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First India Bureau
L u c k n o w : For mer
Bharatiya Janata Party
(BJP) MLA Radha Mo-
han Das Aggarwal, who
left his Gorakhpur Ur-
ban constituency for
Yogi Adityanath to con-
test in the recent As-
sembly polls, was nomi-
nated for the Rajya
Sabha elections as the
party named six candi-
dates from Uttar
Pradesh on Sunday
.
Aggarwal had repre-
sented Gorakhpur Ur-
ban in the Uttar
Pradesh Assembly
since 2002, but made
way for Chief Minister
Adityanath in the re-
cent polls.
The BJP has also
fielded former State
unit chief Laxmikant
Vajpayee and sitting
Rajya Sabha MP Suren-
dra Singh Nagar.
Bauburam Nishad,
who is currently the
chairman of the U.P.
Pichhrha Varg Vitt Vi-
kas Nigam (U.P. Back-
ward Classes Finance
and Development Cor-
poration), has also been
given a ticket by the
party
. The BJP gave
tickets to two women
—Darshana Singh and
Sangeeta Yadav — from
the state. Singh is a for-
mer state head of the
party’s women wing,
while Yadav is a former
party MLA from Chau-
ri Chaura Assembly
constituency in Gora-
khpur. In the recently
concluded assembly
elections in Uttar
Pradesh, the BJP won
255 seats.
Ex-MLA who
vacated Gorkhpur
seat for Yogi
among the chosen
First India Bureau
Lucknow: Chief
Minister Yogi Adity-
anath on Sunday
asked party workers
to start preparing the
“ground” for the 2024
Lok Sabha elections,
with the target of
winning 75 out of the
80 seats in the state.
“We have to pre-
pare the ‘ground’ for
the 2024 Lok Sabha
elections from now
only,” the chief min-
ister said Turn to P2
YOGI SETS
TARGET OF
75 LS SEATS
Laxmikant Bajpai,
Ex UP president, old
RSS organisation
hand, ex-MLA
Radhamohan Das
Agarwal, Ex-multiple-time
MLA Gorakhpur,vacated
seat forYogi in 2022
Surendra Singh
Nagar, Ex SP RS MP,
Gurjar who flipped
sides to BJP
Baburam Nishad,
Ex UP VP, Minister of
State, President of OBC
finance/development
Darshana Singh,
National vice-president
BJP Mahila wing
Sangeeta Yadav Maurya,
Ex MLA Chauri Chaura,
national secretary BJP
Mahila wing
PROFILE
SNAPSHOTS
UPPER HAND IN UPPER HOUSE
BJP ANNOUNCES 6 CANDIDATES FOR RS FROM UP
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BJP AND CONGRESS
RELEASES LIST OF
CANDIDATES FOR
ELECTIONS TO RS
New Delhi: The BJP had announced names of its 16 candidates including
Nirmala Sitharaman Piyush Goyal and Congress had announced names
of its 10 candidates including P Chidambaram Jairam Ramesh for up-
coming Rajya Sabha elections on Sunday evening. P5
New Delhi: The government has withdrawn a statement “with immediate
effect” that asked people not to share photocopies of Aadhaar over misuse
risks. It withdrew the statement “in view of the possibility of the misinterpre-
tation of the press release”, the government said on Sunday.
CENTRE WITHDRAWS
AADHAAR PHOTO
COPY MISUSE
WARNING
Nepal plane with 22 passengers,
including 4 Indians, crashes near river
New Delhi: A Tara Air
airplane carrying 19
passengers, including
four Indians, from Ne-
pal’s Pokhara to Jom-
som in Mustang district
adjoining Tibet that
had crashed near Lete
hill area Sunday has
been found.
“Tara Air plane
crashed at the mouth of
the Lamche river under
the landslide of Mana-
pathi Himal. Nepal
Army is moving to-
wards site from ground
and air route,” Nepal
Army spokesperson.
The 9N-AET Twin Otter plane was also carrying 2
Germans and 13 Nepalis along with 3 crew members,
the plane had lost its contact at 10:30 am on Sunday
A team of climbers prepare to leave for rescue operations from
Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu, Nepal on Sunday.
JP NADDA LAUDS PM MODI FOR NOT
DISCUSSING POLITICS IN MANN KI BAAT
THAKUR LISTENS TO MANN KI BAAT
OPERATIONS
HALTED FOR
TODAY
Lauding the positive attitude of PM Modi, BJP chief JP
Nadda on Sunday said that PM, during the 89 episodes
of ‘Mann Ki Baat’ has never
discussed politics. While
addressing party workers in
Gurugram, he said that BJP
workers at around 10.40 lakh
booths in more than 5.5 lakh
locations tune in to PM’s ‘Mann Ki Baat’ at the same
time. “This was the 89th time... at all times, PM Modi
never discussed politics,” he added.
Union Minister Anurag Thakur listened to Prime Minis-
ter Narendra Modi’s 89th edition of radio programme
‘Mann Ki Baat’ from Ahmedabad on Sunday.
The Civil Aviation Author-
ity of Nepal said that it
has traced the potential
location of the aircraft in
Khaibang based on an
emergency locator trans-
mitter. However, due to
bad weather, the search
operations have been
halted for the day.
#MANNKIBAAT
PM:Startupscontinuedto
workevenduringCovid-19
New Delhi (ANI): Not-
ing that the number of
unicorns in India has
reached the 100-mark
this month, PM Naren-
dra Modi in his 89th
episode of monthly ra-
dio broadcast ‘Mann Ki
Baat’ on Sunday said
that even in the phase
of the Covid pandemic,
Indian startups have
been creating wealth
and value with entre-
preneurs emerging
from smaller cities and
towns as well.
‘TREASURE HOUSE
OF LANGUAGES’
Modi said, “Our coun-
try is a rich treasure
house of many languag-
es, scripts and dialects.
Varied attire, cuisine
and culture in different
regions is our hallmark.
CRUCIAL READ
PAK DELEGATION IN INDIA, TALKS
ON WATER DISPUTE TODAY
New Delhi: A five-member delegation from Pakistan
reached India for talks on the water dispute between the
two nations. Pakistani delegation is scheduled to have
meetings in New Delhi on Monday and Tuesday. “There
will be talks on the sharing of flood forecast data while
PCJW annual report will also be discussed during the
negotiations,” said Syed Muhammad Mehr Ali Shah.
US IS IND’S BIGGEST
TRADING PARTNER,
SURPASSES CHINA
INDIA, B’DESH TRAIN
SERVICES RESUME
AFTER TWO YEARS
New Delhi: The USA sur-
passed China to become
India’s top trading partner
in 2021-22, reflecting
strengthening economic
ties between 2 countries.
As per data, in 2021-22,
the bilateral trade between
the US and India stood at
$119.42 billion as against
$80.51 billion in 2020-21.
Dhaka: Passenger train
services –Maitree Express
and Bandhan Express–
between Bangladesh
and India resumed on
Sunday, two years after
it was paused due to the
outbreak of coronavirus.
Maitree Express train
between Dhaka Kolkata
resumed on Sunday.
8YEARSOFMODIGOVT: IANS-CVOTERSURVEY
RAJNATH TOPS JAISHANKAR AT NO. 4 SITHA AT NO. 7
GADKARI AT NO. 2 PERFORMING SMRITI LESS POPULAR GOYAL
SHAH TOP FAVOURITE POPULAR THAKUR VAISHNAW AT NO. 12
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh
ranks first in both — NDA vot-
ers with 8.36 score Opposi-
tion voters with 7.03 score
External Affairs Minister S
Jaishankar is ranked 4th on
both lists, he seemed to be ac-
tive minister for both groups
Finance Minister Nirmala Si-
tharaman is not among the top
performing ministers. Sithara-
man ranked at number 7
Road Transport Minister Nitin
Gadkari has a score of 8.07
and 6.81 among NDA and Opp
voters and is ranked second
WCD Minister Smriti Irani has
scored high amongst Dalits,
landless labourers. Irani is
among the top 5 ministers
Commerce Minister Piyush
Goyal, who was seen as less
popular, stands in the 8th
position of the Cabinet
Home Minister Amit Shah
seems to be very popular
amongst NDA voters, but not
so for those who back Oppn.
Shah is 3rd with 7.79 score
Union Sports Minister Anurag
Thakur ranks 6th with a score
of 6.75. Among the opposition
voters, Thakur ranked fourth
with a 6.27 score
Railways Minister Ashwini
Vaishnaw has grabbed a score
of 6.82 out of 10, placing him
on the 12th spot, while the op-
position voters gave 5.96
MOOSEWALA
SHOTDEAD
l Security of Congress leader Punjabi
singer was withdrawn 2 days back
l BJP leader Manjinder Singh Sirsa
blamed Kejriwal and Mann for
Moosewala’s killing
CANADA-BASED GANGSTER,
LAWRENCE DID IT: POLICE
Moni Sharma
Chandigarh: Shub-
deep Singh Sidhu
Moose Wala, Punjabi
singer and Congress
leader, was shot dead
near Mansa on Sun-
day. The 27-year-old
was reportedly shot
at at least 10 times
near a temple in vil-
lage Jhawahar Ke.
This comes a day af-
ter the security cover
of Moose Wala was
withdrawn. He was
among the Punjab
politicians who lost
their security cover
as part of the Mann
government’s exer-
cise to crack down on
VIP culture. After
Moose Wala’s death,
people could be seen
shouting slogans
against Punjab govt
at Mansa hospital.
SIDHU MOOSE
WALA GOT
THREATS FROM
GANGSTERS,
REVEALS MIKA
CONDOLENCES
POUR IN FOR CONG
LEADER SIDHU
THE INCIDENT
Singer Mika Singh dis-
closed that Sidhu Moose
Wala received numerous
threats
from gang-
sters. Mika
Singh’s
revelation
came after
Punjabi singer Sidhu
Moose Wala was shot
dead this evening. “Four
years ago he used to
talk about threats from
gangsters,” Mika Singh
said, adding, “Some
gangsters might have
tried to extort money
from him this time.”
BJP leader Manjinder
Singh Sirsa said Moose-
wala’s death is the result
of the “nasty” politics
of AAP leader Arvind
Kejriwal and Bhagwant
Mann. Condoling the
Punjabi singer’s death,
Punjab CM Bhagwant
Mann, AAP Supremo
Arvind Kejriwal, Con-
gress leader Rahul Gan-
dhi, Union Minister Anu-
rag Thakur, Congress
leader Randeep Singh
Surjewala, Sunil Jakhar,
Capt Amarinder, Jal
Shakti Minister Gajendra
Singh Shekhawat and
others. Meanwhile, Ke-
jriwal appealed for peace
after Punjabi singer and
Congress member Sidhu
was gunned down.
l Born on June 17, 1993, Moose Wala had a fan
following running into millions popular for rap
l Moose Wala held a degree in electrical engi-
neering. He had learned music during his col-
lege days and had later moved to Canada
l He was booked under Arms Act and Disaster
Management Act in Barnala after photographs
showing him firing an AK-47 rifle at a firing
range during lockdown appeared on social media
l He had contested Assembly polls on a Con-
gress ticket from Mansa. He was defeated by
AAP’s Dr Vijay with a margin of 63,323 votes
Who was Sidhu Moose Wala?
l Moose Wala and two of
his friends were driving to
village Jawahar Ke in Pb
l His SUV was sprayed
with shots at least 10
times near a temple
l He was found slumped
on his seat and bleeding
heavily after the incident
l Local people rushed to
Sidhu to Mansa hospital
where doctors declared
him brought dead Moosewala’s mother at Mansa Hospital where he was brought dead.
Gujarat Titans Hardik Pandya and Shubman Gill during
the Indian Premier League 2022 Final match between
Gujarat Titans and Rajasthan Royals, at Narendra Modi
Stadium, in Ahmedabad on Sunday.
