Congress’s terrific trio bring down saffron forts across Rajasthan

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TIKAIT WARNS! FARMERS TO STAY PUT,
STIR WON’T CONCLUDE BEFORE OCTOBER
Ghaziabad: Bhartiya
Kisan Union (BKU)
spokesperson Rakesh
Tikait on Tuesday
warned that the farm-
ers’ agitation will not
conclude unless govern-
ment repeals the three
newly enacted agricul-
ture laws and it may go
on till October.
“Our slogan is ‘Ka-
noon Wapsi Nahi toh
Ghar Wapasi Nahi’.
This agitation will not
conclude before Octo-
ber, it will not end any-
time soon,” said Tikait
while addressing a rally
at Ghazipur border.
Reacting to the heavy
deployment of security
personnelandfencingat
the borders of Delhi, he
said,“Thegovernment’s
strategy to stop the
farmersisgoingtoback-
fire as it will restrict
movements of farm pro-
duces to various places
and in turn harm com-
mon people. I urge all of
you to be prepared to
carry this movement till
October/November. Let
the government do as
much fencing as they
want to do.”
Tikait said the youth
who hoisted the flag at
Red Fort was given way
by the authorities them-
selves. “All this was
done to malign the im-
age of Punjabi commu-
nity and paint the im-
age of farmers as anti-
national,” he added.
Security has been
beefed up at Ghazipur,
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New Delhi: The CBSE
board exam for Class X
andXIIwillbeginonMay
4,theEducationMinistry
said on Tuesday
, as it re-
leased a datesheet for
both classes. Class X ex-
amswillfinishonJune7,
while Class XII exams
will conclude on June 11.
Practical exams will be-
gin from March 1.
On four days the
Class XII exams will be
held in two shifts - the
first will be from 10.30
am to 1.30 pm, and the
second will be from 2.30
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Barricades, boulders, drones!
Security beefed in New Delhi
New Delhi: Security
has been beefed up at
the three borders and
barricades, boulders,
barbed wires have come
up as additional forces
made their way to Ghaz-
ipur, Singhu and Tikri
borders amid the appre-
hensions of more farm-
ers joining the protest
from Punjab, Haryana
and Western UP.
Dronesarebeingused
to keep surveillance and
intense checking is be-
ing done at the border
areaswhichhasresulted
in massive traffic snarls
in the capital. The Traf-
fic was affected on Road
no. 56 from ISBT Anand
VihartoGhazipurdueto
closingof border.Traffic
jam were also noticed at
ITO and other places in
Delhi amid heavy police
checking.
The Delhi Police
blocked roads near Ak-
shardhamandvehicular
movement was restrict-
ed between Delhi and
Ghaziabad on National
Highway-24. Turn to P6
SAYS,OURSLOGANIS‘KANOONWAPSINAHITOHGHARWAPASINAHI’
BKU’s Rakesh Tikait having his meal at Ghazipur border during farmers ongoing protest against the
new farm laws, in New Delhi on Tuesday. —PHOTO BY PTI
New Delhi: Congress
and other Opposition
parties on Tuesday
forced adjournments of
Rajya Sabha proceed-
ings twice in pre-noon
session as they insisted
on taking up a discus-
sion on the issue of
farmers’ protest over
the three new farm bills.
The House was first ad-
journed for about 40
minutes till 10.30 am.
As soon as the House
met again, similar
scenes were witnessed
leading to another ad-
journment till 11.30 am.
Congress, Left, TMC,
DMK and RJD mem-
bers first walked out
from RS after their de-
mand for suspension of
business of the day for
taking up the discus-
sion was rejected by the
Chairman M Venkaiah
Naidu. The leaders gave
notice for suspension of
business under Rule 267
of Rules Turn to P6
New Delhi: The government
on Tuesday asserted in Lok
Sabha that it was ready to dis-
cuss issues related to farmers
both inside and outside Parlia-
ment amid vociferous protests
by the Opposition which
forced the House to adjourn
twice, first for almost an hour
and then for nearly two hours.
Agriculture Minister Nar-
endra Singh Tomar said dur-
ing Zero Hour, which began at
5 pm, that the Modi govern-
ment is always committed to
discuss the farmer’’s issues.
“Government is ready to
discuss issues related to
farmers inside and outside
Parliament,” he said amid slo-
ganeering by opposition mem-
bers.
Tomar’s reply came after
Congress leader in Lok Sabha
Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury
claimed that 170 farmers have
died during the ongoing agita-
tion against the three conten-
tious farm laws.
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FARMERS RESORTED TO RIOTING,
COPS HAD NO OPTION: CENTRE
New Delhi: The Centre on Tuesday told Lok Sabha
that protesting farmers “aggressively” resorted to
rioting, damage to property and used “criminal force”
against public servants during their tractor ‘parade’
here on January 26 leaving Delhi police with no
option but to use tear gas, water cannons and mild
force to control the crowd. LS was also informed that
39 cases were file between Sept & Dec 2020 against
farmers protesting against the 3 agri laws at Delhi’s
borders. In a written reply, Union Minister of State
for Home G Kishan Reddy also said the protesting
farmers were not following social distancing.
HARYANA FARMERS TURN UP AT
DHARNA SITES AT TOLL PLAZAS
Chandigarh: Support is growing swiftly for the ongo-
ing farmers’ agitation in Haryana with a large number
of farmers turning up at dharna sites at toll plazas
on the national highways on Tuesday. At Landhri toll
plaza on Hisar-Sirsa NH near Hisar, thousands of
farmers vowed for a long battle against 3 farm laws.
A large number of women also participated in the
meeting. On the day, the farmers also blocked the
Patiala-Jind-Rohtak-Delhi national highway at Khatkar
toll plaza near Narwana town along the Jind and His-
ar-Chandigarh national highway Tuesday to oppose
internet curbs in some parts of the state.
OPPN STAGES WALKOUT
AFTER NAIDU REJECTS
SUSPENSION NOTICE
BJP SKIPS ALL-PARTY
MEET CALLED BY CAPT
‘PRIME MINISTER ARE YOU ON
WAR WITH FARMERS?’
BUILD BRIDGES, NOT WALLS:
RAHUL GANDHI SLAMS CENTRE
CONG LEGAL DEPARTMENT TO GIVE
LEGAL ASSISTANCE TO FARMERS
Chandigarh: An all-party meeting was
held at Punjab Bhawan chaired by
Punjab Chief Miniter Captain Amarinder
Singh on the issue of Central Farmer
Legislations, however, Bharatiya Janata
Party (BJP) skipped the meeting. The
meeting had been called to discuss the
farmers’ agitation against agricultural
laws in the light of the recent develop-
ments in the national capital.
New Delhi: Amid the stale-
mate between the central
government and protesting
farmers, AICC GS Priyanka
Gandhi Vadra on Tuesday
questioned PM Modi whether
he is on a war with the farm-
ers. “Honourable PM, are you
on war with your farmers?”
tweeted Vadra in Hindi.
New Delhi: As security was
beefed up at different borders
of the national capital in
light of the ongoing farmers’
protest, Congress leader
Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday
advised the BJP-led central
government to ‘build bridges
and not walls’.”GOI, Build
bridges, not walls!,” tweeted
Gandhi on Tuesday.
New Delhi: Amid reports of Delhi Police filing FIRs against many
farmers and their leaders, Congress legal dept headed by Vivek
Tankha on Tuesday formed teams to assist them for any legal
help. A resolution passed by dept says, “Delegations of legal dept
from Punjab, Haryana and Delhi will be visiting farmer leaders at
protest-sites at borders of Delhi to apprise them of legal services
already taken to help farmers and journalists regarding relief and
redressal.” The department will display in public a list of lawyers
in each district of the four states who will visit jails and find out
about the persons missing and also visit police stations.
Barricades set up at Delhi-UP Ghazipur border to stop farmers
from marching towards in New Delhi on Tuesday.
CONGRESS’S ‘TERRIFIC TRIO’ BRING DOWN
‘SAFFRON FORTS’ ACROSS RAJASTHAN!
Aditi Nagar
New Delhi: The perfor-
mance by Congress in
local body elections has
not only surprised elec-
toral pandits, but even
the Congressmen them-
selves who have now de-
vised their own theories
on finding themselves in
the middle of this ‘elec-
toral swell’. While the
nitty-gritties may be
many
,butitalladdsupto
the ‘magician’ that is
Ashok Gehlot in con-
junction with the opti-
mumman-managements
of AICC General Secre-
tary incharge Ajay Mak-
en and the ‘workforce’ of
PCCChief GovindSingh
Dotasra,whichhasmade
possible that despite all
odds, Congress makes a
‘comeback’.
It is owing to the well
planned and executed
strategies of ‘Team Ge-
hlot-Maken-Dotasra’that
has found immense sup-
port in the public and as
a result, local bodies that
hadcometobetermedas
BJP’s forts, have now
been ‘conquered’ by the
grand-old-party!
Take for example the
Rajsamand municipal
council where Congress
has made inroads after
25 years. Here, Congress
candidateshavesecured
victories on 26 out of
the 45 wards while BJP
has been limited to
merely 18 wards, a far
cry from the saffron
party’s tally in 2016-16
when it won 21 out of 35
wards, and Congress
had won merely 12!
It was way back on
1995 when Congress
had a clear majority
, but
at that time, Rajsa-
mand’s municipal body
was a municipality and
not a council. Similarly,
the strategies devised
by the ‘terrific-two’ of
Congress has ensured
that BJP’s ‘strongholds’
i.e. Fatehpur, Nawal-
garh, Salumber and Ra-
tangarh, are brought
crashing down and Con-
gress gets to make its
boards, all thanks to the
strategies of Gehlot and
Maken!
Interestingly, highly
placed sources reveal
that during his meet
with CM Gehlot and Do-
tasra on Tuesday at
CMR, Maken briefed
him about his analyses
on the local body elec-
tion that it indeed was
the close coordinated
workingbetweenGehlot
and Dotasra, with mak-
en where needed, that
has seen the party home
in these elections!
Ashok Gehlot Ajay Maken Govind Singh Dotasra
Govt ready to discuss issues
inside & outside Parl: Min

RAJASTHAN
JAIPUR | WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 2021
02
Bharat Dixit
Jaipur: The female stu-
dents have scored over
the males in the class
10th of Rajasthan State
Open School 2020 the
results of which
were declared on Tues-
day by Education min-
ister Govind Singh Do-
tasra at the Shiksha
Sankul auditorium.
The success percent-
age of female stu-
dents is 51.45% while
the male students re-
corded 45.45%. Archana
Patidar of Banswara
topped the state by se-
curing 85.40% marks
and Arvind Kata-
ra from Banswara ac-
quired the highest posi-
tion in males with
81.60%. The two will be
rewarded with Meera
and Eklavya awards re-
spectively and receive
certificates and a cash
prize of Rs 21,000 each.
This year the result
of the class 10 examina-
tion is 48.30%, which is
3.72% more than the
previous year’s re-
sult. Dotasra congratu-
lated the toppers over
the phone.
Due to the lockdown,
March and May 2020 ex-
aminations were held
in September last year.
Similarly, at the district
level, a female and a
male, who achieved
first place, will be re-
warded by Rs 11,000.
Moreover, the result of
Stream-1 was also re-
leased which is 50.15%
and the supplementary
examination result was
38.57%.
Girls score over boys in Class 10 of open school
RESULT TIME
Govind Singh Dotasra at the Shiksha Sankul auditorium.
BADEBANDI AS NOMINATIONS
CLOSE FOR CHAIRMAN POSTS
281 councillors filed nominations for chairman posts on Tuesday in 90 ULBs
First India Bureau
Jaipur: The Congress
and the BJP have resort-
ed to hoarding their
councillors ahead of the
chairman elections
scheduled on February
7. About 281 councillors
filed nominations for
chairmanpostsonTues-
day, the last day for the
nominationsin90urban
local bodies which went
topollson Thursday last
week, and results of
ward councilors were
announced on Sunday
.
