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With a major poll debacle
staring the Congress in
its face, the grand old party of
India has now started dis-
cussing the relevance of alliance
politics and feels it should
charter a new course by going
it alone in future elections.
The party has also decided
to defend outgoing Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh to
the hilt in case of a “poor” show
and create a firewall to shield
party vice-president Rahul
Gandhi from criticism for the
likely electoral setback.
“Senior party leaders were
of the opinion that though the
Congress ruled two terms suc-
cessfully with alliance part-
ners, but still the party should
think of going alone in future.
There is no need to have truck
with regional parties in States
like Maharashtra, Bihar,
Jharkhand, Punjab and Tamil
Nadu,” said a very senior leader
present in the meeting.
He pointed out that Rahul
Gandhi had repeatedly
expressed a similar view on
alliance politics in the past
and the party is likely to con-
sider it for future politics.
The Congress Core Group
decided that alliance politics
has restricted growth of the
party in several key States
where regional players have
gained at the cost of the
Congress. Several leaders
stressed that the Congress must
revive itself in Tamil Nadu,
Odisha, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh
and Seemandhra by strength-
ening the party cadre and
going it alone.
“This has to be a long-term
strategy and this is the only way
the Congress could regain it
pan-India character,” said a
senior leader. Despite giving the
thumbs down to the opinion
and exit polls, the party’s audit
of the just concluded Lok Sabha
polls discussed that out of 20
seats in Kerala, the Congress
was projected to get between 11
and 14 while in Karnataka, the
party is projected to get nearly
half of the 28 seats.
The ruling Congress-led
UPA was tipped to get between
101 and 148 seats while ‘others’,
including regional parties and
Left, were projected to get
between 146 and 156 seats,
according to the exit polls,
which too came in for discus-
sion briefly.
The core group also dis-
cussed post-poll options before
senior women politicians like
Mayawati, Jayalalithaa and
Mamata Banerjee who “have
committed themselves to sec-
ularism” and have ruled out any
tie-up with the BJP. Odisha
Chief Minister Naveen
Patnaik’s party also figured in
the discussions since it has
denied any post-poll alliance
with the BJP.
Those present at the delib-
erations included party gener-
al secretaries BK Hari Prasad,
Shakeel Ahmed, Ajay Maken,
Janardan Dwivedi, CP Joshi
and party leaders Vayalar Ravi,
Oscar Fernandes, Rajiv Shukla
and Randeep Surjewala.
Sources quoted the party
High Command as appreciat-
ing the leaders and strategists
for contesting the elections at
the height of a strong anti-
incumbency factor to stop
Narendra Modi from becom-
ing the Prime Minister. Sonia
is also believed to have
expressed that all the senior
leaders in future should
“always” credit Singh for his
able leadership and never
should he be blamed for anom-
alies, if any.
In the meeting, Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh’s
“able stewardship” was hailed by
the Congress which under-
lined that he had led the coun-
try through difficult times. The
AICC too praised the Prime
Minister on the eve of a farewell
dinner for him hosted by Sonia
Gandhi on Wednesday.
Continued on Page 4
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While the BJP is confident
that the NDA will bag
around 300 seats and a com-
fortable majority in the Lok
Sabha elections, the party is
keeping its door open for
prospective allies.
“We fought for 272+ seats
and we are getting them. Any
party which has even a single
MP and wants to support us,
we will welcome it in national
interest,” BJP leader and
in-charge of Uttar Pradesh poll
Amit Shah told reporters
on Tuesday.
Shah’s overture to smaller
parties, which could come
handy in case the NDA fell
short of the 272 mark by a few
seats, came a day after the exit
polls indicated absolute major-
ity for the BJP-led alliance.
Shah himself claimed the NDA
would get anywhere between
290 and 305 seats, including 50
to 55 Lok Sabha seats in
Uttar Pradesh.
However, Shah dodged a
question about the BJP estab-
lishing contacts with prospec-
tive new allies.
Narendra Modi had in
recent interviews also said the
BJP is open to the support of
allies even though it will get a
majority of its own.
With the BJP leadership
silent on the possible role for
veteran leaders LK Advani and
MM Joshi in the organisation
and the Government, Shah
said the party’s Parliamentary
Board, the supreme decision-
making body, would take a call
on it. Last week, Joshi flew to
Nagpur for a meeting with
RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat.
Seen as the architect of
BJP’s revival in UP, Shah said
the State was divided in 30
blocks, with each block having
a few seats and a different
strategy was adopted for each
of them.
Continued on Page 4
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Hours before counting of
votes for the 16th Lok
Sabha begins, the Union
Cabinet on Tuesday cleared a
slew of proposals — including
appointment of Lieutenant-
General Dalbir Singh Suhag as
the next Army chief despite
opposition from the BJP and
ratification of stake sale in
BHEL. At the same time,
President Pranab Mukherjee
gave assent to the Whistle-
blowers Protection Act, which
provides a mechanism for pro-
tecting the identity of whistle-
blowers — a term given to
people who expose corruption.
Vice-Chief of Army Staff
Lt-Gen Suhag will assume the
new responsibility after incum-
bent General Bikram Singh
retires on July 31. Former
Army chief General VK Singh
has been in the forefront of
opposing Suhag’s appointment.
VK Singh had put a
‘Disciplinary and Vigilance’
ban on Suhag when he was the
3 Corps Commander two years
ago for “failure of command
and control” as an Intelligence
unit under him had allegedly
carried out dacoity in Assam
outside the jurisdiction of the
Corps. The ban, which pro-
hibits a promotion, was lifted
immediately after incumbent
Army chief Gen Bikram Singh
took over on May 31, 2012.
“What and whom are they
trying to protect? What are the
Defence Ministry and UPA-II
scared of?... This harms the
individual as people will ques-
tion the UPA’s motives,”
General VK Singh said.
“The Defence Ministry
seems determined to push the
file through the Appointments
Committee of Cabinet (ACC)
and the Prime Minister’s Office
despite the fact that given the
ongoing Jorhat dacoity case,
which has been a blot on the
name of the Army, there can be
no vigilance clearance.
“They got away with it two
years ago when Gen Bikram
Singh was appointed the chief,
so they feel they can
do the same thing again,” Gen
Singh said before the
Government announced
Suhag’s appointment.
Suhag was recommended
for the Army chief’s post on
Monday by the Defence
Ministry to the ACC chaired
by the Prime Minister after
the Election Commission
gave the go-ahead for the
appointment.
The BJP had protested
over the selection process dur-
ing the ongoing electioneering
and said an outgoing
Government with three or
four days left in office should
leave the appointment to the
next Government.
Commissioned into the
Gurkha Rifles in 1974 after
passing out from the National
Defence Academy, 59-year-
old Suhag will have 30 months
in office after taking over from
Bikram Singh. An alumnus of
Sainik School, Chittorgarh,
Suhag was commanding 3
Corps prior to his present
appointment as Vice-Chief in
January this year.
Continued on Page 4
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At least two persons died and
many others were injured
in the continuing post-poll vio-
lence across Bengal while the
Election Commission and the
State police tended to sit silent
spectators giving free hand to
the bike-borne Trinamool
Congress goons who went on
rampage raiding villages after
villages in parts of Hooghly,
Burdwan, Howrah, South
Dinajpur, North and South 24
Parganas and elsewhere.
A bike-borne gang of about
30 Trinamool men led by local
MLA Asima Patra on Tuesday
attacked BJP workers at booth
number 111 at Dhaniakhali in
Hooghly Lok Sabha constituen-
cy leaving at least four people
injured grievously, sources said
addingtheattacktookplacejust
after the re-polling ended.
“Our workers were relaxing
at a tea stall after the elections
when about 25-30 bike-borne
people attacked us with rods,
lathis and other weapons injur-
ing four of us even as we ran for
our lives,” said a party worker
adding, “Our vehicle was also
smashed by the goons.”
Dhaniakhali had of late
been rendered into a cold-ter-
ror zone with all Oppositions
being forced by the Trinamool
to close their party offices and
flee the area. An FIR had been
lodged and a complaint filed
with the Returning Officer,
BJP sources said adding the rul-
ing outfit once again resorted to
booth-capturing during the
concluding hours of the polls.
Six people had been arrested in
this connection, SP SK
Chowdhury said.
The Commission had ear-
lier ordered re-polling in 11
booths across the State that
went to polls on April 30. The
State continued to bleed and
burn even as the administra-
tion looked the other way
while reports of firing and
bombing came from Howrah
where a Congress worker was
shot dead by alleged Trinamool
goons, sources said. Another
death was reported from
Balrampur in Balurghat con-
stituency where the body of a
missing CPI(M) worker was
recovered by the police.
Continued on Page 4
New Delhi: With exit polls pro-
jecting BJP-led new
Government, the benchmark
Sensex skyrocketed to a new
life-time high of 24,068.94.
The broader index Nifty also
surged to a new record high of
7,172.35, in the third straight
record-setting session. Rupee
also shot up by 37 paise to
C59.68 per dollar.
Hopes of stable
Government at Centre helped
the Sensex conclude the session
at a new high of 23,871.23. Nifty
also ended the day at a new
closing high of 7,108.75, logging
a rise of 94.50 points.
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Aday after the exit polls pre-
dicted that the voters had
decided to hand over the reign
of the country in his hands; it
was business as usual
for Gujarat Chief Minister
Narendra Modi at
Gandhinagar. On Tuesday
morning, Modi held a meeting
on water scarcity in Gujarat,
and reviewed drinking water
situation in the State and dis-
cussed Narmada water grid
distribution system.
Modi instructed water sup-
ply board officials to supply
drinking water in rural areas of
the State using all possible
sources apart from Narmada
grid. The meeting was attend-
ed by Revenue Minister
Anandiben Patel, Water
Resources Minister Babu
Bokhiria, Rural Development
Minister Bhupendrasinh
Chudasama, Energy Minister
Saurabh Patel and Chief
Secretary Varesh Sinha.
“Collectors of the entire
district have been given ade-
quate powers to arrange proper
water supply. The State
Government machinery will
monitor on daily basis that
sources are being used to supply
water to different villages. The
State has already done satellite
mapping on water sources,” said
Modi during the meeting.
He also instructed officials
to monitor all the dams and
other major water sources and
submit reports on weekly basis.
He also gave instructions to
conduct separate satellite map-
ping to find out water for now
extinct Saraswanti River.
Currently the State
Government provides 130
crore litre of water to 5,588 vil-
lages and 79 towns in Gujarat
through Narmada water grid.
The Chief Minister also
ordered to arrange water
tankers for the villages facing
water scarcity.
Meanwhile, Modi also
chaired an important meeting
of BJP’s MLAs in the evening.
It is believed that Modi
would give hint about his suc-
cessor as it is almost final that
he will move to Delhi after the
poll results.
Apart from MLAs, senior
Gujarat BJP functionaries were
also present during the meet-
ing. Large number of media
personnel assembled outside
the Chief Minister’s Office at
‘Swarnim Sankul’.
