin and
Kerala Chief Minister
Pinarayi Vijayan.
Even Mamata Ba-
nerjee is likely to
travel to Hyderabad to
meet KCR. He has the
support of former
Prime Minister H.D.
Deve Gowda who could
be another possible can-
didate for President.
However the Chief
Ministerstryingtounite
en bloc is not a good sign
for the Congress which
may get isolated in the
opposition while the
BJP has to search for a
consensus candi-
date for the
Presiden-
tial poll.
K C R ’ s
new initia-
tive is to save his home
turf as the BJP is ex-
panding its base in Tel-
angana. He is being
forced to take on the
BJP due to domestic po-
litical compulsions, oth-
erwise the party had
been bailing out the BJP
on key legislation in the
Upper House since 2014.
The southern states
and Maharashtra ac-
count for more than 200
Lok Sabha seats and al-
most half of the elector-
alcollegewhichcouldbe
crucial in the next Presi-
dential poll. If the re-
gionalpartiesteamup,it
will be unlikely that the
BJP will have its way in
the choice of President.
Thus the electoral
outcome in the five
states which include UP
will impact the presi-
dential election.
If the opposition puts
up a candidate like NCP
supremo Sharad Pawar
who is capable of mus-
tering support from oth-
ers like the Trinamool
Congress, the BJD, the
TRS,theYSRCP
,theCPI-
M, the CPI and the other
parties, then the BJP
will have a tough task
ahead of it. —Agencies
How Assembly polls will impact Presidential and RS elections
POLITICAL INTRICACIES
Patna: Lalu Prasad’s
RJD has slammed its
doors shut on the pos-
sibility of any under-
standing with the Con-
gress, its estranged ally,
for elections to 24 seats
of the legislative coun-
cil in Bihar.
State RJD president
Jagadanand Singh on
Saturday announced its
candidates for two
seats, having done the
same for 21 others a
week ago, and declared
that it was leaving one
for the Left parties.
Elections to the two
dozen seats, vacant for
quite some time, are ex-
pectedinMarchorApril.
The development
came barely a day after
Congress leader Priyan-
ka Gandhi Vadra came
outinsupportof Prasad,
whoisinjailafterconvic-
tion in yet another fod-
der scam case. The two
parties, along with the
CPI,CPI(M)andCPI(ML)
hadformedaGrandAlli-
ance to contest the 2020
Assembly polls. —PTI
Gurdaspur: Shiroma-
ni Akali Dal (SAD)
leader Bikram Singh
Majithia said on Sun-
day that the party will
decide on forming an
alliance with the Bhar-
tiya Janata Party
(BJP) post Punjab As-
sembly elections if the
SAD-Bahujan Samaj
Party (BSP) alliance
comes to power.
Talking to media,
Bikram Majithia said,
“My fight is for the peo-
pleof Punjab.Amritsar
East needs develop-
ment. There are poor
people who do not get
welfare schemes. It is
themostbackward.The
truth will win.”
“We will decide on
the tie-up with the BJP
afterthestateAssembly
polls,” he added.
Majithia, who had
filedhisnominationpa-
pers from two seats —
Majitha and Amritsar
East — in January
, will
be facing off with Pun-
jab Congress President
Navjot Singh Sidhu in
the Amritsar East con-
stituency
. —ANI
Will decide on tie-up with
BJP after Punjab polls, says
SAD’s Bikram Majithia
SAD leader Bikram Singh Majithia
Cong leader Rahul Gandhi with RJD’s Tejashwi Yadav. —FILE
Lambi: Former Punjab Chief Minister
and Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader
Parkash Singh Badal on Sunday took
a dig at Aam Aadmi Party (AAP),
saying the party does not have any
relation with Punjab. Speaking to the
media persons after casting his vote
with the entire Badal family, he said,
“AAP does not have any relation with
Punjab. Neither does it have any
sympathy with the state. They do not
know how many districts are there in
the state.” Slamming Chief Minister
Charanjit Singh Channi’s “UP-Bihar”
remark, Badal said that if you behave
inappropriately with the people of
other states, they would do the same
with you.
Patiala: Former Punjab Chief Min-
ister Captain Amarinder Singh said
that Congress will be wiped out from
the state in the Assembly elections.
Speaking to media, Amarinder Singh,
who left Congress and formed Punjab
Lok Congress, said, “I am certain of
winning Patiala. I think we will win
the elections...They (Congress) live
in a different world will be wiped
out in Punjab.” “Bhagwant Mann is
an anti-national and he is supporting
Arvind Kejriwal,” said the Punjab Lok
Congress founder after casting his
vote in Patiala. The former CM also
said that his party is performing well
and positive reports coming from the
ground.
AAP DOES NOT HAVE ANY
RELATION WITH PUNJAB:
PARKASH SINGH BADAL
CONGRESS WILL BE WIPED
OUT FROM PUNJAB, SAYS
CAPT AMARINDER SINGH
POLLS
PUNJAB
EVERY VOTE COUNTS
People wait in queues to cast their votes at a polling booth during the third phase of Uttar
Pradesh Assembly elections in Hathras on Sunday. —PHOTO BY PTI
RJD snubs Cong in Bihar
legislative council elections
Parkash Singh Badal
Captain Amarinder Singh
MANN CASTS VOTE, SAYS
PUNJABIS WANT CHANGE
Dhuri: After casting
his vote for the single-
phase Punjab Assembly
elections, Aam Aadmi
Party chief ministerial
candidate Bhagwant
Mann on Sunday said
that everyone wants a
change in the State
which AAP will bring if
voted to power on
March 10.
His mother, Harpal
Kaur, also participated
inpollingandexpressed
her happiness stating
that Bhagwant Mann
has already become the
Chief Minister for her.
Speaking to ANI, Har-
pal Kaur said, “By
God’s grace, everyone
loves him. For us, he
has already become the
Chief Minister. People
love him.”
“If a mother has said
this, what else does one
want...Youth, students,
everyone wants a
change here,” Bhag-
want Mann said.
Voting for 117 constit-
uencies in Punjab is un-
derway amid tight secu-
rity
.
In Punjab, over 2.14
crore voters will decide
the fate of 1,304 candi-
dates who are in the
fray from 117 constitu-
encies.