Forest minister Sukh-
ram Bishnoi took the
councillors to Kumbhal-
garh while more coun-
cillors were taken to
undisclosed locations.
BJP councillor Bri-
jlata Hada, wife of
Ajmer district president
Priyahseel Hada, on
Tuesday, filed nomina-
tion papers for the elec-
tion to the post of Mayor
in Ajmer municipal cor-
poration in the presence
of former minister
Arun Chaturvedi, who
was in charge for the
election, Vasudev Dev-
nani, and Anita Bhadel.
Only 19 candidates
had filed nominations
on Monday and the rest
of the candidates sub-
mitted nominations on
Tuesday
. Of the 90 local
bodies, the ruling Con-
gress has got a clear ma-
jority in 19 local bodies
while BJP got a clear
majority in 25.
Both the parties have
confined their newly
elected councilors
which will continue till
elections of vice-chair-
persons on 8 February
.
The scrutiny of nomi-
nation papers will be
conducted on Wednes-
day, names can be with-
drawn by 4 February
and symbols will be al-
lotted on the same day
and counting will take
place on 7 February
whereas for the post of
vice-chairman, filing of
nominationpapers,elec-
tion, and counting will
takeplaceon8February
.
Sukhram Bishnoi took the councillors to Kumbhalgarh.
Registration of 10 coop
societies cancelled
Over 40 lakh children, women
benefiting by schemes: Pathak
BJP MLAs to meet on Feb 9 for preps
Ensure quality in repair of roads,
other facilities: Gaurav Goyal
Nirmal Tiwari
Jaipur: The Depart-
ment of Co-operatives
took stern action on
Tuesday against 10
housing cooperative
societies in Jaipur. The
department canceled
their registrations due
to non-audit, non-
availability of records
and other irregulari-
ties, said an official.
The department is
taking strict steps in
case of frauds and var-
ious other irregulari-
ties in granting lease
by housing coopera-
tive societies. Regis-
trar Muktanand Ag-
garwal said that in the
context of complaints
of fraud being made
by the housing coop-
eratives with the gen-
eral public, principal
secretary Kunjilal
Meena had directed to
take action against the
under-construction
house, building, co-
operative societies,
and irregularly con-
structed housing co-
operatives.
Aggarwal informed
to refrain from buying
the leases of the new
schemes from the com-
mittees whose regis-
trations have
been cancelled.
The co-operative so-
cieties whose regis-
tration was cancelled
include Kishangarh,
Renwal Adarsh Ghar,
Banethi Griha, Jam-
waramgarh Navb-
harat Griha, Sirsali
Griha, Lakher Griha,
Devdani Griha, Ach-
rol Griha, Govindgarh
Griha GS Ltd, Bobadi
house NCDC and Ru-
pavas model house.
First India Bureau
Jaipur: Dr KK Pathak,
Secretary, Department
of Women and Child
Development said that
in the 62,500 Anganwa-
di centres operated in
the state, more than 40
lakh children, pregnant
and lactating women
are benefiting by opting
for schemes operated by
the department.
He was speaking at
the two-day social au-
dit training for
schemes operated un-
der Integrated Child
Development Services
at Cooperative Man-
agement Institute on
Monday. Dr Pratibha
Singh, Director of Inte-
grated Child Develop-
ment Services inaugu-
rated the training.
Pathak said that the
tradition of social audit
has been going on for
centuries. He said that
after the NREGA
scheme, various Angan-
wadi centres in 12 dis-
tricts of the state have
been selected for social
audit on a pilot basis.
The data of every ben-
eficiary at every Angan-
wadi centre in the state
should be availa-
ble and this will be im-
plemented by the de-
partment from 1 April.
First India Bureau
Jaipur: The
BJP MLAs will meet on
9 February at the BJP
headquarters to
plan the strategy for the
Budget session of the
Rajasthan Legislative
Assembly starting from
February 10. Leader of
Opposition Gu-
lab Chand Kataria said
that legislators have
been preparing since
the day the assembly
session was announced.
A number of questions
have been prepared by
the MLAs. Issues relat-
ed to the public will be
raised. Law and order
will also be questioned
in the House.
“No development
work is done. The vil-
lages didn’t get even a
cement bag. It’s not me
it’s the sarpanches of
Congress who are say-
ing this,” Kataria said
on Tuesday
. In the meet-
ing, every eye will be on
the presence of former
Chief Minister Vasund-
hara Raje. She has been
away from party meet-
ings for a long time and
even did not attend
the core group meeting.
The opposition BJP
is all prepared to corner
the Ashok Gehlot-led
Congress government
over the issues of farm-
ers, corona manage-
ment, and electricity
among others during
the upcoming budget
session of the assembly
.
Abhishek Shrivastav
Jaipur: Jaipur Devel-
opment Authority com-
missioner Gaurav Goy-
al on Tuesday instruct-
ed the JDA officials to
repair damaged roads,
footpaths, drainage,
street lights, traffic
lights falling in their
respective zone are-
as and ensure quality
work.
In a virtual meeting,
he asked the officers to
stay in office from 4 pm
to 6 pm during a public
hearing on working
days for quick disposal
of public related mat-
ters. He also asked
them to ensure disci-
pline in their subordi-
nate staff.
Enforcement offic-
ers were instructed to
prepare a list of illegal
colonies, where con-
structions were demol-
ished by the JDA, and
conduct a survey to
find out whether any
illegal construction
was still there. He di-
rected the officials to
demolish any such il-
legal construction.
Regarding the plan-
ning of the lands of
MLA quarters in La-
lkothi and Jalupura,
he gave instructions
to speed up the ten-
dering process for the
demolition of the
structures.
Dr KK Pathak, Dr Pratibha Singh, Manju Yadav during the training.
Sahkar bhawan —FILE PHOTO
Shekhawat
writes to CM
for digital
university
Rajiv Gaur
Jodhpur: Union
Jal Shakti minis-
ter Gajendra Sin-
gh Shekhawat has
written a letter to
Chief Minister
Gehlot requesting
him to establish a
digital university
in Jodhpur.
He requested
him to forward a
proposal to the
centre.
“ S h e k h a w a t
said that the digi-
tal university will
establish new di-
mensions in Jodh-
pur which is being
developed as an
education hub.
This will also lay
the foundation of
the digital revolu-
tion in the state,”
BJP jodhpur me-
dia in charge
Achal Singh Me-
datiya said while
referring to the
letter.
He said that the
university in Jodh-
purwillprovetobe
a milestone in the
field of education.
`7 CRORE FOR REVAMPING ROADS
BUDGET SESSION QUESTIONS
Metro from Badi
Chaupar to Trp Nagar
Congress govt going
haywire: Poonia
Properties to get
UIDs in the state
NSUI starts drive
to collect money
for Ram temple
First India Bureau
Jaipur: The Metro Rail
currently running from
Mansarovar to Badi
Chaupar will be extend-
ed from Badi Chaupar
to Transport Na-
gar, named Phase-
1C. The JMRC has pre-
pared a detailed project
report for this new
route extension.
The present project
of the metro operated
on Mansarovar-Chand-
pole and then Chand-
pole-Badi Chaupar
route has been pre-
pared in 2 phases. The
length of this entire
route is 11.56 km. If
this route extends from
Badi Chaupar to Trans-
port Nagar, then this
length will increase by
2.85 km. The JMRC has
also sought sugges-
tions from the public
on this DPR.
Two stations, one el-
evated and one under-
ground have been pro-
posed for this proposed
new route. It will have
an underground sta-
tion, which will be
built at Ramganj Chau-
par. While the second
station will be elevat-
ed, proposed at Trans-
port Nagar.
Aishwary Pradhan
Jaipur: BJP State Presi-
dent Satish Poonia said
that the government of
Rajasthan is going hay-
wire. He said this after
launching the training
kit for the training of
BJP workers at the state
BJP office on Tuesday
.
He said that they
must be having dreams
that the government
would fall anytime. If
they stop accusing us
then they can focus on
the development of the
state. The govt spent 2.5
years accusing the BJP.
Regarding candidate se-
lectionintheby-election
to be held on four seats,
Poonia said that they
will choose the candi-
date which has the po-
tential to win.
Leader of Opposition
Gulabchand Kataria
said that training camps
are organized to en-
hance the skills of work-
ers. State Organization
General Secretary
Chandrashekhar said
that our party’s plan of
action is to develop an
ideal democracy
.
First India Bureau
Jaipur: All the proper-
ties in the cities of Ra-
jasthan will now pos-
sess a unique property
ID. The instructions
have been given to all
the bodies by the Urban
Development Depart-
ment (UDH). They are
provided with clear in-
structions to digitize all
the assets in the state.
After digitization, every
property will be provid-
ed with a unique prop-
erty ID. This unique ID
will be made mandatory
for building map ap-
proval, name transfer,
mutation, and other on-
line services.
First India Bureau
Jaipur: National Stu-
dents’ Union of India on
Tuesday launched a
campaign to collect
moneyfromstudentsfor
theconstructionof Ram
temple in Ayodhya. The
drive named ‘Rs 1 Ram
Ke Naam’ was launched
by NSUI state president
Abhishek Chaudhary
.
Around 100 members
of the student wing of
the Congress party col-
lected contributions
from students in the
college.

RAJASTHAN
03
Vikas Sharma
Jaipur: Four persons
got a new lease of life
after the family of a
14-year-old boy, criti-
cally injured in a road
accident, decided to
donate his vital or-
gans.
Principal of SMS
hospital, Dr Sudhir
Bhandari said that
kidneys were trans-
planted to patients at
SMS whereas liver was
transplanted in Ma-
hatma Gandhi Hospi-
tal. The heart and
lungs were transplant-
ed to a 46-year-old
woman at Apollo Hos-
pital, Chennai, they
were airlifted from SMS
to Chennai by forming
a green corridor. Vishal,
a resident of Bassi, met
with an accident on
January 26. He was se-
riously injured as he
was not wearing hel-
met. Later, tests were
conducted at SMS on
January 31 as condition
was critical and was de-
clared brain dead. After
doctors explained about
his health to family
members, they agreed
to donate his organs.
Earlier, 35-year-old brain
dead ‘Kiran’ of
Malakhera, gave new
life to four needy people
before dying as family
agreed for organ dona-
tion.
Health Minister Dr
Raghu Sharma thanked
Vishal’s family mem-
bers for taking the de-
cision.
CM Ashok Gehlot
and former CM Vasund-
hara Raje took to twit-
ter to applaud the deci-
sion. Gehlot hailed SMS
team, SOTTO for their
untiring efforts. He said
that Rajasthan is one of
the leading states in
this field.
Raje said that it is not
easy to take organ dona-
tion decisions due to
many superstitions.
But Vishal’s family has
not only granted im-
mortality to boy by
adopting Mahadan, but
has also set an exam-
ple for society.
Brain dead teen’s organs give lease of
life to 4, CM, Raje, Raghu hail family
14-year-old donor Vishal.
First India Bureau
Jaipur: More than 2.39
lakh frontline workers
will be covered under
the covid vaccination
drive in the second
phase in Rajasthan
which is going to start
in next few days. Dr
Raghu Sharma said
that the results of 1st
phase of vaccination
are encouraging and
preparations have been
completed for 2nd phase
which will begin this
week. He informed that
in 2nd phase, armed forc-
es including BSF, CISF
will be vaccinated. Apart
from these, employees of
the revenue department,
local bodies, Panchayat
Raj and police will also
be vaccinated. Sharma
said 22,520 employees of
revenue department,
55,362 of local bodies and
1,61,236 police and army
have been registered.
Doctors motivate health worker as she gets jab at Kanwatia Hospital. —PHOTO BY SUMAN SARKAR
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New Delhi: Delhi Po-
lice Cyber Cell arrested
a person on Monday
from Rajasthan on
charges of spreading
fake news about resig-
nations of police per-
sonnel due to the ongo-
ing farmers’ agitation.
A social media cam-
paign had been going
on for the past two days
propagating false ru-
mours regarding disaf-
fection in police ranks.