Clearing the air on the
MLAs’ meeting, Gujarat BJP
general secretary and
spokesman Vijay Rupani said
that the party will decide on
Modi’s successor only after the
poll results and it will be decid-
ed by the party’s central par-
liamentary board.
He said that the meeting
was focused on upcoming
Krushi Mahotsav and Kanya
Kelavani Mahotsav (Girl Child
education campaign), in which
Modi insisted all the MLAs to
participate actively.
“Personally I thought that
Narendrabhai will take rest for
3-4 days after months’ long
hectic poll campaign. However
he decided to continue work
instantly and also concentrat-
ed on the water situation of the
State,” he added.
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New Delhi: A day after the
Income-Tax Department
gave him a clean chit in a
case of alleged irregularities
in the Nagpur-based Purti
group of companies, former
BJP president Nitin Gadkari
on Tuesday denied reports
that he wanted to be back in
the chair of party chief.
“I have been BJP presi-
dent for three years; I have
no ambition to become the
party president. Our priori-
ty is to form a Government
under Modi,” Gadkari said.
The BJP leader added: “I
have been cleared of all
charges against me. I am
happy about it and ready to
accept any role party will
decide for me.”
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the Supreme Court (SC) col-
legium has forwarded the
names of two prominent
SC senior lawyers for
appointment as judges of
the apex court.
Sources in the
Government said the names of
Gopal Subramaniam and
Rohington Nariman came up
for discussion in the Cabinet
Committee of Appointments
that met on Tuesday to decide
on crucial appointments. Both
have served as Solicitor-
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Government’s tenure.
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solved the high profile
murder of a ruling Samajwadi
Party leader who was shot
dead in the city on May 6 and
have arrested four people.
Addressing the
mediapersons, the SSP Sachi
Ghildiyal said local SP leader
Kapil Yadav was killed as he
was allegedly involved in a
murder a year ago and a
property dispute with some
locals.
The arrested are identified
as Devyansh Yadav, Sachin
Yadav, Rohit Yadav and Prince.
Kapil was shot dead at
Nandini petrol pump 24 near
Lal Kuan on National Highway
on May 6 morning.
The police found that
Devyansh Yadav, son of a
police constable was the
mastermind behind the
murder. Sachin, a local
resident, gave his Tata Vista
car and Rohit Yadav provided
a .9 mm pistol to him.
Devyansh and Prince shot
Kapil dead when he was
changing his car at the petrol
pump.
Devyansh took a pistol
that Kapil had on him along
with C6 lakh kept in a handbag.
After ensuring Kapil was dead,
the attackers escaped in the
Tata Vista car.
The murder led to much
hue and cry since Kapil was
said to be close to Uttar
Pradesh Chief Minister
Akhilesh Yadav, who directed
the state police to arrest the
criminals at the earliest.
SSP Ghildiyal said the
police succeeded in nabbing
Devyansh, Prince, Sachin and
Rohit, who confessed to
shooting Kapil.
The police also recovered
the .9 mm pistol used in the
crime and the .30 calibre pistol
that Kapil had.
Police said Kapil kept his
uncle’s pistol for safety since he
had deposited his own with the
police as required by law since
elections were on.
Police also recovered the
Tata Vista car and a mobile
phone. However, the cash is yet
to be recovered.
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The areas around the existing
and upcoming Metro
stations, especially those with
high footfall would soon be
connected through multi-
modal transport facilities like
travelators, skywalks and
elevators. The Delhi
Government is working to
implement the ‘integration of
multi-modal transport’ aimed
at decongesting and regulating
both pedestrian and vehicular
traffic in the areas around the
Metro stations.
Lieutenant Governor
Najeeb Jung on Tuesday
reviewed the presentation
made by Unified Traffic and
Transportation infrastructure
(planning engineering) Centre
(UTTIPEC) which has already
worked out detailed plans for
nine Metro stations out of the
44 others which have been
identified as having high
footfall and require
intervention to regulate human
and vehicular traffic.
Jung issued instructions to
the DMRC to take up the work
related to five Metro stations,
those in Laxmi Nagar, Nirman
Vihar, Preet Vihar,
Karkardooma and Chhatarpur.
Work related to Metro stations
in INA, AIIMS, Green Park and
Hauz Khas has been assigned to
the Public Works Department.
Jung also issued
instructions to the UTTIPEC to
complete their plan on the
remaining 35 Metro stations at
the earliest. He will review the
progress of their work at regular
intervals. He will also take a
meeting with all concerned in
June to review the design plans
of UTTIPEC for the 3rd phase
of DMRC construction.
On the other hand, PWD
has identified 60 such
intersections across the city
where travelators with elevators
and skywalk will be
constructed to give easy access
to those using Metro. ITO and
New Delhi Railway Station are
among the first where PWD
and Northern Railway is
planning to put revelators and
skywalk to give free access.
According to a proposal
prepared by the railway’s Delhi
division, the skywalk, enabled
with escalators, will connect
the railway station to the exits of
DelhiMetrostationandAirport
Metroline.Currently,passengers
have to walk through a maze of
traffic to get inside the New
Delhi station. Senior railway
officialssaidafeasibilitystudyon
the one-of-a-kind skywalk was
being done and rough estimates
put its cost at C8 crore. Similarly
for ITO, the PWD has asked
Lieutenant Governor to make a
presentation on the project.
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With the arrest of three
persons, the Delhi Police
on Tuesday claimed to have bu-
sted a gang of highway robbers,
who used to drug truck drivers
at isolated locations and rob
them of their goods. The gang
members, including a Delhi
Police Home guard, carried a
bottle of water laced with Ativan
tablets that acted as an
intoxicant. Goods worth over a
crore have been recovered from
them. They were arrested
followingspecificinformationto
the Crime Branch.
“The accused have been
identified as Deepak Verma,
Yogesh Kumar, alias Bunny,
Somvir, alias Tota Plash, and
PardeepKumar. Theirarrestled
to the recovery of stolen articles
— including 162 cartoons of
expensive life-saving medicine
worth C30 lakh, 407 bucket
(5,479 litres) of Asian Apex
Ultima paint worth C16.50 lakh
in the market, imported Plastic
grains, 124 tablets of intoxicants
and a Bolero jeep used in the
commission of crime,” said
Additional Commissioner of
Police (Crime Branch) Ashok
Chand. He said, “The accused
usually overpowered and forced
the driver and cleaner of the
truck to drink the intoxicated
water. When they were
unconscious,thegangunloaded
the goods and abandoned the
trucks.” Pardeep belong to Har-
yana and was presently running
amilkdairywithhisfatherwhile
Deepak Verma was earlier a
constableinDelhiHomeGuard.
Somvir used to sing Haryanvi
folk songs in buses.
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The mobile application
recently launched by the
Delhi Traffic Police to make the
city congestion free has got
warm response from the road
users. In just four days, the
application has got more than
8,000 downloads. Besides, there
have been 96 complaints of
overcharging and refusal.
However, there has been no
complaint of harassment so far.
“The number of
complaints for overcharging
reported in four days is 96. Out
of these, eight complaints have
been against auto-rickshaw
drivers for overcharging and
four complaints for refusal.
Rest, 84 complaints are against
the taxi drivers for refusal. We
have already forwarded these
complaints to our signal cell
constituted to take
actions against the law
violators,” said, Anil Shukla,
Joint Commissioner of
Traffic Police.
The new mobile
application is currently
available on Android phones
and can easily be downloaded
from Google Play Store. It will
be soon available on Windows
and Apple Store. According to
the officials, second versions
will be enhanced and new
tools as available in
department’s website will be
incorporated.
“We are getting good
response from users. Most of
the people, who have
downloaded our application,
are giving us five stars as a
review. There is further scope
to add new functions and
features to the application,
which will service our citizens
better. We are working to
integrate some of the features
like e-challans and other
services,” Shukla said.
This application enables
the public to utilise the e-
services provided by the Delhi
Traffic Police like obtaining
information about traffic alerts
and advisories to plan the
journey accordingly, in
advance. People can assess fare
charges to be paid to auto-
rickshaws, Taxi, Radio Cabs,
calculation of distance travelled
and shortest route to be taken
for destined journey in Delhi.
“This is a useful application. I
am using it from four days and
till now it has assisted me to
escape traffic jams while
leaving from office or home,”
said Akhil Verma, an advocate
who has been using the
application.
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With the national Capital
witnessingfrequentpower
cuts, the call centres of
distribution companies are
floodedwithcomplaints.Inabid
to ensure quick grievance
redressal to the consumers, the
Delhi Government on Tuesday
instructedthediscomstoregister
complaints through phone
numbers and home addresses.
Meanwhile, to ensure uninte-
rrupted power supply, the
Reliance-owned discoms —
BSES(BRPL)andBSES (BYPL)
—launchedamassivecampaign
against power pilferage.
While taking stock of the
discoms grievance redressal
mechanism on power failure
complaints, Goyal directed the
discoms that they instruct their
officials in call centre not to
insist on providing consumer
number or meter number from
the caller. In addition to
manual registration, the
consumers can also register
their complaints through
Interactive Voice Response
System (IVRS) on above call
centre numbers if his/her
contact number is registered
with the discoms.
To tap on more energy, the
BSESdiscomshaveplanned500
mass raids spread over the next
three months. “For increased
effectiveness of the drive and to
unearth power-theft of various
types,theraidsarebeingcarried-
out literally 24 x 7 — even
duringlate-night,earlymorning
hoursandalsoonSaturdaysand
Sundays. The campaign cover
over150areasacrossSouth,West
East and Central Delhi,” said a
BSES spokesperson.
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Following the reports of large
scale encroachment on
notified lands during elections,
Noida Authority has decided to
undertake massive anti-
encroachment drive across the
region. In the initial phase,
authority has planned to
reclaim illegally occupied land
in city area and once Lok
Sabha election process ends,
focus will be on floodplain
areas along the Yamuna and
Hindon rivers, lands belonging
to gram sabhas and areas in the
vicinity of Okhla Bird
Sanctuary. With over half
police’ strength, along with
officials of other departments,
busy in election duty in other
parts of Uttar Pradesh, around
10-15 per cent area of open
space has illegally been
occupied by the colonisers,
property dealers, musclemen
and farmers.
Nearly 1,000 policemen
along with hundreds of
officials of other departments
have been deployed to other
districts of Uttar Pradesh for
election duty leading to staff
crunch in entire Gautambudh
Nagar area. The area witnessed
spurt in encroachment
activities during this period.
The squatters have not only
occupied lands in riverbed but
have constructed small
colonies in sanctuary area also.
They have also encroached
big chunk of open land in city
area and have erected buildings
also. Sources claim that around
30 per cent area of notified land
is in illegal possession of
squatters across the Noida
region. Most affected regions
are Sorka, Hindon and Yamuna
river region, sectors along
Noida-Greater Noida
Expressway, Okhla Bird
Sanctuary area and regions
along with NH 24 where
several projects are delayed
due to illegal encroachment.