Punjab is witnessing
a multi-corner contest
this time with Con-
gress, Aam Aadmi Par-
ty (AAP), Shiromani
Akali Dal-Bahujan Sa-
maj Party alliance and
the coalition of Bharati-
ya Janata Party-former
Chief Minister Ama-
rinder Singh’s Punjab
Lok Congress party as
key players.
In the 2017 Punjab As-
sembly polls, Congress
won 77 seats in the
117-member House
whereas Shiromani
Akali Dal could win
only 18 seats. On the
other hand, AAP
emerged as the second-
largest party with 20
seats. —ANI
Muktsar: Shiro-
mani Akali Dal
chief Sukhbir
Badal along
with Parkash
Singh Badal and
Harsimrat Kaur
cast their votes
in Muktsar for
the single-phase
Punjab Assembly polls on Sunday. Earlier, Badal
said the SAD-BSP alliance will win over 80 seats
while Harsimrat said people want a stable, strong
government in Punjab. The state is witnessing a
multi-cornered contest with Congress, Aam Aadmi
Party (AAP), SAD-BSP alliance, and the coalition of
Bharatiya Janata Party-former CM Amarinder Singh’s
Punjab Lok Congress party as key players. —ANI
PARKASH SINGH BADAL, SUKHBIR AND
HARSIMRAT CAST VOTE IN MUKTSAR
Conjoined twins vote separately,
given dark glasses for secrecy
Amritsar: Conjoined
twins but two separate
votes. Amritsar-based
Sohan Singh and Mo-
han Singh who are
joined in the hip exer-
cised their franchise
for the first time in the
Punjab assembly polls
on Sunday.
The conjoined twins,
fondly known as Soh-
na-Mohna, had recent-
ly been handed over
two separate electoral
photo identity cards.
They had turned 18
last year and became
eligible to vote.
The conjoined twins
were treated as two
separate voters and
special arrangements
were made for them so
that both could main-
tain the secrecy of
their votes.
They said dark glass-
es were provided to
them when they voted.
The twins live in
Pingalwara, a charita-
ble home for the desti-
tute in the city. Born in
June 2003 in Delhi,
they were abandoned
by their parents. Later,
an orphanage in Am-
ritsar adopted them.
Deputy Commis-
sioner, Amritsar, Gur-
preet Singh Khera
reached the polling
booth where the con-
joined twins exercised
their franchise and
handed over certifi-
cates to them as first-
time voters. —PTI
New Delhi: Citing the
decline in COVID-19
cases, the Election
Commission Sunday
restored the number of
star campaigners a par-
ty can field for cam-
paigning in the ongo-
ing polls in five states.
Now, recognised na-
tional and state parties
can field a maximum of
40 star campaigners.
Other parties which are
registered but not rec-
ognised can now have
20 star campaigners.
The Commission had
in October 2020 re-
duced the number of
star campaigners for
recognised national
and state parties from
40 to 30, as large gather-
ings were witnessed
during campaigning in
Bihar assembly elec-
tions and bypolls in
several states amid the
coronavirus pandemic.
For unrecognised
registered political
parties, the maximum
number of star cam-
paigners was brought
down to 15 from 20.
“The Election Com-
mission after due de-
liberation has decided
to restore the maxi-
mum limit on number
of star campaigners.
For unrecognised reg-
istered political par-
ties, 20 star campaign-
ers are allowed,” it
said in a letter to po-
litical parties. —PTI
EC permits 40 star
campaigners as
Covid-19 cases dip
Chennai: The Tamil
Nadu State EC on Sun-
dayorderedrepollingon
February 21 in 7 polling
stations falling under
Chennai and 3 other dis-
tricts.InChennaiCorpo-
ration area, the repoll-
ing would be in a booth
(Washermenpet) under
Ward 51 and another
polling station (Odai-
kuppam-Besant Nagar)
inWard179.Two polling
stations each in Jayam-
kondam and Tiruvan-
namalai municipalities
and a booth in Tiru-
mangalam muncipality
would again go for the
polls, a TNSEC release
said. The AIADMK had
alleged violence by
DMK and demanded
repolling in some of
the wards. —PTI
Post AIADMK plaint, repolling
ordered in 7 polling stations

❍ TN URBAN LOCAL BODY POLLS 2022

INDIA
06
Mumbai/Khajuraho:
Taking cognisance of a
complaint by a Maha-
rashtra heritage expert,
the Archaeological Sur-
vey of India (ASI) is
probing allegations of
certain activities re-
ported from the vicinity
(buffer zone) of the an-
cient Khajuraho Tem-
ples — a UNESCO
World Heritage site.
The quiet develop-
ment follows objections
by the Jalgaon-based
Heritage Foundation
Director Bhujang
Bobade to the ASI Di-
rector-General, Madhya
Pradesh ASI officials,
Prime Minister Naren-
dra Modi and others.
Bobade said in his
complaint that a group
of Jain Temples in the
close proximity of the
Khajuraho Temples
have recently carried
out certain minor reno-
vations and used chem-
ical/synthetic paints.
This poses a severe
threat to the safety of
the 11-12 centuries old
Khajuraho Group of
Monuments, compris-
ing two dozen temples.
They were declared a
UNESCO World Herit-
age Site in 1986.
It was in December
2021-January 2022 that
locals were taken aback
to witness painting and
minor repairs being un-
dertaken on the equally
ancient cluster of Jain
Temples outside the
Khajuraho Group of
Monuments. —Agencies
ASI probes ‘risks’ to heritage Khajuraho temples
Mumbai: A 10-member
Indian delegation will
visit Pakistan for the
annual meeting of the
Permanent Indus Com-
mission (PIC) from
March 1-3, a senior Jal
Shakti Ministry official
said on Sunday
.
In a first since the
signing of the Indus Wa-
ter Treaty between the
two countries, three fe-
maleofficerswillalsobe
part of the Indian dele-
gation, which will be ad-
vising the Indian Com-
missioner on various
issues during the meet-
ing, the official said.
Last year, a delega-
tion led by the Pakistan
Commissioner for In-
dus Waters had visited
India for the annual
meeting.
“The annual meeting
of the Permanent Indus
Commission will be
held in Islamabad, Paki-
stan between March 1
and 3, 2022,” Pradeep
Kumar Saxena, Indian
dus Waters, told PTI.
