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UP: 60.46%; PUNJAB: 65.32%
BJP,SP battle for UP in third phase Punjab seals multi-cornered contest
A
n average voter
turnout of
65.32% was re-
corded in Punjab while
Uttar Pradesh, in its
third phase of the As-
sembly elections, wit-
nessed an average vot-
er turnout of 60.46%
on Sunday.
In Punjab, the high-
est voter turnout was
in the Mansa constitu-
ency with 73.45%.
Punjab Chief Minis-
ter Charanjit Singh
Channi claimed after
casting his vote that
the Congress party
will form government
with 2/3rd majority in
Punjab.
The Samajwadi Party
had pinned hopes in
the third phase in the
largely Yadav-dominat-
ed region to solid its
tally in the polls.
WILL HIT TON IN ANOTHER TWO
PHASES: YADAV; YOGI HITS BACK
AKHILESH IS ‘AURANGZEB’ OF
TODAY: MP CM SHIVRAJ CHOUHAN
BUTTON ON SP,
VVPAT SLIP FOR
BJP, ALLEGES SP
COPS IMPOUND SONU SOOD’S
CAR, ASK HIM TO STAY AT HOME
KANPUR MAYOR BOOKED FOR
TAKING SELFIE INSIDE POLL BOOTH
Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav said his party
has hit a Century in first two phases and even in the
next two phases, the party alliance will be ahead of
everyone else. “The maximum number of unem-
ployed youths are from Bundelkhand region. The in-
come of farmers has not doubled. From Bundelkhand
till here, the BJP has stopped development, snatched
jobs,” he added. Meanwhile, UP CM Yogi Adityanath
contradicted Akhilesh’s claim saying it is clear that
the BJP is coming back to power in the state
The Uttar Pradesh election got personal on Sunday
with Madhya Pradesh chief minister
Shivraj Singh Chouhan calling the
Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav
a modern-day Aurangzeb. “Akhilesh is
today’s Aurangzeb. The one who wasn’t
loyal to his father, how will he be loyal
to you?,” news agency ANI quoted MP
Chief Minister Chouhan while he addressed a poll
rally in Deoria district of Uttar Pradesh.
Soon after polling for the
third phase of Assembly
elections kicked off in
Uttar Pradesh, Samajwadi
Party alleged discrepan-
cies in the Electronic Vot-
ing Machine (EVM) stating
that the Voter Verifiable
Paper Audit Trail (VVPAT)
issued a slip of the BJP as
the voter cast his vote to
the former. . “BJP’s slip is
coming out after pressing
the button of Samajwadi
Party at booth number
121 of Bhognipur 208
assembly of Kanpur rural.
The Election Commission
should take cognizance
for ensuring smooth
and fair voting,” the SP
tweeted in Hindi.
Punjab police on Sunday impounded the vehicle of
actor Sonu Sood and instructed him to stay at home
after receiving a complaint from SAD
that he was visiting polling booths in
Moga district and allegedly trying to
influence voters. Sonu Sood’s sister
Malvika Sood Sachar is the Congress
candidate from Moga constituency.
Meanwhile, the actor took to Twitter and alleged that
other candidates in Moga are buying votes.
BJP leader and Kanpur Mayor Pramila Pandey has
been booked for allegedly clicking a selfie and
making a video while exercising her franchise at
a polling booth during the third phase of voting in
Uttar Pradesh on Sunday, officials said. They said
legal action is also being initiated against another
BJP leader, former city president of the party’s Yuva
Morcha Nawab Singh, for clicking selfies inside a
polling booth. The mayor has shared her video online
that has gone viral on social media platforms.
‘Parivarvadis’ didn’t
let me work for UP
from 2014-17: Modi
Hardoi: In a veiled at-
tack on Samajwadi
Party, Prime Minister
Narendra Modi on Sun-
day said that between
2014-2017 the ‘Parivar-
vadis’ did not let him
work for the people of
Uttar Pradesh.
Addressing a public
rally in Hardoi, the
Prime Minister said
that the people of Har-
doi will celebrate the
first Holi on March 10
with the bumper victo-
ry of the BJP.
“People of Hardoi
have made prepara-
tions to play Holi twice.
First Holi will be played
with BJP’s bumper vic-
tory on 10th March. But
if you want to play Holi
on 10th March, you will
have to make arrange-
ments at polling
booths,” said PM Modi.
PM Modi said that
BJP government is for
poor, farmer and youths
of the country
.
First India Bureau
Jaipur: Chief Minister
Ashok Gehlot has ex-
pressed his deepest con-
dolences on the death of
9 people after a vehicle
carrying baraatis fell
into Chambal river in
Kota’s Nayapura Pulia
area on Sunday and de-
scribed the deaths as
sad and unfortunate. He
prayed to God to give
strength to the bereaved
family members to bear
this loss and to give
peace to the departed
souls.
While giving relaxa-
tion in the rules of
Chief Minister’s Relief
Fund to the dependents
of the deceased in the
accident, Gehlot an-
nounced a special assis-
tance of Rs. 2 lakh each
as an exception. In case
of death of two or more
persons from the same
family, it has been an-
nounced to provide as-
sistance amounting to a
maximum of Rs.5 lakh,
along with one lakh ru-
pees from CM Assis-
tance Fund.
Among the deceased,
6 are from Jaipur and 3
are from Chauth ka
Barwada in Sawai Mad-
hopur. PHED Minister
Mahesh Joshi and State
Minorities Commission
Chairman Rafiq Khan
visited the house of the
deceased in Jaipur and
offered condolences to
the family members.
They also distributed
cheques of aid amount
to the dependents of the
deceased. Public Works
Minister Bhajanlal Jat-
av and Khandar MLA
Ashok Bairwa went to
Barwara to console the
families of the deceased
and gave cheques of as-
sistance to the depend-
ents of the deceased.