GUJARAT TITANS WIN
IPL IN MAIDEN SEASON

UTTAR PRADESH
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First India Bureau
Lucknow:Bharatiya
Janata Party cadres in
Uttar Pradesh are now
a weary lot. They have
been working back-to-
back for elections since
the past one decade and
the rewards are appar-
ently not coming their
way
.
“We began working
in 2013 for the Lok Sab-
ha elections in 2014 and
then plunged into prep-
arations for the 2017 as-
sembly elections. With-
out waiting for any
break, we started pre-
paring for the 2019 Lok
Sabha elections. The
lockdown gave us a
small break but the par-
ty started virtual inter-
actions and we were
kept busy
.
Then came the legis-
lative council polls and
then the panchayat
polls and the 2022 as-
sembly elections. Now
we are busy with the
Lok Sabha by-polls and
the upcoming legisla-
tive council and RS
polls next month,” said
a party worker. What is
making the party work-
ers restive is that they
have not been given
suitable rewards by the
party leaders. “When
elections come, it is the
turncoats and outsiders
who walk away with
tickets and the commit-
ted worker is left twid-
dling his thumbs and
waiting to begin work
again,” said another
party worker from
Jaunpur who has been
denied a ticket twice.
BJP workers also
complain that the new
entrants into the party
when they become min-
isters - do not pay any
attention to the cadres.
‘‘Many of them do
not even recognise us,
leave alone interact
with us. We are not even
given the privilege of
getting any work done
in our own government
while these turncoats
and allies walk away
with all the goodies,”
said another party
worker from Agra. The
party workers want
that they should also
have a say in the govt
because it is their toil
that has brought the
party to power.
Too much work, too few rewards: BJP cadres
FIGHT FOR RIGHTS
BJP supporters gather at Sampurnanand Sanskrit University
ground to listen to Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s address for
the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections, in Varanasi.
NEGLECTED
‘WELFARESCHEMESBROUGHTUSBACKTOPOWER’
First India Bureau
Lucknow: CM Yogi Ad-
ityanath said on Sun-
day that the proper and
honest implementation
of the central and state
government’s schemes
brought changes in the
lives of the people of
the state and it was this
that enabled the return
of the BJP in power.
Addressing the BJP
executive meet, Yogi
said, “Before 2014 in UP,
the streets of villages
were not walkable.
There used to be piles
of garbage. After ‘Swa-
chh Bharat’, today vil-
lages are now clean.
Now you can walk in
villages, there is no
problem. On one hand,
it changed the image of
the village and on the
other hand, it protected
women’s dignity
.
It also saved children
from encephalitis.” Re-
calling Central govern-
ment schemes, CM Yogi
said that through the
Central and state govt
schemes, the people of
UP sensed the working
of the double engine.
“And the result of this
was that the people of
UP rejected all the mis-
information by the op-
position and voted to
bring BJP back to UP,”
he said.
Yogi said that for the
first time the BJP has a
majority in the state
legislative assembly
and the council.
He also announced
that the new govern-
ment is committed to
fulfilling the resolu-
tions that they had
promised before the
polls and for that bud-
getary allocations were
already made. He said,
“The Swachh Bharat
Abhiyan gave the child
the right to life. And all
of this became possible
because of the Prime
Minister’s vision.
There used to be 1,500
to 2,000 deaths due to
encephalitis in the past
and now we have re-
duced deaths by 95 per
cent in our five years
after the honest imple-
mentation of Swachh
Bharat in UP.”
AtBJPexecutivemeet,YogilaudedtheschemesoftheCentralgovtandsaidthattheyhavebroughtchangesinthelivesofpeople
CM Yogi with Deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya and Brajesh Pathak, BJP State chief Swatantra Dev Singh and other dignitaries at the BJP State Working Committee meeting at Atal Bihari
Vajpayee Convention Centre in Lucknow on Sunday. —PHOTOS BY ASHOK DUTTA
WORK FOR PEOPLE
First India Bureau
Lucknow: Owing to
the sustained efforts
of the Yogi Aditya-
nath govt in keeping
the pace of the
Covid-19 vaccination
in the top gear, the
state of UP will soon
be home to over 15
crore fully vaccinat-
ed individuals.
This will be anoth-
er milestone as UP
continues to conduct
one of the most suc-
cessful vaccination
campaigns in the
country since the roll-
out of the mass im-
munisation drive.
Standing on the top,
the state of UP has so
far given out over
32.70 crore total vac-
cine doses.
Out of these, over
17,41,06,125 are first
doses, while over
14,92,89,434 individu-
als are fully vaccinat-
ed. In terms of per-
centage, over 92 per
cent of the adult pop-
ulation is fully vacci-
nated and 100% have
receivedonevac dose.
ATTENTION
FROM PG 1
...while addressing the
BJP’s one-day state ex-
ecutive meeting in Luc-
know. This was the first
state executive meeting
of the saffron party af-
ter winning the 2022 Ut-
tar Pradesh Assembly
elections. Speaking on
the occasion, the CM
said, “In the 2024 gener-
al elections, under the
leadership of Prime
Minister Narendra
Modi , we have to march
ahead with the target of
winning 75 seats in Ut-
tar Pradesh.”
In the 2019 general
elections, the BJP had
secured 62 seats in Ut-
tar Pradesh while its
ally Apna Dal (Sonelal)
registered victory in
two seats. He further
congratulated Modi for
completing eight years
as prime minister. The
BJP is organising a
massive public out-
reach campaign to
mark the eighth anni-
versary of the Modi
government, from May
30 to June 14.
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath paid
floral tributes to former prime minister
Chaudhary Charan Singh on his death
anniversary in Lucknow. Speaking
to the media, the chief minister said
that the late former prime minister
“believed that the country’s path to
development is through the streets
of villages and farms.” “I pay my
heartfelt tributes to Chaudhary Sahab.
He always worked towards rural
upliftment and welfare of farmers,”
Yogi Adityanath said.
—PHOTOS BY
ASHOK DUTTA
Campaign ends for Champawat
Pensions hiked for elderly and destitute women
First India Bureau
Lucknow: The UP govt
has made provisions in
its 2022-23 Budget to ful-
fil 97 promises made in
the Lok Kalyan Sankalp
Patra 2022, covering a
wide gamut of areas,
including widening the
scope of welfare
schemes for farmers,
youth and women; in-
frastructural develop-
ment; law and order
and women’s safety; in-
dustrial growth etc.
The government an-
nounced an increase in
old age pension and
pension for destitute
women in its Sankalp
Patra, the budgetary
provision for the two
have also been more
than doubled from Rs
3600 crore last year to
7053.56 crore and from
Rs 1812 crore last year
to Rs 4032 crore respec-
tively
.
The budget includes
proposals worth Rs
54,883 crore for 44 new
demands/schemes.
Prominent among these
budgetary provisions is
the proposal of Rs
3301.74 crore for provid-
ing free LPG cylinders
to the poor beneficia-
ries on the occasions of
Holi and Diwali, which
was one of the key
points in the Sankalp
Patra.
Dehradun (PTI): Cam-
paigning for the Cham-
pawat assembly bypoll
in Uttarakhand in
which Chief Minister
Pushkar Singh Dhami
is locked in a straight
contest with Congress’s
Nirmala Gehtori drew
to a close on Sunday.
The bypoll on which
depends Dhami’s con-
tinuance in the top of-
fice is scheduled to be
held on May 31. On the
last day of campaign-
ing on Sunday, the Ut-
tarakhand chief minis-
ter held public meet-
ings in Champawat and
asked people to ensure
that there is 100 per
cent polling on the elec-
tion day.
Apart from other
BJP leaders, Uttar
Pradesh Chief Minis-
ter Yogi Adityanath
rooted for Dhami in the
last leg of campaigning
on Saturday and ap-
pealed to people to vote
overwhelmingly in fa-
vour of Dhami to en-
sure rapid development
of the area.
‘‘For the first time
after becoming a dis-
trict in 1997, Cham-
pawat has got the op-
portunity of electing a
chief minister, not just
an MLA. It should not
fritter away this oppor-
tunity,” he had said.
` 3301.74 CR FOR
FREE LPG TO POOR
` 511.93 cr
for Gkp E’way
FREE TRAINING FOR
CIVIL SERVICES
Prominent among
these budgetary pro-
visions is the proposal
of Rs 3301.74 crore
for providing free LPG
cylinders to the poor
beneficiaries on the
occasions of Holi and
Diwali, which was one
of the key points in the
Sankalp Patra.
As part of its ongoing
pursuit to build world-
class infrastructure,
the government has
proposed Rs 511.93
crore for Gorakhpur
Link Expressway Pro-
ject and Rs 400 crore for
Vipin Rawat Defence
Industrial Corridor.
The govt has pro-
posed Rs 2000 crfore for
Amrit Yojana, which
aims to provide safe
drinking water in all
the 734 civic bodies. In
terms of safety and se-
curity, the Govt has also
proposed Rs 1703 crore
for strengthening fe-
male police battalions
in the state, Rs 250 crore
for police equipment
and Rs 523.34 crore un-
der Safe City Scheme.
Govt has proposed
Rs 30 crore under
Mukhyamantri Anhy-
udaya Yojana against
Rs 20 crore last year to
help provide free train-
ing to a large number
of aspirants for civil
services exam.
Yogi Govt has pro-
posed Rs 263.75
crore for One Dis-
trict One Product
Scheme, Rs 125 Cr
for Mukhyamantri
Self-Employment
Scheme, Rs 1000
crore to give
pension to the
differently-abled.
FOR DIVYANG
The govt has also
proposed Rs 1500
crore for distrib-
uting free smart
phones and tablets
to students under
Vivekanand Youth
Empowerment
Scheme to boost
the employment.
FREE PHONES
UP continues to
lead India’s
vaccination drive
TRIBUTE TO
FORMER
PM CHAUDHARY
CHARAN SINGH
CM Yogi inspects a special vaccination centre for street
vendors in Lucknow. —FILE PHOTO
CM Yogi at the Vidhan Sabha on Sunday. —PHOTO BY PTI

UTTAR PRADESH
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Saharanpur(ANI):
Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind
(JUH) held a meeting at
Eid Gah Maidan in Deo-
band on Saturday with
the aim to prevent the
spread of Islamophobia
in the country
.
The meeting was at-
tended by nearly 2,000
members and represen-
tatives of organisations
from across the country
and was presided by
JUH president Maulana
Mahmood Asad
Madani. The rector of
Darul Uloom Deoband,
Niaz Ahmad Farooqi
notably said, “The es-
tablishment of Sadbha-
wana Manch by Jamiat
is in fact in harmony
with nature of India.”
During the occasion,
Madani advised Mus-
lims to avoid extremism
and quick reaction and
said, “Fire cannot be ex-
tinguished by fire. Like
this, the answer to sec-
tarianism cannot be
sectarianism.”
“The ones who spread
hatred in the nation are
the country’s enemies.
Hatred can never be the
answer to hatred. We
are the ones who an-
swer hatred with love,”
said Madani adding the
need to safeguard the
country from hate with
the means of love.
Stating that the hate
mongers are taking a
patience test of Mus-
lims, he added, “If we
start to respond in their
language, they will suc-
ceed in their intentions.
Our decision to stay qui-
et and not answer their
way is not Jamiat’s
weakness,butstrength.”
He asserted that they
can compromise on
anything but not their
faith. “These people
talk about the unity of
the country and declare
to create Akhand
Bharat while they have
made it difficult for
Muslims to walk in
their own country. that
we keep patience today,
if need be, we will also
accept jail and hanging
but we will not do this
to others,” he added.
Later in his address,
he mentioned, “We are
going through tough
times and it is okay. It
needs strength and
courage to bear all these
difficulties and we are
not weak. It is our
strength that we can
bear every difficulty
and atrocity but would
never let anything hurt
our country
.”
