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Displaced in 1970 from B’desh, 63 families
given land and houses by Yogi government
First India Bureau
Lucknow: Chief Minis-
ter Yogi Adityanath on
Tuesday provided agri-
cultural land and resi-
dential lease along with
letters for houses under
‘MukhayamantriAwaas
Yojana’ to rehabilitate
63 displaced Hindu Ben-
gali families from Bang-
ladesh in the year 1970
(earlier East Pakistan).
In a program held at
Lok Bhavan, the CM
said, “The long wait of
38 years is over. In 1970,
about 407 families came
to India from East Paki-
stan (present-day Bang-
ladesh). Some families
were resettled in differ-
ent parts of the country
,
but65familieskeptwait-
ing for resettlement.
“Out of these 65, two
families are nowhere to
be found. After coming
to power, our govern-
ment worked on an ac-
tion plan for Turn to P2
CM Yogi Adityanath hands over a Mukhyamantri Awas Yojana
house certificate to an elderly woman from a Hindu refugee
family, along with Deputy CMs Keshav Prasad Maurya and Brajesh
Pathak at Lok Bhavan on Tuesday. —PHOTO BY ASHOK DUTTA
As Cong-PK
brainstorm 3rd
time, Sonia to
have final say
New Delhi: Congress
leaders on Tuesday dis-
cussed with political
strategist Prashant
Kishor a roadmap to
contest 2024 elections
and Assembly polls be-
fore it.
Ambika Soni, A.K
Antony, Jairam
Ramesh K.C Venugopal
and Randeep Surjewa-
la were present along
with Sonia Gandhi to
discuss strategies and
Congress preparations
to take on the BJP, said
sources.
This is the third
meeting since Saturday
where the Congress of-
ficially met the poll
strategist who suggest-
ed a roadmap to contest
2024 elections and As-
sembly Polls.
Meanwhile as per
sources, Sonia will take
the final decision on
way forward after dis-
cussing with Rahul and
Priyanka Gandhi.
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Russia looks
towards India as
Ukraine looks on...
ussia is seeking more medical equipment
from India after sanctions and logisti-
cal logjams following President Vladimir
Putin’s invasion of Ukraine have sharply
reduced imports from Europe and China. Medical
equipment companies from India and Russia will
discuss ways to boost supplies during a virtual
meeting on April 22, according to Rajiv Nath, a
forum coordinator for the Association of Indian
Medical Device Industry. The event was con-
firmed by Business Russia, a business group that
promotes bilateral ties.
Russia seeks
medical
equipment from
India as war
disrupts trade
Russia calls on
all Ukrainian
forces to
“immediately
lay down arms”
1 2
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A local resident looks at a damaged during a heavy fighting apartment
building near the Illich Iron Steel Works Metallurgical Plant, the second
largest metallurgical enterprise in Ukraine, in an area controlled by Russian-
backed separatist forces in Mariupol. (Inset) Yehor, 7, stands holding wooden
toy rifle next to destroyed Russian military vehicles near Chernihiv in Ukraine.
A mother hugs her daughter as they wait for
a bus to flee from Sloviansk city, in Donetsk
district, to travel to Rivne in western Ukraine.
NO RELIGIOUS PROCESSIONS
WITHOUT PERMIT
Lucknow: Uttar
Pradesh Chief Minister
Yogi Adityanath chaired
a law-and-order review
meeting on Monday
night, issuing a set of di-
rectionsthatassumesig-
nificance considering
the recent clashes in
Delhi’s Jahangirpuri.
Inastatement,thegov-
ernment said the direc-
tions were being issued
asthefestivalsof Eidand
AkshayTritiyaarelikely
to fall on the same date
early next month. It said
that no religious proces-
sion or marches will be
allowed without proper
permission. More on P2
CM also directed
deployment of addl
forces in sensitive areas
with use of drones for
monitoring situation
... LOUDSPEAKERS SHOULDN'T DISTURB OTHERS: YOGI
Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath.
DELHI POLICE
REGISTERS FIR
AGAINST VHP,
BAJRANG DAL
MEN FOR HOLDING
SHOBHA YATRA
The Delhi Police have
registered FIR against
two men from the Delhi
unit of the Vishwa Hindu
Parishad (VHP) and
Bajrang Dal for organis-
ing a shobha yatra to
mark Hanuman Jayanti
in Northwest Delhi’s Ja-
hangirpuri on April
16. The FIR has been
lodged under Section
188 (disobedience to
order duly promulgated
by public servant) after
a head constable of the
same police station filed
a complaint. Meanwhile,
the organisers, which
include the Delhi unit
of the VHP and Bajrang
Dal, claimed they had
received permission.
MAIN ACCUSED IN JAHANGIRPURI
VIOLENCE A BJP LEADER: AAP’S ATISHI
The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), which has been accusing the
BJP for the communal clashes in Jahangirpuri, has come
out and named a leader of the saffron party. AAP MLA Atishi
alleged that Ansar, who has been named as
the main accused in the violence case, is a
BJP leader. “The main accused in the Jahan-
girpuri riots — Ansar — is a BJP leader. He
played a major role in getting BJP’s candidate
Sangeeta Bajaj to contest and plays an active
role in BJP. It is clear that the BJP is behind the Jahangirpuri
riots and it should apologise to the people of Delhi. BJP is a
party of hooligans,” Atishi said in a tweet.
FIVE
ACCUSED
SLAPPED
WITH NSA
Suicide bombers
target children,
kill 30 in Shia
school in Kabul
Kabul: Three suicide
bombings outside a sec-
ondary school in Dasht-
e-Barchi - a Hazara
Shia neighbourhood in
Kabul has left more
than 30 dead and 100s
injured.
Tuesday’s blasts took
place as students were
coming out of their
morning classes at the
Abdul Rahim Shahid
high school in the capi-
tal city of Afghanistan.
According to witness-
es, the Shia school was
targeted by two suicide
attackersinthemorning
as students were leaving
the building, with pic-
tures and video clips on
social media showing
abandoned school bags
in the street.
11 of a family killed as
jeep rams into tractor
trolley in Jhunjhunu
Manoj Tak
Jhunjhunu: Eleven
members of a family
were killed and seven
others injured as a jeep
rammed into a tractor
trolley that was parked
on the roadside on the
J h u n j h u n u - G u d h a
Godji highway in Jhun-
jhunu district on Tues-
day, police said. Fami-
lies of two brothers
were totally eliminated
in the accident. The
victims were returning
from Lohargal after of-
fering prayers at a tem-
ple after death of an
elderly in the family,
said Jhunjhunu SP
Pradeep Mohan Shar-
ma. There were 20 peo-
ple in the jeep.
Governor Kalraj
Mishra, CM Ashok Ge-
hlot, former CM
Vasundhara Raje, JP
Nadda and other lead-
ers expressed grief.
The deceased were
identified as Kailash 35,
Bhanwarlal 35, Sumer
50, Rajbala 45, Arpit, 15,
Manohar 50, Naresh 16,
Karmveer20,Balveer20,
Savatri 42 and Rahul 17.
PM Modi announces `2 lakh for kin
of deceased and `50,000 for injured
CRUCIAL READ
PAK: 34-MEMBER
CABINET TAKES OATH
Following Imran Khan’s
ouster, Pakistan Prime
Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s
34-member cabinet was
sworn in on Tuesday in
the first phase of induc-
tion. Pakistan Peoples
Party chief Bilawal Bhutto
was not included in the
first list of ministers.
SL: POLICE FIRE AT
PROTESTERS, 1 DEAD
The police in Sri Lanka
for the first time since
anti-government protests
started fired at protesters
on Monday, killing one
and injuring several peo-
ple. Police confirmed they
had to open fire after the
mob turned violent and
threw stones at them. P6
IN RAE BARELI, DALIT BOY ASSAULTED,
FORCED TO LICK FEET; 8 ARRESTED
Eight people were arrested in Uttar Pradesh’s Rae
Bareli after video of Dalit teenager being assaulted
and made to lick the feet of one of the accused went
viral on social media, officials said on Tuesday. Ac-
cording to the police, the boy is a Class 10 student.
JANATA’S BLESSINGS!
Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the foundation
stone laying and inauguration of multiple development
projects, at Banas Dairy Sankul, Diyodar, in Banaskantha
district of Gujarat on Tuesday. —PHOTO BY PTI

UTTAR PRADESH
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LOUDSPEAKERS SHOULD NOT DISTURB: CM YOGI
Lucknow: Following
incidents of violence
during festivals in some
states, Uttar Pradesh
Chief Minister Yogi Ad-
ityanath has directed
that no religious proces-
sion should be taken out
without permission and
thatusageof loudspeak-
ers should not inconve-
nience others.
With Eid festival and
Akshaya Tritiya likely
to fall on the same day
next month and many
other festivals lined up
in the coming days, Ad-
ityanath said the po-
lice needs to be extra
cautious.
During the course of
a review meeting on law
and order with senior
officials here on Mon-
day, he said everyone
has the freedom to fol-
low his method of wor-
ship according to his
religious ideology.
“Although mics can be
used, make sure the
sound does not come
out of any premises.
Other people should not
face any problem,” he
said, adding that no per-
mission should be given
to install loudspeakers
at new sites.
“No religious proces-
sion should be taken
out without due permis-
sion. Before giving per-
mission, an affidavit
should be taken from
the organiser regarding
maintenance of peace
and harmony
.
“Permission should
be given to only those
religious processions,
which are traditional.
New programmes
should not be given un-
necessary permission,”
Adityanath added.
The orders from the Ut-
tar Pradesh Chief Min-
ister Yogi Adityanath
come in the backdrop of
violence during Hanu-
man Jayanti procession
in Jahangirpuri area in
Delhi on Saturday and
reports of violence in
the course of Ram Na-
vami rallies in Madhya
Pradesh, Jharkhand,
Gujarat and West Ben-
gal recently
.
Police force needs to be extra cautious because of many
festivals coming up over the next month, says Adityanath
Permissions to be given only to events which are
traditional, not to newly introduced events, he added
CM Yogi addresses the public at an event organised to mark rehabilitation of 63 Bengali Hindu
families displaced from East Pakistan in 1970. —PHOTO BY ASHOK DUTTA
34 INSPECTORS TO BE PROMOTED
CM cancels
leaves of all
police, admin
officials
Lucknow: Uttar
Pradesh Chief Min-
ister Yogi Aditya-
nath on Monday
cancelled the leaves
of all police and ad-
ministrative offi-
cials in the state till
May 4 and asked all
those on leave to re-
port within 24
hours.
He also directed
the officials from
police station to
ADG level to hold
dialogues with reli-
gious leaders with-
in the next 24 hours
to ensure peace
during the upcom-
ing festivals, and
said mikes can be
used at religious
places but no new
permission of mic
installation should
be given by offi-
cials.
MLA seeks details of mosque loudspeakers
Aligarh (ANI): The
BJP MLA from Aligarh
city Mukta Raja has
written to Additional
District Magistrate
(ADM) seeking immedi-
ate information about
loudspeakers installed
on mosques.
According to the let-
ter, Raja asked how
many mosques have
loudspeakers. She has
also asked the ADM
about the intensity of
the loudspeakers in-
stalled in mosques, ac-
cording to the direc-
tions of the Supreme
Court.