A senior official of Noida
authority said that they were
reported about spurt in
encroachment and have started
crack down. They have started
reclaiming land in city areas first
and once police force will back
in the district, massive drive will
be conducted across the city.
“We have sought reports from
circle officers of the area. Once
the encroached areas are
identified, we have started
eviction drive. However, we
will conduct anti-encroachment
on large scale once total allotted
police force is available,” said
VK Panwar, Additional CEO
of Noida Authority.
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District administration of
Gautam Budh Nagar is yet
to act against school authority
whose bus met with an
accident in Greater Noida on
Monday. The administration
ordered to register FIR against
the accused driver, and not
against the school authority.
Officials said the action will be
taken once election process is
over in Uttar Pradesh.
However, the lackadaisical
approach of the administration
irked the parents who are now
demanding proper
investigation into the matter.
Meanwhile, police arrested bus
driver Brijpal on Tuesday.
One dozen students and
four teachers were injured on
Monday noon when bus of
Vishwa Bharti Public School in
Greater Noida had met with an
accident near Crown Plaza in
Surajpur. Himanshu, Class
VIII student, had suffered
severe injuries and his right
hand was amputated in Kailash
Hospital. He was later shifted
AIIMS Trauma Centre in New
Delhi. As many as 40 students
and six teachers had boarded
in the bus which was going
towards Noida from Beta-I of
Greater Noida. The errant
driver of the bus had fled the
spot leaving the victims inside
the bus.
City Magistrate of Greater
Noida Jaipal Singh had said on
Monday that the
administration would order
investigation into the matter
and issue notice against the
school for negligence.
However, no action was
initiated on Tuesday.
When enquired, the City
Magistrate said that they could
not initiate action against
school administration as the
school was closed for two
days. Apart from this, they are
also busy in election-related
activities. “We have registered
a case under appropriate
Sections of IPC. However, no
notice has been issued to
school administration yet. We
will see the matter only after
election results are
announced,” said Jaipal Singh.
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With an aim to attract
Indian students in large
number, UK-based Bath Spa
University has offered
scholarship to 30 aspirants to
study there. The scholarship
would vary from C1 lakh to C4
lakh depending on student’s
performance. The university is
in England’s Bath city which is
reported to be the ‘safest city for
foreign students’. The university
offers numerous courses
ranging from arts to sciences.
Besides, the university is
famous for its innovative
programmes in business
management.
“India is strategic country
for us as nearly 10 per cent of
our international students are
from the country. We are
optimistic that this would
double to 20 per cent within a
year. We offer wide range of
programmes across arts,
sciences, education, social
science and business to more
than 7,500 students. We are
expecting to enroll around
8,200 students for the new
session from various
countries,” said Imran Oomer,
the MD and CEO Global
Admissions of Bath Spa
University on Tuesday.
During a media
interaction in the Capital, he
said the university will also be
offering merit-based
scholarship up to 30 Indian
students. Beside university
scholarship, Indian students
will have to spend Rs 8 lakh
annually on an average.
Claiming India is fastest
growing economy, Oomer said,
“There is no place better than
India to start international
programmes. Our efforts are to
add to the Indian economy.”
Students after the
completion of three-years-
graduation programmes are
given work permit for one
year. Moreover, the visa allows
them to work for 20 hours per
week. The university gets 93
per cent campus placement
for all the students.
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Brand Delhi College of
Engineering (DCE) was
terminated to give way to Delhi
Technological University
(DTU) but the engineering
university envisaged by the
previous Congress
Government has failed to func-
tion to its full strength. It not
only lacks the infrastructure
but also there is an acute short-
age of over 100 teaching staff in
various faculties that has result-
ed in decline in overall acade-
mic standard of the DTU. Out
of 345 sanctioned posts, over
100 posts are lying vacant for
the past several years.
As per All India Council for
Technical Education (AICTE)
norms, total vacant post is 177
that include professor, associate
professor and assistant profes-
sor. Students of DTU are bear-
ing the brunt of inadequate
infrastructure, compounded by
the shortage of teaching staff.
The DCE was granted the sta-
tus of Delhi Technological
University in 2009.
With the availability of ade-
quate staff, the purpose of given
university status to the erstwhile
DCE seems to have been defeat-
ed. In addition to hampering the
smooth functioning of the insti-
tution, it certainly leaves an
impact on quality of education
being imparted at the universi-
ty and ultimately students are at
the receiving end.
Taking a strong note of
shortage of staff of various fac-
ulties, Lieutenant-Governor
Najeeb Jung has also expressed
concern over the prevailing
vacancies and said that the
vacancies should be filled up
without any further delay at a
review meeting recently. For
recruitment of faculty on regu-
lar basis, Jung has suggested that
Jamia Millia Islamia model tofill
vacancy could be studied. Jamia
Milia University is the only
university in the country where,
95 per cent posts have been
filled. The university fills vacant
posts every year. According to
sources, DTU has chalked out
an action plan to fill these posts
and presented it before the L-G.
To avoid disruption of
teaching till regular appoint-
ment is made, Jung asked the
vacancies in the colleges and
other technical institutes to be
filled up on contract basis
within three months as ‘stop-
gap arrangement’, officials said.
Further when the officials sug-
gested that a separate selection
committee should be consti-
tuted to fill up the large num-
ber of vacant teaching posts,
Jung said that it was advisable
to go through the UPSC rules
to ensure recruitment in a fair
and transparent manner.
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Once a wetland and now
reduced to a garbage
dumping site, the Shahdara
Lake in East Delhi is set to get
a fresh lease of life. The East
Delhi Municipal Corporation
has begun the restoration of the
dried up lake that is also
planned to be developed into a
tourist hotspot with green area,
water body, boating deck, an
island, children’s park and an
amphitheatre. On one side of
the lake, there will be a fish
pond and lagoons to add to the
aesthetics of the lake. This
aims at bringing back the wet-
land and aquatic ecosystem in
the region along with com-
mercial utilisation of the same.
Having received funding
from the Trans-Yamuna Board
and with the National
Environment Engineering
Research Institute (NEERI) as
its consultant, the civic body is
in the process of awarding
contract for the project. The
estimated cost of the project is
C25 crore and is likely to be
completed by next year. The
civic body will use Phytorid
Natural Technology; the first of
its kind in India to revitalize the
lake which has completely
dried up over the years. As per
the proposal, 30 million of
waste water would be treated
every day to recharge the
ground water and redevelop 30
acres of land into a beautiful
green area with the water body
spread over 10 acres. A portion
of the lake has been encroached
upon while the remaining land
is being used for dumping of
garbage by the locals.
“The EDMC has over 30
acres of land in Shahdara.
While the lake will be devel-
oped on 10 acres; the remain-
ing area will be green cover
with a playground for children.
Once completed, the lake will
become a recreational centre
with provisions of boating,
amphitheatre and other activ-
ities,” said Yogendra Singh
Mann, Director (Press
Information), EDMC. The
lake will be surrounded by a
moat, where water will
be treated through Phytorid
technology.
“The amphitheatre can be
used for holding cultural
events while a banquet hall is
also proposed at the site. The
commercial utilisation of the
project will generate addi-
tional revenue for the civic
body. The lake will be sur-
rounded by a non-motorised
track leading up to the Metro
stations and residential
colonies in nearly areas.
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Students who didn’t get a
chance to study a particular
language in school but wish to
pursue it in college have now
found a golden opportunity in
the University of Delhi. In this
year’s admission guidelines
issued by the college, if a student
has not studied a particular lan-
guage in school, can still apply
for an Honours degree in it after
bearing a disadvantage of five
per cent in the ‘best of four’
average. This way the student
would at least be eligible for the
course if one meets the cut-off.
According to university
officials, this guideline has
come in lieu of the increasing
number of such applicants in
the past. “We noticed in the
past few years that a lot of stu-
dents were not able to pursue
an Honours degree in a lan-
guage they hadn’t studied.
This was not fair on them as
a lot of people don’t end up
pursuing a language because
the school they are studying in
doesn’t offer it. That doesn’t
mean the student is barred
from that course,” said officials
at the Dean of Student’s
Welfare office.
Nonetheless, this rule is
not applicable for Hindi and
English. The guidelines issued
by the university read, “In
case, a candidate has not
studied the language at qual-
ifying exam and is seeking
admission in Honours in that
language, a disadvantage of
five per cent in ‘Best of Four’
percentage may be given to
the aspirant. However, for
admission to Honours in
English and Hindi, the can-
didate must have studied the
respective language and has to
be included for calculation of
Best of Four percentage.”
However, some relief has
been provided by the univer-
sity in this aspect as well.
Earlier, only if a student had
done the elective or core lan-
guage in Class XII was one
eligible to apply to the lan-
guage. But now, even if the
student has studied function-
al language, can apply but on
a slight disadvantage. Officials
added, “While students who
have studied the core lan-
guage will be given no advan-
tage or disadvantage, stu-
dents who have studied elec-
tive language will get a two
per cent advantage and stu-
dents who have studied func-
tional language will get a two
per cent disadvantage. This
will place all of them on the
same level and not deny any-
one admission.”
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In a bid to discourage manu-
al system of application for
admissions in Delhi University,
the administration has
increased the price of applica-
tion forms by C50. The online
application forms will, howev-
er, be available for C100. Earlier,
the forms were available at
university centres at the same
price but the latest move aims
at encouraging online applica-
tion system among students.
The offline forms will now cost
C150 for general/OBC and C70
for SC/ST students.
Sources in the university
said a lot of unnecessary
expenditure is incurred by the
university through the offline
method which is why they
want to exterminate the
method slowly.
“There is a lot of human
resource, paper and time being
spent on this process. Eventually
everything has to be collated
and put online. So instead of
wasting time in this process, it
is better that everything is put
online and centralised. This
even saves children the trouble
of running around in the heat,”
sources said.
However, this move of the
university hasn’t gone too well
with students as the National
Students’ Union of India
(NSUI) on Tuesday protested
outside the Dean of Student
Welfare (DSW) office demand-
ing the pullback of this incre-
ment. According to them, a lot
of students find it difficult to
apply online.
“Thereareproblemsregard-
ing mode of payment or even
accesstoInternetthatalotofstu-
dentsface.Manyfeelthatitiseas-
ier to apply manually. Thus,
increasingthefeehasmadeitdif-
ficult for them as such students
willstillgofortheofflinemethod
and invite heavier costs,” said a
volunteer from NSUI.
Other than this, another
demand was put forward by
NSUI volunteers. They asked
the DSW to make the Faculty
of Arts an admission centre
like the previous years as it is
a known location and chang-
ing it would create confusion.
This year the university has
announced 18 admission cen-
tres of which five are in the
North Campus. Officials,
however, argued that the
admission centres were con-
veniently located near metro
stations and that this would
cause no hassle to students.
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The Delhi High Court on
Tuesday asked a top Delhi
Government official to appear
before it over non-implemen-
tation of its order on issuance
of a circular to 15 schools to
keep aside at least two nursery
seats each in the present acad-
emic session for children with
special needs.