The delegation will
comprise Saxena's ad-
visers from the Central
Water Commission, the
Central Electricity Au-
thority, the National
Hydroelectric Power
Corporation and the
Ministry of External
Affairs. The Pakistan
side will be led by Syed
Muhammad Mehar Ali
Shah, the Pakistan
dus Waters.
The Indian delega-
tion will leave for Paki-
stan through Atari bor-
der on February 28 and
will return through the
same route on March 4.
The agenda for the
meeting is being final-
ised between the two
Commissioners, offi-
cials said. Pakistan's
objections on Indian
hydroelectric projects
namely Pakal Dul (1,000
MW), Lower Kalnai (48
MW) and Kiru (624 MW)
in Chenab basin in Jam-
mu and Kashmir and
few small hydroelectric
projects in Ladakh are
likely to be on the agen-
da for discussion.
According to the trea-
ty, India has been given
the right to generate hy-
droelectricity through
run-of-the-river pro-
jects on the western riv-
ers subject to specific
criteria for design and
operation.
The pact also gives
the right to Pakistan to
raise objections to de-
signs of Indian hydroe-
lectric projects on the
western rivers. Paki-
stan has raised objec-
tions on the design of
these projects. —PTI
Munich: India's rela-
tionship with China is
rightnowgoingthrough
a very difficult phase
after Beijing violated
agreements not to bring
the military forces in
the border, External Af-
fairs Minister S Jais-
hankar has said, em-
phasising that the state
of the border will deter-
mine the state of the
relationship.
Speaking at a panel
discussion on Saturday
at the Munich Security
Conference (MSC) 2022
in Munich, Mr Jais-
hankar said that India
was having a problem
with China along the
Line of Actual Control.
For 45 years, there
was peace, there was
stable border manage-
ment, there were no
military casualties on
the border from 1975.
That changed because
we had agreements
with China not to
bring military forces
to the border and the
Chinese violated those
agreements, the Min-
ister said.
Now, the state of the
border will determine
the state of the relation-
ship. That's natural. So
obviously, the relations
with China right now
are going through a dif-
ficult phase, he added.
The eastern Ladakh
border standoff be-
tween the Indian and
Chinese militaries
erupted following a vio-
lent clash in the Pan-
gong lake areas and
both sides gradually
enhanced their deploy-
ment by rushing in tens
of thousands of sol-
diers as well as heavy
weaponry
. —PTI
Indian delegation to visit
Pak for Indus panel meet
117th ROUND OF PIC
Meeting of PIC to take place
in Pak from 1st to 3rd March
3 female officers will also be
part of the Indian delegation
According to sourc-
es, the delegation
is expected to leave
around February
28th and return on
March 4th. This
will be the 117th
meeting of the
commission led by
the commissioners
from both sides.
1 2
India’s relations with China going
through ‘very difficult phase’: EAM
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar addresses a meeting with
Indian community in Munich on Sunday. —PHOTO BY ANI
Munich: Dismissing the notion that the Quad
is an Asian NATO, EAM S Jaishankar has said
that there are interested parties who advance
such analogies and one should not slip into it,
underlining that the four-nation grouping is a
kind of 21st century way of responding to a
more diversified and dispersed world. Jaishankar
was speaking during a panel discussion on 'A
Sea Change? Regional Order and Security in the
Indo-Pacific' at the MSC 2022. Quad is a group-
ing of four countries who have common interests
a great deal of comfort, who happen to be located
at four corners of the Indo-Pacific. —PTI
'LAZY ANALOGY': S JAISHANKAR ON
COMPARISONS OF QUAD WITH NATO
Development in Arunachal
being speeded up, says PM
New Delhi: Prime Min-
ister Narendra Modi on
Sunday said the govern-
ment has done unprec-
edented work to speed
up development in
Arunachal Pradesh and
asserted that modern
infrastructure is being
built there considering
its role from the nation-
al security perspective.
In his message to the
people of Arunachal,
Modi said that it has
been his firm belief
that eastern India and
particularly the north-
east will be the engine
of the country's de-
velopment in the
21st century.
—PTI
MODI GREETS PEOPLE OF MIZORAM,
ARUNACHAL ON THEIR STATEHOOD DAY
New Delhi: PM Narendra Modi on Sunday
greeted the people of Mizoram and Arunachal
Pradesh on their statehood day. Greetings to the
people of Mizoram on their Statehood Day. India
takes great pride in the vibrant Mizo culture and
the contributions of Mizoram to national pro-
gress, PM said in a tweet. I pray for the good
health and well-being of the people
of Mizoram, he said. PM also
extended best wishes to the
people of Arunachal on their
statehood day. The people
of the state are known for
their stupendous talent and
hardworking nature. May the
state scale new heights
of development
in the times
to come, he
said. —PTI
PM Narendra Modi
New Delhi: Daily new
Covid-19 cases in India
fell below 20,000 after 51
days, taking the total
virus tally to 4,28,22,473,
while the active cases
dipped to 2,24,187, ac-
cording to the Union
Health Ministry data
updated on Sunday
.
A total of 19,968 cases
have been reported in a
day while the death toll
climbed to 5,11,903 with
673 fresh fatalities, the
data updated at 8 am
stated.
The daily Covid-19
cases have remained be-
low one lakh for 14 con-
secutive days.
India reported 16,764
corornavirus infections
on December 30 last
year. The active cases
comprise 0.52 per cent
of the total infections.
Active Covid cases decline to 20K after 51 days
New Delhi: Bharat
Biotech on Saturday
said its Covaxin will
be evaluated as a
Covid-19 vaccine
candidate in the
US. In a statement,
Ocugen Inc, Bharat
Biotech's partner in
the US and Canada
for Covaxin, noted
that the American
health regulator —
the US Food and
Drug Administra-
tion (FDA) — has
lifted its clinical
hold to evaluate the
Covid-19 vaccine
candidate BBV152,
known as Covaxin
outside US. —PTI
London: The British
government con-
firmed that people
with Covid-19 won't
be legally required
to self-isolate start-
ing next week, as
part of a plan for
“living with Covid”
that is also likely to
see testing for the
coronavirus scaled
back PM Boris
Johnson said end-
ing all of the legal
curbs brought in
to curb the spread
of the virus will let
people in the UK
“protect ourselves
without restricting
our freedoms.” —AP
US TO EVALUATE
COVAXIN, SAYS
BHARAT BIOTECH
UK TO SCRAP
ALL CURBS
NEXT WEEK
INDIAN ARMY USES DRONES TO SUPPLY
VACCINE DOSES IN JAMMU KASHMIR
New Delhi: In
a bid to ensure
that the Covid-19
vaccine reaches
members of the
armed forces
in the most far-
flung areas in
the country, the Indian Army has opted to use drones.