The Aligarh MLA
also directed the ADM
to conduct physical ex-
amination of the loud-
speakers. “The sound
intensity of the loud-
speakers should be
made as per the direc-
tions of the court,” the
Aligarh MLA’s letter
stated.
She also asked wheth-
er the Azaan at the
mosques before 5 in the
morning is as per the
directions of the court.
“If not, what action has
been taken so far about
this?” added the letter.
MLA Mukta Raja
Lucknow (PTI): The
Uttar Pradesh Cabinet
on Tuesday gave its ap-
proval to provide land
free of cost to set up a
regional centre of the
National Centre for Dis-
ease Control in Luc-
know, officials said.
The Cabinet also gave
its approval for heli-
ports in Agra, Mathura,
Prayagraj and Luc-
know.
Speaking to reporters
here after the Cabinet
meeting, Deputy Chief
Minister Brajesh
Pathak said 2.5 acres at
Jaitikhera in Sarojini
Nagar of the state capi-
tal has been identified
for setting up the cen-
tre.
“The land will be giv-
en on lease to the NCDC
for 30 years,” he said.
According to the min-
ister, the NCDC had set
a condition that it
would open a regional
centre if it gets free
land.
“Six centres will be
coming up in the coun-
try and Lucknow will
be one of them,” he
said.
A total of 14 propos-
als were approved by
the state Cabinet in the
meeting.The NCDC has
its headquarters in Del-
hi and eight branches
located in Alwar in Ra-
jasthan, Bengaluru in
Karnataka, Kozhikode
in Kerala, Coonoor in
Tamil Nadu, Jagdalpur
in Chhattisgarh, Patna
in Bihar, Rajahmundry
in Andhra Pradesh and
Varanasi in UP.
NCDC regional centre to be set up in Lucknow
FOR DISEASE-FREE UP
FOR LAB ASSTS
Deputy CM Brajesh Pathak and Finance Minister Suresh Khanna addressing a press conference
after the cabinet meeting, at Secretariat Annexe in Lucknow on Tuesday. ACS (Info) Navneet
Sehgal was also present.
Sarojini Nagar
land identified
for setting up
the centre
Women Home Guards to train
under Anti-terrorist module
First India Bureau
Lucknow: Aimed at
improving the inter-
nal safety and securi-
ty during emergency
situations and to
make women strong,
special training exer-
cise will begin for
women home guards
under the Anti-terror-
ist module.
The Uttar Pradesh
Home Guards Depart-
ment has begun its
preparations to con-
duct the training and
strengthen the skills
of the home guards.
The government will
also provide duty al-
lowance to all guards
undergoing training.
The concerned offi-
cers of the depart-
ment have been asked
to prepare and send a
proposal within 100
days for the same.
Along with the re-
cruitment of women
on 20% posts, anti-ter-
rorist module as well
as modules of un-
armed combat and
PSO duty are going to
be included in their
training. The training
of all men and women
home guards will be
of 90 days. Through
this, not only the effi-
ciency of women
home guards will in-
crease which will en-
able them in giving
better services but
also it will ensure con-
tinuance of peace in
the state.
Displaced in 1970, 63 families given land, houses by Yogi
Continued from page 1
the rehabilitation of
the remaining 63 fami-
lies who have been giv-
en two acres of land for
farming and 200 meters
for housing. Along with
this, Rs 1.20 lakh have
been given for construc-
tion of houses under
the Mukhya Mantri
Awas Yojana. Each
house will also be pro-
vided with a toilet,” he
said.
CM Yogi distributed of-
ficial letters for the re-
habilitation to the refu-
gee families. The CM
hasmadearrangements
to settle Bengali Hindus
who came to India 52
years ago in Rasulabad
of Kanpur Dehat.
While addressing,
the CM also launched a
scathing attack on the
previous government
saying that the govern-
ments before 2017 were
insensitive towards the
deprived communities
and neglected their de-
velopment.
The earlier govern-
ments did nothing for
the Musahar, Vantan-
gia, Tharu, Kol and oth-
er such communities.
He added that this is the
first time that a govern-
ment has thought of the
Musahar and Vantan-
gia sections.
About 38 villages of
Vantangia were award-
ed the status of revenue
villages and for the first
time after indepen-
dence they exercised
their franchise in the
assembly elections.
CM Yogi in his ad-
dress emphasised on
the need of forming
Self Help Groups.
“Women should form
self-help groups while
men can get engaged in
animal husbandry
work. The children
should be associated
with skill develop-
ment,” he said.
Yogi was accompa-
nied by Dy CMs Keshav
Prasad Maurya and
Brajesh Pathak and
Cabinet Minister/BJP
State President Swatan-
tra Dev Singh.
Agricultural land, residential lease and acceptance letter of Mukhyamantri Awas Yojana being given
by Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath at a programme organised to mark the event on Tuesday.
Dy CMs Keshav Prasad Maurya and Brajesh Pathak, Swatantra Dev Singh, and Anup Pradhan Valmiki
were present at the event organised in Lok Bhavan on Tuesday. —PHOTOS BY ASHOK DUTTA
CM WANTS THEM TO BE SELF RELIANT
The Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath during his ad-
dress also directed the Revenue Department that
the land which has been given to these 63 families
should be developed in form of a smart village
with facilities of school, hospitals amongst others.
He further added that these families should also
be linked with employment making the women
and men self-reliant.
Govt to fete organisations
for contribution towards
cleaning of river Ganga
Lucknow (PTI): The
Uttar Pradesh govern-
ment will felicitate
social organisations
and people for their
contribution towards
cleaning of the Ganga
river and water conser-
vation.
Addressing a meet-
ing on Monday, state Jal
Shakti Minister
Swatantra Dev Singh,
according to a state-
ment, said that the gov-
ernment will honour
them at a programme,
which will is likely to be
held on May 15.
He said that the
Namami Gange and the
Rural Water Supply de-
partments would pre-
pare a list of 75 people
who have contributed
towards cleaning of the
Ganga river and water
conservation.
The government will
honour one person from
each district, Singh
said.
He also said that engi-
neers and employees of
the Jal Shakti Depart-
ment will also be re-
warded for their good
work.
Singh said a list of
officers for the award
will be prepared. At the
state level, these
awards will be distrib-
uted by the chief min-
ister and the Minister
of Jal Shakti.
Swatantra Dev Singh
Film producer/ director KC Bokadia meets
CM Yogi Adityanath on Tuesday.
Former international cricket player Suresh
Raina meets CM Yogi on Tuesday.
MEET AND GREET
—FILE PHOTO

UTTAR PRADESH
03
Janardan Misra
Lucknow: YoungSama-
jwadi Party (SP) leader
was beaten to death in
Rewtapur area under
PGI police station area.
Police sources here said
that Rohit (26) was at-
tackedbySachinandhis
associates in Rewtapur
area. Rohit was severely
injured in the attack as
he was badly beaten by
iron sticks, sharp edged
weapons and lathis. He
was rushed to the trau-
ma centre where he suc-
cumbed to his injuries.
Police have registered
case against Sachin and
fiveunidentifiedpersons
under murder charges
on complaint of family
members of deceased.
Rohit was former dis-
trict secretary of Youth
Wing of SP
.
Urmila Devi, mother
of Rohit told police that
Sachin, Shivkumar and
others attacked her son
and beat him brutally
.
She alleged that Sachin
had old rivalry with Ro-
hit and he had threat-
ened him several times.
Rohit was married six
months back and his de-
mise has thrown the
whole family into deep
shock.
SP leader bludgeoned to death, case against 6; mother claims old emnity
TRAGIC END
CRUCIAL READ
Lucknow: Navneet Sehgal, ACS, (Micro, Small and
Medium Enterprises) ahead of the “Apprenticeship
Fair” to be organized across the state on April 21
said that in the fair, a campaign will be run to get
employment to 50,000 youths of the state. He added
that so far, more than 70,000 youths have registered
online for apprenticeship and this figure might touch
1,00,000 in the build up to the “Apprenticeship Fair”.
He further added that all the applications will be
scrutinized and apprenticeship will be provided to
them in industrial units based on the choice they have
specified during the registration process.
33 KIDS AMONG
107 POSITIVE
CASES IN NOIDA
Noida: Thirty-three
children were among
107 people who tested
positive for COVID-19 in
Uttar Pradesh’s Gautam
Buddh Nagar district
on Tuesday, officials
said. The number of
active cases in Gautam
Buddh Nagar, adjoining
Delhi, has reached 411,
they said.According
to the official figures,
107 more people have
tested positive since
Monday 6 AM while
32 patients got cured
during this period. “Of
the 107 new cases,
33 are children who
have tested positive
for COVID-19,” Chief
Medical Officer Dr
Sunil Kumar Sharma
said.
INCREASE REVENUE
COLLECTION: MIN
TOPOWEROFFICERS
Lucknow: AK Shar-
ma, State Minister for
Energy and Additional
Energy Resources has
instructed officials to
improve the power
system of the state
and increase revenue
collection so that the
current revenue loss of
Rs 80 crore is reduced
by Rs 10 crore in next
10 days. The minister
said electricity would be
provided 24 hours to
consumers once there
are no revenue loss
of the department. He
expressed apprehension
that electricity was not
being provided to those
who deserve it and
added complaints are
being received which is
concerning.
CAMPAIGN TO EMPLOY 50,000 YOUTHS
IN APPRENTICESHIP FAIR FROM APR 21
Biometric attendance for varsity staff
May 30 is the
deadline given
so that salary
for the month
of June can be
paid through it
Lucknow(PTI): Uttar
Pradesh Governor
Anandiben Patel has di-
rected all state universi-
ties to install biometric
systems to keep a re-
cord of attendance and
salaries paid to the
staff, officials said on
Tuesday
.
The announcement
was made after the is-
sue of irregular atten-
dance of the teaching
and non-teaching staff
was raised in review
meetings held in the Raj
Bhavan, the official or-
der said.
The directive was is-
sued to the vice-chancel-
lors of all state universi-
ties, additional chief
secretaries and princi-
pal secretaries of de-
partments of higher ed-
ucation, medical educa-
tion, Ayush and sports,
Additional Chief Secre-
tary to the Governor
Mahesh Gupta said.
“Some staff members
are not present during
their assigned work
hours and do not dis-
charge their duties,”
Patel said in the order.
She also said salaries
should be linked with
biometric attendance.
According to the or-
der, universities have
been given a deadline of
May 30 to start using
the system so that the
salary for the month of
June can be paid
through it. Laying em-
phasis on punctuality
and discharge of duties,
Patel directed that the
system should be made
compulsory
.
For this, adequate
number of biometric
machines should be in-
stalled in the universi-
ties, she said. A cen-
tralised server should
also be put in place so
that all the data is avail-
able on it, she added.
First India Bureau
Moradabad: Threeper-
sons including a minor
fellillafterspreadof poi-
sonous gases in Naipura
colony in front of Jubi-
lant Company which
produces chemicals.
The victims were
rushed to the CHC
where their condition
was stated to be stable. It
was reported that sever-
al persons felt suffoca-
tion and burning sensa-
tion in eyes late on Mon-
day evening in Naipura.
Hamseen, his 2-yr-old
son Asad and Rafeeq (4)
fell unconscious after
inhaling the gases and
5twere rushed to the
CHC.
Later On Tuesday
morning several resi-
dents of Naipura colony
protestedagainstchemi-
calfactory
.Jubilantcom-
pany and demanded ac-
tions against the perpe-
trators. Locals said that
it was not first such case
gas leakage has caused
troubles in past also.