NAYAPURA TRAGEDY
CM Ashok Gehlot
Sensitive CM relaxes
rules of Chief
Minister’s Relief
Fund and announces
assistance worth `2
lakh per deceased
Low-grade politics, not Hindutva:
Uddhav Thackeray, KCR hit out at BJP
New York: The US
has intelligence that
Russian commanders
have received orders
to proceed with an in-
vasion of Ukraine,
with commanders on
the ground making
specific plans for how
they would maneuver
in their sectors of the
battlefield, CBS News
national security cor-
respondent David Mar-
tin reported on “Face
the Nation” pro-
gramme on Sunday.
Meanwhile, French
President Emmanuel
Macron and Russian
leader Vladimir Putin
on Sunday agreed to
work for a ceasefire in
eastern Ukraine, Ma-
cron’s office said.
According to a top
diplomat, US President
Joe Biden is also will-
ing to meet Russia’s
Vladimir Putin “at any
time” to prevent a war
in Ukraine.
Mumbai: Maharashtra
Chief Minister Uddhav
Thackeray targetted
the BJP and said that
damage to the country’s
federalism, and “low-
grade politics that is
not Hindutva”.
His Telangana coun-
terpart K Chandrashek-
ar Rao, during his
Mumbai visit, declared
they were practically
brothers, since their
states shared a 1,000-km
border. The Telangana
CM assured that the
talks will continue. “We
will sit in Hyderabad or
somewhere else in a few
days and discuss more,”
he said. Meanwhile,
NCP President Sharad
Pawar stressed the need
for all like-minded par-
ties to join hands to re-
solve various socio-po-
litical issues.
WON’T RESPOND
TO RUSSIAN
PROVOCATIONS:
UKRAINE PREZ
QUEEN ELIZABETH, 95,
IS COVID POSITIVE
Ukraine’s president has
said his nation will not
respond to provocations
amid a deadly escalation
in fighting in rebel
Russian-backed
eastern territories. But
Volodymyr Zelensky told
world leaders Ukraine
would defend itself.
Two Ukrainian soldiers
were killed on a third
day of clashes between
Ukraine’s military and
Russian-backed rebels.
Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II
tested positive for Covid-19
on Sunday but her
symptoms are “mild”
and she intends to
continue with light
duties.The news
comes after Prince Charles
tested positive on February 10.
SP chief Akhilesh Yadav with wife Dimple Yadav hold
identification cards during polling in Saifai on Sunday.
Punjab CM Charanjit Channi leaves a polling
booth after casting vote in Kharar on Sunday.
AAP CM candidate Bhagwant Mann
after casting vote in Mohali on Sunday.
Punjab Congress chief Navjot Singh
Sidhu with wife Navjot Kaur.
President of Punjab Lok Congress and candidate from Patiala constituency
Capt. Amarinder Singh shows his inked finger after casting vote in Patiala.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi
addresses a public meeting in
Hardoi on Sunday.
SP again alleges discrepancies in
working of VVPAT in Kanpur Rural
Pollpanelrestoresthenumberofstar
campaignersto40asCovidcaseswane
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President Kovind inaugurated
the three-year-long celebrations
of the 150th birth anniversary of
Srimad Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati
Goswami Prabhupad, the founder
of Gaudiya Math and Mission in Puri, Odisha today.
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Extend my warm wishes to the
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statehood day. Mizoram is known
for its vibrant culture and amazing
people, passionate about the
nation’s growth. May the state
continue scaling new heights of development.
TOP TWEETS
SPIRITUAL SPEAK
“The wise grieve neither for the living nor for the
dead. There was never a time when you and I and
all the kings gathered here have not existed and nor
will there be a time when we will cease to exist.”
—Bhagavad Gita
n anti-BJP sen-
timent is grow-
ing in Telanga-
na with Chief
Minister K.
Chandrashek
ar Rao (KCR)
leading the charge. His
meetings with Chief Min-
ister Uddhav Thackeray of
Shiv Sena and Nationalist
Congress Party’s Sharad
Pawar are being seen as an
attempt to stitch up a non-
Congress front against the
BJP before the 2024 elec-
tions. The meeting took
place at Thackeray initia-
tive. This unity effort ap-
pears to be a move inde-
pendent of Mamata Baner-
jee and Prashant Kishor’s
plans for a unified front.
While reaching out to re-
gional parties, both intend
to keep the Congress out of
their scheme of things.
Could KCR and Mamata
find a common meeting
ground for a unified oppo-
sition front? And a bigger
question that looms is
whether these regional
leaders, including KCR,
will be able to rein-in their
balloon-sized
ambitions in
the national interest?
There have to be a host
of reasons for the Telan-
gana Rashtra Samithi
(TRS) leader, who once
sided with the BJP in Par-
liament, to turn against
the BJP and Prime Minis-
ter Narendra Modi.
One of the reasons clear-
ly is the political threat to
the TRS. The saffron party
is making inroads in Tel-
angana and giving KCR
pinpricks with remarks on
bifurcation of the state
that please YSR Congress
chief YS Jagan Mohan
Reddy, the chief minister
of Andhra Pradesh.
On Chief Minister
KCR’s birthday, the Union
Ministry of Road Trans-
port issued full-page ad-
vertisements
announcing
variousprojectsinAndhra
to dilute the impact ads
greeting Rao. KCR has
blamed the BJP for not re-
leasing funds for the
state’s development.
KCR
must remember that there
is no double-engin
e gov-
ernment there.
TELANGANA’S MOVE
AGAINST THE BJP
of reasons for the
Telangana Rashtra
Samithi (TRS) leader, who
once sided with the BJP
in Parliament, to turn
against the BJP and
Prime Minister
Narendra Modi
A
or those who thought that Nar-
endra Modi doesn’t care for
Muslims should revisit the dead-
ly floods of Morbi in 1979 when
thousands of people lost their
lives to this disaster. There was
a great risk of epidemic due to
rotten bodies. Most of the people
living in that area were Mus-
lims. Soon after knowing the
pathetic condition of the resi-
dents, Modi swing into action
and took them to relief camp in
Rajkot. He took personal care of
Muslims and arranged for their
sehri during the pious Ramzan
month. Modi stayed in the relief
camp for 2-3 months and left
only after settling them.