Old, unrelated videos
were being posted with
fake news of the resig-
nation of police per-
sonnel.
Cyber Prevention
Awareness and Detec-
tion (CyPAD) registered
a criminal case against
Om Prakash Dhetarwal
and later on arrested
him. Om Prakash be-
longs to Churu district.
The accused had creat-
ed a Facebook account
by the name of ‘Kisan
Andolan Rajasthan’ and
shared an old video from
September 2020 of Home
Guards of another State,
portraying it as a reac-
tion of Delhi Police to
Farmers agitation. Po-
lice have advised people
to avoid sharing any
such content without
verifying. —ANI
Nirmal Tiwari
Jaipur: The Income
Tax Department has
imposed GST on more
than Rs 20 crore re-
ceived by the Rajasthan
Tourism Development
Corporation in lieu of
the lease of Jal Mahal.
In the action, it sealed
more than half a dozen
bank accounts of the
corporation.
They wrote a letter to
the IT department urg-
ing them to restart the
accounts, said an offi-
cial. With an aim of de-
veloping 100 acre of
land to develop tourism
around the prized prop-
erty of Jal Mahal i.e.
Man Sagar Lake, the
state had allocated it to
M/S KGK Ent on a lease
of 99 years in 2012. Ac-
cording to the condi-
tion, Rs 2.5 cr/year had
to be paid to RTDC.
The company started
paying Rs 2.5 crore per
year to RTDC, which
was deposited in vari-
ous accounts but the
terms of the GST were
ignored, said official
sources.
Kashiram Choudhary
Jaipur: The transport
department has made
important changes in
the process of perma-
nent driving licence. At
Jagatpura RTO office,
the permanent licence
will be made from the
automatic driving track
only, Transport com-
missioner Ravi Jain re-
instated the order on
Tuesday. The drivers
will be given relaxation
and a couple of mis-
takes and faults will be
let off during driving
tests. The track was
ready since long but
due to opposition it was
not operational. How-
ever, it’s now reintro-
duced by giving drivers
some ease during test.
Moreover, the driving
test on manual track
will continue at the
RTO Vidhyadhar Na-
gar. Earlier, on orders
of Ravi Jain the mun
corp areas had to take
driving tests on the au-
tomatic track at Jagat-
pura office. Trial will be
under close supervision
of inspector and dept.
First India Bureau
Udaipur: After over 10
months, Spice Jet flight
between Udaipur to
Jaipur resumed on
Monday. On its landing
in Udaipur, Spice Jet
flight was welcomed by
water salute.
Airport Director
Nandita Bhatt said that
the flight took off from
Jaipur at 8 am and on
its landing in Udaipur
at 8:50 am, it was given
a water salute. The pas-
senger load is also grad-
ually increasing on
these flights. From
53,549 passengers in No-
vember, the figure rose
to 64,850 in December.
There was a long pend-
ing demand from travel-
lers to restart the ser-
vices. The commence-
ment of flight will now
provide considerable
relief to the passengers.
Travel agent Ashok
Joshi said that passen-
gers from Udaipur will
be able to travel to Vara-
nasi, Guwahati, Patna,
Amritsar, Goa-Dabolim,
Kolkata, Dehradun,
Pune, Srinagar and
Dubai via Ahmedabad,
Jaipur and Delhi.
Vimal Kothari
Jaipur: DGGI Jaipur
region office has
launched a raid on 10
premises of a promi-
nent builder.
Sources said that
the teams of the
DGGI conducted
raids at the office,
residence and other
premises of Dhiren-
dra Madan’s Mahima
Group. The group’s
office is located at
crystal mall.
Sources said that a
cash of Rs. 30 lakh
and several docu-
ments have been
seized during the
raids which were
conducted on infor-
mation of GST eva-
sion.
First India Bureau
Kota: A woman has ac-
cused her estranged hus-
band and his friends of
abducting and gang rap-
ing her in a hotel. After
getting married in 2016,
the victim came to know
that man was already
married in Jodhpur and
has 6-year-old son. The
victim lodged a case
against the man in Bun-
di, started living sepa-
rately
. Victim alleged that
she had come to Kota for
shopping on 11 Nov, 2020.
Her husband along with
2 friends abducted her
from Vigyan Nagar. They
molested her, took her to
hotel room where she
was raped by the three
after giving her liquor
forcibly
. Police have reg-
istered case and started
investigation.
Automatic driving track at Jagatpura RTO in Jaipur.
Water cannons welcome Spice Jet flight at Udaipur airport.
The case reached HC
through a PIL which
is currently under
consideration
COVIDVAX:STATEGEARSUPFOR2NDPHASE
2,39,118 people
will get vax in 2nd
phase, 3,30,990
health workers got
vax in first phase
ISHRAT HONOURED AS CORONA WARRIOR
First India Bureau
Jaipur: Ishrat Bano,
an Anganwadi work-
er, was honoured as a
Covid warrior on 29th
Foundation Day of
the NCW at Vigyan
Bhawan on January
31. ‘It was the honour
of all the Anganwadi
workers of the state,’
she said. Bano said
with inspiration of
Mamta Bhupesh, KK
Pathak and Pratibha
Singh, she carried out
a door-to-door survey
of Eidgah Kachchhi
Basti, distributed
masks, sanitary nap-
kins, food etc. She also
played an active role
by creating awareness
for coronavirus.
Ishrat Bano felicitated with shield, certificate in New Delhi.
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n increase in the healthcare
budget of 137%, increase in the
budgeted infrastructure spend-
ing by 32%, which excludes the
2 lakh crores budgeted for states
andautonomousbodies,privati-
sationof twopublicsectorbanks
and an insurance company
, a
bad bank in the private sector to
clean up the balance sheets of
the banks, no increase in taxes
combined with significant
streamlining of the tax system,
significantly enhanced fiscal
spending to further the econom-
ic recovery that is underway
evenwhileprovidingamedium-
term fiscal consolidation frame-
work, including a plan for mon-
etisation of assets. After the
Pujarasque work done by the
Atmanirbhar Bharat packages
1-3,whichhasensuredthatIndia
got through the historical pan-
demic with minimal damage
and generated a V-shaped eco-
nomic recovery
, the Finance
Minister played a Rishabh Pant
like a knock on Monday as she
delivered a budget that will be
remembered by history
.
In an economy, the factor in-
puts comprise of the soft and
hard infrastructure, labour, and
capital. Traditionally, labour
and capital are regarded as the
key factor inputs. However,
since the soft and hard infra-
structure increases the produc-
tivity of labour and capital, for
purposesof analysingthebudg-
et, we can regard them both as
factor inputs as well. While the
soft infrastructure stems from
human development, the hard
infrastructure comprises of the
physical assets. Given the pan-
demic that has highlighted the
keyroleof health,ithasbecome
a critical element of soft infra-
structure. Similarly, the hard
infrastructure enables private
investmentandtherebyacceler-
atesthevirtuouscycleof invest-
ment,growthandconsumption.
This year’s budget will be re-
garded historic because it posi-
tively impacts each one of these
factor inputs.
In India, an NIPFP study
shows that the fiscal multiplier
from investments in physical
infrastructure has been very
high – 2.5 in the year when the
investment is made and 4.5 over
a few years. Therefore, if we
just consider the impact of the
5.54 lakh crores allocated for the
implementationof theNational
Infrastructure Pipeline, this cu-
mulates to 2.5% of GDP
. Taking
the multiplier of 2.5, 2.5% * 2.5
= 6.25% of GDP growth can be
expected to stem from the
spending on the infrastructure.
This is above and beyond the
significant ramp up in the Gov-
ernment’s capital expenditure
since the months of October
this year, as a result of which
the revised estimate for the
same would be 4.39 lakh crores
instead of 4.2 lakh crores that
was set out in the budget of FY
20. This increase of 4.5% when
compared to the budgeted esti-
mate is expected to manifest
despite the washout in capital
expenditure spending during
the months of the lockdown.
The significant outlays that
havebeenprovidedforroadsand
railways will especially enable
better logistics infrastructure in
the country and thereby reduce
the costs of doing business for
Indian companies. These add to
the several reforms that have
been launched in Atmanirbhar
Bharat 1-3, including the labour
reforms, the MSME definitional
changes, the Production Linked
Incentives scheme, and will en-
ablethemanufacturingsectorin
thecountry
.Thebillthatwillpro-
vide for the infrastructure fi-
nancing corporation in the pub-
lic sector is intended to enable
the setting up of the infrastruc-
turefinancinginstitutionsinthe
privatesectortoo,whichwilladd
financing options to the public
spendingthathasbeenprovided.
The impact of the gigantic in-
crease in the healthcare spend-
ing would of course manifest
over time. But, the Rs. 35000
crores budgeted for vaccination
together with the promise for
providingallnecessaryamounts
during the year act as a vaccine
for the economy as well. The im-
pact of this will be felt in the
contact-sensitive service sec-
tors, where pent up demand can
be expected to come back with a
vengeance. Therefore, this
spending on vaccination will
have its impact this year itself.
Thestreamliningof theexpend-
iture through the Atmanirbhar
Bharat Swasthya Yojana, fo-
cused on the full value chain of
healthcare from primary
through secondary to tertiary
care, can be expected to help in-
crease the productive impact of
the healthcare spending. The
significant increase in health-
care spending signals a key de-
parture in the emphasis placed
on health and will benefit the
common man over the medium
to long-term. The improvement
in human development that this
is likely to herald should mani-
fest in higher productivity of
labour and thereby improve-
ment in the overall productivity
.
Apart from the signal change
in healthcare, this year’s budget
could mark the start of the
transformation of the financial
sector in India. Three key initia-
tives stand out in this regard.
First is the setting up of a bad
bank, where the implementa-
tion will be done via a private-
sector structure to enable deci-
sion-making that is critical for
value generation in stressed as-
sets. Second, is the proposed pri-
vatisation of two public sector
banks and an insurance com-
pany with the necessary legisla-
tivechangesthatwouldbemade
to enable the same. Finally
, the
increaseinthethresholdforFDI
in insurance from 49% to 75%
with the necessary safeguards.
Overall, the first budget of
the decade has provided a sig-
nificant roadmap for the Indian
economy to not only return
back to the pre-Covid growth
path but also accelerate growth
over the decade. Madam Fi-
nance Minister, You have deliv-
ered what you promised… a
budgetforhistorytoremember!
THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY
THE AUTHOR ARE PERSONAL
A DREAM BUDGET THAT LAYS THE PATH FOR NOT ONLY IMMEDIATE POST-
COVID RECOVERY BUT ALSO HIGH GROWTH OVER THE DECADE
‘DREAM BUDGET’ 2021
A
The significant
outlays that have
been provided for
roads and
railways will
especially enable
better logistics
infrastructure in
the country and
thereby reduce
the costs of doing
business for
Indian
companies. These
add to the several
reforms that have
been launched in
Atmanirbhar
Bharat 1-3,
including the
labour reforms,
the MSME
definitional
changes, the
Production
Linked Incentives
scheme, and will
enable the
manufacturing
sector in the
country
THE SIGNIFICANT
INCREASE IN
HEALTHCARE SPENDING
SIGNALS A KEY
DEPARTURE IN THE
EMPHASIS PLACED ON
HEALTH AND WILL
BENEFIT THE COMMON
MAN OVER THE MEDIUM
TO LONG-TERM
DR KV
SUBRAMANIAN
CHIEF ECONOMIC ADVISOR
recent model-
ling study paint-
ed a reassuring
pictureof apost-
pandemicfuture
inwhichSARS-CoV-2transi-
tions, over “a few years to a
few decades”, from danger-
ouspathogentojustanother
common-cold coronavirus.
This predicted loss of viru-
lence, the authors stress, is
based on a specific idiosyn-
crasy of the virus, namely
that it rarely causes serious
disease in children.