JUH announces Sadbhawana Manch to prevent spread of Islamophobia
CALL FOR PEACE
lll
Rector of
Darul Uloom
Deoband, Niaz
Ahmad Farooqi
said, the
establishment of
Sadbhawana
Manch was in
harmony with
nature of
Jamiat Ulama-i-Hind president Maulana Mahmood Asad Madani
‘CAN’T E EXTINGUISH
FIRE BY FIRE’
JUH president Maulana
Mahmod Asad Madani
advised Muslims to
avoid extremism and
quick reaction and
said, “Fire cannot be
extinguished by fire.
Like this, the answer
to sectarianism can-
not be sectarianism.”
CRUCIAL READ
Lucknow: To review arrangements ahead of President
Kovind’s visit here on June 5, CM Yogi Adityanath on
Sunday inspected development works in Maghar area
of the district and preparations for the programmes
being organised on the occasion of the President’s
visit. CM Yogi inspected the Sant Kabir samadhi sthal,
shrine, cave, the newly built Sant Kabir Academy and
Research Centre, the Sant Kabir Art Gallery Interpreta-
tion Centre and Exhibition Hall, and the helipad being
readied for the President’s helicopter. CM Yogi also
held a meeting with officers and public representatives.
AZAM ADMITTED
TO DELHI HOSPITAL
FOR CHECK-UP
New Delhi: SP leader
Azam Khan was admit-
ted to Sir Ganga Ram
Hospital here on Sun-
day for what is being
said a ‘routine medical
check-up’, sources
said. He was admitted
in the Medicine Depart-
ment, they said. “He is
doing fine. He has been
admitted for a routine
check-up,” a source
said. Khan was released
from Sitapur Jail after
over 2 years on May
20, a day after the SC
granted him interim bail
in a cheating case. Ad-
dressing his supporters
in Rampur sometime
ago, he had said, “I
want a moratorium of
two weeks ... so that I
can get myself treated.
5 KILLED, SEVERAL
INHURED AS BUS
CRASHES INTO VAN
Kanpur: Five persons
died on the spot while
four others received
severe injuries after
a bus rammed a van
carrying five persons
in Musanagar area at
Mughal road. Police
sources here said that
five pilgrims heading
towards Chitrakoot
when a speeding bus
rammed their van. After
hitting van bus fell into
roadside ditch in which
four persons were
severely injured. The
injured were rushed to
district hospital where
two of them were stat-
ed to be in critical con-
dition. Police initiated
relief work immediately
and cleared the traffic
at the road.
CM YOGI REVIEWS PREPARATIONS FOR
PREZ KOVIND’S VISIT ON JUNE 5
EMPOWERING STUDENTS
CS Durga Shanker Mishra at the concluding ceremony of the training programme for newly
appointed teachers organised by Vidya Bharati,Awadh region, Bharatiya Siksha Samiti, UP at
Saraswati Vidya Mandir Senior Secondary School,Aliganj on Sunday.
LS BYPOLLS
BSP says yes to Azamgarh
but bows out of Rampur
Maya tears
into BJP in
2-day party
meet, vows to
root out party
from state
First India Bureau
Lucknow: TheBahujan
SamajPartywillnotcon-
test the bypolls for the
Rampur parliamentary
seatandalsonotsupport
any party on this seat.
By-elections for the
Rampur and Azamgarh
seats will be held on
June 23. The polls have
been necessitated after
resignations of Azam
Khan and SP President
Akhilesh Yadav, who
won the assembly polls.
In a statement issued af-
ter a two-day party re-
view meeting here, the
BSP said, “The party
will not contest the Lok
Sabha by-elections
scheduled on June 23
from the Rampur seat as
we have to work on this
seat to make it strong.
The party will also not
support anyone on this
seat. Party has already
decided to contest from
Azamgarh seat”.
The party asserted
that it was “capable” of
shaking the roots of the
“anti-poor” and
“pro-capitalists” BJP in
the state. At the meet-
ing, Mayawati said the
BSP is a party with lim-
ited resources and it is
fighting parties which
are run with the sup-
port of capitalists so
“we have to make the
party strong by holding
small cadre-based meet-
ings.” “We did not get
expected results in the
polls even after hard
work,” she said, adding
a “new political devel-
opment will give a new
lease of life to the party
and attempts are on”.
“After uprooting the
Congress, the BSP is the
only party that can do
the same for the BJP,”
she added.
An atmosphere of
atrocities on poor and
anarchy is seen in the
BJP rule, she charged.
“Poor and unem-
ployed are targeted in
the name of anti-en-
croachment drives and
they are made targets
with terror of bulldozer.
The right use of bulldoz-
er is for making roads
but it is being used for
destruction,” she said.
Lucknow(PTI): In
some bad news for
people who are fond
of Lucknowi Dusseh-
ri and other varieties
of mangoes, the pro-
duction of the king of
the fruits has been hit
by around 70 per cent
in the mango belt of
Uttar Pradesh due to
adverse weather con-
ditions this year, ac-
cording to growers.
The prices of the
pulpy fruit are also
expected to soar this
summer season due to
low production, they
said.
“The production of
mangoes in Uttar
Pradesh ranged from
35 to 45 lakh metric
tonnes every year, but
this time production
of 10-12 lakh metric
tonnes is expected.
Therefore, mango will
be sold in the market
at a very high price
and people fond of
mango will have to
spend more money,”
Mango Growers Asso-
ciation of India Presi-
dent Insram Ali said.
Unusually high
temperature during
the flowering season
in February and
March this year has
hit the mango crop,
Ali said. A maximum
temperature of 30 to
35 degrees Celsius is
required during the
flowering season but
this year the tempera-
ture soared to 40 de-
grees Celsius in
March itself, damag-
ing the mango flow-
ers, he added.
Malihabad of Luc-
know is the major cen-
tre of mango produc-
tion and its Dussehri
mango is famous all
over the world for its
flavour.
Mohammad Na-
seem, a mango grower
from Malihabad, said
that he has never seen
such a bad mango
crop in his entire life.
“Thousands of mango
growers of UP have
suffered a setback due
to the destruction of
the mango crop,” he
said.
According to meteo-
rologists, the month
of March was the hot-
test in the last 122
years while the month
of April was the hot-
testinthelast50years.
BSP supremo Mayawati
IN FOCUS
Police raze house
of murder accused
inPrayagrajvillage
First India Bureau
Prayagraj: The police
have razed the house
of a murder accused
after warnings in
Rudapur village in
Phaphamau area here.
Two policemen were
suspended and action
was taken against four
other police officials
into the matter of
murder of son of a
brick kiln owner in
the village.
Police said Mudas-
sir, son of brick kiln
owner Ateek Ahmad
was returning home
with brother Baseer
AhmadandAkibwhen
motorbike-borne as-
sailants had opened
indiscriminate firing
on them. Mudassir, Ba-
seer and Akib were in-
jured in the attack
while the criminals
managed to escape af-
ter the incident.
Case was registered
against four sons of
Sikanderwhohadland
dispute with Ateek. Po-
lice raided their resi-
dence to nab the ac-
cused but all had fled
with their families.
Abhiesh Agarwal,
SP (Gangapaar) had
warned the relatives
of accused to surren-
der but as they ig-
nored, their house was
demolished.
Lucknow(ANI): Hours
after Jamiat Ulama-i-
Hind (JUH) passed a
resolution to oppose the
Uniform Civil Code, UP
Minority Welfare Min-
ister Danish Azad An-
sari on Sunday clarified
that UCC is not against
Muslims and no one’s
constitutional rights
are being violated.
The Jamiat had
passed three resolu-
tions-- the measures for
taming the growing tide
of hatred and animosi-
ty against Muslims in
the country; a resolu-
tion regarding the erad-
ication of Islamopho-
bia; a resolution over
strengthening the Sad-
bhawana Manch. This
comes after the Uttara-
khand government an-
nounced the formation
of a 5-member drafting
committee to imple-
ment the civil code.
Ansari said, “No
one’s constitutional
rights are being violat-
ed. UCC is not against
Muslims. We have to
listen to the voice of
common Muslims. To-
day, they want to prog-
ress that was not done
by previous govern-
ments, like SP BSP, and
Congress.”
First India Bureau
Bijnor: The govern-
ment had suspended
then assistant director
of factory, into matter
of explosion in Mohit
Petrochemicals Private
Limited for dereliction
of duty and disci-
plinary actions will be
taken against him.
Ravi Prakash Singh
was posted as assistant
director of the factory
when methane gas cyl-
inder exploded in Mohit
Petrochemicals Private
Limited on September
12, 2018. Seven persons
hadlosttheirliveswhile
several others were in-
jured in that explosion.
After probe report of
ADM (Judicial), Bijnor
and recommendation
of labour commission-
er Ravi Prakash Singh
was suspended. He was
working as assistant di-
rector Factory in
Meerut. As per report
Singh was found guilty
for not supervise timely
,
ignoring the norms and
dereliction of duty
.
`25K REWARD ON
EACH ARREST
The SSP has announced
reward of `25,000 on
arresting of each
criminal.

z Case was registered
against four sons of
Sikander who had land
dispute with Ateek
Production down
by 70pcdue to
extremeweather
UCC not against Muslims, no one’s
rights being violated: Minister Ansari
Petrochemicals factory
ex-asst director suspended
People at the blast site.
—FILE PIC

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knowledge of Ayurveda in greater
depth, stick to the scientific test
and refine the technical parameters
according to the needs of the present
times and give it to the world.
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Today is 29th May. I pay my tribute to
legendary mountaineer Tenzing Norgay
Sherpa on his birth anniversary. On
this same day of 29th May in 1953,
Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary
successfully reached the summit of
#MountEverest
SPIRITUAL SPEAK
Finally, be strengthened
by the Lord and his
powerful strength.
—Bible
IN-DEPTH
UNICORNS PROOF
OF FRIENDLY
ECO-SYSTEM IN
THE COUNTRY
ndia’s 15 percent
poor survive on an
income of Rs 5000 or
less a month while 1
percent rich Indians
hold 22 percent of national in-
come. In that context Prime
Minister Narendra Modi refer-
ring to the number of unicorns
surging to 100 and their valua-
tion being more than 25 lakh
crore may have sounded ironic.
The income disparity does look
stark but the fact that the coun-
try has income and employ-
ment generating unicorns in
diverse fields should instill
confidence for the country’s
future.
In his Mann ki Baat on Sun-
day, the prime minister ex-
pressed happiness over the rise
in the number of unicorns.
“Even during the pandemic In-
dia’s startups continued to cre-
ate wealth and value,” Modi
said. He also pointed out that
the average annual growth rate
of Indian unicorns is more
than those of some of the big
countries. They reflect the spir-
it of new India.
Unicorns will set the best ex-
ample if they pull the poor out
of poverty.
TOP TWEETS
I
n an important di-
rection the Su-
preme Court up-
held the right of
women to offer
voluntary sex as legal. The
courtsaid,“Itneednotbegain-
said that notwithstanding the
profession, every individual in
this country has a right to a
dignified life under Article 21
of the Constitution of India”.
The directive was based on
some recommendations of a
Supreme Court-appointed
committee. The recommenda-
tion said that sex workers
should not be arrested or pe-
nalised or harassed or victim-
ised during a raid on any
brothel “since voluntary sex
work is not illegal and only
running a brothel is unlaw-
ful”. Centre, however, has
some reservations about the
recommendation.
Ideally, sex is one thing
which money should not be al-
lowedtobuy
.Butinthecontext
of world’s oldest profession it
is no more than a utopian
thought. Since Centre is mull-
inganewlegislationonsubject
it should consider legalizing
prostitution as is the case in 15
countries including the Neth-
erlands, UK, Germany, Brazil,
France, Denmark, Australia,
Indonesia,Greece,Canadaand
Colombia among others. But it
should not be without some re-
strictions.
Theauthoritiesmustbearin
mind the failure of Immoral
Traffic (Prevention) Act while
formulating the law on prosti-
tution. Voluntary sex which
the SC has legalised still leaves
women vulnerable to exploita-
tion by pimps and brothels.