Meanwhile in New Delhi,
Chaudhary Charan Singh took
over from Morarji Desai as
Prime Minister. But he could not
the govern for even 6 months
and the experiment of Janta
front failed. Fresh elections
were held in 1980, bringing In-
dira Gandhi back to power.
However, a major political
event happened on 6th April 1980
when leaders of Jansangh found-
ed a political party - Bhartiya Ja-
nataParty-whichhasbecomethe
largest political party and is pres-
ently ruling the country
. The first
session of BJP was held in Mum-
bai where the former Prime Min-
ister and where one of the BJP’s
founding members Atal Bihari
Vajpayeehadfamouslysaid-And-
hera Chhatega, Kamal Khilega.
In 1981, the country was shak-
en up by mass conversion of Dal-
its to Muslims at Meenaxipuram
in Tamil Nadu. Sangh parivar
immediately took cognisance of
that and started Ekatm Yatra
across the country
. This embold-
ened Hindus and during these
yatra, representativ
es of Sangh
parivar connected more than 6
crore Hindus. Narendra Modi
led this campaign in Gujarat giv-
ing new dimensions to his lead-
ership skills.
Kaushik Mehta of VHP be-
lieves that the concept of this
yatra was of Narendra Modi
only
. “Every citizen of the coun-
try is one. Two raths were taken
out in the country simultane-
ously putting kumbh of Gangaji
and photo of Mother India to-
gether. This spread a meaning-
ful message to Hindus,” he said.
Meanwhile,PrimeMinisterIn-
dira Gandhi was assassinated on
31st October, 1984 and Congress
rompedhomewithgreatmajority
ridingonthesympathyvotes.The
newly formed BJP ended up win-
ning just two seats. In the next
year, assembly elections were
heldinGujaratandCongresswon
149 out of 182 seats while BJP
could manage to win just 11 seats.
This set the alarm bells on and
Sangh started sending pracha-
raks to strengthen the BJP
.
On6thDecember1986,pracha-
rak Narendra Modi was sent to
BJP by the then Sarsanghchal
ak
Bala Saheb Devras. Modi, who
was working selflessly for the
Sangh for last one and half dec-
ades, found a new path to trudge.
Soon after coming into BJP, in
1989 Modi had a tough challenge
ahead which he turned into an
opportunity. There was an elec-
tion of Ahmedabad Nagar Nig-
am. Modi took over the entire
responsibility
of poll strategy
and publicity
. He gave the slogan
– ‘Bas ab Bhajapa’. That slogan
played an important role in re-
vival of BJP and changed the
face of electoral politics. People
related with the slogan and the
political acceptability
increased
simultaneous
ly
.
After the great win at
Ahmedabad
Nagar Nigam,
Modi’s role in the party gained
prominence and he was entrust-
ed with the responsibility
of Or-
ganising Secretary in Gujarat.
Modi took out yatras to connect
with the people of the state.
While he carried out ‘Nyay yatra’
championing
the cause of farm-
ers in 1987, he also took out Lok
Shakti yatra in support of tribals
in 1988. In the same year, Modi
went on one more yatra - Kailash
Mansarovar
yatra, which was
organised by External Affairs
ministry for the first time. Soon
after he returned from the yatra,
he came to know about his fa-
ther’s ill health. He immediately
went to Vadnagar, only to see his
father taking his last breath.
Modi’s father probably was wait-
ing for the last sight of his son.
However, undeterred by his
father’s demise, Narendra
Modi left his home the next day
for a journey meant for nation
building.
F
DOWN THE MEMORY LANE…
DUSTY LANES TO CROWNING GLORY- THE MAKING OF PM MODI – PART 3
NARENDRA MODI: FROM A ‘PRACHARAK’
TO A STRATEGIC BJP LEADER !
SHASHIKANT
SHARMA
The writer is Consulting
Editor, First India
Soon after coming into
BJP, in 1989 Modi had
a tough challenge
ahead which he turned
into an opportunity.
There was an election
of Ahmedabad Nagar
Nigam. Modi took over
the entire responsibility
of poll strategy and
publicity. He gave the
slogan – ‘Bas ab
Bhajapa’. That slogan
played an important
role in revival of BJP
and changed the face of
electoral politics. People
related with the slogan
and the political
acceptability increased
simultaneously.His role
in Party also gained
prominence
However, a major
political event
happened on 6th April
1980 when leaders of
Jansangh founded a
political party -
Bhartiya Janata Party
- which has become the
largest political party
and is presently ruling
the country. The first
session of BJP was held
in Mumbai where the
former Prime Minister
and where one of the
BJP’s founding
members Atal Bihari
Vajpayee had famously
said - Andhera
Chhatega, Kamal
Khilega
PM Narendra Modi with former PM late
Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
PM Narendra Modi with veteran RSS
leader Lakshman Rao Inaamdar.
PM Narendra Modi being welcomed at Ahmedabad Airport.
Narendra Modi
P4
An instructor shows a Kalashnikov assault rifle during a training
of members of a Ukrainian far-right group in Kyiv on Sunday.
Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekar Rao along with Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray and
Sanjay Raut. (Right) KCR with NCP chief Sharad Pawar, Praful Patel and Prakash Raj in Mumbai.
Maha Chief Minister Uddhav Thackeray assured support to Telangana
counterpart K Chandrashekar Rao’s efforts to form an anti-BJP front
Embassy in Kyiv
advises Indians, its
staff families to
leave Ukraine
Putin gives Russian commanders orders
for Ukraine invasion, US channel claims
GROOM, 8 OTHERS KILLED AFTER CAR
FALLS INTO CHAMBAL RIVER IN KOTA
Bhanwar S Charan
Kota: Nine people, includ-
ing the groom, were killed
when a car carrying a
marriage party fell into
the Chambal river in Kota
on Sunday, police said.