The Indian Army is using drones to supply the booster
dose of the Covid-19 vaccine to forward troops in
snow-bound areas in Jammu and Kashmir. —PTI
‘AN OBLIGATION, NOT A CHOICE’,
ZAIRA JUMPS INTO HIJAB RING
MAHARASHTRA: FORGERY CASE AGAINST
SAMEER WANKHEDE OVER BAR LICENCE
New Delhi: 'Dangal' actor Zaira Wasim, reacted
to the ongoing hijab controversy in Karnataka.
Former actor Zaira Wasim is the latest to use
her social media power to react on the same. On
Twitter Zaira posted a long note. It's often either
a construct of convenience or ignorance. Hijab
isn't a choice but an obligation in Islam. Like-
wise, a woman who wears the hijab is fulfilling
an obligation enjoined upon her by the God she
loves and has submitted herself to, the 21-year-
old shared.
Mumbai: An FIR was filed against IRS
officer and former zonal director of
Mumbai NCB Sameer Wankhede for
forgery in Mumbai's Thane for allegedly
obtaining a license for a hotel by willful
misrepresentation of his age, said the
Kopri police on Sunday. The FIR was
filed on Saturday night on the complaint of State Excise
Department official Shankar Gogavale who alleged that
Mr Wankhede was below 18 years of age in 1996-97
while obtaining a license for Sadguru Bar in the city.
CRUCIAL READ
SUSPECTED LeT
ULTRA ARRESTED
FILE CASE AGAINST
18 UP COPS: COURT
Jammu: A suspected
Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT)
terrorist was arrested
in Doda district of
Jammu and Kash-
mir, officials said on
Sunday. Adil Iqbal Butt,
a resident of Sazan-
Bajarni village, was
apprehended by a joint
search party of police.
Shahjahanpur: A court
in Shahjahanpur has
directed the police to
register a case against
18 policemen including
the then superinten-
dent of police chief
in an alleged fake en-
counter case in which
two persons were
killed 18 years ago.
New Delhi: The Lok
Sabha Speaker, Om Bir-
la, will lead an parlia-
mentary delegation to
the United Arab Emir-
ates from February 21
to 25 on the invitation
of the Federal National
Council of UAE.
This is the first-ever
visit under the bilateral
exchange of parliamen-
tary delegations from
either side, read the of-
ficial release of the Lok
Sabha Secretariat.
During their visit to
UAE, the delegation,
apart from meeting
their host, Saqr Gobash,
Speaker of the Federal
National Council of
UAE, will also call on
Sheikh Mohammed bin
Zayed Al Nahyan,
Crown Prince of Abu
Dhabi and Deputy Su-
preme Commander of
UAE Armed Forces and
Sheikh Mohammed bin
Rashid Al Maktoum,
Vice President and
Prime Minister of the
UAEandRulerof Dubai,
added the release. —ANI
Lok Sabha Speaker Om
Birla to lead delegation
to UAE from Feb 21 To 25
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla
—FILE PHOTO
Munich: India
and Germany
share a commit-
ment to promoting
green growth and
clean technology,
EAMSJaishankar
has said, as he
held a construc-
tive meeting with
German Minister
for Economic Co-
operation and De-
velopment Svenja
Schulze.
Jaishankar ar-
rived in Germany
on Friday to take
part in the Munich
Security Confer-
ence 2022.
A constructive
meeting with Ger-
man Minister for
Economic Coop-
eration and Devel-
opment @Sven-
jaSchulze68, Jais-
hankar tweeted.
India, Germany
committed to
promote green
growth: EAM
This is the first-
ever visit under
the bilateral
exchange of
parliamentary
delegations from
either side, read
official release

NEWS
07
CRIME ROUND-UP
PollcyclenowheadingtowardsheartlandofUP
Voters return dejected as names go missing
Gyanendra Kumar Shukla
Lucknow: The elec-
toral struggle of UP,
passing through the
western and Bun-
delkhand areas, is now
entering in the periph-
ery of the heartland of
Uttar Pradesh, i.e.
Awadh region.
In the fourth phase,
polling will be held for
60 seats in nine districts
of Rohilkhand, Terai
region, Awadh and
Bundelkhand. In the
elections held in 2017,
the BJP had won 51 of
these seats. One seat
was won by its ally
Apna Dal (S). Four were
captured by the SP,
while two seats were
won by the Congress
and two by the BSP.
BJP did a clean
sweep in four districts.
Out of which four
seats are in Pilibhit,
eight seats in Lakhim-
pur, four seats in Ban-
da and five seats in
Fatehpur. Jaikumar
Singh Jackie of BJP’s
ally Apna Dal (S) won
the election from Je-
hanabad seat of Fateh-
pur district. In this
phase, voting is also
going to be held in the
hotseats of the capital
Lucknow. The state
capital has nine assem-
bly seats, out of which
eight seats are with the
BJP. Brajesh Pathak,
Ashutosh Tandon and
Swati Singh, who won
from here in the year
2017, got a berth in the
Yogi cabinet. Defense
Minister Rajnath
Singh is an MP from
this parliamentary
seat, whereas Union
Minister Kaushal
Kishor is the MP of
Mohanlalganj parlia-
mentary seat of Luc-
know. Deputy CM Dr.
Dinesh Sharma has
been the Mayor of Luc-
know twice, while Cab-
inet Minister Mahen-
dra Singh also belongs
to this city
. Winning the
seats here associated
with central and state
governments ministers
and a deputy CM has
become a symbol of
prestige for the BJP. Af-
ter the Lakhimpur
Kheri incident, the Te-
rai area, here, had be-
come the focal point of
the farmer movement.