Seeking the presence of
the Principal Secretary of
Education, a bench of justices
S Ravindra Bhat and Vibhu
Bakhru also issued notice to the
Delhi Government for its
response on a contempt plea
alleging “willful and deliberate
omission” on its part for not
complying with the court’s
May 7 order.
The bench also brushed
aside the Government’s con-
tention that guidelines cannot
be modified during the admis-
sion process, saying it had
ordered only what has been
mandated under the Persons
with Disability Act.
“Let the Principal
Secretary, Education be here on
next date,” the court said and
listed the matter for further
hearing on May 16. The order
was passed on the petition of
Pramod Arora, father of a
child with special needs.
The contempt plea filed
through senior advocate Kirti
Uppal and advocate
Anshumaan Sahni has alleged
that despite the court’s May 7
order, the Government till date
has not issued any circular. The
bench on May 7 had ordered
the city Government to issue
the circular within 24 hours to
the 15 private schools.
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Amid concerns over Delhi
being categorised as the
most polluted city in the world
by World Health Organisation
(WHO), Lieutenant-Governor
Najeeb Jung has constituted a
high-powered committee head-
ed by Chief Secretary SK
Srivastava to look into the
increasing pollution in river
Yamuna and vehicular pollu-
tion in the city.
The high-powered com-
mittee will specifically look
into two aspects — pollution
caused by growing number of
vehicles on the roads of Delhi
and pollution levels in Yamuna
because of outpouring of indus-
trial and sewer waste in the
river. The committee will exam-
ine all aspects of pollution, its
cause, its levels, and suggest
both long term and short term
measures to be adopted to
tackle the issue of pollution.
At a statement issued by
the L-G office, Jung said, “We
cannot allow for pollution to
grow unchecked. It is our
moral responsibility to pro-
vide a healthy environment to
our citizens.”
The high-powered com-
mittee will be chaired by the
Chief Secretary and will have
Special CP (Traffic), Delhi
Police; Secretary
(Environment); Commissioner
(Transport) and Additional
Secretary (Delhi Pollution
Control Committee (DPCC))
as its members. The commit-
tee has been empowered to co-
opt members, both from the
Government and the private
sector, including NGOs. The
Lieutenant-Governor has
directed the High-Powered
Committee to submit its report
to him within the next four
weeks, so that suitable action
can be initiated on its basis.
L-G had recently convened
a meeting with the Chief
Secretary and all senior officers
of the Delhi Government,
where he had expressed con-
cerns over the growing levels of
pollution in Delhi. At the meet-
ing, Jung had directed the
DPCC to ensure closure of pol-
luting units and had instruct-
ed the concerned
Commissioners to demonstrate
compliance with DPCC orders.
However, the experts and
environmentalists expressed
their surprise saying that the
city has already a panel
appointed by the Supreme
Court — Environment
Pollution Control Authority
(EPCA) headed by Bhure Lal
— for monitoring the pollu-
tion. They said the existing
committee has been submitting
its report regularly to the
Supreme Court and on the
other hand, the Delhi
Government has failed to
finalise a policy to make the
Capital’s air clean in the last two
and half year.
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professors and 145 for the assistant professors. DTU needs 30
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professors. Officials say that total strength of BTech and MTech
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faculty, the ratio is much higher. It may be noted that the author-
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The Sahebganj SP on
Tuesday earned the wrath
of the State’s DGP Rajiv Kumar
after it was pointed out by the
Regional Passport Officer
(RPO) how police were
indulging in shoddy verifica-
tion of the persons for getting
Bangladeshi passports.
The DGP was interacting
with the district police head-
quarters across the State along
with Regional Passport Officer
Sanatan and other senior police
officials taking grievances from
the people on the issues of issu-
ing passports and character
certificates for getting jobs
under ‘DGP Apke Dwar’ pro-
gramme.
Raising serious questions
over passport verification
process in the State, Sanatan,
during the programme, point-
ed out that he had issued eight
Bangladeshi passports after
getting the verification report
regarding their address and
character from the Sahebganj
SP. But later, when the police
reached to the said addresses
for spot verification, found the
address to be fake. Reacting
swiftly, the RPO was informed
by the SP regarding the mistake
requesting to cancel those
passports.
“The passports were can-
celled after getting a request
from the office of Sahebganj
SP,” Sanatan said.
“We act on the correspon-
dence with the concerned SP
and had issued the passport
after getting a clearance from
him some three months back,
but the moment we got a fresh
correspondence from
Sahebganj SP, we cancelled
their passports,” pointed out
Sanatan. Those who were
issued passports on fake
addresses, according to official
records are said to be self-
employed and are still beyond
the reach of the police.
Taking a serious view of the
lapse, the DGP immediately
ordered an inquiry and sought
an explanation from the
Sahebganj SP as to how it hap-
pened. The DGP later told
The Pioneer that he was not
imputing any motive for issu-
ing fake passports but will take
action against the police official
found guilty of committing
such a serious offence.
“The police need to go
deep into the matter and
should find out on which level
the mistake was committed.
Also, the passport officer
should have informed us
immediately when the goof
up happened,” he added.
Meanwhile, the DGP, while
hearing another grievance from
a person in Bagodar, asked the
Giridih SP to file a report
within 24 hours. The Bagodar
resident’s complaint was that
the police issued a negative ver-
ification report to the passport
authorities when he gave the
police official only Rs 400.
The DGP reviewed the
applications pending for address
and character verification
required for getting a job and
directed the concerned SPs to
expedite the process. “Issues
mostly related to passport ver-
ification and negative reports
were raised by the applicants
which I tried to sort out on the
spot,” the DGP added.
Under the programme, the
DGP interacts with people and
superintendents of police in 24
districts through video-con-
ference. Any person who has
been harassed by police for
character certificate or passport
verification can lodge a com-
plaint with the DGP.
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The exit poll results, predict-
ing total rout of Congress-
led UPA Government at the
CentreandformationoftheBJP
Government headed by
Narendra Modi, has set in
motion a spate of
speculation about the future of
Himachal Chief Minister
Virbhadra Singh.
In the event of bad perfor-
mance of the Congress in
Himachal Pradesh, the Chief
Minister,whohadbeendenying
the existence of Modi wave and
boasting of winning all the four
seats, could be in trouble.
The sword of CBI enquiry
report into the serious corrup-
tionandpay-offschargesagainst
Virbhadra Singh, the report of
which has already been sub-
mitted to the Delhi High Court
with all documents including a
diary seized by the Income-Tax
department during search and
seizure in the premises of a steel
manufacturing firm when
Virbhadra Singh was the Steel
Minister containing a list of per-
sons bribed. This and other
charges of pay offs can land him
in trouble.
The action was delayed by
the Congress high command
due to general elections. Now
when the wind is blowing
against the Congress and
Virbhadra Singh, observers
feel that in the changed cir-
cumstances it may not be fea-
sible or possible for the
Congress high command to
protect or defend him.
The dissidents within the
Congress party would also
become active. A recent meet-
inginthenativehouseofthefor-
mer Director General of Police,
I.D. Bhandari, who had been
accused of phone tapping, in
Ghumarwin village of Bilaspur
district in which some big guns
of the Congress including
Dharmani, Chief Parliamentary
Secretary,whorecentlyresigned,
also took part.
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Afour-year old boy, who had
disappeared mysteriously
from the premises of Lady
Hardinge Hospital, has been
rescued by the Special cell on
Tuesday evening. The child
had come to the hospital along
with his mother and police
suspect that he was lured by a
woman, as his mother forgot to
keep an eye on him. The child
was rescued from Jhandewalan
area from a woman, identified
as Sunita (34), who is into child
trafficking. Her interrogation
later revealed that she was
about to strike a deal with a
prospective buyer for the child.
According to police
sources, the incident was
reported around 10:30 am. The
police officials had searched the
hospital thoroughly but the
child, identified as Anshul,
could not be found. CCTV
footages at the hospital revealed
that the child has been kid-
napped and a case was regis-
tered at Mandir Marg police
station. In the CCTV footage
Anshul was seen following a
woman near the OPD block.
The information was also
shared with other divisions of
the Delhi Police and a team of
Special Cell which was already
working on cases regarding
child trafficking traced the
child. Sources revealed that
Sunita’s associate Anita, whom
she was supposed to sell the
child, was earlier arrested in a
robbery case and was on earli-
er occasions involved in kid-
napping cases too.
Meanwhile, the Additional
Commissioner of Police (New
Delhi District) SBS Tyagi said,
“Theboywillbetakenbeforethe
Child Welfare Committee and
will be handed over to his par-
entsafterthelegalitiesaredone.”
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Re-polling will be held at
eight polling stations of
Gurgaon parliamentary con-
stituency, said Returning
Officer Shekhar Vidyarthi on
Tuesday.
The re-polling will be
held between 7 am and 6 pm
on May 15 at eight polling sta-
tions — one polling station
each of Sohna and Punhana
Assembly segments and three
each of Nuh and Ferozpur-
Jhirka — in Mewat district.
The Election Commission
has announced the decision
after taking cognisance of
complaints and report of the
Returning Officer.
Vidyarthi said the re-
polling would be held at
booth No. 126 of Government
Primary School Bawla (Left
Wing) in Sohna Assembly
segment, booth No. 90 at
Government Middle School
Thek in Punhana Assembly,
and booth No. 44 at
Government Middle School
Rahna (Left Side), booth No.
46 of Government Primary
School Tapkan and booth No.
103 of Government Primary
School Majra Bharganwa
Sundaka in Nuh Assembly
segment. In Ferozpur-Jhirka
Assembly segment, repolling
will be held in booth No. 34
at Government Middle School
Banarsi, booth No. 101 of
Government High School
Neem Khera and booth No.
166 of Government Primary
School Shahpur.
He said the Election
Commission had declared the
polling held in these eight
booths on April 10 as
“void” under relevant sec-
tion of the Representation of
People Act.
The results of these
polling stations will be
announced along with other
polling stations on May 16.
These eight polling stations
witnessed high turnout —
above 95 per cent —on April
10. Such high voter turnout
had also raised suspicions.
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On the complaint of Aam
Aadmi Party candidate
from Gurgaon, Yogendra
Yadav, the Election
Commission of India on
Tuesday ordered re-poll in
eight polling stations in four
Assembly segments of the
constituency on May 15.
Chief Electoral Officer,
Haryana Shrikant Walgad,
said polling stations, where
re-poll has been scheduled on
May 15 are in the Mewat area
of the Gurgaon Parliamentary
constituency.
In a letter to Chief
Election Commissioner VS
Sampath, Yadav had men-
tioned that a village in Mewat,
which reported a high
turnout, didn't have a pro-
portionate number of people
with their finger inked and
villagers admitting to a pre-
poll “consensus” on who they
would vote for.