The deceased were travel-
ling in a Maruti Ertiga car
to Madhya Pradesh from
Sawai Madhopur for his
marriage when the driver
lost the control over the
car and it fell into the
river from a bridge in the
Nayapura police station
area, SP (Kota city) Kesar
Singh Shekhawat said. P3
SAD AND UNFORTUNATE, SAYS GEHLOT AS HE HANDS OUT
COMPENSATION FOR FAMILY MEMBERS OF DECEASED
CM HAILS RAJPUTS CARRYING OUT
DALIT WEDDING PROCESSION?
In a pragmatic and welcome move, in a dalit wedding in
Kekri, a member of the Rajput community - Thakur Gopal
Singh of Biliya village - himself lent support to a Dalit family
and carried out a baraat procession literally ‘fit for a king’
with horses, camels, elephant and all poise. He even organ-
ised a meal in the village, in accordance with the customs
of Bindoli. The Rajput family took part in all the programs
with great pomp including the procession. As a result of this
new initiative, even CM Ashok Gehlot phoned Thakur Gopal
Singh and praised his efforts which was initiated by Shri
Kshatriya Yuvak Sangh.
The ill-fated car being fished
out from the Chambal river.
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निनि
विनांक 21.02.2022 को
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25.02.2022 में संशोित वकया जाना है।
अविशताषी अविकतारी
नगर पताविकता सतांचौर
First India Bureau
Jaipur: Up to 40% of
electricity can be saved
with the right design
and color combination.
This information
emerged in a workshop
on the Energy Conser-
vation Building Code
organizedbyRajasthan
Renewable Energy Cor-
poration and Bureau of
Energy Efficiency at
Jaipur Development
Authority. Additional
Chief Secretary Ener-
gy Dr. Subodh Agrawal
informed that Ra-
jasthan Renewable En-
ergy Corporation is the
state-level nodal organ-
ization for energy effi-
ciency and energy sav-
ing. An awareness cam-
paign will be conducted
jointly by Renewable
Energy Corporation
and BEE to ensure
compliance of Energy
Conservation Building
Code. He said, on the
initiative of CM Ge-
hlot, and programs like
Bijli Bachao Abhiyan
(Save Electricity Cam-
paign) and Jan Chetna
Abhiyan (People
Awareness Campaign)
have helped Rajasthan
gain second spot in en-
ergy efficiency
.
Right design can save electricity
WORKSHOP ON ENERGY CONSERVATION
State government scared of CBI probe
in REET scam, says Satish Poonia
First India Bureau
Jaipur: BJP State Pres-
ident Satish Poonia on
Sunday said that the
State government has
panicked due to BJP’s
movement against it.
“The state government
has got scared in the
name of CBI probe into
REET paper leak scam.
The government is
afraid of slogans, this is
the victory of BJP. Peo-
ple of the state are ea-
gerly waiting for 2023.
BJP workers will over-
throw this govern-
ment,” he said. Poonia
met party workers and
other people at his resi-
dence who came inquir-
ing about his health.
Poonia’s leg was in-
jured after he fell from
a barricade during the
party protest at the As-
sembly a few days ago.
Meanwhile, in a let-
ter to CM Gehlot, Poon-
ia asid that no polytech-
nic college of Bikaner
division is running for
the study of chemical
engineering subject. In
such a situation, the stu-
dents of Bikaner who
want to study (diploma)
in the subject of chemi-
cal engineering are be-
ing deprived of this sub-
ject or have to go else-
where for studies.
HOME GUARD SHOOTS SELF AT KALI
SINDH THERMAL POWER PLANT
PROTEST OVER DOUBLE MURDER STILL
UNRESOLVED IN SAWAI MADHOPUR
Jhalawar: The Border Home Guard posted at
Kalisindh Thermal Power Plant in Jhalawar com-
mitted suicide by shooting with his rifle. The in-
cident happened around 11 am. On receiving the
information, the Sadar police reached the spot
and brought the Border Home Guard to Jhalawar
Hospital in a pool of blood, where the doctor
declared him dead. At present, the reasons for
the suicide are not known. Police have informed
the relatives of the deceased and kept the body in
the mortuary of the hospital.
Sawai Madhopur: The bodies of businessman
Girraj Sharma and employee Vipin Meena were
found in the establishment of tent businessman of
Bamanwas Patti Khurd on Friday afternoon. SHO
Brijesh Meena and police force reached the spot
and called FSL team to the spot. SP Sunil Kumar
Vishnoi, ASP Suresh Kumar and In the presence
of Deputy Tejkumar Pathak, dog squad and FSL
team collected evidence from the spot. According
to sources, both the bodies were hit on the head
with heavy tools.
Jodhpur: Patwari com-
mitted suicide by hang-
ing himself with a sari
in the afternoon in the
Kaliberi area of Sursa-
gar. The reason for the
suicide is not yet known.
Sursagar police said that
Manohar Lal, 31, was
brought to the trauma
center of Mathuradas
Mathur Hospital in a
critical condition, where
doctors declared him
dead. The body has
been kept in the mortu-
ary. The family has
not lodged any com-
plaint. The deceased
had two children.
Jaipur: A major tragedy
was averted on Sunday
as smoke emanated
from a plane while it was
in the air. The SpiceJet
flight SG-3759 from Jai-
pur to Amritsar was de-
layed as the pilot noticed
smoke from the plane
when landing while
coming from Jaisalmer.
Actually before this
the flight had reached
Jaipur from Jaisalmer.
Engineers gave clean
chit to the aircraft after
investigation. Then the
flight left for Amritsar
with a delay of two and a
half hours.
PATWARI
COMMITS SUICIDE
IN JODH; REASON
UNKNOWN
PILOT’S ALACRITY
AVERTS MAJOR
MISHAP IN
SPICEJET FLIGHT
NEWS DIGEST
Dance bars raided; 40
youth, 12 girls arrested
Mother arrested
for forcing minor
into prostitution
Mother commits suicide after
killing 2 kids in Jaipur; probe on
Satyanarayan Sharma
Jaipur: On Saturday
night, the crime branch
team raided several il-
legal dance bars in
Jaipur city
.