Ashish Mishra, the
main accused in this
case and son of Union
Minister of State for
Home Ajay Mishra
Teni, has come out on
bail. The opposition
has constantly targeted
the ruling BJP regard-
ing this well-known in-
cident. Obviously the
heat of this issue can be
felt in this phase of elec-
tions. In the Congress
bastion, Rae Bareli, the
Gandhi-Nehru family is
also facing a tough elec-
toral test.
Sumit Awasthi
Kanpur: In the third
phase of voting, voters
exercised their votes,
but due to chaos and
discrepancies in names
on the voter list, hun-
dreds of people could
not cast their votes.
Till 6 pm, the decision
of the political fate of
93 candidates in the
fray in ten assembly
seats, was sealed in the
EVM.
By the time of filing
this news, about 55 per-
cent was the voters
turnout in the city and
rural together.
In many places, even
after 6 pm, the voters
in the queue were giv-
en a chance to cast
their votes. Due to dis-
putes at dozens places,
hundreds of women
and youths at the poll-
ing booths with their
Voter ID cards and
Aadhaar in their mo-
biles had to return.
At the same time,
there were hundreds
of people whose name
was not found on the
voter list despite hav-
ing their voter ID card,
due to which they
could not cast their
vote.
Further angered by
the insistence of taking
off the veil while going
to the booth, the Mus-
lim women refused to
cast their vote which
lead to ruckus but the
matter was later
pacified.
The woman could
not be identified but
the video went viral. It
is alleged that when
asked to remove the
veil of the woman, the
latter removed the veil
from the face and got
her face matched with
the ID but despite this,
she was asked to re-
move the entire veil,
which led to an argu-
ment.
As soon as the video
went viral, the police
administration swung
into action mode. ACP
Tripurari Pandey said
that nothing like this
had happened in the
polling station and if
anything happened
outside then he was not
aware of it.
In the fourth phase, polling will be held for 60 seats in nine districts of Rohilkhand, Terai region, Awadh and Bundelkhand
—REPRESENTATIONAL IMAGE
Cong candidate and nat’l secy
Ajay Kapoor, after casting his
vote in Kidwai Nagar Assembly
Minister of State for Higher
Edu BJP candidate Neelima
Katiyar at Kalyanpur Assembly
Kakadev Kanpur Public Inter
College MP Satyadev Pachauri
after casting his vote.
Kanpur Police Commissioner
Vijay Singh Meena and District
Officer Neha Sharma
16 SEATS FOR SC
17 years later, 18 police personnel
booked for alleged fake encounter
First India Bureau
Shahjahanpur: Police
on Friday lodged an
FIR against 18 police
personnel in connec-
tion with an alleged
fake encounter of two
men 17 years ago. The
FIR has been regis-
tered at Jalalabad po-
lice station on the basis
of a court directive.
The officer added
that the case was filed
on the directives of the
sessions court of Shah-
jahanpur. The com-
plainant had moved
court after a local court
rejected his plea seek-
ing direction to regis-
ter an FIR.
Police said that as
per the record, an in-
vestigation was con-
ducted in 2014 by the
district police and later
by the UP Police Crime
Branch (CID), which
gave clean chit to the
policemen concerned.
The Shahjahanpur
court accepted the clo-
sure report filed subse-
quently. In the magiste-
rial inquiry too, the
policemen were given
clean chit, said station
house officer, Jalalabad
police station, Jai
Shankar Singh. He add-
ed that “almost all the
police officers named
in the case have re-
tired.”
According to sourc-
es, two persons, identi-
fied only as Prahlad
and Dhanpal, were
gunned down in an al-
leged encounter at Cha-
chuapur village on Oc-
tober 3, 2004.
The police declared
them to be members of
a dacoity gang.
Prahlad‘s brother
Ram Kirti, who is the
complainant in the
case, has denied the po-
lice claim and alleged
that they (police) had
gunned down innocent
persons.
Later, the police
planted guns and car-
tridges to make it ap-
pear that they were
dreaded dacoits, he al-
leged in his complaint.
—REPRESENTATIONAL IMAGE
CASE TRANSFERRED TO THE CRIME
BRANCH OF THE DISTRICT POLICE
The then Superintendent of Police, Additional
Superintendent of Police, three circle officers and
in-charges of 10 police stations are among the 18
accused. Superintendent of Police, Shahjahanpur, S
Anand, said the investigation of the case has been
transferred to the crime branch of the district police.
MISCREANTS OPEN FIRE
ON FATHER-SON DUO
ALLD HC STAYS DEMOLITION OF
CLINIC, RESTAURANT BY CIVIC BODY
PROPERTY DEALER SHOT IN BARABANKI
MINOR GIRL RAPED IN BULANDSHAHAR
Barabanki: A property dealer was shot in Fatehabad area.
Police sources said Amit Kumar (36) was in the property
business and it was reported that some unidentified as-
sailants shot at him near a temple in the Fatehabad area.
He was rushed to the district hospital from where he was
referred to Lucknow trauma centre. Suresh Pandey, Kot-
wali in-charge said that initial investigations revealed that
land dispute could be the reason behind the attack.
Bulandshahr: A 15-year-old girl was raped in the Khurja
area when she was returning home late on Saturday. Police
sources said family members of a village under the Kotwali
area filed a complaint that the perpetrator of the same vil-
lage dragged a 15-year-old girl to a secluded area and raped
her when she was returning home. Police have registered a
case against Faizan on the complaint of the father of the vic-
tim and launched a manhunt to nab the accused. In another
incident in the same area, police have arrested 3 accused
for gang-raping a girl and making a video of the crime.
Meerut: Miscre-
ants beat family
members of traders
in the Kashiram
colony under the
Kharkhauda area
when they refused
to pay extortion
money. When victims
informed police, they opened fire on fam-
ily members in which the trader and his
son were severely injured. Police sources
said Ram Niwas Gupta, a resident of
the Kashiram colony was attacked by a
gang of miscreants who were demanding
extortion money from him. When Ram
Niwas threatened to complain about the
incident to the police, the accused along
with other perpetrators opened fire on
his family members in which Ram Niwas
and his son Nikki were severely injured.
The injured were rushed to the district
hospital where the condition of Nikki was
stated to be critical. Police have regis-
tered the case and the investigation is
underway.