On the basis of a scientif-
ic analysis of the polling sta-
tion-wise turnout data, he
had submitted to the CEC,
added that there was a clus-
ter of booths that recorded
abnormally high turnout,
upwards of 90 per cent or
even 95 per cent, that these
were concentrated in the areas
where we had complained
about rigging and that the dis-
persion of turnout did not fol-
low normal statistical pat-
tern in the three segments
(Nuh, Firozpur-Zhirka
and Punhana) of the con-
stituency.
Yadav had demanded for
a re-poll in 110 booths across
the constituency. He had also
given details of the nature of
irregularities in 110 polling
stations and provided audio-
visual evidence to back up
their claims.
Now, the polling stations,
where re-polling would be
held on May 15 are in the
Nuh, Firozpur-Zhirka and
Punhana areas. Walgad added
that the re-poll would be held
from 7 am to 6 pm.
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With Assembly polls in
October and exit polls for
Lok Sabha suggesting a
Congress rout in Haryana,
Chief Minister Bhupinder
Hooda is in deep trouble. Not
even the staunchest Congress
supporter in the State sees him
winning again and becoming
Chief Minister for the
third time.
“The exit polls have writ-
ten Hooda’s political obituary.
The situation on the ground
reflects what the exit polls
showed. No amount of jug-
glery could save him from the
impending doom in the
Assembly polls later this year,”
a senior BJP leader said.
The exit polls have given
only 0-2 seats out of 10 to
Congress in Haryana. Many
in the State speculate that the
lone seat which the Congress
could perhaps win is Rohtak,
the stronghold of Hooda from
where his son Deepinder
Hooda is contesting.
Though BJP has always
been a marginal player in
the State and banked on
alliances for electoral suc-
cess, the Modi wave seems to
have worked in its favour. If
the exit polls come true, the
saffron party would, for the
first time, emerge as a domi-
nating political force in
the State.
Interestingly, unlike the
Congress or the Indian
National Lok Dal, there is no
strong BJP leader in Haryana
nor is the organisation present
in the rural areas. Party lead-
ers attribute the success to the
“Modi factor” and the desire
of change due to double anti-
incumbency, both in the
Centre as well as the State.
After shunning the scam
tainted INLD, led by the
Chautalas, BJP formed a non-
Jat platform in Haryana as it
allied with Haryana Janhit
Congress led by Kuldeep
Bishnoi.
While BJP fought on 8
seats, HJC contested from the
remaining two.
The two parties are in
alliance for the Assembly polls
as well but BJP is clearly emerg-
ing as the dominating partner
in this alliance. Distancing
from INLD and its leader Om
Prakash Chautala perhaps is
helping the BJP in the State as
corruption emerged as a major
poll issue.
BJP was also able to suc-
cessfully negate the challenge
of Aam Aadmi Party as it
steadfastly refused to ally
with INLD despite its repeat-
ed overtures. Both the top
leaders of INLD—OP
Chautala and his son Ajay are
in jail, convicted in the
teacher’s recruitment scam.
Sensing the public mood in
the State before the Lok Sabha
polls, two Congress MLAs—
Venod Sharma and Dharambir
left the party with the intention
of joining the BJP. While
Sharma was refused entry after
the objection of Sushma Swaraj,
Dharambir was given BJP tick-
et and contested from Bhiwani-
Mahendragarh.
As political leaders are the
first to sense public opinion
and hunt for better opportuni-
ties, several desertions took
place in Congress while it
failed to attract any leader
from any party.
Sitting Gurgaon MP Rao
Inderjit, who was also a
Minister in the UPA I, was the
first to leave Congress and
contest from Gurgaon on a BJP
ticket. Three former minis-
ters—Krishna Gehlot, Saroj
Sarwan and Ramesh Kaushik
also joined BJP.
With exit polls showing a
rout of the Congress and grass-
roots assessment of the parties
suggesting decimation of the
ruling party, BJP sources
claimed that that there are at
least half a dozen Congress and
Independent MLAs who are in
touch with the party.
From Page 1
Meanwhile, senior party leaders
and Union Ministers Kamal Nath,
Jairam Ramesh and Salman Khurshid
distanced Rahul Gandhi from the
impending poll debacle following exit
poll predictions. Reacting to exit poll
predictions of a Narendra Modi-led
NDA Government in the making, they
sought to suggest that Rahul was never
part of the UPA Government and the
Manmohan Singh-led Government was
not able to convey to the people about
its programmes and the work done.
“All this discussion is absurd. Rahul
Gandhi is our leader and he
will remain our leader in good
and bad times,” said Khurshid,
the Minister for External Affairs. Rural
Development Minister Jairam Ramesh
described Rahul as a “indefatigable” cam-
paigner who toured all over the coun-
try and said: “Ultimately it is for the
organisation to translate whatever pos-
itive impact Mr Gandhi or Mrs Gandhi's
campaign has into electoral advantage.”
Urban Development Minister
Kamal Nath also rejected suggestions
that a likely poor show in the elections
will be a reflection on Rahul's leadership,
saying he was never a part of the UPA
Government. He said the Manmohan
Singh-led Government was not able to
convey to the people about its pro-
grammes and all the good work it was
doing.
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As the Election
Commission approved
the appointment of Anup T
Mathew to replace Nirmal
Kumar Mishra as the new SP
of Dumka, the Jharkhand
Vikas Morhca (JVM) came
forward and blamed the out-
going SP Nirmal Mishra for
rigging during the April 24
polling.
The JVM, at the same
time, also demanded removal
of present Dumka DC
and conduct a CBI probe
into the entire poll process,
including deployment of
machinery.
Marandi is a party candi-
date from Dumka and up
against JMM patriarch Shibu
Soren in an intense poll
battle.
The Babulal Marandi-led
party on Tuesday alleged
that the ruling JMM
Government used the existing
machinery in its favour to
influence the outcome of the
election.
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Modi's close aide, who was
sent specially by the BJP's prime
ministerial candidate to work in
Uttar Pradesh, said he had to
work a lot to tone up the party's
organisational structure and
hoped the party would emerge
victorious in 50 to 55 seats.
Predicting a major gain for
the BJP in western and eastern
Uttar Pradesh, Shah claimed
the Bahujan Samaj Party, which
hasbeendecimatedbymanyexit
polls, will emerge as the second
player in the current Lok Sabha
polls. As exit polls projected
regional parties in power in
someStatestofaceadrubbingin
the Lok Sabha elections, Shah
said these parties will lose their
authority to rule once the man-
date goes against them. “When
they do not get a mandate from
the people, they lose the moral
authority to rule,” he said, in an
From Page 1
Just before the UPA
Government seemed all set to
be ousted from office, the
President on Tuesday gave
assent to the Whistleblowers
Protection Act. The
Whistleblowers Protection Act,
2011 provides a mechanism for
protecting the identity of
whistleblowers — a term given
to people who expose corrup-
tion.
The Act also provides for
a system to encourage people
to disclose information about
corruption or the wilful misuse
of power by public servants,
including ministers.
As per the law, a person
can make a public interest
disclosure on corruption
before a competent authority -
- which is at present the
Central Vigilance Commission
(CVC). The Government, by
notification, can appoint any
other body also for receiving
such complaints about cor-
ruption, the Act says.
The Act lays down pun-
ishment of up to two years in
prison and a fine of up to Rs
30,000 for false or frivolous
complaints.
Meanwhile, Union Cabinet
cleared private equity major
KKR's proposal to acquire
stakes in two pharmaceutical
companies in deals worth over
Rs 1,400 crore and ratified the
decision to sell 4.66 per cent
stake in power equipment PSU
BHEL.
The Cabinet Committee
on Economic Affairs (CCEA)
headed by the Prime Minister
ratified the Finance Ministry's
March decision wherein
BHEL had sold 4.66 per cent
stake in the state-owned com-
pany to Life Insurance
Corporation (LIC) for about
Rs 1,889 crore.
LIC purchased 11.41 crore
shares in BHEL at a price of Rs
165.55 apiece through a block
deal on the BSE. Following the
block deal, Government stake
in BHEL came down to 63.06
per cent, from 67.72 per cent.
The Empowered Group of
Ministers, headed by Finance
Minister P Chidambaram, had
in February decided on the
timing and mode of disinvest-
ment in BHEL. However, the
CCEA approval was pending
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Gopal was Solicitor- General
between June 15, 2009 and July 14,
2011. He abruptly quit following the
Government's decision to replace
him in the 2G case with RF Nariman.
With his resignation, Nariman was
brought in as Solicitor-General on
July 23, 2011. But even he did not
complete his tenure as he put in his
papers on February 4, 2013 follow-
ing differences with the then Law
Minister Ashwini Kumar.
Official sources said that the
collegium further had recommend-
ed two other names for appointment
as judges of the top court. They are
Justice Adarsh Kumar Goel, Chief
Justice of Orissa High Court and
Justice Arun Mishra, Chief Justice of
Calcutta High Court.
The four names will require for-
mal approval by the Government and
a warrant of appointment issued by
the President. The names of
Subramaniam and Nariman had been
doing the rounds for elevation as
judges for quite some time. But this
is the first time two members of the
bar have been together selected for
appointment to the highest court. In
the past, members of the Bar have
been elevated as judges of the High
Courts. But it is rare that lawyers
have been elevated as SC judges.
There is only one precedent in
the past when the SC collegium had
decided in 1999 to elevate practicing
lawyer N Santosh Hegde as judge of
the apex court. Incidentally, Justice
Hegde had also served as a Solicitor-
General prior to his appointment.
The collegium comprising CJI
and four senior-most judges of the SC
had taken an urgent decision to rec-
ommend the four names as
consensus had built around clearing
the backlog of vacancies in the SC.
Three SC judges retired at the start
of the summer break last week pre-
ceded by the retirement of
former CJI P Sathasivam and Justice
Gyan Sudha Mishra in the last week
of April.
The actual strength of judges in
SC is 31. If the four names come
through, the working strength of
judges in SC will increase to 29. With
the reopening of court in July, this
number is expected to come down to
27 as two more judges will be end-
ing their tenure in the top court.
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More firing was reported
on Tuesday from Haroa the
place of violent attacks on
Monday evening with five peo-
ple getting bullet injuries, police
said. While the Trinamool
accused the Left for the attacks,
locals said the clash was the
result of infighting between
the ruling outfits. “Miscreants
came and fired at us from
nowhere even as we were gos-
siping” said a victim who had
sustained bullet injuries in his
legs.”
Houses belonging to the
Opposition workers were loot-
ed, shops torched at Kasba in
South Kolkata where the police
resorted to lathi charge after
residents blockaded the road.
Even pregnant women were not
spared and badly beaten at
Basanti in Joynagar, while at
least 40 houses of Left sup-
porters were looted at
Kharagpur, and Ghatal. At
Naihati in North 24 Pargans
CPI(M) supporters were
attacked, their houses bombed.
A Congress worker was kid-
napped in Purulia for defying
the ruling party diktats not to
vote. The police complacency
was more apparent at Haroa in
North 24 Parganas Basirhat
constituency where 21 people
were injured four of them seri-
ously in a firing allegedly led by
local MLA Usha Rani Mondal
on Monday when the public
prosecutor not asking for police
custody of those arrested.