The action was taken
under the supervision
of Additional Police
Commissioner Ajaypal
Lamba. Illegal bars op-
erating in areas like
Shyam Nagar, Shipra
Path, Mansarovar, Jalu-
pura, Ramnagaria, and
Shivdaspura were raid-
ed. When the bars were
raided drunk people
were found dancing and
with the bar girls.
Police arrested
around 40 youths and 12
bar girls alongside huge
quantities of narcotics
were also seized from
various bars.
Prior to the action,
the crime branch per-
formed surveys for the
last several nights to
identify the list of il-
legal dance bars run-
ning in the city. On
Saturday night, the
police teams carried
out the operation se-
cretly. At present, the
bar operators are be-
ing questioned.
First India Bureau
Jodhpur: A woman
was arrested for alleg-
edly forcing her minor
daughter into prostitu-
tion in Jodhpur.
The accused woman
had registered a
case on February 7 al-
leging that her 16-year
old girl was abducted
by one Gebu in Janu-
ary. The police traced
the girl in Gujarat
where she was living
with her sister.
First India Bureau
Jaipur: After killing
two children, a woman
died by suicide by hang-
ing herself in Sodala
police station area, said
the police. Police
reached the spot and
took the bodies to the
hospital.
Police said that Ma-
havir Sahu, who lives
in Futalia Bagh in
Sodala, had a dispute
with his wife on Sat-
urday. After this Ma-
havir went to drive
the auto on Sunday.
Later, his wife Kanya
Sahu strangled her
children Rohit and
Pawan with a quilt
and then hanged her-
self to death. Police
was further investi-
gating the matter.
The kids were found lying on the a bed inside the house as the
woman was hanging nearby.
‘RAS MAINS SYLLABUS CHANGE, A CONSPIRACY: MEENA
Dr Kirodi Meena alleged that the accused of the REET paper leak case have links to 10 Janpath and SOG cannot probe it properly
First India Bureau
Jaipur: After the REET
paper leak scam, now
Rajya Sabha MP Kirodi
Lal Meena has targeted
the government alleging
irregularitiesintheRAS
mains examination.
Meena on Sunday al-
legedthatthesyllabusof
RAS main exam has
been changed under a
conspiracy and this
would prove to be a big-
ger scam than the REET
paper leak.
Meena alleged that
Professor BM Sharma,
president of Mahatma
Gandhi Institute of Gov-
ernance and Social Sci-
ence,wasaformerRPSC
chairman. Presently
, he
is running a coaching
centre. Meena alleged
that the syllabus of the
RAS mains exam was
written by Professor BM
Sharma and the people
of Rajiv Gandhi Study
Circle have prepared it
in the desired way
.
“Professor BM Shar-
ma and the troupe of Ra-
jiv Gandhi Study Circle,
very close to the exami-
nation, have made
changes in the syllabus
of RAS Main Examina-
tion trying to benefit
theirpeople,”healleged.
Kirodi Lal Meena staging a dharna with RAS candidates in Jaipur
on Sunday.
There should be a CBI
inquiry in the REET
paper leak case because
even the employees and
officers of SOG are in-
volved. This is affecting
the investigation and
many accused are not
being caught.
—Kirodi Lal Meena,
Rajya Sabha MP
ENCROACHMENT RAZED
An illegal construction in front of Jaipur Municipal Corporation Greater headquarters was
demolished on Sunday. Shutters around illegal construction were erected overnight and after
a complaint was made at the high level. In the past notices were issued but construction
was not stopped. —PHOTO BY MUKESH KIRADOO
Raj Bhawan Lodha at
loggerheads over Thanvi
First India Bureau
Jaipur: It seems that
the Raj Bhawan and the
‘Raj’ have found them-
selves on the opposite
ends of the spectrum.
How so? Well, the Raj
Bhawan has taken or-
ders twice regarding
the Haridev Joshi Uni-
versity of Journalism
and Mass Communica-
tion, but MLA Sanyam
Lodha, who is support-
ing the government,
has been countering the
same. On February 1,
Raj Bhawan banned the
recruitment process of
the university and then
banned the appoint-
ment of the Vice Chan-
cellor in the last 2
months of the tenure.
However, this perhaps
did not go down well
with MLA Sanyam Lod-
ha who opened a front
against Raj Bhawan
terming the orders to be
wrong and and tweeted
fiercely in favor of Om
Thanvi.
On Friday, Raj
Bhavan had banned 2
meetings of the univer-
sity and along with this,
Vice Chancellor Om
Thanvi was banned
from taking policy deci-
sions.
Thereafter, Sanyam
Lodha came to the res-
cue of the Vice Chancel-
lor and said that Than-
vi’s meetings were as
per the rules. Interest-
ingly, there seems to be
a wave of sympathy in
favor of Thanvi in the
ongoing situation.
CONTROVERSY OVER HJUJ
20-yr-old hangs self in
police station in Jaipur
Cops trying to solve murder case
First India Bureau
Jaipur: A man arrested
for allegedly molesting
a 10-year-old girl alleg-
edly committed suicide
by hanging himself in
the lock-up of Jawahar
Circle police station on
Sunday
.
Ankit Gupta (32) was
arrested on Saturday
for molesting a girl on
February 18. A case was
registered against him
under sections POCSO
Act at Jawahar Circle
police station.
Police said that the
accused was found
hanging in the lock-up
of the police station on
Sunday morning. He
tore a blanket and with
the help of it, he hanged
himself.
His family members
alleged that the police
had caught him two
days back and was
shown arrested yester-
day. He was caught on
the basis of the mobile
number of his two-
wheeler.
Kota: In the blind mur-
der case, Kota police
sent a total of 30 teams
acrossthecountry
.City
SP Keshar Singh Shek-
hawatcollectedfactsof
unidentified bodies re-
covered from 13-20 Feb-
ruaryinmanystatesof
North India. 47 in this
week in Delhi, 5 in Har-
yana, 2 in UP
, one body
found this week in
Chandigarh.