Arun Kumar, SDM
said information of
some people falling ill
was received in Gajrau-
la area and probe was
launched into the mat-
ter. He said intial inves-
tigations revealed that
burning of garbage in
the factory caused trou-
ble for residents in near-
by area.
First India Bureau
Lucknow: Uttar
Pradesh on Tuesday
achieved yet another
benchmark of testing
over 11 crore samples
for coronavirus. Test-
ing an average 1-2 lakh
samples daily
, UP be-
came the first state in
the country to cross
the milestone.
Early detection and
isolationof potentially
infectious individuals
arethekeystosuccess-
fully fighting a viral
pandemic. Recognis-
ing this, the Yogi-led
governmenteffectively
implemented and in-
tensified the stringent
‘Trace-Test-Treat’
mechanism through-
out the state.
UP’s daily testing
hasbeenovertentimes
more than the pre-
scribed testing proto-
col of World Health
Organisation.Thetest-
ing protocol laid by the
WHOforUttarPradesh
is 32,000 tests per day
,
whereastheCovidtest-
inginthestatehashov-
ered between 150,000
and 200,000 of late.
In terms of Contact
Tracing too, UP leads
by testing maximum
samples on detection
of a single positive
case. As a result, UP
has been able to effec-
tively break the Covid-
chain.
First India Bureau
Lucknow: The police
arrested six miscreants
who had sprayed bullets
andbombsonSUVwhile
chasing it for more than
five kilometres in Tedhi
Puliya area.
CM Yogi Adityanath
had expressed concern
over the incident follow-
ing which six policemen
including Satish Chan-
dra Sahu Inspector
Gudamba police station,
SIMaruf andSIRamesh.
Therewaspanicinthe
areaafterover15miscre-
antsonbikesopenedfire
onSUVandhurledcoun-
try-made bombs.
Prachi Singh, addi-
tional deputy commis-
sioner of police (North)
said that six persons
were arrested into the
matter of firing and
bombingfromEngineer-
ing college crossing to
TedhiPuliyaonApril17.
The arrested accused
were identified as Aman
Rawat, Akash Nigam,
Abhay Srivastava.
Adarsh Tewari, Pankaj
Rawat and Aditya Ra-
jput.
ADCP said two cases
were registered in
Gudamba police station
intothematterandman-
hunt was launched to
nab other culprits.
Lucknow(PTI): Chief
Minister Yogi Aditya-
nath on Tuesday asked
officials to ensure that
the next 2025 Maha-
kumbhfairinPrayagraj
turns out to be a grand-
er affair than the 2019
event, an official state-
ment said Tuesday
.
Adityanath also
asked officials to get
built 10,000 new pink
toilets and doubled the
fleet of electric buses in
14 cities in the next 100
days, besides getting
built 2.51 lakh houses
for the poor in the six
months.
He also asked offi-
cials to work expedi-
tiously for opening up
ropeway services in Va-
ranasi, Mirzapur and
Chitrakoot.
The chief minister
issued the instructions
while chairing a meet-
ing of different depart-
ments of the state’s Ur-
ban Development Min-
istry, engaged in the
preparation for the 2025
Mahakumbh.
“The entire world
saw the 2019 Kumbh in
Prayagraj. The Kumbh
which showed shades
of spiritualism also
presented a unique ex-
ample of cleanliness,
security and good ar-
rangement. Everybody
praised it, the chief
minister said.
Now when the 2025
Mahakumbh is ap-
proaching, people have
more expectations from
us. Keeping this in
mind, preparations
should be made for
making the 2025 Maha-
kumbh more divine and
majestic, the statement
quoted Adityanath as
saying.
The CM also asked
officials to double the
fleet of e- buses run-
ning in 14 cities of the
state in the next 100
days. He also said im-
portant cities like Vara-
nasi Meerut, Gorakh-
pur, Bareilly, Jhansi
and Prayagraj should
be linked to metro rail
service.
Adityanath asked of-
ficials to get built 10,000
new toilets for women
in the next 100 days un-
der the Mission Pink
Toilet.
Three fall ill inhaling
poisonous gases
from industrial units
GARBAGE BURNING
URBAN DEV MINISTRY MEETING
CM sets ambitious targets; metro rail,
e-buses,housingforpooronprioritylist
CHOPPER SERVICE IN LUCKNOW,
AGRA, MATHURA, PRAYAGRAJ
The UP Cabinet on Tuesday in a meeting chaired by
chief minister Yogi Adityanath approved the start of
helicopter service on PPP mode in Agra, Mathura
and Prayagraj to promote tourism. A helipad site will
also be built at Ramabai site in Lucknow, and private
landings can be made. The development work in Bh-
agirathi was approved. The PWD will widen Pukhraya
Bindki highway at a cost of ` 1136.45 crore.
SINGEING HEAT
A commuter covers her face with a scarf to shield herself from the hot summer sun in
Lucknow on Tuesday. —PHOTO BY PTI
UPontopwith11-crCovidtests,
10timesoverWHOprescription
6 miscreants held for
firing on streets in Lko
The arrrested ccused
are Aman, Akash,
Abhay, Adarsh, Pankaj
and Aditya
CM Yogi Adityanath with Deputy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya and
ACS Navneet Sehgal at Lok Bhavan on Tuesday.
Medical staff collecting a sample for covid testing, at Dr Ram
Manohar Lohia Hospital in Lucknow on Tuesday.
lll
Dist secy of the
party’s youth
wing, Rohit was
married six
months back.
Sachin has been
named prime
accused
ACTION AGAINST SP LEADER,
BROTHER UNDER GANGSTER ACT
Etah: Action was taken against Samajwadi Party (SP) leader
and former MLA Rameshwar Singh Yadav and his younger
brother Jugendra Singh Yadav for illegal encroachment on
government and other lands. Devendra Nath Tripathi, Kotwali
city in-charge said that former MLA Rameshwar Singh Yadav
was listed as gang leader in gang chart received from district
magistrate office. Former district panchayat president Jugen-
dra Yadav was active member of his gang and their gang had
encroached several lands in the area.
—PHOTO BY ASHOK DUTTA
—PHOTO BY SUMIT KUMAR
—VICTIM ROHIT

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he Allahabad
High Court’s
judgment al-
lowing mainte-
nance to a Mus-
lim woman beyond the
three-month iddat period
till she remarries has once
again revived memories of
the Shah Bano case of 1985
when the Supreme Court
ruled in favour of mainte-
nance being given to the
divorced woman. Under
pressure from the mullahs,
the Congress government
of Rajiv Gandhi hastily en-
acted a law providing for
payment of alimony only
for the period of iddat. In
later judgments, however,
the Supreme Court upheld
the Shah Bano case verdict
for the benefit of Muslim
women divorcees. In 1973
an amendment was made
to the CrPC to provide un-
der section 125 that a divor-
cee was entitled to alimony
till the time she remarries.
Section 125 and Section
127, which was added later,
were found to be in conflict
with the Muslim Personal
Law. It was in the Daniel
Latifi versus Union of In-
dia the conflict was re-
solved with the Supreme
Court saying that the Shah
Bano case judgment still
holds good. The same
stand was taken by Justice
KS Pawar who observed
that under section 125 Cr.
P.C a divorced Muslim
woman can claim mainte-
nance from her husband
until she remarries. The
Additional Sessions Judge,
Pratapgarh, ruled against
the petitioner on the
ground that sections 3 and
4 of the Muslim Women
(Protection of Rights on
Divorce) Act did not entitle
her to maintenance under
section 125 CrPC.
Ashwini Kumar Upad-
hyay, a BJP leader and ad-
vocate, moved a petition in
the Supreme Court to
make uniform laws about
alimony and maintenance
to women.
MUSLIM WOMAN
DIVORCEE’S PANACEA
The Allahabad High Court’s judgment allowing
maintenance to a Muslim woman beyond the three-
month iddat period till she remarries has once again
revived memories of the Shah Bano case of 1985
when the Supreme Court ruled in favour of maintenance
being given to the divorced woman
T
Narendra Modi @narendramodi
I would like to applaud the people
of Banaskantha for their hardwork
and spirit of resilience. The manner
in which this district has made a
mark in agriculture is commendable.
Farmers embraced new technologies,
focused on water conservation and
the results are for all to see.
Kiren Rijiju @KirenRijiju
Took detail review of Aspirational
District Program at Nongpoh in
Meghalaya. Ri Bhoi District has risen
to rank 5th among 112 Aspirational
Districts in the country, a huge
jump from rank 51 in 2018. District
officers are very hardworking State
Govt is extending proper support.
TOP TWEETS
SPIRITUAL SPEAK
And we know that in all things God works
for the good of those who love him, who
have been called according to his purpose.
—Bible
Chakraborty also pointed
out that the partial
revival of the CPI (M),
could help the ruling
party as it would keep the
opposition votes divided
in the state. The twin
victories will add some
luster to TMC’s
celebrations planned for
May 2 for its anniversary
of returning to power in
the bitterly contested
assembly elections last
year. However, worries
may still keep mounting
for the ruling party given
the apathy shown by
voters in Kolkata, seen as
the political and cultural
heart of West Bengal
he recently held Bally-
gunge Assembly and the
Lok Sabha bypolls in
Asansol may have depict-
ed the unabated TMC raj
in West Bengal but on the
other hand, the Left forces
have re-emerged especial-
ly in the Ballygunge seat
and have pushed the BJP
to the third position!
It may be recalled that if
late Subrata Mukherjee
had won the Ballygunge
seat by a massive (more
than) 70,000 votes in 2021,
Babul Supriyo who defect-
ed from BJP to TMC won
the seat this time by a little
over 20,000 votes!
The TMC, obviously
, has
to keep the reduced margin
in mind and go back to the
storyboard to find the lacu-
nae for which the victory
marginhaddippedsomuch.
WHY THE LEFT
RE-EMERGED?
Following the results in
Ballygunge, CPI(M) is as-
serting that it is the only
alternative to the Mamata
Banerjee-led Trinamool
Congress in West Bengal.
The CPI(M)-led Left
Front, which could not win
a single seat in the 2021 as-
sembly elections in the
state, sees a glimmer of
hope in the results of the
recentelectionsinthestate,
be it for municipalities or
assembly bypolls, wherein
manyplacesitcamesecond,
leaving the BJP behind.
“
An idea that the Left has
become irrelevant in West
Bengal politics was doing
therounds.Peopleareslow-
ly realising that function-
ally Left is the only alterna-
tivetothepresentregimein
WestBengal,”Chakraborty
had told the media.
BJP, which had won 77
seats in the assembly elec-
tions, is the only opposi-
tion party having repre-
sentation in the House.
“People are realising
that in real sense what is
meant by opposition on is-
sues of employment, law
and order, etc is shown by
the Left,” he said, adding
that this was, however, not
being reflected in the elec-
toral process.
The Left Front was run-
ner-up to the TMC in 65
wards in the 144-ward Kol-
kata Municipal Corpora-
tion election held in De-
cember last year in which
the TMC recorded a land-
slide victory
.
The #NoVoteToBabul
campaign, which drew on
Supriyo’s previous stand
and was led by some pres-
sure groups in the city,
evidently gathered steam
to the extent that protes-
tors were arrested.