Despite the fact, that the police
had lodged complaint under the
Arms Act.
Curiously the police were
yet to recover arms and arrest
the prime accused Mondal and
her husband. Out of 11 arrest-
ed on Monday only two had
been named in the original
complaint and the remaining 28
were still at large.
The spate of violence mul-
tiplied in the final phase on
Monday in Bengal which had
already been seeing a bloody
poll throughout. At least 50
people were injured and two
died, one at Behrampore con-
stituency on Monday in the
political clashes that got an
impetus exactly 48 hours before
the final lap started.
Ironically Monday and
Tuesday saw more people join-
ing the 45-thousand homeless
people who had fled their vil-
lages since the last year's pan-
chayat elections.
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UttarPradesh.OnPunjab,where
the ruling Shiromani Akali Dal
inalliancewithBJPisfacinganti-
incumbency,theBJPleadersaid
the earlier exit polls about the
State have been proved wrong
and hoped the same this time
too.
Asked about the support
received by the BJP from RSS
volunteersinthisLokSabhaelec-
tion, Shah said, “Not just Sangh,
a number of nationalist organi-
sationsopenlysupportedtheBJP
and the party will largely bene-
fit from that.” While predicting
more than 35 seats for BJP-Shiv
SenaallianceinMaharashtra,he
hoped a good number for the
BJP in Bihar as well and said the
party'svote-shareinWestBengal
is likely to see a major increase
but could not confirm if it will
translate into seats there.
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development if Modi won from
thereandretainstheseat,hesaid
the area and the State will see
major development. He said the
river Ganges was already
declaredanationalriverandthe
Central Government can bring
about a lot of development even
though the State is ruled by the
Samajwadi Party.
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Afew days ahead of demit-
ting office and retiring
from active politics, Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh on
Tuesday met his office staff to
say goodbye to them and thank
them for their assistance.
The 81-year-old PM
exchanged pleasantries with
his 110 personal staff members
and about 400 other peripher-
al staff members in South
Block. He expressed his grati-
tude towards them and the staff
members returned the
accolades by cheering him, the
sources said.
Singh, who became the
Prime Minister in 2004 and
retained the post in 2009, met
the staff before holding Cabinet
meeting this evening. He will
hold his last Cabinet meeting
on Saturday, a day after the
counting of votes.
After that, he will go to
meet President Pranab
Mukherjee. Singh had in
January stated that he will
hand the baton over to a new
Prime Minister after the elec-
tion results. After returning
from his meeting with the
President, Singh will address
the nation, the sources said.
On the same day, Singh
will host high tea for the mem-
bers of his Council of Ministers
after which the President will
host a dinner for all of them.
The PMO, including the hall
where Cabinet meetings are
held, is being refurbished, to
welcome a new Prime Minister.
“It is for the first time in 10
years that the PMO is spending
money on refurbishment and
change of upholstery,” a source
said, adding, “This is being
done to give a fresh look to it.”
Singh is expected to vacate
his official residence at 7, Race
Course Road and move into a
bungalow at 3, Motilal Nehru
Road, which, too, has been
refurbished.
New Delhi: They may have
crossedswordsonseveralocca-
sionsoveravarietyofissues,but
seniorBJPleaderArunJaitleyon
Tuesday praised Manmohan
Singh, saying the Prime
Minister’spersonalintegritywas
always above board.
He also termed him as a
“syana aadmi” or a wise man,
sayingwithanelementofschol-
arship, he was always be well
read and well prepared on any
subject that he dealt with.
WhileSinghistheLeaderof
the House in the Rajya Sabha,
Jaitley is the Leader of the
OppositionintheUpperHouse.
He said as curtains draw to a
close after a ten-year-long peri-
odofprovidingleadershiptothe
Government, the Prime
Minister “goes out with
dignity and grace”.
“He will remain an elder
statesman and a man of credi-
bility to guide the nation. Only
if he had stood up at the right
time and disagreed he would
have been regarded with still a
greaterhonour,”Jaitleywroteon
his blog.
He said Singh became a
Prime Minister on account of
certain circumstances which
compelled Congress President
Sonia Gandhi to
withdraw her name
from the reckoning.
“He was literally a
Prime Minister
announced by
Soniaji. He had to
function within that
limitation.”
“....When he addressed the
country, he never came out as a
leader. The reason for not com-
ing out as a leader was clear. He
never wanted to rock the boat.
Heknewthathewasvestedwith
limited power and on all major
decisions he had to keep the
party and its first family in
good humour,” Jaitley wrote.
He said Singh has two
strong qualities. “Firstly, when-
everyoudiscussedaserioussub-
ject with the Prime Minister he
came out as a man of scholar-
ship. He was what we call to as
a syana aadmi.”
Singh’s words, Jaitley said,
were measured and he would
reflect before making a com-
ment. “Secondly, his personal
integrity was always above
board.Withanelementofschol-
arshiphewasalwaysbewellread
andwellpreparedon
any subject that he
dealt with.” Jaitley
said he had the
opportunity of
observing thePrime
Minister from close
quarters for the last
ten years. He said in
the last five years as Leader of
Opposition, he virtually had
heard his every intervention in
Parliament and dissected each
one of his performances.
“Unquestionably Dr
Manmohan Singh was a very
good Finance Minister. He got
a lot of support from his Prime
Minister, P V Narasimha Rao,
for initiating the economic
reformsin1991.ForaCongress
Party Government which had
always professed the virtues of
regulationareformistapproach
was creditable,” the BJP
leader wrote.
HesaidRaohasneverbeen
giventhelevelofcreditwhichhe
truly deserved. “I am sure his-
tory will reassess him.” PTI
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SeniorBJPleaderArunJaitley’s
remarks for Prime Minister
ManmohanSinghandCongress
were received with mixed reac-
tion by Congress leaders. While
aseniorministersaidthatJaitley
should worry about BJP and not
Congress, a party spokesman
saidthatatleastpeoplehavespo-
ken the truth, though by default.
External Affairs Minister
Salman Khurshid hit back at
Jaitley, saying that he should be
more bothered about the BJP’s
Prime Ministerial candidate
Narendra Modi. “How come
Jaitley is realising things about
Manmohan Singh now? He
should worry about his PM
candidate,” Khurshid said
speaking to a news channel.
Khurshid also rejected the
post-poll surveys that have
given the Modi-led NDA a
clear mandate. “There is no
need for the BJP to celebrate,
they should wait for the 16th.
They had started celebrating in
2009 too,” Khurshid said.
As he demits office later
this week, Prime Minister
Manmohan Singh’s “able stew-
ardship” was being hailed by
Congress as well as BJP on
Tuesday. “I think at some
point of time, we must learn to
be graceful, including the
media. Sometimes people
speak the truth by default,”
party spokesman Abhishek
Singvi remarked when asked
about how Jaitley and BJP
spokesperson Prakash
Javadekar stating good things
about the Prime Minister.
“Singh’s experienced and
seasoned stewardship, his per-
sonal integrity and ability to
lead the country through dif-
ficult times is noteworthy and
India is proud to have earned
so many laurels and respect
during the ten years,” Singhvi
said at the AICC briefing.
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India is becoming a dumping
ground for the hazardous
Cathode Ray Tube (CRT), pop-
ularly called picture tubes. They
were earlier used in computer
monitors and erstwhile televi-
sion sets. In the age of LEDs and
LCDs, these obsolete CRTs pre-
sent an alarming trend as its
glass is being recycled for mak-
ing bangles, marbles, bottles
and other day to day items. This
has been observed in a recent
study conducted by Toxic Link,
(NGO working on the hazards
of e-waste). The CRTs have
been found to contain high
percentage of lead and other
heavy metals which are major
health and environmental
threats to the country today.
The study points out that
due to high presence of lead,
the CRT monitors have been
declared “hazardous” and sub-
sequently “banned” from land-
fills and incinerators in most
developed countries. Due to a
shift in technology, most coun-
tries including those in Asia,
have shifted to new projection
systems (LCD, Plasma), there-
by creating a huge pile of this
hazardous waste.
In an important find, the
study says that though CRT
markets are dwindling, the
import of this component con-
tinuesinIndia.Accordingtothe
information corroborated from
the Ministry of Commerce,
about 64 lakh and 58 lakh CRTs
were imported in the year 2010-
11 and 2011-12, respectively,
eventhoughthequantitiescame
down in 2012-13 (47 lakh).
The study traced that cath-
ode ray tubes are being shipped
to India primarily from China,
Malaysia and Indonesia.
Surprisingly, the quantities saw
a sudden jump between 2009
and 2011 even though this was
the time when the CRT market
wasslowingdown.Interestingly,
this was also the phase when
mostof thedevelopedcountries
phased out this technology.
Such dumped CRTs are
posing a chief concern in elec-
tronic waste recycling due to
theirvolume,recyclingcosts,tox-
icity, disposal restrictions in
some developed countries, and
theirtrans-boundarymovement
of the same into poor develop-
ing countries.
Due to heavy metal content
like lead, strontium and phos-
phor, present in specially the
glass of CRTs, it is considered
to be extremely hazardous.
Lead affects a variety of body
processes and is toxic to many
organs and tissues including the
heart, bones, intestines, kidneys,
and reproductive and nervous
systems. It also affects devel-
opment of the nervous system
and is therefore particularly
toxic to children, causing
permanent learning and
behavior disorders.
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Aday after Income Tax
department gave him a
clean chit in a case of alleged
irregularities in the Nagpur-
based Purti group of compa-
nies, former BJP president
Nitin Gadkari on Tuesday
denied reports that he want-
ed to be back in the chair of
party chief.
“I have been BJP presi-
dent for three years, I have no
ambition to become the party
president. Our priority is to
form the Government under
Modi,” Gadkari told reporters
here.
The BJP leader added, “I
have been cleared of all
charges against me. I am
happy about it and ready to
accept any role party will
decide for me.”
Gadkari met LK Advani
on Tuesday and discussed
with him the unfolding situ-
ation and post-poll scenario.
Gadkari had met party’s
Prime Ministerial candidate
Narendra Modi on Monday.
After Gadkari’s meeting
with party patriarch Advani,
speculation were rife that the
ex-party president is lobbying
for either post of
BJP president or home
minister.
Gadkari, however, denied
the claims, saying “It is a total
false rumour. RSS never told
me that I will get back as BJP
president if charges are
cleared against me. I have
never approached any leader
for any post.”
On the roles of senior
leaders after the formation of
a BJP-led Government at the
Centre , Gadkari said, “ it was
not true that Sushma Swaraj
has been sidelined in the
Modi age.
She has been visiting dif-
ferent states. This is not a
mother-son party. It will be
the privilege of the prime
minister to decide roles for
senior party leaders.”
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Uttar Pradesh Chief Secretary Jawed
Usmani was saved the embarrass-
ment of appearing in the Allahabad
High Court after the Supreme Court
on Tuesday dispensed his personal
presence in a case where he failed to
produce original service records of an
officer under him. Usmani had to
appear in the HC on Thursday.