Prayagraj: In an urgent
hearing, on Sunday, the
Allahabad High court
stayed the demolition of
a homeopathic clinic and
restaurant, till the next
date of hearing, which
was going to be demol-
ished by the Prayagraj
Development Authority
while removing all the
bottlenecks leading to
various colonies on Kan-
pur road and construction
of a dedicated corridor for
the prayagraj airport. The
court had also directed
authorities concerned
to show in what man-
ner the encroachment
has been made by the
petitioners which require
demolition by the next
date of hearing which is
fixed as February 24. The
bench comprising justice
Pritinker Diwaker and
justice Ashutosh Srivas-
tava passed the order on
a petition filed by Rakesh
Gupta and two others.
Petitioners were in pos-
session of the plot and
homeopathy clinic and
restaurant for the last 100
years and their property
was also allotted a house
number and was also
assessed for the taxes
by the Nagar Nigam. Ac-
cording to the petitioner,
the high court in public
interest litigation filed in
2019 directed for removal
of all the encroachments
leading to various colo-
nies on Kanpur Road and
in the way of a proposed
dedicated corridor for the
Prayagraj Airport.
—REPRESENTATIONAL
IMAGE
Station in-charge brings food to fellow cops during polls
First India Bureau
Hathras: Hathras went
to the polls in the third
phaseonSunday
.During
this, thousands of police
personnelweredeployed
ondutytomaintainsecu-
rity and conduct peace-
ful polling. In such a sit-
uation, Sasni police sta-
tion in-charge Satendra
Singh Raghav came for-
wardtoarrangefoodand
water for the policemen
on duty since morning.
The service and the
noble step taken by the
Sasni police station in-
charge Satendra Singh
Raghav for their col-
leagues are being appre-
ciated everywhere. Vot-
ing was also held in Ha-
thras on the 20th. Since
morning there was en-
thusiasm among the
people to cast their vote.
During this, thousands
of policemen have been
deployed on duty to con-
duct the elections in a
peaceful manner and to
maintain the security
system. Sasni police sta-
tion in charge Satendra
Singh Raghav came
from among the police-
men to ensure that the
security personnel on
duty do not face any
problem and get to eat
clean and healthy food.
Raghav said that the po-
licemen on duty contin-
ue to do duty from
morning till evening
without any complaint
an cannot leave their
place and go anywhere.
In such a situation, they
have to work hungry
thirstyforthewholeday
.
That’s why he had
thought that at least this
time during the elec-
tions, no police person-
nel posted in his area
will face any problem
with food and water.
Thali served to fellow cops
Satendra Singh Raghav with his fellow police personnel.
BJP youth wing
leader shot
dead in Hathras
First India Bureau
Hathras: Bharatiya
Janta Party Yuva Mor-
cha (BJYM) district
general secretary was
shot at his residence in
Gausganj colony under
Sikandaramau town
here. Police sources
said that Krishna Ya-
dav, general secretary
BJMU was shot dead at
his residence was
rushed to hospital
where he succumbed to
injuries. Police said fur-
ther investigations are
underway
.
SHOW OF STRENGTH
Samajwadi Party candidate from Lucknow North, Pooja Shukla during a bike rally as
part of her campaign, in Lucknow on Sunday. —PHOTO BY ANI

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2NDFRONT
Family keeps us rooted, like
branches we spread out reaching to
the sky, but remain one at the roots.
—Jagdeesh Chandra, CEO Editor-in-Chief, First India
First India Bureau
Lucknow: On the sec-
ond day of two-day cam-
paigning in Raibareli,
the AICC general secre-
tary Priyanka Gandhi
on Sunday reached out
to the people to vote for
the party
.
She was accompa-
nied by the Chhatis-
garh CM Bhupesh Ba-
ghel at a rally in
Bachrawan. Raibareli
is Lok Sabha constitu-
ency of AICC president
Sonia Gandhi.
Addressing the rally
Priyanka Gandhi said
the BJP had suffered
major reserves during
the last three phases
and the people were de-
termined to ensure the
defeat of the BJP in the
state. Referring to
farmers problems, Pri-
yanka Gandhi said that
around 700 farmers
were killed during year-
long agitation on Delhi
and the BJP govt re-
mained mute spectator
to their sufferings. She
said the Yogi govt was
extremely insensitive
to the farmers issues.
Calling upon the peo-
ple to be careful in their
voting in Rai Bareli
which goes to poll to on
Feb 23 in fourth phase,
Priyanka tried to con-
nect the people with late
Indira Gandhi and late
Rajiv Gandhi who rep-
resented Rai Bareli and
adjoining Amethi con-
stituencies respectively
for a long time. She said
Gandhi-Nehru family
was always concerned
with the problems of
farmers and poor peo-
ple. She said the BJP
was simply concerned
with religion and castes
to contest the elections.
Gandhi said while the
govt had failed to en-
sure the sugarcane dues
of farmers, the NDA
govt was only interested
in selling the public sec-
tor organization and
purchasing aero plane
for the Modi. —ANI
First India Bureau
Etawah: Samajwadi Par-
ty chief Akhilesh Ya-
davonSundayslammed
the BJP govt over the
deteriorating law and
order situation in UP.
After casting his vote at
a polling booth in Sai-
fai, the SP chief, citing
the incident where a
woman constable was
kidnapped and found
dead in the drain, al-
leged that women were
most unsafe in UP.
“A businessman’s
son was kidnapped in
Agra and killed days
later. Was the UP CM
sleeping? Will he be
able to fix responsibili-
ty and punish the cul-
prit? He could not even
join the expressway in
Gorakhpur. Baba CM
does not want to do or
see any good,” said
Akhilesh, targetting
Yogi Adityanath. Ya-
dav further slammed
Yogi for sharing fake
pictures for showing
development in the
state. ”The strictest
action should be taken
against any terrorist.
Making allegations
by BJP before
elections, BJP runs
on strategy.
Baba Chief Minister
had come to Etawah, he
had shown a fake pic-
ture. When the develop-
ment was to show in
UP, who brought it by
stealing China’s pho-
to,” the SP chief said
after voting in Jaswant-
nagar. ”BJP going to be
eliminated. Farmers of
Uttar Pradesh won’t
forgive them. We have
hit a century in the
first two phases and
even in this phase SP
and alliance would be
ahead of everyone
else,” said Yadav.