A cursory glance at the
break-up of poll figures
from the seven municipal
wards of the constituency
reveals that Supriyo never
succeeded in gaining the
voters’ trust in full. In two
of those seven wards, ward
numbers64and65,theCPI-
M’s Saira Shah Halim gar-
nered more votes than the
Trinamool. That, coupled
with the dip in voter turn-
out by a staggering 20%, is
proof that a large number
of voters stayed away from
making a choice.
The Ballygunge bypoll
experience could be a fall-
out of any of the possibili-
ties stated above or a mix
and match of all. But for
the ruling Trinamool Con-
gress dispensation in Ben-
gal, it’s certainly a warn-
ing bell that merits intro-
spection into steps it needs
to take to shake off the so-
called “voters’ dilemma”
before it makes its big push
for 2024 general elections.
Also as far as the elec-
torate count in Ballygunge
goes, the Muslim voters
constitute a figure of 51%
of the total voter count.
And to top it all, the Left
candidate was also a Mus-
lim, Saira Shah Halim
who is also the niece of
veteran thespian Naseer-
uddin Shah who had, in a
video message, promoted
her candidature.
From just 5.61 per cent
of the vote share in Bally-
gunge in 2021 assembly
elections, the CPI(M) can-
didate notched up over 30
per cent of the votes polled
in the by-election, leaving
behind the BJP
, to come up
to the second position.
The CPI(M) last won
from the Ballygunge seat
in south Kolkata in 2001
and secured the third posi-
tion behind TMC and BJP
in the 2021 elections.
Having said that, we
also need to mention how
since inception, the TMC
which never won the
Asansol seat has managed
to wrest it this time with
full honours. Shatrughan
Sinha defeated BJP’s Ag-
nimitra Paul by a whop-
ping 3 lakh votes.
The TMC bagged 56.62
per cent of the votes
polled, while the BJP got
30.46 per cent votes. The
by-poll saw a huge swing
of 21 per cent votes in fa-
vour of the TMC from the
saffron camp’s kitty
.
“The results are a testi-
mony that I am no less a
Bengali than any other
Bengali. I am not an out-
sider. I am happy to win
Asansol for the TMC,
which it had never won be-
fore,” Sinha told reporters.
What makes the victory
margin more credible is
that it happened despite a
lower voter turnout of
66.42 per cent compared to
76.62 per cent in 2019. Sin-
ha garnered 6,56,358 votes
against BJP’s Agnimitra
Paul’s 3,53,149 votes.
Paul generously accept-
edthattherewasnorigging
and that the party needs to
“introspect and strategise
ahead for the 2024 general
elections.” However, for-
mer West Bengal BJP chief
Dilip Ghosh alleged that
TMC had unleashed a cam-
paign of terror in the run
up to the elections.
Political analyst Biswa-
nath Chakraborty feels
that the Ballygunge results
have shown that a section
of minoritieswhovotedfor
the TMC last year switched
to the CPI(M). However,
others pointed out that this
theory does not explain the
huge reduction in vote
share for the BJP
.
THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY
THE AUTHOR ARE PERSONAL
T
ROBIN ROY
The writer is Senior Associate Editor,
Free Press Journal, Mumbai and former
Managing Editor, First India
WB BYPOLLS
TMC MAINTAINS WINNING SPREE, BUT
MUST NOT IGNORE LEFT’S RE-EMERGENCE
TMC candidate Babul Supriyo shows a
victory sign as he speaks to the media
after winning the Ballygunge Assembly
by-elections, at David Hare Training
College, in Kolkata on April 16.
Late Subrata Mukherjee had won the Ballygunge
seat by a massive (more than) 70,000 votes in
2021, Babul Supriyo who defected from BJP to TMC
won the seat this time by a little over 20,000 votes!
THE ELECTORATE COUNT IN BALLYGUNGE

z MUSLIM VOTERS
CONSTITUTE A FIGURE
OF 51% OF THE TOTAL
VOTER COUNT

z THE LEFT CANDIDATE
WAS ALSO A MUSLIM,
SAIRA SHAH HALIM
WHO IS ALSO THE NIECE
OF VETERAN THESPIAN
NASEERUDDIN SHAH
WHO HAD, IN A VIDEO
MESSAGE, PROMOTED
HER CANDIDATURE

z FROM JUST 5.61% OF
THE VOTE SHARE IN
BALLYGUNGE IN 2021
ASSEMBLY ELECTIONS,
CPI(M) CANDIDATE
NOTCHED UP OVER 30%
OF VOTES POLLED IN
BY-ELECTION, LEAVING
BEHIND BJP, TO COME
UP TO 2ND POSITION

z CPI(M) LAST WON
FROM BALLYGUNGE
SEAT IN SOUTH KOL-
KATA IN 2001 AND SE-
CURED 3RD POSITION
BEHIND TMC AND BJP
IN 2021 ELECTIONS
What makes victory more credible is that it happened
despite a lower voter turnout of 66.42% compared to
76.62% in 2019. Shatrughan Sinha garnered 6,56,358
votes against BJP’s Agnimitra Paul’s 3,53,149 votes.
THE LEFT AND IT’S POLITICAL LINE
he Left, on the other hand, stuck to its political line and called
the Trinamool-BJP political stand-off in the state “a show of
fake opposition which Ballygunge voters have seen through”.
The Ballygunge bypoll experience could be a fallout of any of the
possibilities stated above or a mix and match of all. But for the
ruling TMC dispensation in Bengal, it’s certainly a warning bell that
merits introspection into steps it needs to take to shake off the
so-called “voters’ dilemma” before it makes its big push for 2024
general elections. The CPI(M) last won from the Ballygunge seat in
south Kolkata in 2001 and secured the third position behind TMC
and BJP in the 2021 elections.
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INDIA
05
Sharat K Verma
New Delhi: Prashant
Kishor has worked with
many parties of the
country. He started his
work with the Bharati-
ya Janata Party (BJP)
and since then he has
been working continu-
ously with anti-BJP
parties. Right now his
talks are going on with
the Congress and if he
joins the Congress and
takes up the responsi-
bility of making the
Congress contest elec-
tions in 2024 general
elections, the first ques-
tion will be whether all
the Opposition parties
he has worked with,
will stand with him?
Will Kishor be able to
unite all the opposition
parties and form a com-
mon front?
This question is per-
tinent because two of
Kishor’s existing cli-
ents and one potential
client is finding it ex-
tremely hard to share
electoral space with
Congress and it will be
very difficult to bring
all three together. Al-
though Trinamool Con-
gress signed a joint
statement of opposition
against communal vio-
lence in the past, both
Arvind Kejriwal and K
Chandrashekhar Rao
stayed away from it.
Keep in mind that
Prashant Kishor’s com-
pany I-Pack has an
agreement with Trina-
mool Congress till 2026.
He also worked for Ke-
jriwal’s party in Delhi
and he is in talks of
working for Telangana
Rashtra Samithi for
next year’s assembly
elections. Then there
was talk of TRS and
Congress alliance,
which Congress in-
charge Manickam
Tagore has denied. So,
it is very difficult to
bring these three par-
ties stand on the same
stage as Congress.
Apart from these
three, there is another
leader with whom
Prashant Kishor has a
very close relationship.
PKhasworkedforBihar
Chief Minister Nitish
Kumar and was associ-
ated with Nitish during
his worst times. Nitish
was trying for a new al-
liance after quitting the
BJP and losing the 2014
Lok Sabha elections
badly
. At that time, Nit-
ish had made a joint al-
liance of JD(U), RJD
and Congress to contest
the elections. Right now
Nitish Kumar’s party is
in sync with the BJP.
But there are two years
in the Lok Sabha elec-
tions and in politics the
period of two years is
considered as eternity
.
Prashant’s fifth client
is Jagan Mohan Reddy.
He is neutral towards
both BJP and Congress
but considering the
wounds Congress has
inflicted on him, it is
very difficult for him to
fall in line with Con-
gress. In this way, there
are a total of five clients
of Prashant’s, who
would find it extremely
difficult to see in the
same light as Congress.
But Prashant has been
working to make possi-
ble, the impossible. If
he does this, the elec-
tion of 2024 will be very
different. However, oth-
er clients of Prashant
Kishor like DMK, Shiv
Sena, RJD etc. are al-
ready with Congress.
WILL ALL OF PRASHANT KISHOR’S CLIENTS COME ALONG?
ANOTHER OPPOSITION FRONT!
Bengaluru (Agen-
cies): Hectic lobbying
has begun in Karnata-
ka’s ruling BJP as the
party heads for a cabi-
net expansion, party
sources said here on
Tuesday
.
More than five sitting
Cabinet ministers are
set to lose their berths
to make way for new
faces as part of the par-
ty’s strategy for the 2023
Assembly elections,
they added.
The party high com-
mand has sent a mes-
sage to ‘netas’ of the
party to be ready to sac-
rifice their cabinet
berths and involve
themselves in party or-
ganisation activities.
The party has decided
to induct at least eight
new faces in the cabinet.
As per the sources,
the news has created
ripples within the par-
ty leaving the sitting
ministers a worried
lot. BJP President JP
Nadda who was in Kar-
nataka last week to at-
tend executive com-
mittee meeting had
discussed and obtained
the list of ministers
who could be dropped
from the ministry.
The message for sen-
ior ministers who will
lose their positions
will be conveyed
through Union Home
Minister Amit Shah.
Chief Minister
Basavaraj Bommai
could be called to New
Delhi at any point to
finalise cabinet expan-
sion or formation of
new cabinet.
Mins may lose Cabinet posts in
K’taka; hectic lobbying begins
More than 5 Cabinet Ministers set to lose
their births to make way for new faces
Will go to Delhi after getting call from
party high command calls: CM Bommai
Karnataka Governor Thawar Chand Gehlot and Chief Minister Basavaraj Bommai with State Cabinet
Ministers in Bengaluru. —FILE PHOTO
According to the
sources, the party
is treading cautiously
as the opposition Con-
gress has adopted an
aggressive approach.
Opposition leader Sid-
daramaiah and State
president DK Shiva-
kumar has said many
times that a number of
leaders from BJP are
in touch with them.
The party will have to
take crucial calls on
allotting cabinet posts
to Yediyurappa’s son,
BY Vijayendra.
Many BJP Mins
in touch, says
DK SHivakumar
CRUCIAL READ
3 DELHI CIVIC BODIES TO BE CALLED
MUNICIPAL CORPORATION OF DELHI
New Delhi: The Centre has issued a Gazette
notification announcing the merger of the three
municipal bodies into one to be called “Municipal
Corporation of Delhi”. The Bill for the merger
was passed in the recently concluded session of
Parliament. On April 18, the Gazette notification
was issued bringing into effect The Delhi Municipal
Corporation (Amendment) Act, 2022, after it got
the assent of President Ram Nath Kovind.
LeT’S SHEIKH SAJAD DESIGNATED AS
TERRORIST UNDER UAPA, SAYS MHA
New Delhi: Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) on Tues-
day designated Sheikh Sajad, one of the commanders
of the terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), as a ter-
rorist under the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act,
1967.The Ministry made the announcement through
a gazette notification, mentioning Sajad an abscond-
ing accused in a case pertaining to the recovery of
Arms and Ammunition in Jammu Kashmir.