Still,manyexpertsagreed
that we should not be in the
least surprised by the au-
thors’ conclusion, as all vi-
ruses “become more trans-
missible and less pathogen-
ic over time”. After all, the
seductive logic goes, from
anevolutionaryperspective
it makes no sense for a path-
ogen to harm the host on
which it depends for its sur-
vival. According to this rea-
soning, virulence is little
more than a temporary evo-
lutionary imbalance.
This comfortable chain
of reasoning was rudely
broken by the announce-
ment of “a realistic possi-
bility” that the new highly
transmissible B117 variant
“is associated with an in-
creased risk of death”.
Although the evidence is
still accruing, early esti-
mates from Nervtag, the
UK’s New and Emerging
Respiratory Virus Threats
Advisory Group, suggest
that B117 may be around
30% more deadly
.
But perhaps this is a sin-
gle exception to an other-
wise well-observed rule,
andwecanstillbeconfident
thatSARS-CoV-2willslowly
fade away to obscurity
. So
whatistheevidenceforthis
view? And how confident
can we be in predicting how
evolution will shape the re-
lationship between a patho-
gen and its host?
LAW OF DECLINING
VIRULENCE
It was the bacteriologist
and comparative patholo-
gist Theobald Smith (1859-
1934) who began the narra-
tive of the “law of declin-
ing virulence” in the late
19th century
.
Studying tick-borne dis-
ease of cattle during the
1880s, Smith realised that
the severity of the disease
was determined by the de-
gree of prior infection.
Cattle that had been re-
peatedly exposed to the
pathogen suffered from
much more moderate dis-
ease than cattle encounter-
ing it for the first time.
Smith reasoned that this
was because host and path-
ogen conspired over time
towards a mutually benign
relationship.
The story then takes a
distinctly antipodean turn.
In 1859, the year Charles
Darwin published his Big
Idea, European rabbits
were introduced to Aus-
tralia for sport, with devas-
tating consequences for
the indigenous flora and
fauna. Having turned
down Louis Pasteur’s offer
of mass délapinsation us-
ing fowl cholera as a bio-
logical control agent, the
Department of Agricul-
ture turned to the myxoma
virus that causes the le-
thal, but highly species-
specific disease, myxoma-
tosis in rabbits.
By the 1950s, the myxo-
ma virus was spreading
rapidly among the rabbit
population. Recognising
the opportunities provided
by this unique experiment,
the virologist Frank Fen-
ner documented how the
virulence of the disease
decreased over a few years
from 99.5% mortality to
about 90%. This was taken
as strong empirical evi-
denceinsupportof Smith’s
law of declining virulence
– and occasionally still is.
Source: The Conversation
Will coronavirus really evolve to become less deadly?
A
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and question them with
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IN-DEPTH
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LAWS IN HOUSES
arliament on Tuesday witnessed uproar-
ious scenes over the three farm laws. As
the din persisted, both the Houses were
adjourned. The Opposition stormed the
two Houses demanding a discussion on
the farm laws. Agriculture Minister Narendra
Singh Tomar told the Lok Sabha that the govern-
ment is ready to discuss issues related to farmers
inside and outside the House. Demanding repeal
of the laws the Opposition forced the Lok Sabha to
be adjourned twice. The attack was led by Con-
gress’ Adhir Ranjan Chaudhary. Before the start
of the session, the Opposition had made it clear
that it will raise the farmers’ issue and force the
government to withdraw the laws. Boycott of the
President’s address to the joint session by 16 op-
position parties over the contentious laws was the
prelude to their action plan.
If the Opposition raised the heat in the Rajya
Sabha and the Lok Sabha, the police in Delhi and
Uttar Pradesh were busy putting up layer after
layer of barricades to make it virtually impossible
for more farmers from Uttar Pradesh, Haryana,
and Punjab to join protesters at Shinghu, Tikri,
and Ghazipur. Farmers have been at these three
sites for almost two months and are resolute on not
moving from there till the laws are repealed. The
State has shown its might also by cutting off pow-
er and water supply to the protesters’ camps, leav-
ing many of them without food and water. With
most democratic institutions being in awe of the
government, farmers will find it difficult to hold
the fort for long. If they do, it’ll be historic.
P
THE SASIKALA FACTOR
IN TN POLITICS
he release from jail of Sasikala Natara-
jan,acloseaideof formerChief Minister
J Jayalalitha, is expected to spice up Ta-
mil Nadu politics. Immediately after her
release from prison after four years of
simple imprisonment, Sasikala required hospitali-
sation for Covid-19 treatment. There was no politi-
cal chatter until Sasikala stepped out of the Victo-
ria Hospital and got into a car flaunting the AIAD-
MK flag. She was expected to go with her nephew
TTV Dinakaran who floated a new party, the
AMMK,afterhisexpulsionfromtheAIADMK.That
set pundits guessing. Will she join and then take
over the party established by MG Ramachandran
and nurtured by his protégé? Since the AIADMK
has already aligned with the Bharatiya Janata Par-
ty
, it cannot take a decision on its own. The BJP has
provisioned Rs 1.03 lakh crore worth investment for
3,500 km of National Highway work. For Chief Min-
ister, Edappadi K. Palaniswami could find himself
on a slippery slope once Sasikala starts making her
moves. To avoid that, Tughlaq Editor S. Gurumur-
thy
, believed to be a BJP strategist, has advised AI-
ADMK to admit her to avoid a split in the party
.
The Congress, which was the ruling party in
Tamil Nadu in the first 20 years after Independ-
ence, consistently lost the plot thereafter. Now the
party’s shambolic state doesn’t offer much, while
the BJP is on the ascendant. Congress’ hopes rest
on the DMK, its political ally in the state. Senior
Congress leader Mani Shankar Aiyar has predict-
ed a “strong walkover” for the Congress-DMK al-
liance. The situation may change after PM Naren-
dra Modi goes on the offensive.
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INDIA
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2 INCLUDING A WOMAN INJURED
IN ACID ATTACK IN KOLKATA
Kolkata: Two persons,
including a woman, have
sustained critical burn
injuries when a youth al-
legedly threw acid on them
at Ultadanga area, police
said. The suspect, with
whom the woman had a
relationship before her
marriage a few years back,
had been trying to befriend
her since the coronavirus
lockdown, but she was
avoiding him. It appears
that she was attacked for
this reason, the officer
said. The youth allegedly
splashed acid on the wom-
an when she was returning
home on Monday evening
from a bulb factory where
she was employed. A man
who was accompanying
the woman was injured
when he tried to save her,
according to police.
NCB SEIZES MEPHEDRONE
WORTH RS 15 LAKH IN MUMBAI
Mumbai: The Narcot-
ics Control Bureau has
seized mephedrone,
a banned drug, worth
around Rs 15 lakh in
Mumbai and appre-
hended three persons
in this connection, an
NCB official said on
Tuesday. Based on a
specific information,
the NCB arrested
two suspected drug
peddlers at Mahim
railway station around
Monday midnight
and seized a “com-
mercial quantity” of
mephedrone, weighing
136 gram and valued
around Rs 15 lakh,
from them, he said.
NO DECISION YET ON NRC, MHA
TO PARLIAMENTARY PANEL
New Delhi: Centre has
not taken any decision
on the roll-out of the
NRC for the whole
country, the Ministry
of Home Affairs has
told a parliamentary
panel. “It has been
clarified at various
levels in govt time and
again that till now no
decision has been tak-
en to create National
Register of Indian cit-
izen,” MHA told Par-
liamentary Standing
panel on Home Affairs
headed by Congress
leader Anand Sharma,
according to a report
tabled in Parliament
on Tuesday.
WE HOPE WE WILL BE ABLE TO RE-
OPEN SCHOOLS SOON: DELHI CM
New Delhi: While inter-
acting with the princi-
pals and management
authorities of private
schools, Delhi Chief
Minister Arvind Kejriwal
on Tuesday expressed
hope that the schools in
the national capital will
be able to re-open in full
capacity soon following
the arrival of COVID-19
vaccines.Mr Kejriwal
said, “Children want to
go back to schools and
colleges but parents and
teachers are worried.
Since vaccines are here,
we hope we will be able
to open schools soon.”
Talking about the nursery
admissions for this year,
the Chief Minister said,
“We will start the process
of nursery admission
soon.”
New Delhi: The central
government has no
plans to enact an anti-
conversion law to curb
interfaith marriages,
the Lok Sabha was in-
formed on Tuesday
.
Union Minister of
State for Home G Kis-
han Reddy said issues
related to religious con-
versions are primarily
the concerns of state
governments, adding
that law enforcement
agencies take action
whenever such instanc-
es of violation occur.
Reddy said in a writ-
ten question that the
central government has
no plans to enact a cen-
tral anti-conversion law
to curb interfaith mar-
riages. “Public order
police are state subjects
as per the 7th Schedule
to the Constitution
hence, prevention, de-
tection, registration,
investigation prose-
cution of offences re-
lated to religious con-
versions are primarily
the concerns of state
governments Union
Territory administra-
tions.
“Action is taken as
per existing laws by law
enforcing agencies
whenever instances of
violation come to no-
tice,” he said.
The issue came in the
wake of widely-criti-
cised laws that target
interfaith marriages
enacted by both Uttar
Pradesh Madhya
Pradesh ruled by the
BJP. Several states gov-
erned by the party in-
cluding Haryana, As-
sam Karnataka have
also announced plans
for such laws.
No nationwide anti-conversion
law planned, says Centre in Parl
New Delhi: The Delhi
High Court has ad-
journed a plea, seeking
direction to Ministry of
Home Affairs (MHA)
and Delhi Police to take
action against perpetra-
tors of violence that
marred Republic Day
celebrations till Febru-
ary 4. The Division
Bench of Justice DN Pa-
tel and Justice Jyoti
Singh on Tuesday ad-
journed the hearing as
the counsel for the peti-
tioner could not join a
video conferencing due
toconnectivityproblem.
Additional Solicitor
General Chetan Shar-
ma appeared for the
Union of India in the
matter. The plea was
filed by Shubham
Awasthi and two oth-
ers, who are residents
of Delhi-NCR, through
advocate Vivek Naray-
an Sharma. The peti-
tioners said that inci-
dent of Republic Day
unfurled create a
sense of panic and hys-
teria in national capi-
tal.The petition sought
a direction to respond-
ents to investigate the
incidents which hap-
pened during the farm-
ers’ tractor rally on
Republic Day arrest
the individuals who
disrespected the na-
tional flag at Red Fort
and ITO and other plac-
es in Delhi under sedi-
tion laws.
R-Day violence: HC
adjourns plea seeking
directions to MHA
New Delhi: A Delhi
court Tuesday granted
bail to freelance jour-
nalist Mandeep Punia
who was arrested by
Delhi Police from
farmers’ protest site at
Singhu border.
The complainant,
victims and witnesses
were police personnel
only, “hence, there is no
possibility that ac-
cused/ applicant can
able to influence any of
the police officials ,
Chief Metropolitan
Magistrate Satvir Sin-
gh Lamba said while
granting the bail.
Punia was arrested
by police on Sunday in
an FIR registered under
various sections includ-
ing 186, 353 and 332 of
IPC. The judge also not-
ed in the order that the
alleged scuffle incident
of case was of around
6.30 PM, however, the
present FIR was regis-
tered at around 1.21 AM
on the next day .
He further said, Ad-
mittedly, the accused is
a freelance journalist.
Moreso, no recovery is
to be effected from the
accused person and
keeping the accused
further in Judicial Cus-
tody would not serve
any cogent purpose.
He said it was well
settled legal principle
of law that bail is a rule
and jail is an exception.
—PTI
Farmers’protest:Delhi
courtgrantsbailto
journoMandeepPunia
New Delhi: The Parts
of north and central In-
dia are likely to receive
rains from February 3
to 5, the IMD said on
Tuesday. “A gradual
rise in minimum tem-
peratures is very likely
over most parts of
northwest adjoining
central India during
the next 3 to 4 days
the current spell of
cold wave conditions is
likely to abate in the
next 24 hours. Isolated
heavy rainfall/snow-
fall is likely over Jam-
mu Kashmir on Feb-
ruary 3 4, over
Himachal Pradesh on
February 4,” IMD said.