—ANI
First India Bureau
Etawah: Samajwadi
Party patriarch Mu-
Sunday casts his vote
in Jaswantnagar,
Saifai during the third
phase of the assembly
elections.
The SP leader was
seen arriving at the
polling booth in a
wheelchair owing to
his poor health.
Among the key con-
stituencies where poll-
ing began today in-
clude Karhal where
former chief minister
and Samajwadi Party
chief Akhilesh Yadav
is contesting his maid-
en Assembly election.
The BJP has pitted
Union Minister of
State in the Ministry of
Law and Justice Satya
Pal Singh Baghel
against Akhilesh Ya-
dav. Voting for the third
phase of Assembly
elections in Uttar
Pradesh was held on
Sunday
. —ANI
First India Bureau
New Delhi: As the third
phase of polling in UP
was underway
, Bahujan
Samaj Party chief May-
awati urged the people
to vote out the ruling
party for giving false
promises of providing
them employment.
In a series of Tweets,
BSP chief said that to
get rid of all kinds of
false promises of the
BJP, it is necessary that
the ruling party should
be changed. In another
tweet, she said, “ruling
party’s wrong policies
which made the poor
people more poorer,
should not be trusted
anymore and that BSP
should be trusted.”
Mayawati added, “the
biggest failure of the
BJP is not being able to
provide employment to
the people In fact, the
opportunities that were
there were also
snatched away”. —ANI
First India Bureau
Etawah: Pragatisheel
Samajwadi Party (Lo-
hia) Shivpal Singh Ya-
dav and the younger
brother of Samajwadi
Party (SP) patron Mu-
Sunday that the Sama-
jwadi Party-led alli-
ance will win over 300
seats in election. “I am
confident we will wit-
ness big victory in this
election.
I think that our alli-
ance (Pragatisheel Sa-
majwadi Party (Lohia)
Samajwadi Party)
will get around 300
seats,” Shivpal Singh
Yadav said. The PSP
leader added that his
nephew Akhilesh Ya-
dav will be sworn in as
chief minister of the
state. He said that the
Samajwadi Party and
its allies will form a
government with an
overwhelming majori-
ty. Yadav’s party,
Pragatisheel Sama-
jwadi Party (PSP) is
an ally of the Sama-
jwadi Party in the
elections. —ANI
Priyanka Gandhi’s day two of hectic campaigning in Rae Bareli
VOTING SEASON

PGV also held
roadshow in
Jagatpur, Babu
Ganj, Unchahar,
Gadaganj, Gaur,
and Maharajganj
before moving
on to Unnao to
campaign
ICC General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi while waving hands
during campaign for elections in Raebareli on Sunday.
MAYAWATI’S
‘NO JOBS’
ATTACK ON
BJP
INSISTENT
Samajwadi Party candidate from Sarojini Nagar, Prof Abhishek Mishra, submitted another
complaint on Sunday to the Chief Electoral Officer to demand the removal of IG, Lucknow
Range, Laxmi Singh, who is the wife of Mishra’s rival in the Sarojini Nagar seat, BJP’s
Rajeshwar Singh.
UP ELECTION 2022
AKHILESH YADAV: BJP
GOING TO BE ELIMINATED
Samajwadi Party National President Akhilesh Yadav along with Dimple Yadav, Shivpal Singh Yadav,
Ramgopal Yadav and other family members cast there vote in Saifai on Sunday .
Mulayam Singh blesses his younger brother Shivpal whose seat
Jaswant Nagar went to polls on Sunday.
‘‘Farmers of Uttar
Pradesh won’t
forgive them’’,
said Yadav.
‘‘BABA BULLDOZER’ WILL BE GONE,
JUST LIKE FARM LAWS WITHDRAWN’
After Amid the ongoing polling for the third phase
of the UP assembly polls, Samajwadi Party chief
Akhilesh Yadav took a jibe at incumbent CM Yogi on
Saturday by calling him “Baba Bulldozer” and said
that “Baba” will lose
election just like
contentious farm
laws were with-
drawn. “BJP leaders
are now learning
abcd, I want to tell
them, “agar Kaka
chale gaye toh Baba
bhi chale jaenge” (if
black farm laws were taken back, CM Yogi will also
go back),” said Yadav while addressing a rally in
Rudauli of Ayodhya district. Akhilesh further said,
“He (Yogi Adityanath) changed the name of every-
thing. Till now we were calling him “Baba CM” but
today one of the reputed English newspapers called
him “Baba Bulldozer”. I have not kept this name,
this name was kept by a reputed English newspaper.
“Bulldozer” is a reference to the action taken by the
Yogi govt to vacate illegally occupied land. —ANI
Mulayam comes in wheelchair to
vote for brother Shivpal Yadav
SP WILL WIN
OVER 300
SEATS:
SHIVPAL
SP WILL REACH MAJORITY MARK BY
4TH PHASE, CLAIMS RAM GOPAL YADAV
First India Bureau
Etawah: Samajwadi
Party MP Ram Gopal
Yadav on Sunday cast
his vote in Etawah’s
Jaswant Nagar in the
third phase of As-
sembly polls in UP
and claimed that the
party will cross 150
mark at the end of 3
phase of polls.
Speaking to the re-
porters after casting
his vote, Yadav said,
“We will attain the
majority number by
the fourth phase of
Assembly elections.
Seats won in the re-
maining phases of
the election will be
surplus. We are win-
ning more than 100
seats in the first two
phases of the polls.
We will cross 150 af-
ter the third phase.”
The SP leader further
said that party chief
Akhilesh Yadav who
is contesting from
Karhal that votes to-
day, will win a
one-sided election in
the constituency
.
Taking a dig at
Yogi, Yadav said that
Yogi knows that he is
getting only 20 per
cent votes while the
Samajwadi Party is
getting 80 per cent
votes. Time has come
to end the rule of
Yogi Adityanath,” he
said. —ANI
‘PEOPLE WILL VOTE THOSE
WHO PROVIDE FACILITIES’
MYTH OF ‘YADAVLAND’
WILL BREAK: BAGHEL
Etawah: Samajwadi Party MP
Tej Pratap Yadav on Sunday said
that the people of UP will vote for
those who provide basic ameni-
ties and employ-
ment and work.