TRS LEADER’S
SON ARRESTED
IN RAPE CASE
Suryapet: A 20-year-
old woman has
complained that two
men drugged her,
kidnapped her in an
autorickshaw and
gangraped her for
two days in a house
in Kodad town of
Suryapet in Telan-
gana. The police have
arrested two men
she named, includ-
ing the son of a local
Telangana Rashtra
Samithi (TRS) leader.
The men have been
identified as Sheik
Ghouse Pasha, son
of a municipal ward
member from the
TRS Mohd Khaja,
and his accomplice
Sairam Reddy.
KERALA HC
JUNKS ACTOR
DILEEP’S PLEA
Kochi: The Kerala
High Court on Tues-
day declined to quash
an FIR accusing actor
Dileep and others of
conspiring to threaten
and kill the officials
probing the 2017
actress assault case
or to transfer the con-
spiracy case to the
CBI for investigation.
Justice Ziyad Rah-
man AA dismissed
Dileep’s plea in which
the actor had alleged
that the murder
conspiracy FIR was
an outcome of a
personal animosity
against the actor as
all the male members
of his family have
been implicated in it.
3 RSS workers
held in PFI leader
murder case
Palakkad (PTI): Three
RSS workers have been
arrested for allegedly
carryingoutthemurder
of a PFI leader in Palak-
kad district of Kerala on
April 15, police said on
Tuesday and added that
the trio were friends of
an RSS leader, who was
killedinPalakkadinNo-
vember last year.
ADGP (Law and Or-
der) Vijay Sakhare, told
PTI, that three persons
—Ramesh,Arumughan
and Saravanan — all
RSS workers have been
arrested and they are
believed to have direct-
ly carried out the kill-
ing of PFI leader Subair
(43) to avenge the death
of RSS leader Sanjith in
November 2021.
IAS Naresh
Kumar new Chief
Secy of Delhi
New Delhi: The Union
Home Ministry on Tues-
day appointed Naresh
Kumar, a 1987 batch IAS
officer, as the new Chief
Secretary of Delhi. Cur-
rently
,Kumarisworking
as Chief Secretary of
Arunachal Pradesh. He
replaces Vijay Kumar
Dev who is all set to take
overhisnextassignment
as CEC of Delhi with ef-
fect from April 21, 2022.
NDMC Chairman Dhar-
mendra was sent to
Arunachal as CS vice
Naresh Kumar.
Govt Interlocutor meets
Th Muivah for ‘informal
talks’ at Camp Hebron
Kohima (Agencies):
TheNSCN-IMleaders,
led by General Secre-
tary Th Muivah, on
Tuesday met Centre’s
interlocutor for Naga
peacetalksAKMishra
at the outfit’s head-
quarters Camp He-
bron near Dimapur.
“We had an infor-
mal meeting with A
K Mishra,” an NSCN-
IM leader said to me-
dia. He added that it
was the first time
that peace talks were
being held with a
Government of India
representative inside
Camp Hebron.
Former special di-
rector of the Intelli-
gence Bureau,
Mishra, who replaced
RN Ravi as the inter-
locutor last year, ar-
rived in Nagaland on
Mondaytodiscussthe
vexed Naga political
issue. He is expected
to meet the state gov-
ernment’s core com-
mittee as well as the
Naga National Politi-
cal Groups (NNPG)
during his stay
.
“AK Mishra is the
first interlocutor to
visit Hebron for talks,
which is significant,”
the leader said and
added that the discus-
sions on Tuesday last-
ed for a little more
than two hours.
The meeting
comes a week after
Nagaland Chief Min-
ister Neiphiu Rio,
Deputy CM Y Patton
and former Chief
Minister TR Zeliang
met PM Modi and
Union Home Minis-
ter Shah in Delhi to
discuss the status of
peace talks, which
seems to have hit a
roadblock since 2019.
TheGovernmentof
India had signed the
“framework agree-
ment” with NSCN-IM
on August 3, 2015 and
“Agreed Position”
with the NNPGs on
November 17, 2017.
Th Muivah
AK Mishra
KV Thomas defies G-23 leader’s
remarks on Rahul Gandhi
Married the person I loved: Victory
for Kerala couple in ‘Love Jihad’ row
Kochi (ANI): The Sen-
ior Congress party lead-
er KV Thomas, on
Monday
, disagreed with
the former vice-chair-
man of Rajya Sabha PJ
Kurien’s alleged state-
ments against the party
leader Rahul Gandhi
that he does not consult
senior members, and
party’s leadership need
not necessarily with the
one belonging to the
Gandhi family
.
Earlier the G-23 lead-
er, Kurien had said that
the party leader Rahul
Gandhi does not consult
any senior leaders of
the party. He also said
that there is no need for
the party president to
belong to the Gandhi
family only
.
However, Thomas
partially supported Ku-
rien’s statement, he also
said that without a
memberof theparty
,the
party would wither off.
Expressing his good
relations with the par-
ty’s president Sonia
Gandhi and Rajiv Gan-
dhi, Thomas said, “Un-
fortunately Rahul is
taking a different atti-
tude. I am not angry
with him. I am only
pained.”
He believes that in
the absence of Con-
gress, the communal
violence in the country
will prevail more.
“On these grounds,
we have been demand-
ing that Rahul Gandhi
or any member of the
family should take
leadership, either Pri-
yanka can take it. Mad-
am Gandhi is naturally
acceptable to every-
body. But because of
the health reasons, she
can’t come forward,”
he added.
Says party leader
should belong to
Gandhi family
Hijab not allowed during II PUC
exams, says K’taka Edu Minister
Bengaluru (Agen-
cies): Students wearing
hijab will not be allowed
to write the crucial an-
nual II PUC examina-
tion in Karnataka, State
Minister for Education
BC Nagesh said on
Tuesday
.
“All students must
follow rules on uni-
form, hijab cladding
students won’t be al-
lowed,” he added.
After successfully
conducting SSLC (class
10) exams amid hijab
controversy, the Karna-
taka government is all
set to hold crucial II
PUCexaminationsfrom
April 22 to May 18 in the
state. As many as
6,84,255 students have
enrolled for the exami-
nations, stated an offi-
cial release from the
Department of Pre-Uni-
versity Education.
Elaborate security
arrangements have
been made for smooth
conduct of exams amid
possibility of resurfac-
ing of the controversy
.
Karnataka High
Court Special Bench
headed by the Chief
Justice Ritu Raj
Awasthi has dismissed
the petition by students
seeking permission to
wear hijab in class-
rooms. The bench also
noted that wearing of
hijab is not an essential
practice of Islam.
The department has
stated that the examina-
tion will be conducted
in 1,076 examination
centres. A total of
3,46,936 boys and
3,37,319 girls are taking
the exams.
Bengaluru (Agen-
cies): The Karna-
taka government is
all ready to introduce
Hindu epic stories
Bhagavad Gita’ and
‘Mahabharat’ in its
school curriculum
from the next aca-
demic year. Though a
proposal in this regard
was made beforehand,
the ruling BJP govern-
ment had kept it in
abeyance, consider-
ing the opposition.
Clearing the air on
Tuesday, Education
Minister BC Nagesh
said, “From next year,
moral education will
be added to the school
syllabus. ‘Bhagavad
Gita,’ ‘Mahabharat’
and ‘Panchatantra Sto-
ries’ will also be part
of moral education,”
he stated.
Gita, Mahabharat
to form part of
moral education
in K’taka schools
NAGA PEACE TALKS
Kochi (ANI): Joisna
Mary Joseph, who is at
the centre of a love jihad
controversy in Kerala,
on Tuesday said that she
married the person she
lovedandexpressedhope
that her parents will ap-
prove her marriage.
Her remarks came af-
ter the Kerala High
Courtdismissedthepeti-
tion filed by Joisna’s fa-
ther against her mar-
riage with a Muslim
man named Shejin.
“I married the person
I loved. So I wanted to go
with him. I liked him
and started living with
him. I told the court
about my decision. It is a
decision made by a per-
son over 18 years of age.
We will both talk to our
parents. We will con-
vince them,” Joisna told
media.Joisna’shusband
Shejin said he has no
problem with Joisna liv-
ing as a Christian until
her death.
“We hoped that the
verdict would be favour-
able.Astwopersonsover
the age of 18, we are per-
mitted by law in India to
live as we wish. The al-
legation that we were at
the SDPI centre came
whilewewerebothatmy
father’s brother’s house.
Suchcontroversyspread
at that time,” she said.

INDIA
06
Himanshu Rawat
New Delhi: Post the in-
cidents of communal
violence and hate
speeches in different
parts of the country,
thirteen ppposition par-
ties issued a joint state-
ment against the devel-
opments. This is an is-
sue on which the oppo-
sition could have been
united, however, in this,
only a handful of par-
ties came together. Sim-
ilarly
, during the budget
session of Parliament,
the entire opposition
did not come together
on any issue. Even on
the issue like inflation,
all the opposition par-
ties were not seen
standing united. There-
fore the question is,
who is handling the
task of issuing a joint
statement or formulat-
ing a common protest
strategy on behalf of
the opposition and did
the person concerned
talk to all the opposi-
tion parties?
This question is im-
portant because even
the parties making
statements against
communal violence and
hate speeches did not
participate in the joint
statement.
TDP leader Chan-
drababu Naidu could
have been talked to but
he was not involved in
the joint statement.
Similarly, Chan-
drashekhar Rao could
have been spoken with
on the issue, but it
seems that he kept his
distance due to the on-
going conflict with the
Congress in the region-
al politics. Delhi Chief
Minister Arvind Kejri-
wal has remained silent
on the issue of commu-
nal violence and he too
did not sign the joint
statement.
The most surprising
thing is about the JDS,
with which the Con-
gress was in govern-
ment till two years ago.
Secondly, the JD(S) has
been opposed to the
communal incidents in
Karnataka and despite
this, it has not been in-
cluded in the joint state-
ment.
Will Oppn parties get united on national issues?
Cyber security breach by
military officials unearthed
Strictest action would be taken against officials found guilty: Sources
New Delhi (ANI): In-
telligence agencies
have unearthed a cyber
security breach by mili-
tary officials which is
suspected to be linked
to espionage-related ac-
tivities by a neighbour-
ing country
.
Defence sources said,
“The Military and Intel-
ligence agencies have
unearthed a cyber secu-
rity breach by some
military officials,
which is likely to be
linked to espio-
nage-related
activities by a
neighbour-
ing coun-
try.” “The
breach has been re-
ported on certain What-
sApp groups,” the de-
fence sources told ANI.
On the issue of ac-
tionbeingtakenagainst
the officials facing the
allegations, the sources
said that “an inquiry,
which has been prompt-
ly ordered, is in pro-
gress. Acts of infringe-
ments to existing orders
especially involving
counterintelligence
matters, by military of-
ficials, are dealt with
strictest possible man-
ner, as they are subject
to Official Secrets Act.”
The sources said that
the strictest possible ac-
tion would be taken
against all the officials
who are found guilty in
the ongoing investiga-
tions.
Asked to provide fur-
ther details in the mat-
ter, the defence sources
said, “Due to sensitivi-
ties involved and the
nature of the investiga-
tion, we would request
to avoid speculation on
the nature of the breach
or seeking out person-
nel involved.”
IN RECENT TIMES, SUSPECTED
PAKISTANI AND CHINESE OPERATIVES
ATTEMPTING TO ENGAGE WITH
MILITARY PERSONNEL ON SOCIAL
MEDIA IN AN EFFORT TO GAIN
SENSITIVE INFO FROM THEM
Sonia Gandhi, Rahul Gandhi, Mamata Banerjee, D Raja, Mayawati and other senior leaders.