North India to
witness rains
in Feb: IMD
New Delhi: The Su-
preme Court on
Wednesday will hear a
batch of pleas pertain-
ing to tractor rally vio-
lence in the national
capital on the Republic
Day, including the one
which has sought set-
ting up of a commis-
sion headed by a retired
apex court judge to in-
quire into the incident.
The tractor parade
on January 26 that was
to highlight the de-
mands of farmer un-
ions to repeal three new
agri laws dissolved into
anarchy on the streets
of the national capital
as thousands of pro-
testers broke through
barriers, fought with
the police, overturned
vehicles and hoisted a
religious flag from the
ramparts of the iconic
Red Fort.
The petitions would
be taken up for hearing
by a bench comprising
Chief Justice SA Bobde
and Justices AS Bopan-
na and V Ramasubra-
manian.
One of the pleas filed
by advocate Vishal Ti-
wari has sought setting
up of a three-member
inquiry commission
under the chairman-
ship of a former apex
court judge and com-
prising of two retired
high court judges for
collecting and record-
ing evidence and sub-
mit a report on the
January 26 violence to
the top court in a time
bound manner. —PTI
SC TO HEAR PLEAS ON R-DAY VIOLENCE
RAGA SLAMS CENTRE POST TWITTER BANS
ACCOUNTS OVER PROVOCATIVE CONTENT
Congress leader Rahul
Gandhi slammed
the Central government
after Twitter temporar-
ily blocked accounts
related to farmers’
agitation on the direction
of the Union Ministry
of Electronics IT
(MeitY). Citing a article
about the microblogging
site’s action, Gandhi
Tweeted, “Modi style of
governance- Shut them
up. Cut them off. Crush
them down.” Twitter
on Monday temporarily
blocked 250 accounts
after MeitY directed the
microblogging platform
to take action against
accounts for making
‘fake, intimidatory and
provocative’ Tweets.
Farmers tractor rally on Jan 26 created anarchy on streets of Delhi
Punjab: A clash broke
out between SAD and
Congress workers in
Punjab’s Jalalabad
on Tuesay in which
SAD chief Sukhbir
Singh Badal’s car was
damaged, officials
said. Although Badal
escaped unhurt, four
other persons sus-
tained injuries in the
incident. The incident
occured when Badal
was accompanying
Akali candidates for
filing of nomination
papers for the Febru-
ary 14 civic polls.
SUKHBIR BADAL’S CARS ATTACKED;
FOUR INJURED IN CONG-SAD CLASH
The tractor parade on January 26 that was to highlight the demands of the farmers.
New Delhi: The Na-
tional Investigation
Agency (NIA), which
deals with terror cases
in India, will now probe
the Israel embassy blast
case. The Ministry of
Home Affairs (MHA)
has issued an order to
hand over the case,
sources said.
Following the order,
NIA will register cases
under appropriate sec-
tions and will start an
investigation. The Del-
hi Police’s Special Cell
will need to handover
all relevant evidence
and documents to the
agency
.
NIA officials had al-
ready visited the spot
when the blast took
place.
So far, Delhi Police’s
Special Cell has failed
to get any lead in the
case and no suspect has
been identified.
Prime Minister Nar-
endra Modi on Monday
assured his Israeli
counterpart Benjamin
Netanyahu of punish-
ing the perpetrators of
the minor bombings
near the Israeli embas-
sy on January 29.
Probe into blast near Israel
embassy handed over to NIA
NIA officials had already visited the spot when the blast took place. —FILE PHOTO
Falakata (WB): West
Bengal Chief Minister
Mamata Banerjee on
Tuesday accused the
central government of
doing nothing for the
people of the northern
districts despite having
“so many” BJP MPs
from the region.
Banerjee said before
every election, BJP
leaders make promises
of reopening defunct
tea gardens in North
Bengal, but “flee” after-
wards.
“They had promised
to reopen all the seven
closed tea gardens be-
fore the Lok Sabha elec-
tions, but not a single
one has resumed opera-
tions. There are so
many (BJP) MPs who
have won from North
Bengal, but tell me what
have they done for this
region... Nothing,” she
said.
The Trinamool Con-
gress supremo was
speaking to reporters
on the sidelines after
inaugurating a mass
wedding event here.
Later, she also handed
over land pattas (deeds)
to several tea garden
workers.
“Our government is
for the people, for the
farmers, for the sched-
uled tribes. We will not
do anything that is anti-
farmer or anti-people.
We have already reo-
pened nine closed tea
gardens and will try to
get the others to func-
tion again, too,” she
said. Banerjee set out
on a four-day tour of
North Bengal from
Monday
. —PTI
BJP MPs have done nothing for
North Bengal, says Mamata Banerjee
ANOTHER TMC
MLA JOINS BJP
Mamata Banerjee
New Delhi: The Su-
preme Court Tuesday
refused to grant pro-
tection to Rajya Sabha
MP Sanjay Singh
against whom a non-
bailable warrant
(NBW) has been issued
on an FIR lodged in
Lucknow after his
press conference on
August 12 last year at
which he alleged that
the UP government
was favouring a cer-
tain class of society.
The AAP leader has
moved the apex court
seeking quashing of
multiple FIRs lodged
against him in various
districts of Uttar
Pradesh after the press
conference, saying they
have been “maliciously
instituted to unleash
political vendetta”.
In a separate peti-
tion, Singh has also
challenged the January
21 order of the Alla-
habad High Court
which refused to quash
the FIR in Lucknow.
The matter came up
for hearing on Tuesday
before a bench, com-
prising Justices Ashok
Bhushan and R S Red-
dy, which said it would
not pass any order
without going through
the high court verdict.
Apex Court declines
Sanjay ’s plea seeking
protection from arrest
Sanjay Singh

INDIA
06
TIKAIT WARNS!...
and Tikri borders, as
farmers continue to
make their way to the
protest sites for the past
two to three days.
The Delhi Police have
blocked roads near Ak-
shardham and vehicu-
lar movement has been
restricted between Del-
hi and Ghaziabad on
National Highway-24.
BARRICADES,
BOULDERS...
Meanwhile, a day after
Shahdara district po-
lice distributed 60
lance-like metal batons
to police personnel in
their district, senior of-
ficials from Delhi Police
Headquarters Tuesday
asked them to rollback
the decision to use them
as anti-riot equipment
and wait for their ap-
proval.
A senior police offic-
er said 60 sword-like
metal batons were dis-
tributed in Shahadara
district on Monday to
protect themselves
from rioters armed
with swords. “The deci-
sion to use the metal
baton was taken after
many security person-
nel were injured by pro-
testers armed with
swords during their re-
cent clashes with the
police,” an officer said.
However, after some
pictures were shared on
social media on Mon-
day afternoon, senior
officials at Delhi Police
Headquarters asked of-
ficials to withdraw the
decision to distribute
the batons immediately
.
GOVT READY...
“Atrocities are being
committed on farmers.
Situation is similar to
British rule,” he al-
leged.
As opposition mem-
bers, including from
Congress, DMK, Trina-
mool Congress, SP and
BSP, trooped near the
well, Speaker Om Birla
appealed to them to go
back to their seats so
that House can taken up
normal business.
“This House is for de-
bate and discussions.
Please go back to your
seats,” he said.
However,theunrelent-
ing opposition contin-
ued their protests, lead-
ing to the Speaker an-
nouncing the second ad-
journment till 7 pm. —PTI
OPPN STAGES...
and Procedure and Con-
duct of Business.
Naidu, the Rajya Sabha
Chairman, said that the
discussion on farmers’
protest will start tomor-
row not today. “The
President has referred
to farmers’ agitation in
his address. I wanted
the discussion to start
today but I was told that
the discussion first
starts in Lok Sabha.
Keeping this in mind
we have agreed to have
a discussion on Presi-
dent’s address tomor-
row,” said RS Chairman
M Venkaiah Naidu.
Earlier, Parliamenta-
ry Affairs Minister
Pralhad Joshi said op-
position members
themselves were de-
manding Question
Hour and the govern-
ment agreed.
Opposition parties
including the Congress,
Left, TMC and DMK
had given a notice un-
der rule 267 that calls
for setting aside of busi-
ness of the day to take
up a discussion on the
issue pressed.
Chairman Naidu
had, however, disal-
lowed the motion say-
ing the members were
free to raise the issue
during the discussion
on Motion of Thanks to
the President’’s ad-
dress.
When the House met
for the day, Naidu said
he has received notice
under rule 267 from
various members but
the issue can be raised
during the discussion
on Motion of Thanks to
the President’’s address
to the joint sitting of
both houses of Parlia-
ment. Naidu, however,
allowed members who
gave notices to make
very brief mentions.
Leader of the Opposi-
tion and senior Con-
gress leader Ghulam
Nabi Azad said the
farmers have been
camping for more than
two months and the is-
sue needs to be dis-
cussed.
However, Naidu did
not agree to their mo-
tion after which the
members of Congress,
Left, TMC, DMK and
RJD staged a walkout.
“No one is stopping you
from discussing the is-
sue tomorrow. Tomor-
row you will get an op-
portunity,” he said.
Naidu said 10 hours
have been allocated for
discussion on Motion
of Thanks to the Presi-
dent’’s address and an
equivalent amount giv-
en for discussion on
Budget.
“Please take the op-
portunity tomorrow,”
he said.
CBSE CLASS...
All Class X exams will
be held from 10.30 am to
1.30 pm. All exams will
be held in the offline-
written mode, and with
COVID-19 safety proto-
cols in place.
FROM PG 1
AK MADHESHIYA MOVED TO NER
Ashish Kumar Madheshiya has been transferred
from Chittaranjan Locomotive Works (CLW) to
North Eastern Railway (NER) on his own request.
He is an Indian Railway Service of Electrical
Engineers (IRSEE) officer.
8 IPS OFFICERS GET NEW
ASSIGNMENTS IN DELHI POLICE
As many as eight IPS officers have been given fresh
assignments in Delhi Government. Accordingly,
Deepak Purohit has been promoted to Addl CP had
posted at the Headquarter while Chinmoy Biswal
was posted as DCP, Crime and Gaurav Sharma is
DCP, Security. Rajiv Ranjan Singh has been ap-
pointed as DCP, Outer North district DCP; Esha Pan-
dey as DCP, PCR; Urjiva Goel as DCP, West district;
Ghanshyam Bansal as DCP, Traffic and Manoj C was
made Addl DCP, Outer North Delhi district.
MS RAJNI HASIJA LIKELY TO GET
ADDITIONAL CHARGE OF CMD, IRCTC
Ms Rajni Hasija, Director (Tourism Marketing),
is expected to get an additional charge of CMD,
Indian Railway Catering Tourism Corporation
(IRCTC) after the vacancy of this post with the
retirement of incumbent CMD M P Mall.
SANGEETA BAHADUR APPOINTED
HIGH COMMISSIONER TO MALTA
Ms Sangeeta Bahadur, presently Ambassador of
India to Belarus, has been appointed as the next
High Commissioner of India to the Republic of
Malta. She is a 1987 batch IFS officer.
RAGHU GURURAJ IS AMBASSADOR
TO SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE
Raghu Gururaj (YOA:2006), presently Consul
General of India to Medan, has been appointed as
the next Ambassador of India to the Democratic
Republic of Sao Tome and Principe.
SILENCE ON CBI FRONT?
Deaf silence about the appointment of new CBI
Chief is being talked about in the corridors of
power. Tenure of present CBI Chief Rishi Kumar
Shukla is coming to an end on Feb 3.
DEPUTATION TENURE OF
SHAILENDRA SINGH EXTENDED
The deputation tenure of Shailendra Singh,
working as Additional Secretary, Department of
Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade, has
been extended upto July 21, 2021. He is a 1988
batch IAS officer of MP cadre.
MAJ. GEN. RK SINGH MAY HEAD HAWS
Major General RK Singh could be considered for
the position to head High Altitude Warfare School
(HAWS), Gulmarg in Kashmir.