Vasundhara Raje
@VasundharaBJP
The youth are protest-
ing across the state to
postpone the RAS Mains
examination. Their de-
mand is justified. Due to
the change in syllabus, it
is necessary for the can-
didates to get some more
time to study. I had asked
the govt to reconsider the
date of the exam.
Ankit Gupta
One of the bars raided by the police.

First India Bureau
Jaipur: The state on
Sunday reported 1022
Covid cases and 4
deaths. Of the total cas-
es, the highest 214 were
reported from Jaipur.
Total 2182 recovered
were reported on Sun-
day while active cases
were at 9803. The recov-
ery rate has risen to
98.39%, said a health
department official.
The active cases are un-
der 10,000.
The three waves of
corona in Rajasthan
were scary. In the first
wave, where there was a
fear of the figures of
the infected. The deaths
in the second wave were
shocking. Omicron fear
was there in the third
wave. Compared to both
the waves, the maxi-
mum number of 3.15
lakh positives came in a
month. However, the
good news is that it was
not fatal.
First India Bureau
Jaipur: Even while sup-
porting the controver-
sial statement of the
PCC Chief Govind Sin-
gh Dotsra, many politi-
cians are not missing to
target the Jaipur royal
family
.
In the recent banter,
when BJP MP from Ra-
jsamand Diya Kumari
advised Dotasra to read
history
, the farmer lead-
erHimmatSinghGurjar
has tweeted against the
former Jaipur royal.
Gurjar while replying to
Diya Kumari’s attempt
to target Dotasra said,
“Your ancestor Mansin-
gh had done the work of
tarnishing history
. Why
was he fighting on be-
half of Akbar? By the
way
,youarethedescend-
ant of those, whose an-
cestors had conquered
Amber from tribal Mee-
na community by deceit
and later accepted the
Britisher’s slavery! BJP
should read history be-
fore saying anything to
Dotasra, tribal commu-
nityfoughtonbattlefield
withMaharanaPratap.”
First India Bureau
Jodhpur: A painful
road accident was seen
in Jodhpur. Here a car
driver coming from the
Wrong side under the
influence of alcohol
blew up the husband
and wife. In this acci-
dent, the wife died on
the spot. While the hus-
band died in the hospi-
tal. The accident was so
dangerous that the bike
got blown up after the
collision. With this,
both the husband and
wife fell away from the
road. The people pre-
sent on the spot also
beat up the driver
fiercely. The matter is
of Pipar city on Satur-
day afternoon.
The family has regis-
tered a case against the
driver Om Prakash was
drunken. He couldn’t
even speak his name. He
does not know that he
has blown up the bike-
ridinghusbandandwife
from the car. SI Babulal
Sirvisaidthatthedriver
has been taken into cus-
tody
. Gudiya’s body was
kept in the mortuary of
the district hospital.
Kashiram Choudhary
Jaipur: Rajasthan Gov-
ernor Kalraj Mishra on
Sunday advised state
varsities to coordinate
with the best national
and international insti-
tutions with regional
needs in mind.
He said universities
should develop facili-
ties in line with the
highest standards of
sports, and academic
and research work.
Mishra was address-
ing online from Raj
Bhavan here on Sunday
on the occasion of con-
vocation of Maharaja
Ganga Singh Universi-
ty of Bikaner.
He said universities
should also work expe-
ditiously towards mak-
ing their campus green
and pollution-free.
Mishra said girls
should get priority in
education as well as op-
portunities to progress
at all levels in life.
Jaipur: IPS Umesh Du-
tta will be IG Jaipur
Range. The Police De-
partment has issued an
orderinthisregard.The
post was vacant after
IPS Sanjay Kumar Shro-
triya was appointed as
the chairman of the Ra-
jasthan Public Service
Commission (RPSC).
Shrotiya was posted as
the Jaipur range IG.
—FIB
Bhilwara: A four-year-
old girl was allegedly
raped by her neigh-
bour in Bhilwara dis-
trict on Sunday, police
said. The accused, H
Meghwal (40), raped
her by taking her to his
room when her parents
were away for labour
work, they said. When
the incident came to
light, local people as-
saulted the accused,
who was in an inebri-
ated state, and injured
him, they said. The po-
lice have admitted the
accused and the victim
to a hospital. Case has
been registered. —FIB
RAJASTHAN
03
First India Bureau
Jaipur: There has been
a sudden interest
among the political
class towards Rajastha-
ni language as one after
the other, many leaders
have recently written
letters to the central
and state govt and
raised demand for giv-
ing the status of official
language to Rajasthani
language.
Recently, Disaster
Management Minister
Govind Meghwal wrote
a letter to the CM Ge-
hlot and stressed that
the Rajasthani lan-
guage is the mother
tongue of the people of
Rajasthan. “It is our re-
sponsibility to promote
and protect it. It is re-
lated to the sentiments
of the people of the
state and colloquial. It
is an easy to understand
language,” meghwal
said and cited the status
of official language to
local languages in other
states. He further said,
“The proposal has al-
ready been sent to the
center by the state
govt.” The minister has
requested to take action
to get constitutional
recognition for Ra-
jasthani.
Meanwhile, Advisor
to CM Dr. Rajkumar
Sharma has also raised
similar demand from
CM reminding that on
August 25, 2003, the pro-
posal to make it an offi-
cial language was
passed in state assem-
bly by the govt led by
CM Gehlot. After pass-
ing the proposal was
sent to the central govt.
He stressed that the Ra-
jasthani language
should be included in
primary education un-
der new education poli-
cy by making it the of-
ficial language.
Similarly
, Pilani MLA
and former IAS JP
Chandelia has demand-
ed on same lines.
Not just the pro-govt
MLAsbuteventheoppo-
sition BJP leaders are
also raising the same de-
mand. From former CM
Vasundhara Raje, State
Prez Satish Poonia to
BJP spox Ramlal Shar-
ma, everyone is raising
the same demand and
said, “All the leaders of
Rajasthan are on one
footing to recognize Ra-
jasthani and demand for
inclusion of Rajasthani
language in the Eighth
Schedule. Crores of peo-
ple of the state have love
for Rajasthani.”