Yadav, who is the
younger brother
of former CM
Akhilesh Yadav,
said, “People of
this state will vote
for those who
provide them basic amenities,
employment and work for the
welfare of farmers.” He further
said, “Akhilesh Yadav, who is
contesting from Karhal seat which
comes under Mainpuri district,
will win the election with a huge
margin. Etawah and Mainpuri
districts are SP’s stronghold and
we will retain our fort.” —ANI
Mainpuri: BJP leader SP Singh
Baghel, who is contesting against
Akhilesh Yadav from Karhal seat
in Mainpuri, said that the myth of
Mainpuri being a
‘Yadavland’ will
break during the
assembly polls
in the state. He
was in Mainpuri
offering prayers
at a temple amid
the third phase of
elections in the state. “The myth
of Mainpuri being a ‘Yadavland’
will definitely break,” said Baghel.
Baghel said that referring to
Mainpuri as a ‘Yadavland’ is disre-
spectful towards communities of
Brahmins, Rathores, Darji, Sunnar,
Diwakars etc. With a strong Yadav
population, Karhal has for 3 dec-
ades been an SP fortress. —ANI
Mulayam Singh arrived on
wheelchair to cast his vote
Ram Gopal Yadav
SP Singh Baghel
Tej Pratap Yadav
PHOTOS BY SUMIT KUMAR

elebrating the tran-
sition of grand wed-
dings to more inti-
mate nuptials, the
Jaipur Couture
Show 2022 revisits
the traditional tech-
niques synonymous with the
vision to refashion and recre-
ate veritable pieces of art
with a new commitment to
drapes silhouettes which
are luxurious yet light. Strad-
dling the present and tradi-
tion rooted in Indian heri-
tage, each designer’s cre-
ation exemplifies the guiding
philosophy—“all that we
were and more”, combining
historical opulence with
modern chic.
The Pink City’s fashion and
beauty extravaganza, ‘Jaipur
Couture Show,’ is back for its
tenth season. The three-day
fashion festival is set to take
place on April 6, 7 and 8 at The
Palace, Jaipur. The event will
bring together a medley of
fashion designers showcasing
their vivacious and latest col-
lections. The poster unveiling
ceremony was held at the U
Club on Saturday
.
Gaurav Gaur, director Elite
Miss Rajasthan along with
various dignitaries like pa-
tron JD Maheshwari, Nakul
Vijay, Ankur Jain, Virendra
Singh, Yasheel Pandel, Ajit
Soni and supermodels
Akanskha Bhalla, Astha
Khandelwal, Vasudha Tiwari,
Muskaan Kamdar among oth-
ers graced the occasion.
Rajasthan, according to
Gaurav Gaur, is evolving
quite quickly in the realm of
fashion today. He said, “For
the past ten years, the Jaipur
Couture Show has
served as a forum
for fashion,
jewellery
, and
accessories
designers,
as well as
models. This
year, various
fresh and well-
known designers
will also display their
craftsmanship and crafts-
manship and we’re beyond
excited to hold this.”
At the same time, like in
previous years, a gathering
of Bollywood and televi-
sion superstars will be vis-
ible on the Couture show’s
stage. Prince Narula and
Yuvika Chaudhary of Road-
ies and Bigg Boss fame will
spend four months on the
ramp. Shiney Ahuja, of
Metro, Bhool Bhuliya, and
Welcome Back fame, will
also be seen doing a run-
way walk in designer
clothes. The three-day
event will have 16 sequenc-
es with 4-5 celebs serving as
show stoppers. Khizar Hus-
sain and Karan Wig, two ac-
claimed artists, will choreo-
graph the show.
The season will definitely
provide an artistic sympho-
ny of fine craftsmanship and
finesse to cherish one’s spe-
cial moments.
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JAIPUR COUTURE SHOW 2022!
The grand poster launch ceremony of Jaipur Couture
Show Season 10 was held at U-Club, Jaipur on
Saturday. The star-studded event will be held from
April 6 to 8 at The Palace, Jaipur!
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Jagdeesh Chandra and Aarna Vishvkarma Jagdeesh Chandra and Gaurav Gaur
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Scintillating
Scintillating Evening!
Evening!
Queen of Cosmos India, held on Hotel
Fairmont on Friday is still grabbing all
the attention. City First brings to you
some more glimpses of the glamorous
evening. Brand Ambassador Rishee
Miglani and Show Director
Lokesh Sharma along with
the First India team paid
immense gratitude to
the team including
the sponsors and
partners in the Queen
of Cosmos International
Beauty Pageant!
Jagdeesh Chandra with Manju Sharma and Rishee Miglani
Jagdeesh Chandra and the First India family with the winners. (L-R) Mitali Dusad, Anita Hada, Kavita Chauhan, Angela Kumar, Sanskriti Sharma, Aarna Vishvkarna, Sanskriti Negi, Khushi Verma, Ashok Singh and Shaan
Mandakini, Usha Punia, Vishaal Mathur, Meera Kataria and Hemant ambwani
Amisha and Bharat Anshuman Bhomia and Dhirendra Raghav Deepak and Anjali Gupta Shalini and Farha Ansari
Usha Punia, Meera Kataria and Rimmi Shekhawat
Richa and Vishal Jhalani
Parul amd Dushyant Beel
Aaysha and Pradeep Rohit, Ankit, Shivani and Payal Ayush, Purva and Piyush Ayan and Simran Pankaj and Reema Kothari
Indu, Gunjan, Rajat Sharma and Vineet Tusharika, Jagdeep, Vishaal and Gagan Gaurav and Swaroop Bhati
Vinay, Maria, Parul, Minal, Nupur, Dushyant and Rajiv Anjula and Mohit Falod with Arti Dubey, Poonam Madan and Dr Bhavna
Anjana and Kewal Miglani with
Akansha and Preeti Bakshi
Pooja
Karwasra,
Shruti
Pareek,
Bahaar,
Kalpana
Yadav,
Priya
Vinod
Singh,
Muskan
Moolchandani,
Nivedita
Dhariwal,
Dayana
Jayanath
and
Tripti
Arora
—PHOTOS
BY
SANTOSH
SHARMA

MUKESH
KIRADOO
Nikhil Anand and Timsy Sikri. Also seen are Ashok Singh and Mitali Dusad

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