AIS OFFICERS TO GET HOME
STATE CADRE IN JK
All India Service officers hailing from Jammu
Kashmir will be allocated Jammu Kashmir
cadre in order to meet the shortage of officers.
A MESSAGE TO JUDICIARY?
The Government has last month given subtle
message to the Judiciary – ‘don’t flex your mus-
cles beyond a point’.
MOHANTY IS NEW CHAIRMAN
OF ODISHA PSC
Satyajit Mohanty has been appointed Chairman
of the Odisha Public Service Commission. He is
1988 batch IPS officer.
JAN E ALAM IS ACTING CHIEF
SECRETARY OF NAGALAND
Jan E Alam has been appointed acting Chief Sec-
retary of Nagaland. He is 1991 batch IAS officer
of Nagaland cadre.
RAJIV KUMAR TANDON APPOINTED DG,
SPL POLICE ESTABLISHMENT IN MP
Rajiv Kumar Tandon has been appointed as Di-
rector General, Special Police Establishment, Lo-
kayukta Organization, Bhopal in Madhya Pradesh.
He is a 1988 batch IPS officer of MP cadre.
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New Delhi: The PM-
CARES fund, which has
been set up to provide
relief duringthecorona-
virus pandemic, has
contributed over Rs
2,200 crore for the first
phase of vaccination
drive, which is looking
to inoculate frontline
healthcare workers, the
Expenditure Secretary
said on Tuesday
.
Set up in March 2020,
the exact collections
made by the fund
through voluntary con-
tribution by individuals
and corporates, are not
known but the corpus
managed by the PMO
has been providing re-
lief to pandemic-hit sec-
tors.
With the Budget for
current fiscal, which
waspresentedbeforethe
onset of the pandemic,
making no separate al-
locationfor vaccination,
more than 82 per cent of
the cost of the same dur-
ing January to March is
being borne by PM
CARES Fund.
Finance Minister Nir-
mala Sitharaman in her
Budget for the next fis-
cal beginning April 2021
has set aside Rs 35,000
crore towards COVID
vaccination.
Expenditure Secre-
tary T V Somanathan
said the cost of vaccina-
tion of frontline and
healthcare workers in
the current fiscal is be-
ing borne fully by the
central government and
the money is coming
from PM CARES fund
and Health Ministry
.
Meanwhile, a Nation-
al Expert Group on vac-
cine administration for
COVID-19 (NEGVAC)
has been established for
providing guidance on
all aspects of COVID-19
vaccination including
prioritisation of popula-
tion groups, procure-
ment and inventory
management, vaccine
selection, vaccine deliv-
ery
,andtrackingmecha-
nism, Union Minister of
StateforHealthAshwini
Kumar Choubey in-
formed on Tuesday
.
Accordingtoawritten
reply in the Rajya Sabha
today
, Choubey said,
“NEGVAChastherepre-
sentation of Secretaries
from MEA, Department
of Expenditure, Depart-
ment of Biotechnology
,
Department of Health
Research, Department
of Pharmaceuticals,
Ministry of Electronics
and Information Tech-
nology
, a representative
from five state govern-
ments and technical ex-
perts.” —Agencies
PM-CARES Fund to foot over 80%
cost of 1st phase of Covid vax drive
THE FUND WAS SET UP TO PROVIDE RELIEF DURING CORONA PANDEMIC
INDIA REPORTS
8,635 NEW
COVID-19 CASES
TALLY OF ACTIVE COVID-19 CASES
SHRINKS TO 1.63 LAKH; TOTAL 39.50
The tally of active COVID-19 cases in India has shrunk to
1.63 lakh which is just 1.52 per cent of the total instances of
the infection reported so far, while 39.50 lakh beneficiaries
have received vaccine jabs till Tuesday morning, the
Union health ministry said. It also said that India’s daily
new coronavirus cases has been consistently following a
downward slope. After reaching a peak of 95,735 daily cases
on September 10 last year, India on Tuesday recorded 8,635
new instances of the infectreported so far, while 39.50 lakh
beneficiaries have received vaccine jabs till Tuesday morning.
India registered 8,635
new coronavirus infec-
tions in a day, the lowest
in eight months, while
the daily deaths fell below
100 after almost nine
months, according to
Union health ministry data
updated on Tuesday. The
country’s COVID-19 tally
stands at 1,07,66,245 and
the death toll increased
to 1,54,486 with 94 new
fatalities, the data updated
at 8 am showed. The
number of people who
have recuperated from
the disease surged to
1,04,48,406 pushing the
national recovery rate to
97.05 per cent, while the
COVID-19 case fatality
rate has dropped to 1.43
per cent. The COVID-19
active caseload remained
below two lakh for the
14th consecutive day.
DEFENCE MANUFACTURING
India can’’t remain
dependent on other
countries: Rajnath
Bengaluru: Defence
Minister Rajnath Singh
said on Tuesday that In-
dia cannot remain de-
pendent on other coun-
tries for its defence and
that the indigenously
developed Tejas was
better than its foreign
equivalents on several
parameters and also
comparitively cheaper.
Under the ‘’Aatmanirb-
har Bharat Abhiyan,
India is looking forward
to increase its defence
manufacturing capa-
bilities, said Singh, who
inaugurated Hindustan
Aeronautics Limited’’s
second LCA-Tejas pro-
duction plant here. “In-
dia cannot remain de-
pendent on other coun-
tries for its defence”, he
said. Singh said Tejas is
not only indigenous,
but better than its for-
eign equivalents on sev-
eral parameters and
also comparatively
cheaper. “Many coun-
tries have shown inter-
est in Tejas. India will
achieve the target of Rs
1.75 lakh crore in the
field of defence manu-
facturing in (a) few
years”, he said. The de-
livery of the Tejas LCA
to the Indian Air Force
under a Rs 48,000-crore
deal will begin from
March 2024 and around
16 aircraft will be rolled
out annually
. —PTI
Franklin Templeton to pay `9,122
crores to investors in 20 days: SC
New Delhi: The Su-
preme Court on Tuesday
ordered that Rs 9,122
crore be disbursed with-
in three weeks to the
unitholders of Franklin
Templeton’s six mutual
fund schemes which are
proposedtobewoundup.
A bench of Justices S
A Nazeer and Sanjiv
Khanna said that the
disbursal of money
would be done in pro-
portion to unitholders’
interest in the assets.
In the proceedings
conducted through vid-
eo conferencing, the
bench entrusted State
Bank of India (SBI) Mu-
tual Fund to disburse
the money as all the
counsels gave consent
to the court’s order.
Thebenchgrantedlib-
erty to the litigating par-
tiestoapproachthecourt
in case of any difficulty
in the disbursal of mon-
ey to the unitholders.
Thecourtalsogavethe
parties liberty to move
applications in case of
anydifficultyarisingout
of the process.
The lawyer, repre-
senting Franklin Tem-
pleton Trusts Services
Limited, told the bench
that the company would
render cooperation
with SBI Mutual Fund.
The bench on Janu-
ary 25 had said it would
first deal with the is-
sues related to objec-
tion to the e-voting pro-
cess for winding up of
the six mutual fund
schemes and distribu-
tion of money to the
unitholders. —PTI
Nadda’s 2-day visit to poll-bound
Kerala begins from today
New Delhi: BJP Na-
tional President Jagat
Prakash Nadda will be
on a two-day visit to
Kerala from Wednesday
to review the election
preparations ahead of
upcoming state Assem-
bly polls. He will also
address a public rally at
Vadakkunnathan Tem-
ple Ground, Thrissur
on Thursday
. The public
rally would be the first
major rally of BJP in
Kerala, kick-starting
the assembly campaign.
According to Nadda’s
schedule, the party
president will reach
Trivandrum Interna-
tional Airport on Feb-
ruary 3, where the state
party leaders will ac-
cord a grand welcome
to him and a motorcade
rally is also planned.
Nadda will attend
state BJP core commit-
tee meeting ahead of
seat-sharing discus-
sions candidates se-
lection regarding Kera-
la Assembly polls. He
will also address newly
elected Councilors and
Block, Zilla Panchayat
members of BJP at an
event in Kowdiar. —ANI
BJP appoints in
charges for
Assam,TN, Pondy
New Delhi: BJP on
Tuesday appointed Un-
ion ministers Narendra
Singh Tomar, G Kishan
Reddy Pralhad Joshi
its Assembly poll in-
charges for Assam, Ta-
mil Nadu and Kerala
respectively
.
Arjun Meghwal is in-
charge for the assembly
polls in Puducherry
, the
party added. Jitendra
Singh VK Singh will
be co-incharges for As-
sam TN. —PTI
Didi’s
Santhali
dance video
goes viral
West Bengal: A video
of West Bengal Chief
minister Mamata Ba-
nerjeedancingatamass
marriage ceremony in
Falakata of Alipurduar
district has gone viral
on social media.
The 45-second clip,
which is being widely
circulated online, fea-
tures the 66-year-old
politician matching
steps with the Santhali
dancers at the ceremo-
ny. Clad in masks, the
dancers are seen hold-
ing Banerjee’s hand and
dancing to the beats of
the dhol.
The video comes al-
most a month after a
picture of Banerjee
cooking at a tribal vil-
lage had gone viral on
social media. Since be-
ing shared online, the
clip has garnered over
13,000 views.
Defence Minister Rajnath Singh addresses during inauguration
of HALs Second LCA Production Line in Bengaluru on Tuesday.

NEWS
07
4 held from Rajasthan for
abducting Guj biz owner
Ahmedabad: The Guja-
rat Anti-Terrorist
Squad (ATS) has de-
tained four persons
from Rajasthan for al-
legedly kidnapping a
businessman from
Kutch district and ex-
torting a ransom of Rs
35 lakh, an official said
on Tuesday
.
While two of the ac-
cused Suresh Soni (34)
and Rakesh Soni (25)
were nabbed from
Jaipur, Trilok Chauhan
(31) and Sandip Singh
(26) were apprehended
from their village in Al-
war district of Ra-
jasthan, the official
said.
The key accused
Manoj Vyas, a native of
Sikar in Rajasthan, is
still on the run, he said.
According to an ATS
release, five men had
abducted Gandhidham-
based businessman
Mukesh Agrawal at
gunpoint after inter-
cepting his car on Janu-
ary 19, following which
they took him to Ra-
jasthan.
The victim was held
captive at different plac-
es in Sanchor, Jodhpur
Road and Jaipur, it was
stated.
The accused some-
how managed to extort
a ransom of Rs 35 lakh
from Mukesh Agrawal’s
kin and released him
after two days, the re-
lease said.
In a complaint lodged
with Gandhidham po-
lice, Agrawal after his
release had alleged that
the accused also taken
away his mobile phone
worth Rs 60,000, it stat-
ed. PTI
Lucknow: BJP’s Mo-
hammadabad MLA
Alka Rai has written to
Congress leader Pri-
yanka Gandhi Vadra,
accusing her party’s
governments in Punjab
and Rajasthan of
shielding gangster-
t u r n e d - p o l i t i c i a n
Mukhtar Ansari and
his son Abbas Ansari.
Alka Rai is the wife of
the slain MLA Krish-
nanand Rai, who was
shot dead in 2005.
Mukhtar Ansari was
accused of killing her
husband but was later
acquitted in the case.
Currently
, Mukhtar An-
sari, a BSP MLA from
Mau, is lodged in a Pun-
jab jail in an extortion
case and have several
criminal cases registred
against him. “I have to
tell you with grief that
your governments in
Punjab and Rajasthan
have given guest status
to my husband’’s killer
Mukhtar Ansari and his
son Abbas Ansari, who
carry reward for their
arrest,” Rai alleged in
the letter to Priyanka
Gandhi on January 30.
The letter was shared
with the media on Tues-
day
.