Usmani, whose name is doing the
rounds as a possible contender for the
Cabinet Secretary post in the event of
the NDA Government coming to
power, approached the apex court
through advocate CD Singh, seeking
stay of the HC order passed on May
12. He sought urgent intervention of
the Court to stay his personal presence
before HC and seek additional time
for production of records pertaining
to one Arun Kumar Mishra, current-
ly the Chief Engineer of UP State
Industrial Development Corporation,
as sought by the High Court.
The Vacation bench of Justices BS
Chauhan and AK Sikri agreed to grant
relief to Chief Secretary, but remained
adamant on production of records
before the HC for which it gave an
additional five days time.
The HC had sought details of
Mishra’s meteoric rise from Assistant
Engineer to Executive Engineer to his
present post as Chief Project Engineer
heading the Architecture and Town
Planning Division in UPSIDC. In a
petition pending before Allahabad
HC, it was alleged that Mishra did not
have a valid B Tech degree. Even the
enrolment number on his High School
Pass Certificate was that of one Arugya
Kumar Mishra. In fact, records pro-
duced by the petitioner indicated no
student by the name Arun Kumar
Mishra studied in the school men-
tioned in the degree. Moreover, the date
of issue of the degree relates to the year
when Mishra was only 12 years.
When the HC called for his orig-
inal degrees and mark sheets, Mishra
informed the HC that he lost them
and was in the process of obtaining
a duplicate copy. The HC then sought
his service records to know his qual-
ifications and track record in order
to ascertain his promotion that came
in quick succession.
Despite several opportunities,
the State Government failed to pro-
duce the files. An affidavit filed by
Principal Secretary, Industrial
Development had informed the HC
that the files were “yet to be traced”
due to inter-department transfer of
files between Industrial Development
and Mining departments.
Tired of repeated reminders, the
HC on May 12 directed the removal of
Principal Secretary, Industrial
Development and directed Chief
Secretary to be present in Court as also
initiate departmental proceedings
against the Principal Secretary.
Mishra is currently facing probe
from CBI and Enforcement
Directorate for possessing dispro-
portionate assets, money laundering
and fake bank accounts.
To track the files required by HC,
State Government even wrote to CBI
to ascertain if they were seized by the
investigating agency. On April 21,
2011 an order of suspension was
passed against him followed by depart-
ment proceedings, the status of which
was also sought by the HC.
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The Supreme Court on Tuesday
turned down a last ditch effort by
the Defence Ministry for getting the
stay vacated on the scrapping of
India’s first warship INS Vikrant.
“There is a real urgency,” cited
Centre’s counsel R Balasubramaniam
as he pressed for vacating the order of
“status quo” directed by a Supreme
Court bench on May 5.
The Government informed the
Vacation Bench that May 16 was the
date for execution of the sale order for
which auctioning was over and a sum
of over C60 crore had been paid to a
private company that agreed to reduce
the mighty warship to scrap. But with
the SC order coming its way, the
process had been stalled.
The bench of Justices BS
Chauhan and AK Sikri declined to
intervene. “We are not going to
modify this Court’s order.”
The Court directed the Ministry
to persuade the other bench which
directed status quo and convince it
to lift the stay once the Court
reopened in July.
INS Vikrant had been in news
after Defence Ministry’s decision to
dismantle the iconic aircraft carri-
er inducted into the naval fleet in
1957. Activists who demanded the
warship to be preserved as a mar-
itime museum, had opposed to any
move to bring down the ship and
demanded that the ship should be
handed over to any other port trust
for better maintenance.
The demand did not find favour
with the Mumbai High Court which
in January dismissed a petition filed
by one Kiran Paigankar and allowed
the Government to go-ahead with its
plans to scrap the ship. But on May
5, the SC entertained the appeal by
Paigankar and issued notice to
Defence Ministry on their demand
to preserve the ship built by England
and that played a vital role in the
World War II.
The Defence Ministry is under-
stood to have filed its response to the
petition. According to the Centre,
the ship was unsafe and was not
viable to be preserved as a museum.
It was for this reason it was decom-
missioned in 1997. Even the HC had
accepted the contention of the
Centre that the ship’s hull, almost 70
years old, was unfit to be preserved
and hence required dismantling.
The auction finally led to a con-
tract given to a Mumbai-based ship
breaking company a month ago which
was required to steer the ship off
Mumbai coast by May 16.
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New Delhi: The Supreme Court
has given its nod to the contro-
versial Jal Mahal tourism
development project near
Jaipur’s Mansagar lake
with certain modifica-
tions in the 2005 lease
deed, executed by the
State Government and
scrapped by the Rajasthan
High Court in 2012. A bench
of justices Gyan Sudha Misra and
Pinaki Chandra Ghose last month
set aside the High Court verdict
cancelling the multi-crore rupees
Jal Mahal tourism development
project adjoining the 17th
century lake.
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The CBI on Tuesday asked the State
investigative agencies in West
Bengal, Odisha and North-east to
hand over all the relevant documents
related to the inter-State Saradha chit
fund scam probe to it.
CBI officials in these States
are already in touch with the
agencies there to get hold of
the necessary documents
before registering an FIR in
the scam,” said a senior CBI
official, adding the
collection of documents will be
completed in the next two weeks and
thereafter a strategy to register FIRs
will be thrashed out.
Theagencyhasalreadysetup aspe-
cial investigation team (SIT) to probe
the scandal and suspect that that larg-
er conspiracy was involved and did not
rule out the involvement of highly influ-
ential persons including politicians,
bureaucrats and regulatory officials.
On Friday the apex court ordered
the CBI to launch a probe the inter-
state Saradha deposit-mobilisation
s c a n d a l
involving
m a n y
companies, in Bengal, Odisha, Assam
and Tripura. Led by Rajeev Singh, joint
director (North East), the SIT will
comprise CBI officials from Calcutta,
Odisha, Northeast and Bihar.
The apex court had raised big a
question mark on the role of regula-
tory authorities like SEBI and officials
of the RBI. “Investigations conducted
so far put a question mark on the role
of regulatory authorities like SEBI,
Registrar of Companies and officials
of the RBI within whose respective
jurisdictions and areas of operation the
scam not only took birth but flourished
unhindered,” a bench headed by Justice
T S
Thakur said in the order. The deposit-
mobilisa-
tion rack-
et, involv-
ing about C10,000 crore at a conserv-
ative estimate, also has inter-state
ramifications and possible interna-
tional money-laundering angle.
“Our focus of the probe is to
unearth the larger conspiracy. We are
taking legal opinion on whether to reg-
ister one FIR in the case or more,” said
the agency’s official.
The agency will also probe the role
of regulators like SEBI, officials under
the Companies Act and the Reserve
Bank of India as directed by the
Supreme Court.
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issued guidelines to strengthen the
internal mechanism for pursuing
cases against senior public servants
earlier covered under Section 6 A of
the Delhi Special Police
Establishment Act that was recently
struck down by the Supreme Court.
CBI Director Ranjit Sinha held a
meeting with senior officials to
strengthen the internal set up so
that probe against senior officials is
carried out in most diligent, judi-
cious and professional manner to
“ensure that enhanced power is
tempered by greater sense of
responsibility and accountability.”
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Expressing concern over the
growing frauds in the cor-
porate sector, Comptroller and
Auditor General (CAG) Shashi
Kant Sharma said “these inci-
dents are undeniable reality in
our economy; there should be
constant vigil against fraud-
sters”. Addressing a
seminar here, Sharma
said the recent
Supreme Court ver-
dict was landmark one
and has removed, once
for all, the doubts on
the constitutional
mandate to audit pri-
vate firms by the CAG
so far as it relates to
revenue sharing with
the Government.
“Corporate fraud would
remain an undeniable reality of
oureconomy,especiallyasfinan-
cial growth picks up pace and
provides more avenues for both
entrepreneurs and fraudsters.
Fundamentally, both business-
men and fraudsters are tempted
totheiractsforthesamereason:
to make money. While honest
businessman would try to make
money through entrepreneurial
ways, the fraudster would try to
makemoneythroughdishonest
criminal acts. While we need to
applaud and support the honest
entrepreneur, it is also equally
important for us to be on con-
stant vigil against
fraudsters. Fraud
should be distin-
guishedfromerror.
Thedistinguishing
factor between
fraud and error is
whether the
underlying action
is intentional or
unintentional.
“However, in
the present economic scenario,
where government has gradu-
ally withdrawn from several
economic activities and hand-
ing over those responsibilities
to private sector, the very con-
cept of corporate fraud, has to
be expanded to understand
what we are dealing with. And
why is it so crucial for us to be
awake to the complex realities
of corporate fraud, be it by a
devious individual or by com-
panies that aim to manipulate
our regulatory frameworks
and market dynamics,” said
Sharma.
CAG said the audits on
2G, Coal Block allocation,
irregularities in Delhi Airpot,
KG Basin reveled a pattern of
“private players trying to dis-
tort competition, upset free
market fairness, and, cause
loss to both public exchequer
and competitors.”
“I urge the captains of
industry to appreciate the
fact that Indian economy has
to grow into a mature market
economy, which would pre-
sent opportunities to max-
imise your profits and help
you expand across the globe
with confidence and credi-
bility. I am certain that you
wouldn’t want to be known as
lynchpins of a crony capital-
ist economy,” said Sharma.
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With a major poll debacle
staring the Congress in
its face, the grand old party of
India has now started dis-
cussing the relevance of alliance
politics and feels it should
charter a new course by going
it alone in future elections.
The party has also decided
to defend outgoing Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh to
the hilt in case of a “poor” show
and create a firewall to shield
party vice-president Rahul
Gandhi from criticism for the
likely electoral setback.
“Senior party leaders were
of the opinion that though the
Congress ruled two terms suc-
cessfully with alliance part-
ners, but still the party should
think of going alone in future.
There is no need to have truck
with regional parties in States
like Maharashtra, Bihar,
Jharkhand, Punjab and Tamil
Nadu,” said a very senior leader
present in the meeting.
He pointed out that Rahul
Gandhi had repeatedly
expressed a similar view on
alliance politics in the past
and the party is likely to con-
sider it for future politics.
The Congress Core Group
decided that alliance politics
has restricted growth of the
party in several key States
where regional players have
gained at the cost of the
Congress. Several leaders
stressed that the Congress must
revive itself in Tamil Nadu,
Odisha, Bihar, Uttar Pradesh
and Seemandhra by strength-
ening the party cadre and
going it alone.
“This has to be a long-term
strategy and this is the only way
the Congress could regain it
pan-India character,” said a
senior leader. Despite giving the
thumbs down to the opinion
and exit polls, the party’s audit
of the just concluded Lok Sabha
polls discussed that out of 20
seats in Kerala, the Congress
was projected to get between 11
and 14 while in Karnataka, the
party is projected to get nearly
half of the 28 seats.