Demands of recognising ‘Rajasthani’ resonating across Rajasthan
INTERNATIONAL MOTHER LANGUAGE DAY
Bhanwar S Charan
Kota: Nine people lost
their lives including the
groom after the car fell
in the Chambal river on
Sunday
. Avinash, the
groom from chauth ka
barwada in Kota was to
be married in Ujjain.
According to the in-
formation, the wedding
of three sisters was to
happen on the same
day, however, the un-
timely death of the
groom of the youngest
sister turned happiness
into mourning. The
bride’s uncle Sandeep
and other relatives
reached Kota. Every-
one’s heart trembled
after seeing the bodies,
The deceased were
identified as Avinash
Valmiki, his brother
Keshav, car driver Is-
lam Khan, and six
Jaipur residents—
Kushal, Shubham, Ra-
hul, Rohit, Vikas, and
Mukesh. Avinash and
Jaya (bride) got en-
gaged six months ago.
Three sisters were to be
married together on
the same day
, and on the
same premises at home.
Meanwhile, MLA
Chandrakanta Meghw-
al wrote a letter to the
CM saying that 9 people
of the Dalit family are
involved in the same ac-
cident and compensa-
tion of Rs 20 lakh to the
kin of each deceased
and a govt job should be
given. CM Gehlot has
earlier announced the
financial assistance of
`2 lakh to the dependent
of each deceased and a
maximum of `5 lakh to
two or more dead from a
family
.
DRIVER’S DROWSINESS PROVED
FATAL ON UNLIT BRIDGE IN KOTA
There is no
lighting
installed on the
bridge, from
where the car
fell.Also, there
is no wall or
railing on the
side of the
road
Dr Mahesh Joshi Archana Sharma with family of deceased.
Ashish Baid of Jaipur Tiger Festival with Guv Kalraj Mishra at Raj
Bhavan on Sunday. He presented ‘Save Tiger’ posters. Shipra
Baid and Gautam Baid are also seen.
Proceedings of Rajasthani Parliament were held in three sessions.
Ashok Gehlot
@ashokgehlot51
The death of nine
baratis, including
groom, after their car
fell into Chambal River
is very sad. My deepest
sympathies are with the
bereaved family. We will
provide assistance of Rs
2 lakh to the dependent
of each deceased and a
maximum amount of Rs
5 lakh to two or more
dead from a family.
Om Birla
@ombirlakota
In my parliamentary
constituency Kota, the
death of many people
is heart-wrenching
after the car fell into
the Chambal river. May
God give peace to the
departed souls and give
strength to the families
to bear this loss. My
sympathies are with
him in his time of im-
mense pain.
Police received information about the ac-
cident around 7.50 am, following which a
rescue operation was launched. The car that
had plunged seven-eight foot deep into the
water. The marriage party was travelling from
Chauth Ka Barwada village in Sawai Mad-
hopur district to Ujjain in Madhya Pradesh,
Superintendent of Police (Kota city) Kesar
Singh Shekhawat said. The driver most likely
lost control over the car due to drowsiness,
he said.
The compensation cheques were handed over to the
families by Mahesh Joshi, Rafeek Khan in Jaipur, and
Bhajan Lal Jatav, Ashok Bairwa in Sawai Madhopur.
CM Ashok Gehlot’s OSD Farooq Afridi said that
Rajasthani literature should be translated into all
languages
across the globe. 25 MPs of Rajasthan will
have to raise the demand for recognition of Rajasthani in
unison in the House. He was speaking on the occasion
of the Rajasthani Parliament organized on Sunday in the
Derashree Shikshak Sadan of Rajasthan University.
CAR PLUNGED 8-FOOT DEEP INTO WATER
MAHESH JOSHI, BL JATAV DELIVER CHEQUES
‘RAJASTHANI’ PARLIAMENT ORGANISED
Rescue team taking
out the drowned
car. (Inset) Rescue
operation underway.
Covid-19: 1022 fresh cases,
214 in Jpr; 4 deaths in Raj
Drunk driver mows a couple
40-yr-old held
for raping
4-yr-old girl
Himmat Singh drags Jpr royal family in‘Maharana’ row
Guv Mishra asks to aim for
higher standards in varsities
12,74,810
TOTAL CASES
1,022 IN A DAY
214 IN JAIPUR
2,182
RECOVERED IN A DAY
COVID-19
UPDATE
Veer Shiromani Maharana Pratap ate
grass bread in the forest for years, leav-
ing the pleasure of power for the glory of
the motherland, The Congress has challenged the
Mewar’s history by calling Pratap and Akbar
war as a fight for power. —Diya Kumari, BJP MP
Your ancestor Mansingh had done the work of
tarnishing history, why was he fighting on be-
half of Akbar? —Himmat Singh, Farmer Leader
Mangled remains of Bike.
Jodhpur: A day before the International Mother
Language Day, under the joint aegis of Rajasthani
Language Department of Jai Narain Vyas Univer-
sity and Dr. Nar Singh Rajpurohit Memorial Fund, a
seminar was organized in Jodhpur. In the seminar,
Rajasthani litterateurs, teachers, educationists and
students participated with enthusiasm. Retired Judge
Dr. Vineet Kothari was the chief guest of this program
organized at Jai Narayan Vyas Vishwavidyalaya Bri-
haspati Bhawan, Jodhpur. While the Vice-Chancellor
of Jaynarayan Vyas University, Dr. K.L. Srivastava
presided over the program. Senior litterateur Zahoor
Khan Meher and poet Aidan Singh Bhati were present
on this occasion as keynote speakers. On this occa-
sion, the book ‘Mhari Mayard’ written by Meenakshi
Borana, Head of Department of Rajasthani Language,
was released. The speakers highlighted the impor-
tance of language and threw light on the new educa-
tion policy.