Pointing at some pho-
tos said to be published
in newspapers, the Mo-
hammadabad (Ghaz-
ipur) MLA alleged that
the Abbas’s marriage
took place under the Ra-
jasthan government’s
patronage. “After seeing
these pictures, my fam-
ily and I felt pain,” she
said, claiming that ear-
lier the Uttar Pradesh
government had sent
vehicles 32 times to
bring Mukhtar Ansari
back to the state but the
Punjab government
shielded him. —PTI
Kashiram Choudhary
Jaipur: The Excise De-
partment’s campaign
on illegal liquor is go-
ing on in full swing. Be-
ginning from January
16, the campaign was
scheduled to run till
January 31. But now, it
has been extended till
February 15.
The teams of the Ex-
cise and Police Depart-
ment have jointly taken
action and destroyed
11.14 lakh litres of liq-
uor till February 1. It is
considered a major ac-
tion by the department.
So far, 4093 cases have
been registered in col-
laboration with the po-
lice department.
Among these, 2794 ac-
cused have been arrest-
ed till now.
First India Bureau
Jodhpur: A joint Indo-
US Army exercise will
be held next month in
Mahajan field firing
range in Bikaner in
western sector of Ra-
jasthan.
The troops of striker
brigade of the US army
will arrive in India to
participate in the joint
exercise from February
8 to 21, which will be
based on counter ter-
rorism operations.
The armies will car-
ry out rigorous joint
training in desert and
suburban terrain.
First India Bureau
Jaipur: The Rajasthan
government has formed
the Marwar Regional
Tribal Development
Board to ensure holistic
progress of the Sched-
uled Tribe community
settled in areas of the
Jodhpur division. The
board will be headquar-
tered in Jodhpur.
Tribal Regional De-
velopment Minister
Arjun Singh Bamani-
ya said that the board
will consist of chair-
man, member secre-
tary, 13 ex-officio
members and six emi-
nent people of the
community. The Trib-
al Regional Develop-
ment (TAD) depart-
ment will be its ad-
ministrative depart-
ment.
He said that the board
will act as a permanent
consultative institution
for the upliftment and
development of the
Scheduled Tribe com-
munity in Jodhpur divi-
sion.
Special schemes
will be prepared and
recommended to the
state government for
i m p l e m e n t a t i o n
through TAD and oth-
er departments.
According to an of-
ficial statement, the
state government will
allocate budget for
the board.
First India Bureau
Jaipur: In a first, Ra-
jasthan high court said
that a gold smuggler
prosecuted under Cus-
toms Act, can also be
charged under Unlaw-
ful Activities Preven-
tion Act as terrorist.
Justice Satish Shar-
ma of Rajasthan high
court has delivered no-
table judgement in the
case of Mohd Aslam,
who along with others
was caught by customs
department at Jaipur
Airport for bringing
smuggled gold worth Rs
9 crore with other nine
persons from Dubai.
He and others were
prosecuted under Cus-
toms Act but NIA also
initiated case under Un-
lawful Activities Pre-
vention Act covering
him as terrorist. He
challenged the FIR of
NIA.
Addl. Solicitor Gen-
eral Rajdeepak Rastogi
appearing for NIA ar-
gued that this offence is
terrorist act as per
UAPA Act as it is an at-
tempt to destabilize
economy of country as
a whole and punish-
ment is upto life impris-
onment.
He also argued that
matter is still at investi-
gation stage and it is a
view that investigation
cannot be interfered at
this stage.
First India Bureau
New Delhi: Accord-
ing to the revised pro-
posal of the Rajasthan
government for the
construction of new
airport in Kota, the
team of Airport Au-
thority of India (AAI)
will soon conduct sur-
vey again.
Lok Sabha Speaker
Om Birla has given
strict instructions to
the officials of Airport
Authority of India and
Ministry of Civil Avia-
tion to send their team
to Kota at the earliest
for the purpose.
Anuj Aggarwal,
CMD of Airport Au-
thority of India and PS
Kharola, Secretary
,
Ministry of Civil Avia-
tion met Lok Sabha
SpeakerOmBirlainthe
Lok Sabha Speaker’s
room in Delhi on Tues-
day
. During the meet-
ing, both informed that
in the past, there was a
proposal to construct a
newGreenfieldAirport
in about 876 hectares of
land in Kota.
However, the Ra-
jasthangovernmenthas
now sent a revised pro-
posal for construction
in about 550 hectares
area. Hence, the survey
has to be done again.
First India Bureau
Jaipur: Not submit-
ting a factual report
in the alleged scam of
Rs 240 crore in Raj
Comp Info Services
Ltd despite directions
has invited the wrath
by the Rajasthan high
court, which gave di-
rections to Advocate
General to submit the
report before March
2.
A division bench of
Justice Sabeena and
Justice Manoj Kumar
Vyas expressed dis-
pleasure over not sub-
mitting the report by
the Anti-Corruption
Bureau.
During hearing on
November 22 in a PIL
filed by Public Against
Corruption organisa-
tion, the high court had
directed the ACB to sub-
mit a factual report
about the scam.
Advocates Poonam
Chand Bhandari and
Dr T N Sharma said
that despite the court
orders, the report has
not been submitted
till date and taking
this seriously, the
bench directed the
AG M S Singhvi to
submit the report by
March 2.
The court also
asked the AG to sub-
mit a factual report
in another case by
February 9.
New Delhi: The Su-
preme Court on Tues-
day sought response
from the Centre on a
plea seeking transfer of
two petitions from the
high courts of Delhi
and Rajasthan to it on
the issue of ‘Uniform
Minimum Age of Mar-
riage for Men and Wom-
en’ to so as to avoid
“multiplicity of litiga-
tions and conflicting
views.”
The bench headed by
Chief Justice SA Bobde
took note of the submis-
sions of senior advocate
Geeta Luthra, appear-
ing for lawyer and BJP
leader Ashwini Upad-
hyay, that similar pleas
are pending in the two
high courts and they be
transferred to the apex
court for an authorita-
tive pronouncement on
the issue.
“Issue notice,” said
the bench, which also
comprised Justices A S
Bopanna and V Ra-
masubramanian in the
proceedings conducted
through video confer-
encing.
After the transfer of
the petitions from the
the high courts, it can
be tagged with other
two pending public in-
terest ligitations (PILs)
in the apex court in
which uniform grounds
of divorce, mainte-
nance, alimony, adop-
tion and guardianship
have been sought to be
implemented, said Lu-
thra who was assisting
by lawyer Priya Hingo-
rani. In October last
year, the plea seeking
transfer of PILs from
Delhi and Rajasthan
High Courts were filed.
—PTI
MLA writes to Priyanka,
accuses Punjab, Raj govts
of shielding Mukhtar
Campaign
against illegal
liquor still on
AAI, Ministry of Civil Aviation officials told to send team soon
The key accused Manoj Vyas, a native of Sikar, is still on the run
Indo-US Army
joint exercise
next month
Marwar Regional Tribal
Development Board formed
Smuggler to be also
charged under UAPA
Missing report in
scam invites HC wrath
SC seeks Centre’s reply on plea for PILs’
transfer on uniform marriage age
AAI team to conduct survey for new
Kota airport as per revised proposal
Gujarat ATS has detained four persons from Rajasthan.
Airport Authority of India CMD Anuj Aggarwal and Secretary
of the Ministry of Civil Aviation PS Kharola met Lok Sabha
Speaker Om Birla in New Delhi on Tuesday. OSD Rajeev Dutta
was also present.
Kashiram Choudhary
Jaipur: Rajasthan Gov-
ernor Kalraj Mishra
said on Tuesday that
NCC has a significant
contribution in devel-
oping the spirit of na-
tionalism, discipline
and military instinct
among the students.
He said be it a natural
disaster or any other
emergency, NCC cadets
are always ready to help
with dedication and loy-
alty. In the era of Coro-
na pandemic, the NCC
cadetonceagainshowed
this commitment and
cooperation in relief ef-
forts and public aware-
ness campaign.
Mishra was address-
ing 34 NCC cadets at Raj
Bhawan who returned
aftertakingpartinRDay
Camp. Chief Minister
Ashok Gehlot was also
present on the occasion.
CM Ashok Gehlot said
youth of Rajasthan have
a passion to join the
army and serve the
country
.DeputyDirector
General of NCC Directo-
rate, Col PS Rathore was
also present.
Governor lauds NCC’s contribution in
inculcating nationalism among students
Kalraj Mishra,Ashok Gehlot, Niranjan Arya along with NCC cadets and other officials in Jaipur on Tuesday.
PAYING TRIBUTES
RCA president
Vaibhav
Gehlot paid
floral tributes
to Gopiram
Yadav, father
of Behror MLA
Baljeet Yadav
on Tuesday.
Gopiram
Yadav died
recently due
to prolonged
illness.
GUV EXPRESSES CONDOLENCE ON DEMISE OF KULERIA
Governor Kalraj Mishra expressed condolence on the demise of social worker and
gosevak Padmaram Kuleria. He prayed for the peace of the departed soul. The gov-
ernor also appreciated the donation of Rs 1 crore by his family to Gaushala.

Over the years, I have
realised that only once we
act as if our actions make a
difference, then they do.
—Jagdeesh Chandra, CEO Editor, First India
08
2NDFRONT
POSTAL REG NO. JPC/010/2019-21
Dr Joshi in Kankroli
to offer condolences
Nathdwara: Assembly
Speaker and Nath-
dwara MLA, Dr CP
Joshi went to Rajsa-
mand District Head-
quarters on Tuesday
.
He visited the residence
of Giriraj Sanadhya,
Secretary of District
Cricket Association in
Kankroli town, and of-
fered condolences on
his mother, Shakun De-
vi’s demise and con-
doled the bereaved fam-
ily. A large number of
Congress workers ac-
companied Joshi dur-
ing his visit to Giriraj
Sanadhya’s residence.
Aditi Nagar/
Aishwary Pradhan
New Delhi: Was it a
time of reckoning for
BJP’s senior politico
Vasundhara Raje who,
on Monday night, final-
ly got a chance to meet
Union Home Minister
and ‘number two’ in
BJP after PM Narendra
Modi- Amit Shah or was
it a meet that culminat-
ed with setting the
‘scores’ straight, with
Shah being the more
dominant one, perhaps
onewouldnevercometo
know right now. How-
ever, what can be said
for certain is, this ‘much
awaited’ meet between
Shah and Raje went on
for a good 45 minutes, as
opposed to Shah’s gen-
eral meetings of 5-10
minutes, and that is why
one section of the BJP is
speculating that the dis-
cussion during these 45
minutes had been a long
one, particularly focus-
ing on the past misun-
derstandings and mis-
conceptions between
the two leaders.
What can be said with
even more certainty is
the fact that ‘Madam’
had been trying, for a
long time, to get a hear-
ing with Shah to present
her versions however,
due to the Union Home
Minister’s busy sched-
ule owing to the West
Bengal political situa-
tions and Farmer rally,
the meet could not be
scheduled.
However, sources re-
veal that this time
around, Madam was
determined to meet
Shah and a few other
central leaders to get a
‘clear mandate’, and
amid all these develop-
ments, Raje met with
Shah on Monday night.
The former Rajasthan
Chief Minister had
been camping in New
Delhi for past several
days and prior to her
meet with Shah, she al-
ready met JP Nadda,
Nitin Gadkari, Dhar-
mendra Pradhan and
Arun Singh.
Now the BJP circles
inbothDelhiandJaipur
are wondering if Shah
has actually given a
clean chit to Madam
and if so, what will her
role be in Rajasthan?
Will Raje return to ac-
tive politics in the de-
sert state or will she be
given a role in union
government or organi-
zation? The answer to
these questions is await-
ed, more curiously, by
Arun Singh, Satish Poo-
nia, Gulab Chand Ka-
taria and Rajendra
Rathore, apart from
other leaders and Raje
supporters and even
Chief Minister Ashok
Gehlot is also keeping
an ‘eagle eye’ on the ‘de-
velopments’!
Raje- Shah meet garners curiosity on Madam’s pol future!
45 MINUTE MEET TURNING HEADS
Former Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje calls upon Union Home
Minister Amit Shah in New Delhi on Monday night.