The ruling Congress-led
UPA was tipped to get between
101 and 148 seats while ‘others’,
including regional parties and
Left, were projected to get
between 146 and 156 seats,
according to the exit polls,
which too came in for discus-
sion briefly.
The core group also dis-
cussed post-poll options before
senior women politicians like
Mayawati, Jayalalithaa and
Mamata Banerjee who “have
committed themselves to sec-
ularism” and have ruled out any
tie-up with the BJP. Odisha
Chief Minister Naveen
Patnaik’s party also figured in
the discussions since it has
denied any post-poll alliance
with the BJP.
Those present at the delib-
erations included party gener-
al secretaries BK Hari Prasad,
Shakeel Ahmed, Ajay Maken,
Janardan Dwivedi, CP Joshi
and party leaders Vayalar Ravi,
Oscar Fernandes, Rajiv Shukla
and Randeep Surjewala.
Sources quoted the party
High Command as appreciat-
ing the leaders and strategists
for contesting the elections at
the height of a strong anti-
incumbency factor to stop
Narendra Modi from becom-
ing the Prime Minister. Sonia
is also believed to have
expressed that all the senior
leaders in future should
“always” credit Singh for his
able leadership and never
should he be blamed for anom-
alies, if any.
In the meeting, Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh’s
“able stewardship” was hailed by
the Congress which under-
lined that he had led the coun-
try through difficult times. The
AICC too praised the Prime
Minister on the eve of a farewell
dinner for him hosted by Sonia
Gandhi on Wednesday.
Continued on Page 4
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While the BJP is confident
that the NDA will bag
around 300 seats and a com-
fortable majority in the Lok
Sabha elections, the party is
keeping its door open for
prospective allies.
“We fought for 272+ seats
and we are getting them. Any
party which has even a single
MP and wants to support us,
we will welcome it in national
interest,” BJP leader and
in-charge of Uttar Pradesh poll
Amit Shah told reporters
on Tuesday.
Shah’s overture to smaller
parties, which could come
handy in case the NDA fell
short of the 272 mark by a few
seats, came a day after the exit
polls indicated absolute major-
ity for the BJP-led alliance.
Shah himself claimed the NDA
would get anywhere between
290 and 305 seats, including 50
to 55 Lok Sabha seats in
Uttar Pradesh.
However, Shah dodged a
question about the BJP estab-
lishing contacts with prospec-
tive new allies.
Narendra Modi had in
recent interviews also said the
BJP is open to the support of
allies even though it will get a
majority of its own.
With the BJP leadership
silent on the possible role for
veteran leaders LK Advani and
MM Joshi in the organisation
and the Government, Shah
said the party’s Parliamentary
Board, the supreme decision-
making body, would take a call
on it. Last week, Joshi flew to
Nagpur for a meeting with
RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat.
Seen as the architect of
BJP’s revival in UP, Shah said
the State was divided in 30
blocks, with each block having
a few seats and a different
strategy was adopted for each
of them.
Continued on Page 4
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Hours before counting of
votes for the 16th Lok
Sabha begins, the Union
Cabinet on Tuesday cleared a
slew of proposals — including
appointment of Lieutenant-
General Dalbir Singh Suhag as
the next Army chief despite
opposition from the BJP and
ratification of stake sale in
BHEL. At the same time,
President Pranab Mukherjee
gave assent to the Whistle-
blowers Protection Act, which
provides a mechanism for pro-
tecting the identity of whistle-
blowers — a term given to
people who expose corruption.
Vice-Chief of Army Staff
Lt-Gen Suhag will assume the
new responsibility after incum-
bent General Bikram Singh
retires on July 31. Former
Army chief General VK Singh
has been in the forefront of
opposing Suhag’s appointment.
VK Singh had put a
‘Disciplinary and Vigilance’
ban on Suhag when he was the
3 Corps Commander two years
ago for “failure of command
and control” as an Intelligence
unit under him had allegedly
carried out dacoity in Assam
outside the jurisdiction of the
Corps. The ban, which pro-
hibits a promotion, was lifted
immediately after incumbent
Army chief Gen Bikram Singh
took over on May 31, 2012.
“What and whom are they
trying to protect? What are the
Defence Ministry and UPA-II
scared of?... This harms the
individual as people will ques-
tion the UPA’s motives,”
General VK Singh said.
“The Defence Ministry
seems determined to push the
file through the Appointments
Committee of Cabinet (ACC)
and the Prime Minister’s Office
despite the fact that given the
ongoing Jorhat dacoity case,
which has been a blot on the
name of the Army, there can be
no vigilance clearance.
“They got away with it two
years ago when Gen Bikram
Singh was appointed the chief,
so they feel they can
do the same thing again,” Gen
Singh said before the
Government announced
Suhag’s appointment.
Suhag was recommended
for the Army chief’s post on
Monday by the Defence
Ministry to the ACC chaired
by the Prime Minister after
the Election Commission
gave the go-ahead for the
appointment.
The BJP had protested
over the selection process dur-
ing the ongoing electioneering
and said an outgoing
Government with three or
four days left in office should
leave the appointment to the
next Government.
Commissioned into the
Gurkha Rifles in 1974 after
passing out from the National
Defence Academy, 59-year-
old Suhag will have 30 months
in office after taking over from
Bikram Singh. An alumnus of
Sainik School, Chittorgarh,
Suhag was commanding 3
Corps prior to his present
appointment as Vice-Chief in
January this year.
Continued on Page 4
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At least two persons died and
many others were injured
in the continuing post-poll vio-
lence across Bengal while the
Election Commission and the
State police tended to sit silent
spectators giving free hand to
the bike-borne Trinamool
Congress goons who went on
rampage raiding villages after
villages in parts of Hooghly,
Burdwan, Howrah, South
Dinajpur, North and South 24
Parganas and elsewhere.
A bike-borne gang of about
30 Trinamool men led by local
MLA Asima Patra on Tuesday
attacked BJP workers at booth
number 111 at Dhaniakhali in
Hooghly Lok Sabha constituen-
cy leaving at least four people
injured grievously, sources said
addingtheattacktookplacejust
after the re-polling ended.
“Our workers were relaxing
at a tea stall after the elections
when about 25-30 bike-borne
people attacked us with rods,
lathis and other weapons injur-
ing four of us even as we ran for
our lives,” said a party worker
adding, “Our vehicle was also
smashed by the goons.”
Dhaniakhali had of late
been rendered into a cold-ter-
ror zone with all Oppositions
being forced by the Trinamool
to close their party offices and
flee the area. An FIR had been
lodged and a complaint filed
with the Returning Officer,
BJP sources said adding the rul-
ing outfit once again resorted to
booth-capturing during the
concluding hours of the polls.
Six people had been arrested in
this connection, SP SK
Chowdhury said.
The Commission had ear-
lier ordered re-polling in 11
booths across the State that
went to polls on April 30. The
State continued to bleed and
burn even as the administra-
tion looked the other way
while reports of firing and
bombing came from Howrah
where a Congress worker was
shot dead by alleged Trinamool
goons, sources said. Another
death was reported from
Balrampur in Balurghat con-
stituency where the body of a
missing CPI(M) worker was
recovered by the police.
Continued on Page 4
New Delhi: With exit polls pro-
jecting BJP-led new
Government, the benchmark
Sensex skyrocketed to a new
life-time high of 24,068.94.
The broader index Nifty also
surged to a new record high of
7,172.35, in the third straight
record-setting session. Rupee
also shot up by 37 paise to
C59.68 per dollar.
Hopes of stable
Government at Centre helped
the Sensex conclude the session
at a new high of 23,871.23. Nifty
also ended the day at a new
closing high of 7,108.75, logging
a rise of 94.50 points.
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Aday after the exit polls pre-
dicted that the voters had
decided to hand over the reign
of the country in his hands; it
was business as usual
for Gujarat Chief Minister
Narendra Modi at
Gandhinagar. On Tuesday
morning, Modi held a meeting
on water scarcity in Gujarat,
and reviewed drinking water
situation in the State and dis-
cussed Narmada water grid
distribution system.
Modi instructed water sup-
ply board officials to supply
drinking water in rural areas of
the State using all possible
sources apart from Narmada
grid. The meeting was attend-
ed by Revenue Minister
Anandiben Patel, Water
Resources Minister Babu
Bokhiria, Rural Development
Minister Bhupendrasinh
Chudasama, Energy Minister
Saurabh Patel and Chief
Secretary Varesh Sinha.
“Collectors of the entire
district have been given ade-
quate powers to arrange proper
water supply. The State
Government machinery will
monitor on daily basis that
sources are being used to supply
water to different villages. The
State has already done satellite
mapping on water sources,” said
Modi during the meeting.
He also instructed officials
to monitor all the dams and
other major water sources and
submit reports on weekly basis.
He also gave instructions to
conduct separate satellite map-
ping to find out water for now
extinct Saraswanti River.
Currently the State
Government provides 130
crore litre of water to 5,588 vil-
lages and 79 towns in Gujarat
through Narmada water grid.
The Chief Minister also
ordered to arrange water
tankers for the villages facing
water scarcity.
Meanwhile, Modi also
chaired an important meeting
of BJP’s MLAs in the evening.
It is believed that Modi
would give hint about his suc-
cessor as it is almost final that
he will move to Delhi after the
poll results.
Apart from MLAs, senior
Gujarat BJP functionaries were
also present during the meet-
ing. Large number of media
personnel assembled outside
the Chief Minister’s Office at
‘Swarnim Sankul’.
Clearing the air on the
MLAs’ meeting, Gujarat BJP
general secretary and
spokesman Vijay Rupani said
that the party will decide on
Modi’s successor only after the
poll results and it will be decid-
ed by the party’s central par-
liamentary board.
He said that the meeting
was focused on upcoming
Krushi Mahotsav and Kanya
Kelavani Mahotsav (Girl Child
education campaign), in which
Modi insisted all the MLAs to
participate actively.
“Personally I thought that
Narendrabhai will take rest for
3-4 days after months’ long
hectic poll campaign. However
he decided to continue work
instantly and also concentrat-
ed on the water situation of the
State,” he added.
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New Delhi: A day after the
Income-Tax Department
gave him a clean chit in a
case of alleged irregularities
in the Nagpur-based Purti
group of companies, former
BJP president Nitin Gadkari
on Tuesday denied reports
that he wanted to be back in
the chair of party chief.
“I have been BJP presi-
dent for three years; I have
no ambition to become the
party president. Our priori-
ty is to form a Government
under Modi,” Gadkari said.
The BJP leader added: “I
have been cleared of all
charges against me. I am
happy about it and ready to
accept any role party will
decide for me.”
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the Supreme Court (SC) col-
legium has forwarded the
names of two prominent
SC senior lawyers for
appointment as judges of
the apex court.
Sources in the
Government said the names of
Gopal Subramaniam and
Rohington Nariman came up
for discussion in the Cabinet
Committee of Appointments
that met on Tuesday to decide
on crucial appointments. Both
have served as Solicitor-
Generals in the UPA
Government’s tenure.
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