Should PM Modi, Shah
meddle in bypolls too?
Mahesh Sharma
New Delhi: The
Bharatiya Janata
Party’s record of
winning by-elections
is very poor. The par-
ty usually loses in by-
elections, about
which a lot of jokes
and sarcastic com-
ments are passed on
social media too. In
four states, by-elec-
tions were held on
four Assembly seats
and one Lok Sabha
seat, in which the
BJP lost all the seats.
Since the last As-
sembly elections i.e.
2019, by-elections
were held in three
seats in Jharkhand
and the BJP lost on
all three. Can you
fathom the reason
why BJP wins elec-
tions but does not
win by-elections.
Is it because Modi
and Shah do not cam-
paign in the bypolls?
Usually the top lead-
ership of national
parties does not cam-
paign in the bypolls.
By the way, every
election is fought on
the face of Modi and
with backing of
Shah’s strategy. But
both of them stay
away from strategis-
ing in the bypolls. If
the BJP is losing be-
cause of this, then it
should be a matter of
great concern. This
would mean that
apart from Modi and
Shah, the BJP has no
other political capi-
tal. It also means that
the BJP state leaders
are of no conse-
quence to electorate.
Just think, BJP
had sent more than
30 leaders to cam-
paign for Asansol LS
seat in West Bengal
but it lost by more
than three lakh
votes. That’s why
BJP leaders are also
joking that now Modi
and Shah will have to
get the party to con-
test bypolls too.
1 dead, 12 hurt as
Lanka Police opens
fire at protesters
Colombo/New Delhi:
The police in Sri Lanka
for the first time since
anti-government pro-
tests over an economic
crisis started fired at
protesters on Tuesday,
killing one and injuring
12 other people. A police
spokesperson con-
firmed they had to fire
at the protesters after
mobs turned violent.
The people had
blocked a highway in
central Sri Lanka’s
Rambukkana, 95 km
from capital Colombo,
to protest acute oil
shortages.
A severe fuel short-
age sparked spontane-
ous protests across Sri
Lanka earlier today,
with tens of thousands
of angry motorists
burning tyres and
blocking the major road
leading into the capital.
Sri Lanka has run
out of dollars to finance
vital imports including
food, medicine and fuel,
sparking weeks of pro-
tests calling for the res-
ignation of President
Gotabaya Rajapaksa in
the country’s worst eco-
nomic crisis since inde-
pendence in 1948.
‘OUT OF FUEL’
IMF slashes
India’s growth
forecast to 8.2%
in 2022-23
Prez Kovind
gives assent
to Criminal
Procedure Bill Washington: The In-
ternational Monetary
Fund (IMF) has slashed
the growth forecast for
India for the current fi-
nancial year by 80 basis
points to 8.2 per cent,
cautioning that the on-
going Russia-Ukraine
war will in the long run
hurt consumption and
also growth as inflation
will rise.
The funding body has
made the growth fore-
cast in its “World Eco-
nomic Report”.
Commenting on In-
dia’s growth forecast in
the report, the IMF said
that higher oil prices
are expected to weigh
on private consumption
and investment.
It also expected In-
dia’s 2022-23 current ac-
count deficit to be at 3.1
per cent, compared
with 1.5 per cent expect-
ed for 2021-22.
New Delhi (PTI):
President Ram
Nath Kovind has
given his assent to
the Criminal Proce-
dure (Identifica-
tion) Bill, which
empowers police to
obtain physical and
biological samples
of convicts and
those accused of
crimes.
“The following
Act of Parliament
received the assent
of the President on
the 18th April, 2022
and is hereby pub-
lished for general
information:- The
Criminal Proce-
dure (Identifica-
tion) Act, 2022 No.11
of 2022,” a gazette
notification issued
by the government
said.
India-Vietnam working with
ASEAN: LS Speaker Birla
New Delhi (PTI): Lok
Sabha Speaker Om Bir-
la, who is leading a par-
liamentary delegation
to Vietnam, on Tuesday
said the two countries
have been working
closely with ASEAN to-
wards a free, open,
peaceful, prosperous,
inclusive and rules-
based Indo-Pacific re-
gion.
Birla hoped that the
strong bilateral defense
cooperation between
the nations will contrib-
ute to international
peace. In the meeting
with President Phuc,
Birla also mentioned
that the bilateral rela-
tionship between the
countries was trans-
formed into a “Compre-
hensive Strategic Part-
nership” in 2016 and a
joint vision for peace
and prosperity was
adopted by Phuc and
Prime Minister Naren-
dra Modi in 2021, the
Lok Sabha Secretariat
said in a statement. Bir-
la arrived in Hanoi on
Tuesday on a three-day
visit. On the first day of
his visit, he held bilat-
eral meetings with
President Phuc, Prime
Minister Vietnam
Pham Minh Chinh and
Chairman of National
Assembly of Vietnam.
Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla with the President of Vietnam HE
Nguyen Xuan Phuc, at the Presidential Palace.
Nirmala meets IMF chief,
discusses global growth
Washington (PTI): Fi-
nance Minister Nirma-
la Sitharaman on
Tuesday met IMF man-
aging director Kristali-
na Georgieva and dis-
cussed a range of is-
sues, including impact
of geopolitical situa-
tion on global growth.
The IMF chief high-
lighted India’s well-tar-
geted policy mix that
has helped the coun-
try’s economy remain
resilient.
She also appreciated
India’s help to Sri Lan-
ka in tackling its eco-
nomic crises and as-
sured that the IMF
would continue to en-
gage with Sri Lanka.
India is expected to
record highest growth
rate among large econo-
mies of the world.
‘RISK OF CRYPTO IS
MONEY LAUNDERING,
TERROR FINANCING’
Washington (ANI):The
biggest risk of cryptocur-
rency could be money
laundering and its use
for financing terror, said
Finance Minister Nirmala
Sitharaman. She said, “I
think the risk for all coun-
tries across the board will
be the money launder-
ing aspect and also the
aspect of currency being
used for financing terror.”
IN THE COURTYARD
REASONING LIFEBLOOD OF JUDICIARY: APEX
COURT CANCELS RAPE ACCUSED’S BAIL
IN RAPE CASE AGAINST T-SERIES MD BHUSHAN
KUMAR, COURT REJECTS CLOSURE REPORT
New Delhi (PTI): An unreasoned order suffers the “vice of
arbitrariness” as reasoning is the lifeblood of the judicial
system, the Supreme Court on
Tuesday said while setting aside a
Rajasthan High Court’s “cryptic”
order granting bail to a man accused
of raping his niece. The observations
came in a judgement delivered by
a bench of Chief Justice NV Ramana and Justice Krishna
Murari on a plea of an alleged rape survivor seeking can-
cellation of bail of her uncle, a habitual offender, and nearly
twenty cases registered against him which were not found
mention in the high court order. Further, the top court noted
that the High Court has failed to consider the influence.
Mumbai (PTI): A magistrate court in Mumbai rejected the
closure report filed by the police in a rape case against
T-Series company’s managing director Bhushan Kumar,
son of music baron the late Gulshan
Kumar, and held that “various legal
aspects have been compromised”
during the investigation. Noting
that the complainant woman has
misused provisions of law that are
meant for the needy litigants by supporting the final report
(B-summary), the court directed the police to probe the
matter as per the law and the zonal DCP to monitor the
investigation. A “B summary” report is filed when the police
classify the case as maliciously false or when there is no
evidence or a prima facie case against the accused.
CENTRE BOUND BY
ASSURANCE GIVEN TO
PORTUGAL ON SALEM:
HOME SECRETARY
New Delhi (PTI): The
Government is bound by
the assurance given by the
then deputy Prime Minister
LK Advani to the Portugal
government that the maxi-
mum sentence handed out
to gangster Abu Salem will
not exceed 25 years, the
Union home secretary has
told the SC. In an affidavit
filed in pursuance to the
apex court’s April 12 order,
Home Secy halla said the
assurance would come
into effect once the period
of 25 years expires on
November 10, 2030.
SC RECONSTITUTES
EXPERT PANEL FOR
AFFORESTATION IN
DELHI-DOON PROJECT
New Delhi (ANI): The SC
on Tuesday reconstituted
the expert committee to
monitor the compensa-
tory afforestation in the
Delhi-Dehradun Economic
corridor project. A bench
headed by Justice DY
Chandrachud directed
that the Chairperson of
the Committee will be the
Director-General Forests,
Ministry of Environment,
Forests and Climate
Change. Earlier, the NGT
had appointed an inde-
pendent twelve-member
Expert Committee.
Biplab meets Shah, discusses several issues
New Delhi (ANI):
Tripura CM Biplab Ku-
mar Deb informed that
he discussed several
state issues with Home
Minister Amit Shah.
The CM apprised
Shah of the develop-
ment of Bru Rehabilita-
tion in Tripura. He also
informed the him about
theobstaclesbeingfaced
in the opening of Sainik
Schools.
“It was an honour to
meetwithHon’bleHome
Minister,Adarnia@Am-
itShah Ji. Apprised him
about the development
of Bru Rehabilitation in
Tripura. Along with
this, informed him
about the obstacles be-
ing faced in the opening
of Sainik School in the
state,” Deb tweeted.
Narendra Modi with
Amit Shah. —FILE PHOTO
Biplab Kumar Deb with Home
Minister Amit Shah.
Amit Shah holds meet with
Mins on coal, power issues
New Delhi (ANI): Union
Home Minister Amit Shah
on Tuesday held a meet-
ing with Power Minister
RK Singh, Coal Minister
Pralhad Joshi and Railway
Minister Ashwini Vaishnav
amid reports of ongoing
coal and power situation
across the country, sources
said. Cabinet Secretary
Rajiv Gauba, CMD of Naveli
Lignite Corporation, key
concerned officials of the
Coal Ministry along with
other officials of the MHA
were also present in the
meeting. The meeting was
held in the Home Ministry
in which issues of ongoing
coal and power situation
in the country were learnt
to be discussed, an official
source said. The meet-
ing was chaired by Shah.
During over one-hour-long
meeting, the four Minis-
ters were believed to have
discussed the availability of
coal to power plants.
Insurance
scheme for
Covid warriors
extended
New Delhi (ANI): The
Central government’s
insurance scheme for
health workers fighting
Covid-19 has been ex-
tended for another pe-
riod of 180 days.
“The Pradhan Man-
tri Garib Kalyan Pack-
age (PMGKP), insur-
ance scheme for health-
care workers fighting
Covid-19 has been ex-
tended for a further pe-
riod of 180 days from
19th April, 2022. It has
been decided to extend
the policy so as to con-
tinue to provide the
safety net to the depend-
ents of health workers
who are deputed to take
care of Covid patients,”
the government said.

NEWS
07
MAN KILLS SELF
AFTER SERVING
POISON TO HIS
GRANDMOTHER,
SAY POLICE
An 80-year-old woman and
her grandson, 40, were
found dead in their village home
near Phulpur town in the
district on Tuesday, police said.