First India Bureau
Jaipur: Chief Minister
Ashok Gehlot has said
that the state govern-
ment has taken several
major decisions in the
last two years to pro-
mote sports and sport-
spersons in the state. “It
is our endeavour that
Rajasthan establishes
special recognition at
the national and inter-
national level in games
and sports,” Gehlot said
asheinstructedofficials
to formulate service
rules to hire sports
teachers. After this, ser-
vices of about 500 best
sports teachers can be
availed in the state.
Gehlot reviewed the
Sports and Youth Af-
fairs Department at the
Chief Minister’s Resi-
dence on Tuesday. He
instructed that efforts
should be made to com-
plete the budget an-
nouncements made for
the sports at the earli-
est, so that players can
get proper benefits.
The Chief Minister
said that state’s sports
talent has the potential
to win medals at nation-
al and international lev-
el. “They need to have
goodtraining,necessary
facilities and opportuni-
ties to grow. Efforts
should be made to in-
creasethetrendof youth
towards sports in villag-
es and towns,” he said.
Gehlot asked to pre-
pare and submit a pro-
posalregardingdevelop-
ment of sports facilities
up to other cities and
village level in SMS and
Vidyadhar Nagar Stadi-
um in Jaipur and Jagat-
pura Shooting Range.
He also instructed to or-
ganise youth programs
throughvirtualmedium
to motivate the youth to
move forward with posi-
tive thinking and to in-
novate constantly
.
Minister of State for
SportsandYouthAffairs
Ashok Chandna said
that 8 thousand players
participated in various
competitionsinthestate
sports event held last
year which has created a
good environment for
the development of
sports in Rajasthan.
‘Ensure better training facilities to Raj sportsmen’
CM instructed to organise youth programmes through virtual medium to motivate the youth to move forward with positive thinking
Ashok Gehlot @ashokgehlot51
The sports talent of the state has the potential
to perform well at national and international
levels. What is required is that they receive
good training, necessary facilities and opportunities
to prosper in their respective fields of interest. Efforts
need to be made to enhance youth's interest in sports.
CM Ashok Gehlot chairs the review meet of Sports Youth Affairs Department at CMR on Tuesday,
wherein, MoS for Sports Ashok Chandna, CS Niranjan Arya other officials were also present.
Aditi Nagar
Jaipur: What was the
reason for Pawan
Bansal’s sudden Jaipur
visit? Highly placed
sources in the Congress
have hinted that since
the demise of
party’s veteran
leader Ahmed
Patel, and his po-
sition as treasur-
er being handed
over to Bansal,
the matter per-
taining to gathering
funds for the party in
the upcoming Assem-
bly Elections in five
states also rests with
Bansal. Moreover, the
issue pertaining to
funding for AICC elec-
tion is also to be ‘sorted’
and it is believed that
Bansal’s visit to Jaipur
was to hold discussions
with Chief Minister Ge-
hlot in this regard. But
amid all this, one
wonders if Ge-
hlot and Bansal
spoke about cabi-
net expansion or
issues concern-
ing Pilot camp?
Sources claim
that the duo did speak
on the issues, however
it was more of an infor-
mal talks, which were
not included in Bansal’s
agenda for this visit.
BANSAL’S VISIT
RAISES INTEREST!
Pawan Bansal
ACB nabs IPS Manish
Agarwal on graft charges
First India Bureau
Jaipur: The Rajasthan
Anti-CorruptionBureau
arrested an IPS officer
on corruption charges
in Jaipur on Tuesday, a
top official said.
IPS officer Manish
Agarwal’s name had
cropped up in a case in
which a petrol pump
owner, Neeraj Meena,
was arrested for alleg-
edly demanding Rs 38
lakh from a construc-
tion firm on the offic-
er’s behalf.
A 2010-batch IPS of-
ficer, Agarwal is cur-
rently posted as the
commandant of the
State Disaster Response
Force, Jaipur. He held
the charge of the Dausa
SP at the time of the al-
leged incident.
IPS officer Manish
Agrawal has been ar-
rested under provisions
of the Prevention of
Corruption Act, ACB-
DG B L Soni told PTI.
Soni said Agarwal’s
house was raided after
his arrest.
The company owner
had complained to the
ACB, alleging that dis-
trict administration
and police officials had
been demanding bribe
for facilitating a high-
way construction pro-
ject in Dausa.
After the verification
of the complaint, the
ACB on January 13 ar-
rested two SDMs and
petrol pump owner
Neeraj Meena. After
Meena’s arrest, ACB
probed role of the IPS
officer booked him in
the case. —With PTI inputs
Manish Agarwal
‘NewPCCbuildingtocomeupinJaipur’
Yogesh Sharma
Jaipur: Congress Na-
tional General Secre-
tary Pawan Bansal on
Tuesday
, hinted that the
foundation of the par-
ty’s new office in Jaipur
may be laid this year.
He said that the new of-
fice building of Pradesh
Congress Committee
will be constructed in
Jaipur while other of-
fices will be construct-
ed in districts and
blocks. He said that it
will be a beautiful and
modern building.
During his visit to
Jaipur, Bansal held dis-
cussions with CM
Ashok Gehlot and PCC
President Govind Singh
Dotasra.
He said that all the new
offices of the party
which will be construct-
ed in the country will
have similarity
.
When Bansal and Do-
tasra were holding a
press conference at the
PCC office, CM Ashok
Gehlot surprised them
by joining them in the
middle of the PC. Sourc-
es said that Bansal has
sought details about the
properties of the PCC. At
present, the party has 14
DCCbuildingsinthestate
but most of them are
small and unorganised.
CM Ashok Gehlot Govind Singh Dotasra during Pawan Bansal’s press conference at PCC office.
I DIDN’T DONATE
FOR THE RAM
TEMPLE: BANSAL
Jaipur: Pawan Bansal said
he had been asked for
money in name of Ram
temple, but he did not
give it because BJP wants
to call this campaign
Ram’s name as their
own whereas, Congress
is a secular party. On
NSUI’s initiative to collect
contributions, he said he
was not aware of any such
move. “Collecting dona-
tions in the name of Ram
temple may be own think-
ing, but the way BJP has
formed a trust after the
foundation stone laying
of the temple, it has given
another color to it. We are
religious, but religion is
our personal issue. I am a
Hindu but inside my house.
—PHOTO
BY
SUMAN
SARKAR
—PHOTO
BY
SANTOSH
SHARMA
Ajay Maken with Govind Singh Dotasra other party officials at the Jaipur Airport on Tuesday.
Maken’s visit: Political
appointment and cabinet
expansion not on agenda!
Aditi Nagar/Kashiram
New Delhi/Jaipur:
Congress State In-
charge Ajay Maken
landed at Jaipur on
Tuesday morning at
8:45 PM, where he was
welcomed by scores of
Congress leaders.
Maken was received by
PCC Chief Govind Sin-
gh Dotasra, Congress
leader Dharmendra
Rathore and many oth-
ers.
Maken will attend
two meetings on
Wednesday, wherein,
the first meeting will be
with Chief Minister
Ashok Gehlot on the
strategy for the upcom-
ing Assembly by-elec-
tions. Whereas in the
second meeting, the ex-
ecutive of the districts
will be discussed. On
the question political
appointments not being
done till January 31,
Maken said, “In poli-
tics, many times, every-
thing could not be done
according to the date-
line, although appoint-
ments would be made
soon.” Meanwhile, dis-
trict level political ap-
pointments will now be
initiated and in the next
couple of days, these ap-
pointments could be an-
nounced. However, as
of now, there is no agen-
da of change in cabinet
or political appoint-
ments at state level and
it is believed that these
will be done after the
budget sessions now,
which has caused some
despair in Pilot camp.
It is being said that
appointments will be
done on the basis of po-
litical necessity and
based on ‘merit’ of the
person. Therefore, Mak-
en’s visit will be limited
to district level appoint-
ments, however, it is be-
ing said that informal
talks could be held on
potential candidates for
appointments. But the
fact remains that Mak-
en has reached Jaipur
to enforce the High
Command’s mandate.
BUT 30,000
DISTRICT LEVEL
POLITICAL
APPOINTMENTS
ARE IN OFFING

K
atrina Kaif is
paired for the
very first
time with
Siddhant Chatur-
vedi and Ishaan
Khatter for the up-
coming horror
comedy, Phone
Bhoot. The
trio seems to
enjoy their
time with
each other
as they pre-
pare them-
selves for
the film in
Udaipur. The film is
much awaited for the
fresh pairing of the trio.
Siddhant Chaturvedi has
taken to Instagram as they
invite Katrina Kaif in their
intense workout session.
—Agency
T
he first ever pairing
on-screen, Rakul
Preet Singh and
Ayushmann Khur-
rana have joined the cast of
Doctor G directed by Anub-
huti Kashyap and produced
by Junglee Pictures. The
film is a campus-comedy
drama and the shooting is
awaited. The film is estab-
lished in a campus of a mdi-
cal institute, wherein,
Ayushmann will
be seen as Dr
Uday Gupta
and Rakul
as Dr Fa-
tima.
—ANI
A
lia Bhatt who had
been shooting for the
Sanjay Leela Bhansali
film, Gangubai Kathi-
awadi, has taken a break from
shooting, as she is rehearsing
her dance moves for 2 dance
songs featuring in the film be-
fore calling it a wrap.
The tracks are going to be
filmed in the grand Sanjay Lee-
la Bhansali’s demeanour as 200
dancers background dancers
are being trained for the same
along with the lavish set. Mean-
time, the actress recently spent
some quality time with her beau,
Ranbir Kapoor, in New Delhi.
Alia Bhatt was also seen playing
the game of Truth or Dare on
her Instagram with her fans, where
she revealed her love for aloo,
chocolates and the fact that she actu-
ally hates shopping!
—Agency
JAIPUR, WEDNESDAY
FEBRUARY 3, 2021
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MAGICAL
MALDIVES
isha Patani has shared a throw-
back picture on her Instagram
where she is seen soaking the
sun in Maldives. The actress
stuns in the white bikini.
The actress took a break
and has spent leisure
time in Maldives. Fans have
been appreciating the
picture as well as Tiger
Shroff’s sister Krishna
Shroff couldn’t stop
herself from dropping a
comment. Disha Patani
was last seen in Ma-
lang with Aditya Roy
Kapoor, Anil Kapoor
and Kunal Kemmu.
Her upcoming pro-
ject is Radhe:
You most wanted
Bhai alongside
Salman Khan,
Jackie Shroff and
Randeep Hooda.
The film is set to
release on Eid
2021. Apart from
this, Disha has an-
other upcoming
project, Ek Vil-
lain-2. —Agency
D
NEED A
BREAK
A
fter wrapping up the shoot of
Rakshmi Rocket, Taapssee
Pannu has revealed the first
lookof hernextfilm,‘Looop
Lapeta’. With one after the other
projects in her hands, Taapsse
hassharedonherInstagramthe
character Savi who is question-
ing herself how did she end up
here!Thefilmisahindiremake
of the German 1998 film Run
Lola Run. Taapsee had been
shooting in Goa for the film.
The 1998 German
film featured
Franka Pontete
and Mortiz
Bleibtreuinthe
lead role. It por-
traysthestoryof
a woman who has
to arrange 1,00,000
DeutscheMarkin20
minutes to save her
boyfriend. —Agency
RunSavi
RUN
Doctor G NOTHING
LIKE HOME
W
hile the shoot
life takes you
to a lot of
p l a c e s
around, there is no
place like home, but
Parineeti Chopra has
earned the privilege to
shoot at her hometown
as she is soon to begin
shooting for a brand
campaign. The actress
is thrilled to spend
some quality time with
her family as she is
soon to return to Mum-
bai for the promotion of
her upcoming film, The
Girl on The Train. The
GirlonTheTrainwhich
also features Aditi Rao
Hydari and Kirti Kul-
hari is a mystry thriller
film and is based on
British author Paula
Hawkins’ 2015 debut
novel of the same name.
—Agency
FUN AND
WORKOUT
Disha Patani
Rakul Preet Singh
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