Still, it is a laudable order
which will be ineffective with-
out sensitisation of police who
harasssexworkersratherthan
treatingthemwithdignity
.Itis
for state govts to take responsi-
bility of sensitising the cops.
LAUDABLE ORDER
ON SEX WORKERS
Since the Centre is mulling
a new legislation on the
subject it should consider
legalizing prostitution as is
the case in 15 countries
including the Netherlands,
UK, Germany, Brazil, France,
Denmark, Australia,
Indonesia, Greece, Canada
and Colombia among others.
But it should not be without
some restrictions
I
s India enters the Amrit Kal
of her Independence, it is im-
portanttosetatresttherecur-
rent doubts about the ability,
competence,andcapabilityof
the governance professionals
of this country
. Research on
thissubjectshowsarecurrent
pattern - it happens every two
decades. A hundred and one
years ago, KPS Menon topped
the ICS exam. Many in the
ICS and the Secretary of
state’s office felt that this was
the beginning of the end of
the ICS! How could an Indian
be better than the best of Ox-
bridge graduates?
Two decades later, the civil
services exams had to be dis-
continued because of World
War II. Again, the naysayers
said that this was the begin-
ningof theend,astherewould
be no further recruitment.
This was not all. After the
British decided to leave India,
the Secretary of state decided
to dismember ICS in August/
Septemberof 1946. SardarPa-
tel stepped in and called for a
meeting with the Premiers of
the eleven provinces (as the
states were then called) Not
only were the ICS and IP offic-
ers asked to continue, but the
Conference of Premiers also
decided on the constitution of
the IAS and the IPS and the
joint recruitment and train-
ing of all superior services.
By the mid-sixties, most
states had separated the judi-
cial and executive functions
of theDMs.It led to a seriesof
articles in newspapers and
journals saying that this
would affect the prestige and
power of the bureaucracy
.
Well,bythistime,theprimary
focus of the state had shifted
to Atma Nirbharta in food.
While the agriculture depart-
ment provided the seeds – the
ecosystem of credit, market
infrastructure and procure-
ment were done by the civil
services.
In 1984, David Potter wrote
the book India’s Political Ad-
ministrators and said that
civil services would be chal-
lenged by elected Panchayats
and municipal corporations.
In his concluding remarks, he
went ahead and announced
(much like Fukuyama’s The
end of History) that it would
take not more than two dec-
ades for the services to be
wound up. The 73rd /74th
amendment were enacted in
1994, but it was welcomed by
members of the civil service.
In fact, the LBSNAA and
NIRD were closely engaged in
the national consultations on
this subject.
In 2000, the late lamented
StephenCohen,authorof sev-
eral books on India and Paki-
stan, and my mentor at the
Brookings Institution Wash-
ington DC asked me if a liter-
ate India would be more diffi-
culttoadminister.Iremember
tellinghimveryclearlythatin
the next two decades India
would have shed the develop-
ing nation tag, and become
one of the fastest-growing
economies, even as it will af-
ford social security and pro-
tectiontoherpeople.AndIam
sogladtomentionthatthelast
few years have been marked,
not just by rapid economic
growth, but also by strict en-
forcementof theRighttoFood
and the Right to Work. In and
by themselves these are the
largest public welfare pro-
grammes in the world – and
who is behind the successful
rollout of these programmes.
There is of course the fun-
damental issue of how to bal-
ancethetenuresforallIndian
service officers between the
centre and the state. I should
however point out that in a
purely technical sense, it is a
central tenure is not a deputa-
tion - for working for the Cen-
tralgovernmentisnotonlyan
imperativebutif onemaysay
,
a matter of right.
Having established the
twenty-year pattern of surge
and settlement of criticism,
let me say that twenty years
from now, a similar commen-
tary would appear on the edi-
torialpagesof thisnewspaper.
The problem with many crit-
ics of the civil services is that
they have fewer opportunities
to interact with the next gen-
eration of officers which is
equally good, if not better.
However,thiscolumnistkeeps
getting feedback about all the
great work that is being done
ontheground.Letmealsosay
,
thatitisnowacknowledgedby
one and all that the competi-
tiontojointhecivilservicesis
far tougher than ever before,
and the positive point is that
the UPSC inspires confidence
and trust in its transparent
recruitment process.
But before I close, let me
again reiterate that the real
threat to an institution does
not come from any external
source. It comes from within.
You have to realize the infinite
power within you – the power
of knowledge, the power of
networking, the power of field
experience,thepowerof lever-
agingtechnology–andlastbut
not the least, the protection
which the Bhishma Pitamah
of thecivilservicehasgivento
us – very few civil services
havetheconstitutionalprotec-
tionthatwehaveunderarticle
311.Andhegaveusthisprotec-
tion that we use our Mantrana
Shakti and Utsah Shakti for
thebestuseof thenationforas
he said “You will not have a
united India unless you have
not a good All India service,
whichhastheindependenceto
speak out its mind, and has a
sense of security…”
THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY
THE AUTHOR ARE PERSONAL
A
It comes from within. You
have to realize the infinite
power within you – the
power of knowledge, the
power of networking, the
power of field experience, the
power of leveraging
technology – and last but not
the least, the protection
which the Bhishma Pitamah
of the civil service has given
to us – very few civil services
have the constitutional
protection that we have
under article 311
SANJEEV CHOPRA
The writer is Distinguished Fellow,
USI Delhi and Historian Policy
Analyst. Also former Director,
Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy
of Administration, Mussoorie
YOU READ RAJ DHARMA 9 ON MAY 16, 2022
ADMINISTERING INDIA
IN HER AMRIT KAL
RAJ DHARMA 10
You will not have a united India
unless you have not a good All India
service, which has the Independence
to speak out its mind, and has a
sense of security…
Of late, there has been much
furore about lateral entry,
limited competitive
exams for induction into
the IAS and IPS from SCS
and SPS and CAPFs, and
the Centre changing the
CSS rules. While this does
have implications for ‘co-
operative federalism’ the
larger issue is that both the
centre and the state
want officers
This column is based on the
Civil Services Day Lecture
held at the HCM RIPA,
Jaipur on April 21, 2021

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INDIA
05
Mahesh Sharma
Chandigarh: It is hap-
pening for the first
time that Brahmin
leaders of Bharatiya
Janata Party are open-
ly raising the issue of
neglect of their com-
munity in the party.
Haryana’s Rohtak seat
MP Arvind Sharma,
while targeting his own
party, said that at one
time there used to be 10
Brahmin chief minis-
ters in the country but
now their numbers are
limited. Referring to
the first Chief Minister
of Haryana, Pandit
Bhagwat Dayal Shar-
ma, he said that when
will a Brahmin become
the Chief Minister in
Haryana. Similarly, in
Maharashtra, former
BJP president Raosa-
heb Danve said that he
does not want Brahmin
leaders to become only
municipal councilors
or municipal corpora-
tion presidents, they
should get a better posi-
tions. Interestingly, it is
for the first time, that
such talk has arisen in-
side the party.
However, the leaders
who raise their voices
are not of very high
stature or are not di-
rectly blaming their
party
. But what they are
pointing towards is be-
ing mentioned by oth-
er party leaders as
well. Keep in mind that
at this time BJP is rul-
ing in most of the
states of the country,
however merely in As-
sam does the commu-
nity have its chief min-
isterial representative.
Earlier, the only Brah-
min Chief Minister was
Devendra Fadnavis.
It is not that BJP is
doing politics of back-
ward castes and hence
it is ignoring the upper
castes. BJP has been
making chief ministers
of the upper castes but
leaving Brahmins be-
hind. Even the chief
minister of the minori-
ty Jain community was
retained in Gujarat,
who was removed last
year. In Uttar Pradesh,
Uttarakhand and
Himachal Pradesh, BJP
has made Thakur the
chief minister, while
Tripura had a Kayastha
chief minister, who has
been removed this
month and a member of
the Vaish community
has been made the
Chief Minister. Keep in
mind that despite all
the displeasure ex-
pressed in the Uttar
Pradesh elections,
Brahmins had voted for
the BJP and almost all
over the country Brah-
min voters vote for the
BJP in bulk. It is also to
be noted that Brahmins
are the largest populous
caste in the country
.
BrahminleadersgrowingimpatientinBJP:Signsofsourness?
THE DOMINANT CASTE DILEMMA
New Delhi: The BJP
andCongressonSunday
announced their lists
candidates for the Rajya
Sabha elections which
are scheduled to take
place on June 10. Polling
will be held for 57 seats
spread across 15 states.
These elections will be
crucialastheytakeplace
ahead of Presidential
elections due in July
.
Amongtheprominent
names from the BJP
, the
16-candidate list in-
cludes Finance Minister
Nirmala Sitharaman
from Karnataka and
Commerce Minister Pi-
yush Goyal from Maha-
rashtra who are up for
re-electionastheirterms
are set to end. Minority
Affairs Minister
Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi's
termisalsosettoendbut
he has not been named
in the list by the party
.
The Congress has also
announced 10 candi-
dates for Rajya Sabha
elections. The list in-
cludes prominent Con-
gress leaders like P Chi-
dambaram, Jairam
Ramesh,MukulWasnik,
Ajay Maken and Ran-
deep Surjewala.
Chidambaram was
fieldedfromTamilNadu,
Ramesh from Karnata-
ka, Maken from Hary-
ana and Surjewala from
Rajasthan.
The maximum num-
ber of seats, 11, lies in
Uttar Pradesh where the
BJP has fielded Laxmi-
kant Vajpayee from Ut-
tar Pradesh, Radha Mo-
han Agarwal from Uttar
Pradesh, Surendra Na-
gar, Baburam Nishad,
Darshana Singh, Sang-
eeta Yadav from Uttar
Pradesh so far.
BJP, CONGRESS RELEASE LIST OF
CANDIDATES FOR RS ELECTIONS
Sitharaman from K’taka and Piyush Goyal from Maha are among big names in BJP’s list of
16 candidates; Chidambaram, Ramesh, Maken, Surjewala among 10 Congress candidates
New Delhi (PTI): Re-
ferring to the filth being
spread by some pil-
grims during the ongo-
ing 'Char-Dham Yatra'
in Uttarakhand, Prime
Minister Narendra
Modi on Sunday ap-
pealed to the people to
maintain dignity of
these pilgrimage sites.
In his monthly radio
address 'Mann Ki Baat',
the Prime Minister
pointed out that thou-
sands of devotees are
reaching every day at
'Char-Dham' and espe-
cially in Kedarnath.
People are sharing hap-
py experiences of their
'Yatra'. But, I have also
seen that some devotees
arealsoverysadbecause
of the filth being spread
by some pilgrims in Ke-
darnath. Many people
have expressed their
views on social media as
well, he said.
The PM noted that go-
ing on a holy pilgrimage
and coming across a
heap of filth there is not
right. In the midst of
these complaints, one is
getting to see many good
pictures too. Where
there is faith, there is
alsocreationandpositiv-
ity
.Therearemanydevo-
tees who are worshiping
in the Dham of Baba Ke-
dar, as well as perform-
ing the sadhna of clean-
liness, the PM said.
Let us maintain dignity
of pilgrimage sites: PM
New Delhi (Agencies):
Caught between inter-
national pressure over
how to engage with the
Myanmar military jun-
ta regime and India’s
own ties with its neigh-
bour, the government is
likely to not include the
Myanmar Foreign Min-
ister at the India-ASE-
AN Foreign Ministers’
meeting set to be hosted
by the External Affairs
Minister (EAM) in mid-
June.
The decision marks a
departure from India’s
attendance at the re-
gional BIMSTEC meet-
ing in Colombo in
March, where Myan-
mar’s junta-appointed
Foreign Minister Wun-
na Maung Lwin was in-
vited as a virtual par-
ticipant, which was
protested by the United
States. New Delhi’s de-
cision is likely to risk a
boycott of the India-
ASEAN event in Delhi
by Myanmar.
According to several
official and diplomatic
sources, India has de-
cided follow the consen-
sus of ASEAN coun-
tries instead, to invite
only a “non-political”,
“non-military” repre-
sentative to the ASEAN
Foreign Ministers and
US-ASEAN meetings.