The police suspected that Lalita
Devi and her grandson Arvind
Maurya of Dhokri village died of
consuming poison. Senior
Superintendent of Police Ajay
Kumar said the man appears to
have served some poisonous
food to his grandmother before
consuming it himself. A nine-
page suicide note was
recovered from the spot in
which Maurya held seven
people, including his wife,
responsible for his actions, the
SSP said. Initial investigation
has revealed that Maurya’s wife
was having an affair with
someone which was the reason
of the dispute in the family,
Kumar said. There were no
injury marks on Lalita Devi’s
body and police suspected that
she was given the poison first,
he said. The bodies have been
sent for the post-mortem and a
detailed probe is on. —PTI
OVER 700
CLIMBERS FROM
70 COUNTRIES
GET NOD TO
CLIMB NEPAL
MOUNTAINS
The Nepal government has
permitted 740 climbers,
including 155 women, from 70
countries to scale Nepal’s
mountains, with highest number
of applicants coming from the US.
The Department of Tourism said
that the second-highest number of
climbers are from the UK, followed
by 55 from India. It said that 585
men and 155 women from six
continents across the globe have
acquired permission to climb
Nepali peaks, including Mount
Everest, the world’s highest peak
at 8,848 metres. It said that 25
climbers from Russia and one
from Ukraine have also got
permission to scale the
mountains. The largest number of
climbers to secure permission are
from the US with a total of 117
mountaineers, including 94 men
and 23 women, the Department of
Tourism said. Likewise, 17 people
from Nepal’s northern neighbour
China will be making attempts at
the mountain peaks from Nepal.
The government has collected
more than Rs 395 million in
royalties from the climbers who
have been permitted to ascent 21
peaks, including Mount Everest.
Other peaks that have been
opened to mountaineers are
Amadablam, Annapurna I and IV,
Baruntse, Bhemdang Ri,
Dhaulagiri, Gangapurna, Himlung,
Kanchenjunga, Khangchung,
Lhotse, Makalu, Manaslu, Mukot,
Norbu Khang, Nuptse. Phu Kang,
Pokhar Kang, Saula, Thapa Peak
and Urknmang. The spring season
is considered as the best season
to scale Mount Everest. A total of
262 individuals from 32 teams
have applied to climb the world’s
highest peak. —PTI
HCREJECTSPILAGAINSTBANONSALEOFMEAT
First India Bureau
Prayagraj: The Alla-
habad High Court dis-
missed a PIL filed
against the UP Govern-
ment and imposed a re-
striction upon the sale/
purchase of meat, li-
quor, and eggs in the 22
wards of Nagar Nigam
Mathura-Vrindavan.
The Division Bench
of Justice Pritinker Di-
waker and Justice
Ashutosh Srivastava
passed this order while
hearing a PIL filed by
Shahida. The writ peti-
tion under Article 226 of
the Constitution of In-
dia styled as a PIL stated
that the State Govern-
ment has notified 22
Wards of Mathura Vrin-
davan Nagar Nigam as
“Holy Place of Pilgrim-
age”. A consequential
order dated 11.9.2021 has
been passed by the Food
Processing Officer, Food
Safety and Drugs Ad-
ministration, Mathura,
whereunder the regis-
tration of the shops sell-
ing meat non-vegetar-
ian restaurants have
been suspended with
immediate effect.
It was contended that
on account of such re-
strictions imposed, the
non-vegetarian persons
residing in the Wards so
notified are being de-
prived of their choice of
meals and also from car-
rying on their business
and livelihood. It was
argued that the restric-
tion imposed is violative
of Article 19 (1) (g) and
Article 21 of the Consti-
tution of India. Manish
Goyal, Additional Advo-
cate General, submitted
that Mathura and Vrin-
davan are prominent
places having great his-
torical and religious im-
portance being the birth
place and Kreeda Sthal
of Lord Krishna. Lakhs
of devotees from India
and abroad visit Mathu-
ra-Vrindavan for Holy
Darshan, blessing and
virtuous upliftment.
Severalplacesof Mathu-
ra and Vrindavan are of
religious and tourism
importance.
The Court observed
that, “From a perusal of
the averments made in
the petition and the re-
lief claimed therein, it
is apparent that the No-
tification dated 10.9.2021
and the Government Or-
der 17.9.2021 issued by
the State Government
have not been impugned
in the writ petition.
The ban was imposed in 22 wards under the Mathura-Vrindavan Municipal Corporation in Sept 2021
One of the pilgrimage sites in Mathura. —FILE PHOTO
‘HOLY PLACE OF PILGRIMAGE’
“The Notification dated 10.9.2021 merely declares
22 Wards of the Nagar Nigam Mathura Vrindavan
to be “Holy Place of Pilgrimage”. The petitioner
cannot be said to have any grievance against the
same. We also do not find any clear violation of
any Constitutional provision by the said Notifica-
tion. It is the prerogative of the Government to
declare any place as “Holy Place of Pilgrimage”.
BJPleader,brotherbeaten
upoverloudspeakerdispute
First India Bureau
Gonda: Police have
registered a case
against four accused
and arrested two of
them over the thrash-
ing of a BJP leader
andhisbrotherdueto
a dispute over the use
of a loudspeaker in a
mosque. Police sourc-
es said that BJP’s dis-
trict general secre-
tary of the minority
wing and his brother
were thrashed by 4
men in the Bankatwa
area under the Kot-
wali city area. The
case was registered
on his complaint
two accused were ar-
rested. In the com-
plaint, Mohammad
Lukman said that
when he was return-
ing with his brother
Sarfaraz after morn-
ing prayers, Mun-
nawar his brother
abused them. They
said that “you people
are responsible for
the removal of loud-
speakers from the
mosque and you nev-
er belong to the com-
munity”.Afterheated
arguments, Mun-
nawar and 3 others
assaulted Lukman
and his brother and
beat them up badly
.
ONGOING RECRUITMENT
Applicants get their documents verified for the direct recruitment of Police Sub-
Inspector (Confidential) and Assistant Sub-Inspector of Police (Clerk) positions, at
Police Line in Prayagraj on Tuesday. —PHOTO BY PTI
Dalit boy forced to lick feet; 8 held
Rae Bareli/Lucknow
(PTI): A video of a class
10 Dalit student being
beaten up and made to
lick the feet of a man
surfacedonsocialmedia
here, prompting the po-
lice to lodge a case and
arrest eight people, offi-
cials said on Tuesday
. s
The incident also
triggered a spate of al-
legations with another
video, purported to be
that from the victim’s
side, emerging on social
media in which one per-
son is heard making ac-
cusations on members
of the upper caste for
thrashing the boy find-
ing him alone. Accord-
ing to police, on April
10, the boy, a resident of
Jagatpur town, was tak-
en to Ramlila Maidan
on a motorcycle by his
friend. Police said he
was later taken towards
Salon Road, from where
some other youths took
him to a garden. The at-
tackers beat him up in
the garden, they said.
A video of them beat-
ing up the boy and forc-
ing him to lick the feet
of one of the attackers
was recorded shared
on social media, they
said. After the video
wentviral,theboyalong
withhismotherreached
Kotwali police station
and lodged a complaint,
they said. Police, howev-
er, did not elaborate on
the reasons as to why
the boy was assaulted.
An FIR under rele-
vant sections has been
registered in the matter
and eight accused have
been arrested and sent
to jail, Dalmau Circle
Officer (CO) Ashok
Singh said. Police said
there is no proof of as
of now about some of
the accused being mi-
nors and it will take ac-
tion if and when such
documents are brought
to its notice. A party re-
lease issued by SP
spokesman Rajendra
Chaudhary in Lucknow
said even after this inci-
dent, the personnel of
Jagatpur police station
were pressuring the vic-
tim for a compromise.
SP CHIEF MEETS VICTIM’S FAMILY
6 dead after
SUV collides
with bus
Deoria (PTI): An
SUV collided with
a bus here, leaving
six persons re-
turning from a
marriage function
dead and around
12 injured, police
said on Tuesday.
The accident took
place at 10:30 pm
on Monday near
Indrapur village
on the Gauriba-
z a r - R u d r a p u r
road. The bus was
going to Rudrapur
from Gorakhpur.
The condition of
one of the injured
is serious. Uttar
Pradesh Chief
Minister Yogi Adi-
tyanath has ex-
pressed grief over
the loss of lives in
the accident. In a
tweet in Hindi, he
directed officials
that proper treat-
ment be provided
to the injured per-
sons. Additional
Superintendent of
Police Rajesh
Sonkar said the
accident took
place when the
passengers of the
SUV belonging to
to Kushinagar dis-
trict were return-
ing from a mar-
riage function.
Gang stealing diesel
busted, 3 held in Noida
Noida (PTI): Three
suspects belonging to a
gang, which stole diesel
from vehicles, especial-
ly trucks parked along
highways, were arrest-
ed in Uttar Pradesh’s
Greater Noida on Tues-
day, police said. The po-
lice have also impound-
ed a canter truck which
had a separate storage
space of around 1,000
litres in which the gang
would store the stolen
fuel, they saids. “The
accused were held near
the Faleda cut on Yamu-
na Expressway by the
Rabupura police station
officials. The gang
would target vehicles,
especially transport
trucks parked along
roads with drivers and
their helpers resting.
“The gang would steal
fuel from the vehicles
and in case the driver or
helper woke up, the ac-
cused brandished fire-
arms to intimidate
them,” a police spokes-
person said. Those held
have been identified as
Hadan and Nadeem,
both Greater Noida lo-
cals, and Afzal, a native
of Dholana in Hapur
district, the police said.
An FIR has been lodged
in the case at the Rabu-
pura police station and
further legal proceed-
ings are being carried
out, the police added.
Forest fires flare up in
U’khand as temp soar
Dehradun (PTI):
Forest fires flared up
in Uttarakhand on
Tuesday as tempera-
tures soared, with
198.9 hectares of for-
est land gutted in 117
fresh incidents of
wildfires over the last
12hours.Asperinfor-
mation provided by
forest department by
4 pm on Tuesday, 117
fresh forest fire inci-
dents were reported
with Garhwal region
accounting for 32 of
them,Kumaonregion
75 and wildlife areas
10. While, 198.9 hect-
aresof forestlandhas
been destroyed in
these fires causing an
economic damage of
Rs 5.28 lakh, the de-
partment said. On
Monday
, 27 forest fire
incidents were re-
ported. Chief Conser-
vator of Forest, forest
fire Nishant Verma,
said the fire season
whichbeganthisyear
on February 15 has
affected 1020.29 hect-
ares of forest land
which also includes
724.93 hectares of re-
served forest area.
Fortunately there
have been no
human casualties
in the forest
blazes this year,
says officer
Young couple,two kids
found dead in Gzp: Cops
First India Bureau
Varanasi: Four mem-
bers of a family were
found dead in Sadat
area in the Ghazipur
district. According to
reports, the body of
Dabloo Sonkar (33) was
found hanging from the
ceiling while the bodies
of his 28-year-old wife
and two kids - son (5)
and daughter (3) - were
found lying on the floor
when the police broke
open the doors of their
house. The police were
informed by locals after
they found the doors
closed till in morning
hours. “During investi-
gation, it was revealed
that Sonkar took this
extreme step out of
frustration as he was
was jobless and under a
lot of pressure. He was
preparing for competi-
tive examination of
railway recruitment,”
police said.
HOMICIDE
Man held
for raping
daughter
K a u s h a m b i
(PTI): A 45-year-
old man has been
arrested for al-
legedly raping his
minor daughter,
police said on
Tuesday. Superin-
tendent of Police
Hemraj Meena
said the man
raped his 14-year-
old daughter at
their house. Act-
ing on a com-
plaint lodged by
the girl’s brother,
the man was ar-
rested on Tues-
day, Meena said,
adding that the
girl has been sent
for a medical ex-
amination.