Myanmar’s response
is still not clear and a
final call is expected on
Monday
.
India may exclude Myanmar FM from ASEAN FM meeting
KERALA BYPOLL
High-voltage
campaign
concludes
Thiruvananthapuram
(Agencies): The cam-
paigning for the Thrik-
kakara bypoll to be held
on May 31 will conclude
on Sunday with the CPI-
M-led LDF, Congress-led
UDF, and the BJP-led
NDA leaders camping in
the constituency for the
last-minute push.
The public campaign
will end in the evening,
and on Monday it will
be a silent campaign be-
fore the elections on
Tuesday. The results
will be announced on
June 3 (Friday).
While Chief Minister
PinarayiVijayanislead-
ing the Left campaign,
LoP VD Satheeshan is
the leader for the UDF
campaign. BJP state
president K. Surendran
is looking after the NDA
campaign. Former
Chief Minister and Con-
gress Working Commit-
tee member AK Antony
charged up the cam-
paign for UDF and blast-
ed the Pinarayi Vijayan
government.
This is the first direct
election faced by the sec-
ond Pinarayi Vijayan
government after it
came to power in May
2021. The election was
necessitated following
thepassingawayof Con-
gress leader and MLA
PT Thomas.
Kolkata (Agencies):
West Bengal governor
Jagdeep Dhankhar, on
Sunday slammed Trina-
mool Congress MP Ab-
hishek Banerjee over
the latter's attack on a
section of the judiciary
.
On Saturday after-
noon,whileaddressinga
rally at the industrial
township of Haldia in
East Midnapore district
of West Bengal,
Abhishek Banerjee,
launched a scathing at-
tack on a section of the
judiciaryortheCalcutta
HC orders directing CBI
probe on various issues
inthestate.Describinga
section of the judiciary
as biased, Abhishek Ba-
nerjee said that a couple
of judges are acting at
the behest of others by
directing CBI probe on
minor issues.
Speaking to media at
Siliguri on Sunday
morning, the governor
criticised the TMC na-
tional general secretary
without naming him.
The manner in which a
Lok Sabha member at-
tacked the judiciary on
Saturday is simply un-
thinkable. He has at-
tacked a judge who has
ordered a CBI probe. I
willdirectthestatechief
secretarytolookintothe
matter and take neces-
sary action, the gover-
nor said on Monday
.
Dhankhar slams Abhishek
for attacking judiciary
‘CROSSED THE RED LINE’
Prime Minister Narendra Modi with Haryana Chief Minister Manohar
Lal Khattar. —FILE PHOTO
Saffron, Red, Green,
Yellow and Blue:
The divided colors
of UP Asembly!
Moni Sharma
Lucknow: The ses-
sion of the new Legis-
lative Assembly of
Uttar Pradesh is look-
ing very colorful. Ear-
lier, only the leaders
of the Samajwadi
Party used to wear red
caps in the assembly,
however, since this
time the number of
Samajwadi Party
MLAs in the assembly
is more than one hun-
dred, hence ‘red caps’
are visible across the
assembly seats.
Earlier BJP leaders
used to wear saffron
gamcha but now they
too have started wear-
ing saffron cap. Keep
in mind that Prime
Minister Narendra
Modi wore a saffron
cap several times in
the past.
He also did a road
show in Gujarat wear-
ing a saffron cap. That
is why the leaders of
BJP have started
wearing saffron caps
in place of or along
with saffron. So, the
whole house is look-
ing replete with red
and saffron caps. But
it is not that only
these two colors are
visible in the house.
Yellow color has
been added to it by
Suheldev Bharatiya
SamajParty
.Thistime
the MLAs who won
from Omprakash Ra-
jbhar’s party are com-
ing to the house wear-
ing a yellow cap and
wearing a yellow gam-
chha. Last time, the
RashtriyaLokDalhad
onlyoneMLA,butthis
time its number of
MLAs has increased
to eight and following
the tend, these eight
legislators are coming
to the house wearing
green caps.
The BSP now has
only one MLA, who
is coming to the
house wearing a blue
cap and a blue color
gamchha. Therefore,
the UP asembly ap-
pears to be a an
arists rendition of
the Holi festival.
PM, HM, NADDA
FOR BJP’S
MISSION SOUTH
RS POLLS: BJD
NOMINATES 4
CANDIDATES
Even as the BJP
is preparing for
a mega celebration
across the country to
mark the completion
of eight years of the
Narendra Modi gov-
ernment, the party's
'Mission Expansion' is
in full swing.
The BJD has nomi-
nated four candi-
dates—Sulata Deo,
Manas Ranjan Manga-
raj, Niranjan Bishi, and
Sasmit Patra—for the
Rajya Sabha elections
slated to be held next
month, the party said
in a release on Sunday.
PM TO ADDRESS WCD
PROGRAMME TODAY
New Delhi: Prime Minister
Narendra Modi will release
benefits under the ‘PM CARES
for Children’ on Monday
via video-conferencing, the
WCD said on Sunday. The
government had launched the
initiative on May 29 last year
to support children who lost
parents to COVID-19.
SHAH APPEALS FOR ORGANIC FARMING
2024 POLLS: NADDA TO VISIT WB IN JUNE
Tension in Karnataka as
Dalits denied temple entry
Bengaluru (Agen-
cies): Tension pre-
vailed in Karnata-
ka’s Yadgir district
on Sunday in connec-
tion with a dispute
that arose over deny-
ing entry to Dalits in
a Hanuman Temple,
the police said.
The police have
clamped prohibitory
orders in Amalihala
and Huvinahalli vil-
lages of Hunasagi
taluk in Yadgir dis-
trict, a police officer
said, adding the situ-
ation has been tense
since the last four
days. The issue has
resulted in a face-off
between the Dalits
and people belonging
to the upper caste in
the two villages.
According to the
police, Dalits of
Hoovinahalli village
were denied entry to
Hanuman temple lo-
cated in Amalihala
village four days ago.
The situation fur-
ther seemed to be
slipping out of hands
following a confron-
tation on Saturday
.
The denial of en-
try to Dalits was
condemned by Dalit
organisations, and
they had also staged
a protest.
Jagdeep Dhankhar
PM Narendra Modi
Abhishek Banerjee
Southeast Asean foreign Ministers pose for a photo.

INDIA
06
Sharat K Verma
New Delhi: Congress
president Sonia Gandhi
has constituted three
important committees
to implement the reso-
lutions of Nav Sankalp
Shivir. One is the Politi-
cal Affairs Committee
of the Congress. The
other is the task force
set up for the prepara-
tions for the 2024 Lok
Sabha elections and one
is the committee to co-
ordinate the Bharat
Jodo Yatra. In this, the
election preparation
committee is headed by
P Chidambaram and in-
terestingly enough, it
seems that all the con-
tenders for the Rajya
Sabha seat of the Con-
gress have been placed
in this committee. Com-
mittee chairman P Chi-
dambaram’s term of
Rajya Sabha is also
coming to an end and he
is also a contender.
Chidambaram is cur-
rently a Rajya Sabha
MP from Maharashtra.
This time it is not yet
decided whether he will
go to the Upper House
from Maharashtra it-
self or he will be sent
from his home state Ta-
mil Nadu. Keep in mind
that this time DMK has
left one seat for the Con-
gress. Meanwhile, an-
other name in Chidam-
baram’s committee is
that of Mukul Wasnik
who has been the gen-
eral secretary of the
party for the last 20
years. According to the
rule of leaving office af-
ter five consecutive
years, he has to leave
the post of General Sec-
retary
. He has been hop-
ing to go to the Rajya
Sabha for a long time
and this time it is pos-
sible that he will get a
chance from his home
state Maharashtra.
The third name in
Chidambaram’s com-
mittee is that of Jairam
Ramesh. He is a Rajya
Sabha MP from Karna-
taka and his term is
also coming to an end
and he is once again
hoping to be sent to the
Upper House from Kar-
nataka itself. Like Chid-
ambaram, Ramesh’s
going to the Rajya Sab-
ha is considered almost
certain. In the commit-
tee, the fourth name is
of KC Venugopal, who
is already in the Rajya
Sabha. The fifth name
is of Ajay Maken whi is
the general secretary of
the party and is in
charge of Rajasthan.
This time he is also hop-
ing to get a Rajya Sabha
nomination. However,
there are already two
external leaders as MPs
from Rajasthan in the
form of Manmohan
Singh and KC Venugo-
pal.
Priyanka Gandhi
Vadra is the sixth name
in the task force. She
herself does not know
whether she wants a Ra-
jya Sabha seat or not,
but many party leaders
and her close people
want to send her to Ra-
jya Sabha from Chhat-
tisgarh. Chhattisgarh
Chief Minister Bhu-
pesh Baghel also wants
the same. The seventh
name in this committee
is that of Randeep Sur-
jewala, who is somehow
doing all he can to go to
the Upper House. Con-
gress will get one seat
in his home state Hary-
ana, but everyone
knows that Bhupinder
Singh Hooda’s camp
will not allow him to
win if the party sends
Surjewala to Haryana.
That’s why he is trying
for Rajya Sabha mem-
bership from some oth-
er state.
All of Congress’ RS aspirants are in one ‘Nav Sankalp’ committee!
COMEDY OF ERRORS
Congress president Sonia Gandhi with other party leaders.
MONSOON HITS KERALA, 3 DAYS
AHEAD OF ITS NORMAL ONSET
FOURTH OCCASION SINCE 2010 WHEN ONSET OF
MONSOON HAPPENED BEFORE TIME (JUNE 1)
THE SOUTHWEST MONSOON IS CONSIDERED THE
LIFELINE OF INDIA’S AGRI-BASED ECONOMY
Southwest monsoon
has set in over Kerala,
three days ahead of its
normal onset date of
June 1, the India Mete-
orological Department
(IMD) said on Sunday
.
According to an IMD
release, southwest mon-
soon has advanced into
parts of south Arabian
Sea, Lakshadweep area,
most parts of Kerala,
some parts of south Ta-
mil Nadu and some
parts of Gulf of Man-
nar among others.
“Southwest monsoon
has set in over Kerala
today (Sunday), against
the normal date of June
1,” media quoted IMD
director general Mrut-
yunjay Mohapatra as
saying.
The IMD added that
all the conditions for
the onset of monsoon
over Kerala have been
satisfied, including that
of widespread rainfall
activity over the state
during past 24 hours.
Out of 14 rainfall moni-
toring stations for de-
claring onset of mon-
soon over Kerala, 10
stations have received
rainfall of 2.5 mm or
more, the IMD said.
The IMD also ob-
served isolated heavy
rainfall over Tamil
Nadu, Sub-Himalayan
West Bengal and Bihar
during past 24 hours
ending at 8.30 am Sun-
day
.
Among other satis-
factory conditions for
declaration of the onset
of monsoon is the depth
of westerly winds ex-
tending upto 4.5 km
above sea level.
A man rows a traditonal boat at a coastal village in Thiruvananthapuram. —PHOTO BY PTI
IMD ISSUES
YELLOW ALERT
FOR HEAVY RAIN
IN U’KHAND
New Delhi: The In-
dian Meteorological
Department (IMD)
has issued a yellow
alert for Sunday and
Monday in Uttara-
khand’s Uttarkashi,
Rudraprayag, Cham-
oli, Bageshwar and
Pithoragarh districts
due to heavy rain,
thunderstorm and
strong winds fore-
cast. Thunderstorms
accompanied with
intense showers and
gusty rains of 30-40
kmph speed are
likely to occur in the
districts.
‘India heading towards another
power crisis in July-August’
New Delhi (PTI): A
lower pre-monsoon
coal stock at thermal
power plants in India is
suggestive of another
power crisis in July-
August, independent
research organisation
CREA has said.
Thecurrentcoalstock
stands at 13.5 million
tonnes at pithead power
stations and 20.7 MT cu-
mulatively at all power
plantsacrossthecountry
.
“The data compiled
from official sources
suggest that the coal
power plants are in no
position to address even
a minor spike in the
power demand and
there is a need to plan
for coal transportation
well in advance,” CREA
latest report ‘Failure to
load: India’s power cri-
sis is a coal manage-
ment crisis’.
The Central Electric-
ity Authority of India
(CEA) has predicted a
peak power demand of
214 GW in August. In ad-
dition, the average en-
ergy demand could also
increase to more than
what it is in the month
of May to 1,33,426 mil-
lion units (MUs).
It also said the recent
power crisis in the coun-
try was not due to coal
productionbut“distribu-
tion and official apathy”.
India saw a record
coalproductionof 777.26
million tonnes (MT) in
the financial year 2021-
22 against 716.08 MT in
FY21, an increase of 8.54
per cent.
GOVT WITHDRAWS UIDAI ADVISORY
New Delhi: The government has withdrawn an UIDAI
advisory that cautioned the general public against
sharing photocopy of their Aadhaar with any organi-
sation. The Ministry of Electronics and IT (MeitY) said
it is withdrawing the press release as it can lead to
misinterpretation. “The release advised the people to
not to share photocopy of their Aadhaar with any or-
ganisation because it can be misused. Alternatively, a
masked Aadhaar which displays only the last 4 digits
of Aadhaar number, can be used,” the statement said.
Bhopal: A total of ninety-seven children have fallen
ill after eating ‘pani puri’ at a fair in Singarpur of
Madhya Pradesh’s Mandla
district. The children from the
nearby villages, who had gone
to a fair on Saturday and had
pani puri there, complained of
stomach pain and vomiting.
The parents of the ailing kids
started rushing them to the hospital but by the time
police got the information, the fair was over.
MP: 97 CHILDREN FALL ILL AFTER HAVING
‘PANI PURI’ IN MANDLA DISTRICT
CRUCIAL READS
Minister Anurag Thakur
inaugurates Takshashila
Sports Complex at Pune
New Delhi (ANI):
Union Minister for
Youth Affairs and
Sports Anurag
Thakur inaugurated
the Takshashila
Sports Complex built
by the Pune Munici-
pal Corporation
(PMC) at Viman Na-
gar on Saturday
.
Underliningtheim-
portance of creating
sports infrastructure
at the grassroot level,
Thakur appealed to
the corporates in
Pune to come forward
and fund sports facili-
tiesthroughtheirCSR
(Corporate Social Re-
sponsibility) funds.
Urging the young-
sterstotakeupsports
and fitness, the Min-
ister recalled Prime
Minister Narendra
Modi’s words, “Khe-
loge toh khiloge! and
said “Sports teaches
perseverance, instils
self-confidence and
develops leadership
qualities.”
He mentioned that
India has the largest
number of obese
people and that a
sedentary lifestyle
has changed people.
Hence, fitness is im-
portant for every-
one, he said.
Stating that this
sports complex has
been built for the
youngsters and com-
mon people of the
area, the Minister
urged “Come out of
your AC rooms, prac-
tice games for half an
hour here. Then you
will become fit, re-
ducehealthandtreat-
ment bills, develop a
liking for sports”.
“When our chil-
dren will get a chance
to play, they will de-
velop a liking for
sports. Then they will
goaheadontheirown
to win matches in the
country and foreign
lands”, thakur said.
Union Minister Anurag Thakur during the event in Pune.
The current situation is not something that started
in the recent past... Coal stock at power stations
has been reducing consistently since May 2020
Slogans outside
Malik’s house: 19
held so far in JK
Srinagar (Agencies):
A total of 19 accused
have been arrested so
far in relation to arson,
stone-pelting, slogan-
eering outside the
house of Yasin Malik.
The incident took place
on May 25 outside Ma-
lik’s residence in
Maisuma.
On May 26, the po-
lice had arrested 10
people allegedly in-
volved in stone pelting
and raising anti-na-
tional slogans.
10 accused arrested
so far in anti-national
sloganeering stone
pelting outside home of
Yasin Malik prior to
sentencing in Maisuma
yesterday
.
Assam to provide minority
certs to six communities
Guwahati (Agencies):
Minority certificates
would be provided to
six religious communi-
ties, including Mus-
lims, in Assam, Health
Minister Keshab Ma-
hanta said on Sunday
.
The State Cabinet de-
cided that the minority
certificates would be is-
sued to Muslims, Chris-
tians, Sikhs, Buddhists,
Jains and Parsis and
the modalities will be
worked out accordingly,
Mr. Mahanta said at the
media briefing after the
Cabinet meeting in
Guwahati.
The Cabinet meeting
chaired by Chief Minis-
ter Himanta Biswa Sar-
ma also decided to pay a
total of Rs 12.63 crore to
1,263 families of work-
ers of the Doloo Tea Es-
tate as a goodwill ges-
ture for their coopera-
tion in the development
of the Greenfield air-
port at Silchar.
The State had earlier
announced a compen-
sation of Rs 50 crore for
the acquisition of the
land at Doloo Lalbagh
and Mainagarh tea gar-
dens for setting up the
greenfield airport and
had already released Rs
2.37 crore as the first
instalment.
Assam Chief Minister Himanta Biswa Sarma.
26 Rohingya
detained in
Assam: Police
Guwahati (Agencies):
The Assam Police have
detained 26 Myanmar
nationals in Assam’s
Silchar after they en-
tered the city in a car
on Sunday.
According to the po-
lice, the Myanmar na-
tionals reached Guwa-
hati in a train from
Jammu and Kashmir on
Friday night.
Then they hired two
Innova SUVs to Silchar.
They do not have any
valid travel documents,
policesourceshavesaid.
K’taka acid attack victim back
in ICU, condition deteriorates
Bengaluru (Agen-
cies): The 23-year-old
acid attack victim was
again shifted to the In-
tensive Care Unit (ICU)
after her condition de-
teriorated post-surgery,
police sources said on
Sunday.
The victim had devel-
oped complications af-
ter going through fifth
surgery
. She had suf-
fered 36 per cent burn
injuries when her jilted
lover attacked her on
April 28 and has been in
the hospital ever since.
The woman was in a
semiconscious state
and was responding to
the treatment. Since,
she suffered a drop in
her oxygen level, she
was again shifted to the
ICU ward. The doctors
said, “The woman’s
burn injuries were on
her neck, face and one
part of the temple.”
Srinagar-Baramulla rail link to
connect Valley with rest of India
The work of the Ud-
hampur-Srinagar-Bara-
mulla Railway Link
(USBRL) project which
will connect Kashmir
Valley with the rest of
the country, is moving
at a rapid pace and the
railways has put the
deadline of its comple-
tion in April, 2023.
Under the mega pro-
ject, the platforms and
tracks will be built at a
height of more than
that of Qutab Minar
and the running of
train at such height is
no less than a miracle.
Northern Railway
general manager Ashu-
tosh Gangal said that
work on the rest of the
111 km, of the total 272
km stretch, is going on
at a fast pace.
Of the 111 km stretch,
58 km will pass through
a tunnel. Of all the pil-
lars installed for the
bridge, height of the
middle one is more than
that of Qutab Minar.
REPORT SAYS

NEWS
07
ONE DIES, THREE
INJURED AFTER
BEING HIT BY
SPEEDING CAR
One person died while three
youths were seriously injured
speeding car on Sunday morning
in Agra. The incident took place
when the people were out for a
morning walk. The accident took
place in the Jagdishpura police
station area. The angry people
caught the responsible youths
who were trying to run away
after the accident. The crowd
also broke the windows of the
vehicle, thrashed the youths
badly, and handed them over to
the police. People who were
present there along with some
bike riders caught the three
youths including the driver and
thrashed them. Police said that
Pappu Singh’s son Patiram has
died in the accident. While
Kailashi’s son Ramhet, Sachin’s
son Bhikam Singh, and
Shankarlal’s son Haujiram are
seriously injured and have been
admitted to the hospital. Aryan
Upadhyay’s son Pankaj
Upadhyay, who was driving the
car, has been caught. Two youths
named Tarun Tiwari, and Lucky
Parmar were also with him. The
family of the deceased has
lodged an FIR at the Jagdishpura
police station. —Preeti Nagia
3 KILLED AS
DOUBLE-DECKER
BUS OVERTURNS
The double-decker bus going
from Jaipur to the Chhapra
district of Bihar overturned on the
Fatehpur Sikri highway in Agra.
Three passengers including a girl
were killed in the accident while
about one and a half dozen
passengers were injured. Hearing
the cries of the passengers
trapped in the bus, the villagers
nearby reached the spot and
rescued the passengers. The
injured were admitted to the
Community Medical Health Center
in Fatehpur Sikri and the ones
who seemed critical were referred
from there to SN Emergency. It is
suspected that the bus overturned
after a sudden tyre burst. The
doctors declared the three
passengers, including a girl, dead.
SP West Satyajit Gupta said that
all the people injured in the
accident have been admitted to
the hospital for treatment. The
bus driver fled from the spot. The
search is on to nab him. The exact
cause of the accident will be
known only after the bus driver is
found. The names of the deceased
passengers are Sita Devi wife of
Satya Prakash, a resident of Sant
Kabir Nagar, Rameshchand, a
resident of Jaipur
Rajasthan, Riyanshi, daughter of
Lal Bahadur. Injured passengers
in the road accident are Jyoti,
Shivam, Mohammad Sikandar,
Nikhil, Jyoti, Prem Singh, Armaan,
etc. —Preeti Nagia
7 KILLED, 9 INJURED AS BUS COLLIDES
WITH TRUCK ON WAY TO AYODHYA
Bahraich (PTI): Seven
people, including three
women, were killed and
nine grievously injured
when a tourist bus col-
lided with a truck on
the Bahraich-Lakhim-
pur highway in UP on
Sunday
, police said. The
bus carrying 16 people
from Karnataka was go-
ing to Ayodhya when
the incident occurred at
Naniha market in the
Motipur area as it en-
tered the opposite lane,
Additional Superinten-
dent of Police, Ashok
Kumar told PTI.
While five, including
the bus driver, died on
the spot, two others suc-
cumbed to their inju-
ries on the way to the
hospital, the police offi-
cer said, adding nine
people were seriously
injured and were hospi-
talised. The victims
were identified after
one of the injured pas-
sengers, Bhoomika (16),
connected the police
officials with the fami-
ly members through a
video call and by shar-
ing photos. The de-
ceased have been iden-
tified as Shiv Kumar
Pujari (28), Jagdamba
(52), Manmat (36), Anil
(30), Santosh (35), Sha-
shikala (38) and Saras-
wati (47) -- all residents
of Gandhiganj in Kar-
nataka’s Bidar district,
police said. The truck
driver managed to flee
after the incident. A
probe into the matter
was on, the ASP said.
KARNATAKA-AYODHYA BUS TRAGEDY
The tourist bus from Karnataka and the truck after the accident on Bahraich-Lakhimpur highway
in Uttar Pradesh. —PHOTO BY PTI
Acid attack survivors pose for a picture during the opening
of Sheroes cafe in Noida on Sunday. —PHOTO BY PTI
New Delhi(PTI): Acid
attack survivors con-
tinue to make strides
in the mainstream
world, opening now a
third caf , and fittingly
naming it Sheroes’.
Sheroes is completely
managed by acid at-
tack survivors right
from the kitchen to the
sales counter and aims
to spread awareness
about acid attacks and
similar crimes.
Rupa, an acid attack
survivor from Muzaf-
farnagar and one of
themanagers,saidthat
after 2014, when the
first such joint was
opened in Laxmi
Nagar, many more sur-
vivors came forward
deciding to shed the
baggage of their pain.
“The idea was to have
one platform for all
such survivors as most
of them are not so edu-
cated,” Rupa told PTI.
Her own life came to a
standstill after she was
attacked by her step-
mother in 2008. “After
the attack, my father
disowned me. My
brother I had grown
up in Faridabad with
my uncle and aunty
.