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08
2NDFRONT
Anger and fear are emotions
which lessen and belittle a
person. Be aware to defeat both
and emerge victorious.
—Jagdeesh Chandra, CEO Editor-in-Chief, First India
First India Bureau
Kanpur: Cost effective,
hassle free and con-
vinient City travel is the
hallmark of any public
transport of a city . To
meet the above objec-
tives, the state and Cen-
tral governments have
launched the Electric
Buses (E-Bus) services
in select cities.
To ensure that the
residents of Kanpur
get best transport ser-
vices, Commissioner
Kanpur Raj Shekhar
conducted a surprise
check of the e-bus ser-
vices as a ‘traveller’.
He took two bus rides
for checking the reality
,
the first one from Moti-
jheel to Univesrity on
Bus number UP 78 GT
3576 and the second one
fromRamaDentaltoGol
chauraha on bus num-
ber UP 78 GT 3969.
Itwasfoundthatmore
and more people were
travelling in the e-buses.
Drivers were driving in
appropriatespeed.Butit
wasfoundthattheywere
stopping the buses in be-
tween the road to pick
drop passengers.
Drivers of both buses
were found not wearing
the ‘seat belts’. One was
wearing face mask but
on the chin. The other
had no mask at all.
The commissioner or-
deredtotakeoff boththe
drivers from duty for a
month and to issue them
show cause notice.
One conductor was
not wearing mask and
also he was found eat-
ing gutkha while on
duty
. He was also not in
full uniform.
The other conductor
was wearing the mask
butonthechin.Thiscon-
ductor first took ₹Rs 5
from a co-passenger and
didn’t issue a ticket. Lat-
er when the co-passen-
ger asked for ticket, he
took another Rs ₹5 and
issued a ticket for ₹10.
Looking into both the
issues, the commission-
er ordered to remove
both conductors from
service. Both were on
contractual service.
It was also found that
there was no display of
the “Helpline Numbers”
inside the buses. There
was also no ‘Route wise
stop wise Ticket
Charges list”displayed.
Gyanendra Kumar Shukla
Lucknow: After the
UP assembly elections,
the electoral process for
three dozen seats of the
Legislative Council
may have been complet-
ed, but the series of
electoral struggles for
political parties is go-
ing to continue.
Recently
, the election
process has been com-
pleted for the local au-
thorities’ constituencies
of the UP Legislative
Council. The BJP in a
clean sweep has bagged
33 out of the 36 seats.
Before this, BJP has
already registered a
massive victory in the
assembly elections. Po-
litical parties are now
engagedinanalysingthe
election results, debates
are going on regarding
severalaspectsrelatedto
victory and defeat.
But after passing
through these very sig-
nificant phases of the
electoral process, the
hurdles of new electoral
challenges are arising
before the political par-
ties. Political experts be-
lieve that the political
parties in UP have a
tough task of constantly
updating them in terms
of challenges as the pro-
cess of election of demo-
cratic institutions is go-
ing to continue in the
most populous state.
Itisnoteworthythatin
July
, elections are going
tobeheldforthethirteen
seats of the Legislative
Council, which are of
assembly quota. These
seats of the Legislative
Council are falling va-
cant because the tenure
of thirteen members,
including CM Yogi and
DyCM Keshav Prasad
Maurya, in the Upper
Houseisgoingtobecom-
pleted on July 6. After
Thakur Jaiveer Singh is
elected MLA, by-elec-
tions will also be held
soon on the seat vacated
by his resignation from
theMLCpost.Inthenext
two months, six seats of
the nominated quota in
the Legislative Council
are going to become va-
cant. On thesem, the fa-
vourite faces of the rul-
ing party are sure to be
nominated.
After two months,
elections will be held
for eleven Rajya Sabha
seats from UP. Also, at
the end of this year, the
biggest challenge be-
fore the political parties
will be to establish their
supremacy in the urban
areas as elections to the
civic bodies will be held
by December.
Ahtesham Siddiqui
Lucknow: A list of
IPS officers of the
state’s bureaucracy to
be sent on central dep-
utation have been fi-
nally approved by Ut-
tar Pradesh govern-
ment, paving way for
more than half a dozen
IPS officers of the po-
lice department to go
on Central deputation.
At the same time, 6
officers ranging from
rank of SP to ADG who
were on Central depu-
tation will also be re-
turning to original
cadre of Uttar Pradesh
after their central dep-
utation period gets
over this year.
Presently there are
41 IPS (5 DG rank, 14
ADG rank, and others
belong to SP, DIG and
IG rank) officers of the
state’s cadre on central
deputation.
There are currently
more than 12 officers
who have been on Cen-
tral deputation for
more than 5 years and
might soon return to
their home cadre as
their Central deputa-
tion period will soon
expire.
The officers who
might return to their
home cadre if their
Central deputation pe-
riod is not extended
include IPS Rajeev
Ranjan Verma, IPS
Anand Swarup
Prakash, IPS G Mutha
Ashok Jain, IPS Ajay
Kumar Mishra, IPS
Happy Guptan, IPS
Neha Pandey and IPS
Gaurav Singh.
The number of offi-
cers Uttar Pradesh can
send on central depu-
tation stands at 171
(previously 112) and
even though many IPS
officers want to be sent
on central deputation,
the state government
has been denying the
required permission
which is becoming a
cause of displeasure
among such officers.
The state government
is reluctant on sending
its IPS officers on cen-
tral deputation is due
to the current law and
order situation in Ut-
tar Pradesh and being
most populous state of
the country needs all
hands it has to safe-
guard its own law and
order.
First India Bureau
Lucknow: The Central
Bureau of Investigation
has sent a recommenda-
tion to the state govern-
ment to take action
against IPS Manzil
Saini DIG NSG for not
providing security cov-
er to oil trader Shravan
Sahu despite threat to
his life.
Manzil Saini is a 2005
batch IPS officer of Ut-
tar Pradesh cadre who
is at present on cen-
tral deputation
and posted as
DIG NSG. She
was previ-
ously post-
ed as the
DIG Hu-
man Rights
Commission
and before
that was SSP of
Lucknow
from May 18, 2016 to
April 27, 2017.
The CBI in its letter to
Chief Secretary Durga
Shanker Mishra has
called for departmental
action against the then
SSP after she was found
guilty of
providing
security to
oil trader
S h r a v a n
Sahu de-
spite immi-
nent threat
to his life.
The Shra-
van Sahu
murder case
wasmade
a po-
litical issue by the BJP
which used the case to
target the Samajwadi
Party government of
maintaining poor law
and order situation in
the state.
The investigation of
the case was handed
over to the CBI on the
ordersof theHighCourt
and the CBI even inter-
rogated IPS Manzil
Saini for hours on Au-
gust 11, 2017.
Shravan Sahu who af-
ter the murder of his
son Ayush had request-
ed the police to provide
protection to him as
there was threat to his
life from the murderers
of this son and that the
murder accused in his
son’s case along with
connivance of the police
personnel tried to impli-
cate him in a false case,
but the request of Shra-
van Sahu was ignored.
The CBI during its in-
vestigation found major
negligencefromthepart
of police and found SSP
Manzil Saini guilty of
negligence on her part,
hence has orders de-
partmental action
against the IPS officer.
Shahjahanpur (PTI):
A former BJP MLA who
had crossed over to the
Samajwadi Party has
said he hopes for justice
after revenue officials
surveyed a building
owned by his family to
detect a possible viola-
tion of the building by-
laws.
Terming the official
action as a conspiracy at
the behest of his local
opponents, former MLA
Roshanlal Verma said
hehopesforjusticefrom
Chief Minister Yogi Ad-
ityanath.
The incident comes
amid cases of local au-
thorities bulldozing ille-
gal constructions across
the state.
Recently, a petrol
pump owned by SP’s
Bhojipura MLA Shazil
Islam Ansari was razed
in Bareilly district earli-
er this month.
Tilhar tehsil’s Sub-Di-
visional Magistrate Hi-
manshu Upadhyay told
PTI on Tuesday that fol-
lowing complaints
against the former
MLA, a team of revenue
officials were sent to
take measurement of
the building.
He added that the sur-
veycontinuedtilllateon
Monday night.
“After matching the
measurement of the
building, this will be
compared with the gov-
ernment’s approved
map and only then
something could be
said in this regard,” the
SDM said.
Verma, meanwhile,
on Tuesday said the
building which was sur-
veyed belongs to his
daughter-in-lawandthis
action has been initiat-
ed under the influence
of local BJP leaders ow-
ing to political rivalry
.
“The land was pur-
chased in 2010 and is
registered in the name
of my daughter-in-law
Ruchi Verma. I myself
want the measurement
to be taken as per the
provisions of the law. I
have full faith in Chief
Minister Yogi Aditya-
nath and, I hope, he will
get conducted an impar-
tial probe,” Verma
said.
Knp Commissioner takes ride on e-bus as a common commuter
LAPSES COME TO FORE
lll
A driver was
found without
face mask while
a conductor was
without uniform,
against whom
action was
ordered
Kanpur Commissioner Raj Shekhar travelling in an electric bus
for surprise check of the e-bus services in Kanpur on Tuesday
With more polls lined up, parties
grapple with electoralchallenges
13 seats of Legislative Council
going to fall vacant in July
Elections will also be held for 11
Rajya Sabha seats from UP
Uttar Pradesh Legislative Council. —FILE PHOTO
IPS Manzil Saini —FILE PHOTO
SP chief Akhilesh Yadav with Roshanlal Verma (Right) —FILE PHOTO
STATE GOVT RELUCTANT TO
SEND OFFICERS
The officers who might return to their home
cadre if their Central deputation is not extend-
ed include Rajeev Ranjan Verma, Anand Swarup
Prakash, G Mutha Ashok Jain, Ajay Kumar Mishra,
Happy Guptan, Neha Pandey and Gaurav Singh.
The number of officers UP can send on central
deputation stands at 171 (previously 112) and
even though many IPS officers want to be sent on
central deputation, the state government has been
denying permission which is causing displeasure.
6 IPS officers coming back to
UP from Central deputation
END OF TERM
Rajiv Ranjan
Prakash D
Anand Swarup
Happy Gautam
Neha Pandey
Mutha Ashok Jain
MEMBERSHIP ENDS
JOINED SP
CBI seeks nod to prosecute
IPS officer Manzil Saini
The CBI found major
negligence on the part
of police led by SSP
Manzil Saini
Former BJP MLA hopes for justice from CM Yogi
after officials survey kin’s building till late night
Undertrial prisoner dies at
Muzaffarnagar hospital
Muzaffarnagar (PTI): An undertrial inmate lodged
in the district jail here died due to a chronic liver
ailment, officials said on Tuesday. Vijay Kumar
was arrested in connection with a murder case
dating back to June 2015, they said. On Monday,
he was admitted to the hospital inside the jail, jailor
Kamlesh Singh said. When his condition got worse,
he was taken to the district hospital where doctors
declared him dead, Singh added.

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My father was a
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in clothing, although I have
been involved in designing ac-
cessories and interiors. I am
associated with famous
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like BMW, Armani Jun-
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z What do you truly enjoy
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me and I have al-
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