They supported us im-
mensely
. They’ve been
like parents to us,”
Rupa said. Anshu Ra-
jput, 24, from Bijnor,
did not lose hope even
as she was faced peo-
ple’s apathy after be-
coming victim of an
acid attack in 2015.
“Acid attack survivors
face discrimination on
a different level alto-
gether. It becomes diffi-
cult facing people.
They pass comments
on us, judge us, don’t
give us jobs,” said Ans-
hu. She said she was
attacked with acid by a
55-year-old man, who
claimedtoloveher.The
man was arrested and
sent to prison for life.
Acid attack survivors
defy norms with
another cafe in Noida
The latest cafe
came up on the
campus of Noida
International
stadium in
Sector 21 with
collaboration of
Noida Authority
Two held for murder of
teenage girl in Bhadohi
Man booked for raping
minor daughter
Unmarried couple
found dead: Police
Kaushambi (PTI): A
man was booked here
for allegedly raping
his minor daughter,
police said on Sunday.
The FIR against the
man was lodged on
the basis of a com-
plaint filed by his
wife, they said.
Kaushambi Addition-
al Superintendent of
Police Samar Baha-
dur Singh said a man,
who is a resident of a
village under Kokhraj
police station area,
raped his 17-year-old
daughter about 15
days ago at their
home. Later, the girl
narrated told her or-
deal to her mother,
who lodged a police
complaint. On the ba-
sis of the complaint,
an FIR was lodged
against the girl’s fa-
ther on Saturday, he
said. The victim has
been sent to the dis-
trict hospital for med-
ical examination. Her
statement will be re-
corded before the mag-
istrate, Singh said.
Fatehpur (PTI): An
unmarried couple, up-
set over their family’s
resistance to their mar-
riage, allegedly hanged
themselves to death in
the house of one of
their relatives, police
said on Sunday
. The two
were found hanging to-
gether with the same
piece of cloth inside a
room in the house of
the boy’s uncle in a vil-
lage under the Lalauli
police station area of
the district on late Sat-
urday evening, SHO
Alok Kumar said. The
SHO said the boy was
20-year-old while the
girl was 19. On getting
the information about
the twin suicide, the po-
lice reached the village,
seized the bodies and
sent them for postmor-
tem, he said. The SHO
said the villagers
claimed that the two
were having an affair
and wanted to marry
but their family mem-
bers were opposed to it.
Bhadohi (PTI): Two
men have been arrest-
ed in connection with
the murder of a
16-year-old girl in this
district, police said on
Saturday. Superinten-
dent of Police Anil Ku-
mar said the arrests
were made on the ba-
sis of complaint
lodged by the father of
the deceased. The ar-
rested accused were
identified as Vishnu
Kahar and Pradeep
Swarnkar. According
to the police com-
plaint, the duo knew
the minor and were
involved in her mur-
der. The said the girl
left her home to attend
the nature’s call on the
night of May 14. The
following day, her fam-
ily members lodged a
missing complaint.
Police recovered the
girl’s body from a well
on May 27. The body
was found with hands
tied and inside a sack.
The matter is being in-
vestigated and the mo-
tive behind the inci-
dent is yet to be ascer-
tained, they said.
BODY OF GIRL
WITH INJURY
MARKS FOUND
IN HER HOUSE
Banda (UP): The
blood-soaked body of a
teenage girl with injury
marks on the stomach
has been recovered
from her house in the
Kamasin area, police
said on Sunday. The
body of the 17-year-
old girl was found
on Saturday, a police
officer said. He said
the incident came to
light after her family
members returned
home from the field.
TEENAGE BOY THRASHED
TO DEATH IN BANDA
Banda (PTI): A16-year-
old boy was allegedly
beaten to death by a
group of people in Ban-
da district, police said
on Sunday. The inci-
dent took place in Ten-
dura village under
Bisanda police station
area on Saturday night.
Additional Superin-
tendent of Police (ASP)
Laxmi Niwas Mishra
said the assailants
threw the body of Prem-
babu alias Dadu in a
pond after attacking
him with sticks and
fled. The condition of
Parshuram alias Parsi
(42), the father of the
deceased, who was in-
jured in the attack, re-
mains critical. He has
been admitted to the
government hospital,
the ASP said. Police
have lodged a case
against one Jayakaran
and his three sons. Ef-
forts are on to arrest
them, the police officer
said. The body of the
minor was sent for
post-mortem. Another
police officer said addi-
tional police force along
with provincial armed
constabulary (PAC) per-
sonnel have been de-
ployed in the village to
ensure law and order.
Police sources said
that a few months ago,
Jayakaran’s daughter
had eloped with Par-
shuram’s nephew
There were frequent
disputes between the
two Dalit families over
the issue.
MARATHON FOR POWER
Young women participate in Run for Shakti marathon organised by the police in
Moradabad on Saturday night. —PHOTO BY PTI
—REPRESENTATIONAL IMAGE
CM YOGI EXPRESSES GRIEF

08
2NDFRONT
Whatever you do, do it with
faith- Chances of success will
increase hundredfold.
—Dr Jagdeesh Chandra,
CEO Editor-in-Chief, First India
First India Bureau
Lucknow: Ahead of fil-
ing his nomination for
the biennial elections
to the Rajya Sabha,
Rashtriya Lok Dal
(RLD) chief Jayant
Chaudhary on Sunday
said debates such as
those on the Gyanvapi
mosque should not be
entertained in modern
democratic India.
Chaudhary, who will
be filing his nomina-
tion on Monday, re-
mained tight-lipped on
whether he was upset
with the apparent delay
by the Samajwadi Par-
ty (SP) in announcing
his name for the Rajya
Sabha polls even as
sources in his party
said he was initially
“taken aback” by the
c o a l i t i o n
partner’s
attitude.
O n c e
e l e c t e d
to the Ra-
j y a
S a b h a ,
C h a u d -
hary, the joint candi-
date of the SP-RLD for
the Rajya Sabha elec-
tions, will be his par-
ty’s “lone ranger” in
the Upper House of the
Parliament. ”
If you look at it, the
law does not allow
these sorts of debates
(like the ongoing Gyan-
vapi issue) anymore.
We must not entertain
these debates in mod-
ern democratic India.
Let us not look to cre-
ate more disturbances
for the future using our
past as an excuse.
We need to be for-
ward-looking and
address the real issues
of real India,” Chaud-
hary said.
When asked about
his nomination, the
RLD chief said, “I
will be filing my
nomination papers on
Monday.
There was an event
in Delhi on the occa-
sion of the death anni-
versary of Chaudhary
Charan Singh. We are
doing a ‘Samajik Nyaay
conference’, and we are
asking for a caste cen-
sus along with other
issues. There will be
representatives from
various parties.”
Gyanendra Kumar Shukla
Lucknow: The recent
Gyanvapi-Mathura
court cases have evoked
memories of the right-
wingschoolof thought’s
famous slogan of the
nineties-Ayodhya To
Kewal Jhaanki Hai,
Mathura Kashi Baaki
Hai (Ayodhya is just the
teaser, Mathura and
Kashi are still left).
However, at present,
the fact which sets the
Ayodhya case apart
from the Kashi-Mathu-
ra issues is that the for-
mer one was launched
and pursued rather ag-
gressively by the Vish-
wa Hindu Parishad
whereas there is ambi-
guity within the Sangh
Parivar about initiating
a campaign for posses-
sion of the disputed
sites in Varanasi and
Mathura.
It is evident from the
fact that the BJP, which
became the dominant
political force in the po-
litical landscape with
the help of the Ayodhya
issue, has not yet ap-
peared openly willing to
pursue the
Kashi-Mathura issues.
Rather saffron party
seems to be adopting a
very cautious and bal-
anced approach on
these issues. While re-
fraining from speaking
on the liberation of
these shrines, BJP lead-
ers have been emphasiz-
ing on the redevelop-
ment of these places.
Earlier, BJP MP from
Mathura Hema Malini
has urged PM Modi that
development should be
done in Krishna
Janmabhoomi Mathura
on the lines of Ayod-
hya-Kashi.
During election cam-
paign, stressing on mas-
sive development of
shrines, CM Yogi as-
serted that the BJP has
kept its word on build-
ing the Ram temple in
Ayodhya and after
Kashi, efforts are on to
boost development
works in Mathura too.
But apart from the
balanced statements of
CM and senior BJP
leaders, Deputy CM Ke-
shav Prasad Maurya
has apparently taken a
very vocal approach on
the issues of religious
places.
Earlier he has said
that construction of
grand temples is going
on in Ayodhya-Kashi,
now preparations are
on for Mathura. During
the news of Shivling be-
ing found in the recent
Gyanvapi survey, Kes-
hav Maurya tweeted,
“No matter how much
you hide the truth, but
one day it comes out be-
cause truth is Shiva.
Baba ki Jai, Har Har
Mahadev”.
Moreover, the RSS-af-
filiated Vishwa Hindu
Parishad (VHP) has
been in favor of not
stepping into the issues
of Gyanvapi and
Mathura until the con-
struction of Ram tem-
ple in Ayodhya is com-
pleted However, VHP’s
Union Minister and
Dharmacharya Sam-
park Pramukh Ashok
Tiwari has issued a
statement that the
meeting of the Kendri-
ya Margdarshak Man-
dal is scheduled on
June 11-12 in Haridwar.
The core issue of Krish-
na Janmabhoomi and
will also be included .
Lucknow(PTI): Af-
ter the construction
of the Ram Temple
in Ayodhya, the tem-
ple town of Kashi
appears to be waking
up, as are Mathura,
Vrindavan, Vind-
hyavasini Dham and
Naimish Dham,
Chief Minister Yogi
Adityanath said on
Sunday
.
There has been no
communal riot in the
state, he told the
BJP’s one-day state
executive meeting in
Lucknow and men-
tioned recent festi-
vals to say that for
the first time in the
state the namaz on
the last Friday before
Eid was not held on
roads. Adityanath re-
ferred to the inaugu-
ration of the Kashi
Vishwanath Temple
Corridor, to say one
lakh devotees visit
Kashi every day and
the place is proving
the significance of
its name in line with
Prime Minister Nar-
endra Modi’s vision.
‘‘Ram Navami and
Hanuman Jayanti
were held peacefully
.
This was the first
time that the last Fri-
day namaz before Eid
was not held on the
streets. For namaz
there is a place of
worship, the
mosques where their
religious pro-
grammes can be
held,” he said.
Mentioning the
removal of loud-
speakers from reli-
gious places, he said,
“You must have seen
how the unnecessary
noise was got rid of.”
Balrampur(PTI):
The stringent Nation-
al Security Act (NSA)
was been invoked
against former Bal-
rampur MP and Sama-
jwadi Party leader Ri-
zwan Zaheer, who is in
jail in a murder case,
by UP authorities, po-
lice said on Saturday
.
According to Super-
intendent of Police
Rajesh Kumar Saxena,
action has been taken
against “mafia” leader
Rizwan Zaheer under
the NSA to maintain
public peace and
order.
The order was is-
sued on Saturday
night and a copy was
served to Zaheer in
jail, he said. The NSA
allows the detention
of a person up to a
year without any
charge.
Zaheer is in jail for
the last five months in
connection with the
murder of Firoz Pap-
pu, former chairman
of Tulsipur Nagar
Panchayat.
Budaun(PTI): A man
has been booked here
on charges of cruelty
against animal after he
was seen torturing a
dog in a video that sur-
faced on social media,
police said on Sunday.
The incident took place
in Sahaswan Police Sta-
tion area about a month
ago, they said.
According to the po-
lice, a video of a man
torturing a dog had sur-
faced on social media
twodaysago.Themanin
the video is seen lifting a
dog by its tail and throw-
ing it on the ground.
AnimalactivistViken-
dra Sharma tagged the
video on Twitter and de-
manded legal action
from Senior Superinten-
dent of Police of Bu-
daun.Taking note of the
matter, police booked a
man named Junaid Sat-
urday night under the
Prevention of Cruelty
towards Animals Act.
Sahaswan Police Sta-
tion SHO Sanjeev Shuk-
la said, “The incident
took place earlier this
month but the video
went viral recently
. The
accused, Junaid, is cur-
rently in Delhi, and ef-
forts are being made to
arrest him.”
Maharajganj: A po-
lice station in-charge
was attached to lines
after he allegedly
slapped a woman be-
cause she was making
a video of him.
Departmental action
was taken against the
Farenda police station
in-charge after he
slapped a woman who
was making a video
recording of him
when he was trying to
resolve a land dispute
on Thana Samadhan
Diwas.
Police sources here
said that Farenda po-
lice station in-charge
Dinesh Dutt Mishra
was trying to solve a
land dispute in Gane-
shpur village during
Thana Samadhan Di-
was when a woman be-
gan making video of
him. Inspector Mishra
was annoyed and
slapped the girl and
snatched her mobile.
The video of the police-
man slapping the wom-
an went viral.
No place for Gyanvapi-like debates in modern India: RLD chief
AHEAD OF RAJYA SABHA ELECTION
lll
Ahead of filing
his nomination
for the biennial
polls to the RS,
RLD chief Jayant
Chaudhary on
Sunday said ‘If
you look at it,
the law does
not allow
these sorts of
debates’
SP President Akhilesh Yavdav garlanding the statue of former PM
Chaudhary Charan Singh on his death anniversary in front of the
Vidhan Bhavan in Lucknow on Sunday.—PHOTO BY ASHOK DUTTA
SANGH PARIVAR GRAPPLES
WITH KASHI-MATHURA ISSUES
RSS-affiliated VHP not in favour of stepping into
the issues until the construction of Ram temple
DEMAND TO HANDOVER SHRINE WAS
FIRST EXPRESSED IN 1949
2019 SUPREME COURT VERDICT ON
AYODHYA DISPUTE
The demand for handing over the three shrines, Ayodhya-
Kashi-Mathura, to the Hindus was first articulated by
the Hindu Mahasabha in 1949, a decade prior the RSS
included it in its agenda. From the eighties, the demand
in this regard started to revive anew. It was first done by
those individuals and organizations which at one point or
the other owed allegiance to the Congress rather than the
RSS. The right-wing camp has always insisted that Matter
of Faith cannot be settled by the Court of Law. But this idea
never became a deterrent in the way of approaching the
devotees to the court.
The Supreme Court’s verdict on the Ram janmabhoomi-
Babri Masjid land dispute in Ayodhya on November
9, 2019, settled the issue by giving ownership of the
disputed 2.77-acre land in Ayodhya to the Ram Janma-
bhoomi Trust. Taking a cue from the title suit over Ram
Jamabhoomi, petitions were filed in both Mathura and
Kashi on behalf of deities to get the adjacent mosques
removed. Like the Ram Lalla Virajman at Ayodhya,
petitions claimed that at Mathura and Kashi also, deities
were juridical persons and could own property.
Hindu women plaintiffs in the Gyanvapi Mosque-Shringar Gauri
case along with their lawyers at the Varanasi court.
BEATING THE HEAT LIKE A BOSS!
An elephant quenches its thirst on a hot summer day, in Prayagraj on Sunday.
—PHOTO BY ANI
COP SENT TO
LINES AFTER
SNATCHING
WOMAN’S
PHONE
After Ayodhya, looks
like Kashi, Mathura
waking up, too:Yogi
PLANNING
At the first state
executive meet-
ing of the BJP
after the Assem-
bly polls in Uttar
Pradesh, Yogi
Adityanath asked
the party workers
to start preparing
for the 2024 Lok
Sabha polls and
move forward
with the target of
winning 75 out
of the state’s 80
seats.
NSA slapped
against SP leader
Man booked for
cruelty against dog
Lucknow(PTI):Com-
ing to the defence of the
IAS couple shunted out
over alleged misuse of
a sports stadium in the
national capital, BJP
leader Maneka Gandhi
on Saturday said the
transfer of the officials
is a “loss to Delhi”.
The Centre had on
Thursday posted IAS
couple Sanjeev Khir-
war and Anu Dugga to
Ladakh and Arunachal
Pradesh, respectively,
following media reports
about the misuse of fa-
cilities at Thyagraj Sta-
dium by them. Khirwar
was then posted as Prin-
cipal Secretary (Reve-
nue) in Delhi. ‘‘I know
(Sanjeev) Khirwar very
well’’ said Maneka.
MANEKA GANDHI
LENDSSUPPORT
TO SHUNTED
IAS COUPLE
SP leader Rizwan Zaheer
—FILE PHOTO

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ARIES
MAR 21 - APR 20
This is the
best time try
something new
with life give
yourself a new
purpose. You
will feel amorous
towards your
wife. Work on
your limitations, there can be no better
time than this. You have more opposite
sex friends and you may be judged
sometimes but don’t care.
LIBRA
SEPT 24 - OCTOBER 22
Best day to
buy gold and
silver or any
precious metal
for investment
sake. You love to
live close to your
family. You are
a child at heart
and never let this child die. You have a
big heart and you always help someone
if you can. Video gathering with social
circle is possible.
TAURUS
APR 21 - MAY 20
Boisterous
behaviour is
what everyone
needs right now,
do whatever
you can do to
cheer everyone
up. You will
feel financially
comfortable and infant you are in
position to invest money in some new
venture. Your personality will attract
many eligible bachelors.
SCORPIO
OCT 23 - NOVEMBER 22
You are a pro in
your field and
none can beat
you. Female
scorpios are
lioness and
women around
are often
jealous. You
give tough competition to people.
Many people get inspired by you. You
will get special treatment from your
dear ones today.
GEMINI
MAY 21 - JUNE 21
You are very
fortunate to have
a great friend
circle. You are
very generous
by nature and
also you are the
backbone of your
family. Today is
a favourable day for business. You may
postpone your study plans. Be careful of
the words that come out of your mouth.
SAGITTARIUS
NOV 23 - DEC 22
Take stand where
you need to, don’t
run in the same
direction where
everybody else
is going. Visit a
doctor if you
have any doubts
about your
health. Don’t attack stress even if you
don’t have any. Let go of things that are
not in your control. A good day to start
new projects.
CANCER
JUNE 22 - JULY 23
You must
create an
environment of
understanding
at home. You
need a break
from day to
tensions and
the way to cope
up with stress is to meditate. You will
succeed in any sort of examination if
you put your heart and soul to it. A
good for you.
CAPRICORN
DEC 23 - JAN 20
Never demotivate
someone even if
someone is not
capable of doing
something. You
make sure to
make things
work your way.
You are most
wanted by your friends. You can have
romantic affair in office and a serious
one. You will invest money in clothes
and accessories today.
LEO
JULY 24 - AUGUST 23
You need help on
academic front
and you should
not shy away
from asking.
Your spouse
may make you
spend more than
you expected.
Fantastic day for investing money in stock
market as you can make fortune. You
miss your parents a lot and somewhere
fear to loose them.
AQUARIUS
JAN 21 - FEB 19
You are
opportunist and
this will make you
successful one
day. Your spouse
is someone
who can do
anything for your
happiness. There
may be delays in property possession
and it won’t effect you. You are happy
spending whole day at home. Help your
mothers at home today.
VIRGO
AUG 24 - SEP 23
Don’t make
friends for money
and status rather
make friends who
will stick with you
forever. You care
about you lover
but somehow
hesitate in
expressing that care. On social front, you
may have to spend some extra money
in buying gifts for someone for some
specific occasion.
PISCES
FEB20 - MARCH 20
Scrumptious
food is what
you are craving
for today. You
always maintain
cordial
relationship
with everyone.
You workout
daily to keep yourself fit. You may
start a side business to earn extra
money. You are not a jealous kind and
you feel happy for others.
YOUR
DAY
Horoscope by
Saurabbh Sachdeva
ith the onset
of the school
summer va-
cations, par-
ents, as well
as kids, are
in a tizzy about what to
do during this long
break. Usually
, there is
an inherent tussle that
takes place. While kids
want to focus on play-
ing, parents would like
them to be construc-
tively occupied. The
good news is, both can
be achieved without
much conflict, if only
we incorporate certain
guidelines for our sum-
mer holidays. Wonder-
ing how? Read on!
PRE-PLAN
A man with a plan is
always successful.
Likewise,forparentsto
have a plan that they
havedevised,discussed
and approved by the
kids always goes a long
way in avoiding con-
flict. Ideally, it helps if
the summer schedule
is a mix of holiday-
making, some absolute
downtime, a bit of
schoolhomework/revi-
sion, and a few fun ac-
tivities that also endow
students with great
skills. A good combina-
tion of work and play
will keep both parents
as well as kids, happy
. It
also allowed for the
much-needed ‘break’
forstudents,whilststill
providing enough con-
structive engagement
for them not to become
idle or destructive.
FAMILIAL
With an increasing
number of families
having shrunk into
tiny nuclear setups,
the holidays are a
great time for kids to
reconnect with close
family. Grandparents
of both sides, aunts
and uncles; these are
relationships worth
exploring, strengthen-
ing and nurturing.
Spending time with
family gives kids a vi-
tal perspective on their
roots, origins, where
they come from, and
who they are. So plan a
part of the holidays to
spend quality time
with close family that
doesn’t necessarily so-
licit interaction dur-
ing the working
months. Be it intra-
city or involving a bit
of travel; quality time
with extended family
is crucial to foster a
sense of family, be-
longing, identity and
connection.
PASSION PROJECT
Most students nowa-
days tend to keep bus-
ier than us adults.
Schoolwork, a myriad
of extra-curricular ac-
tivities, and other en-
gagements such as the
almost mandatory tui-
tion classes often rob
students of indulging
in their true passions.
The summer holidays,
therefore, serve as the
perfect antidote to life,
which can be a foil to
one’s inner cravings
and pursuits. Students
should use the holi-
days to get into one of
their most desired but
long-pending quests. It
could be anything, a
specific place to travel,
an attempt at writing
a story or a book, a
hunger to learn how to
act, ANYTHING. Cre-
ating the time and op-
portunity to pursue
that long-dormant pas-
sion can be a great
way of investing in
oneself.
GOOD-NATURED
We are also a society
that is fast and increas-
ingly losing a connec-
tion with nature. Sure,
students are made
aware of the planet’s
environmental prob-
lems at school, even
made to be part of var-
ious activities that
propagate the eco-
friendly message; most
of this however works
at a superficial level.
Kids should be encour-
aged to reconnect with
nature during the holi-
days. It can be a full-on
trek into the wilder-
ness, or even through
an easily-accom-
plished activity like
tending the garden.
Either way, personal
interaction with na-
ture has multiple ben-
efits ranging from and
not limited to a sense
of calm, a different
viewpoint and per-
spective on life, and a
chance to introspect.
ACTIVE
Finally, the summer
holidays are a wonder-
ful opportunity to be
active and get fit. A lot
of kids these days
don’t always get the
time or opportunity to
be sportingly/actively
engaged. The summer
presents that perfect
opportunity to get fit
while having a superb
time. Everyday activ-
ity such as Swimming,
for example, is the
ideal heat-buster
while also making for
a full-body and mind
workout. So swim, be
active, and get fit,
mind, body and soul.
The summer holi-
days in most parts of
India are long. They
present a chance for
kids and parents to
connect, bond and be
with each other like
normally they
wouldn’t be able to.
Aside from all the
many travel plans and
activities one could
and must plan, re-
member, be with your
parents. It’s time you
will never have again.
Create a deeper under-
standing and relation-
ship that goes beyond
the already-estab-
lished parent-child
status quo. Happy
Holidays!
W
KARTIK BAJORIA
(The author is a Jaipur-based
Communication Skills Educator
Writer)
USE SUMMER
USE SUMMER
HOLIDAYS
HOLIDAYS
OPTIMALLY
OPTIMALLY

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