‘RAJASTHANI’ ENTHUSIASTS PARTICIPATED
IN JNVU ON EVE OF MOTHER LANGUAGE DAY
The ill-fated
car carrying
deceased
groom Avinash
fell from bridge
on the small
culvert of
Chambal in
Nayapura area
IPS Umesh
Dutta is new IG
Jaipur range
—FILE PHOTO

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President of India
@rashtrapatibhvn
President Kovind inaugurated
the three-year-long celebrations
of the 150th birth anniversary of
Srimad Bhakti Siddhanta Saraswati
Goswami Prabhupad, the founder
of Gaudiya Math and Mission in Puri, Odisha today.
Amit Shah@AmitShah
Extend my warm wishes to the
people of Mizoram on their
statehood day. Mizoram is known
for its vibrant culture and amazing
people, passionate about the
nation’s growth. May the state
continue scaling new heights of development.
TOP TWEETS
SPIRITUAL SPEAK
“The wise grieve neither for the living nor for the
dead. There was never a time when you and I and
all the kings gathered here have not existed and nor
will there be a time when we will cease to exist.”
—Bhagavad Gita
n anti-BJP sen-
timent is grow-
ing in Telanga-
na with Chief
Minister K.
Chandrashekar Rao (KCR)
leading the charge. His
meetings with Chief Min-
ister Uddhav Thackeray of
Shiv Sena and Nationalist
Congress Party’s Sharad
Pawar are being seen as an
attempt to stitch up a non-
Congress front against the
BJP before the 2024 elec-
tions. The meeting took
place at Thackeray initia-
tive. This unity effort ap-
pears to be a move inde-
pendent of Mamata Baner-
jee and Prashant Kishor’s
plans for a unified front.
While reaching out to re-
gional parties, both intend
to keep the Congress out of
their scheme of things.
Could KCR and Mamata
find a common meeting
ground for a unified oppo-
sition front? And a bigger
question that looms is
whether these regional
leaders, including KCR,
will be able to rein-in their
balloon-sized ambitions in
the national interest?
of reasons for the Telan-
gana Rashtra Samithi
(TRS) leader, who once
sided with the BJP in Par-
liament, to turn against
the BJP and Prime Minis-
ter Narendra Modi.
One of the reasons clear-
ly is the political threat to
the TRS. The saffron party
is making inroads in Tel-
angana and giving KCR
pinpricks with remarks on
bifurcation of the state
that please YSR Congress
chief YS Jagan Mohan
Reddy, the chief minister
of Andhra Pradesh.
On Chief Minister
KCR’s birthday, the Union
Ministry of Road Trans-
port issued full-page ad-
vertisements announcing
variousprojectsinAndhra
to dilute the impact ads
greeting Rao. KCR has
blamed the BJP for not re-
leasing funds for the
state’s development. KCR
must remember that there
is no double-engine gov-
ernment there.
TELANGANA’S MOVE
AGAINST THE BJP
of reasons for the
Telangana Rashtra
Samithi (TRS) leader, who
once sided with the BJP
in Parliament, to turn
against the BJP and
Prime Minister
Narendra Modi
A
or those who thought that Nar-
endra Modi doesn’t care for
Muslims should revisit the dead-
ly floods of Morbi in 1979 when
thousands of people lost their
lives to this disaster. There was
a great risk of epidemic due to
rotten bodies. Most of the people
living in that area were Mus-
lims. Soon after knowing the
pathetic condition of the resi-
dents, Modi swing into action
and took them to relief camp in
Rajkot. He took personal care of
Muslims and arranged for their
sehri during the pious Ramzan
month. Modi stayed in the relief
camp for 2-3 months and left
only after settling them.
Meanwhile in New Delhi,
Chaudhary Charan Singh took
over from Morarji Desai as
Prime Minister. But he could not
the govern for even 6 months
and the experiment of Janta
front failed. Fresh elections
were held in 1980, bringing In-
dira Gandhi back to power.
However, a major political
event happened on 6th April 1980
when leaders of Jansangh found-
ed a political party - Bhartiya Ja-
nataParty-whichhasbecomethe
largest political party and is pres-
ently ruling the country
. The first
session of BJP was held in Mum-
bai where the former Prime Min-
ister and where one of the BJP’s
founding members Atal Bihari
Vajpayeehadfamouslysaid-And-
hera Chhatega, Kamal Khilega.
In 1981, the country was shak-
en up by mass conversion of Dal-
its to Muslims at Meenaxipuram
in Tamil Nadu. Sangh parivar
immediately took cognisance of
that and started Ekatm Yatra
across the country
. This embold-
ened Hindus and during these
yatra, representatives of Sangh
parivar connected more than 6
crore Hindus. Narendra Modi
led this campaign in Gujarat giv-
ing new dimensions to his lead-
ership skills.
Kaushik Mehta of VHP be-
lieves that the concept of this
yatra was of Narendra Modi
only
. “Every citizen of the coun-
try is one. Two raths were taken
out in the country simultane-
ously putting kumbh of Gangaji
and photo of Mother India to-
gether. This spread a meaning-
ful message to Hindus,” he said.
Meanwhile,PrimeMinisterIn-
dira Gandhi was assassinated on
31st October, 1984 and Congress
rompedhomewithgreatmajority
ridingonthesympathyvotes.The
newly formed BJP ended up win-
ning just two seats. In the next
year, assembly elections were
heldinGujaratandCongresswon
149 out of 182 seats while BJP
could manage to win just 11 seats.
This set the alarm bells on and
Sangh started sending pracha-
raks to strengthen the BJP
.
On6thDecember1986,pracha-
rak Narendra Modi was sent to
BJP by the then Sarsanghchalak
Bala Saheb Devras. Modi, who
was working selflessly for the
Sangh for last one and half dec-
ades, found a new path to trudge.
Soon after coming into BJP, in
1989 Modi had a tough challenge
ahead which he turned into an
opportunity. There was an elec-
tion of Ahmedabad Nagar Nig-
am. Modi took over the entire
responsibility of poll strategy
and publicity
. He gave the slogan
– ‘Bas ab Bhajapa’. That slogan
played an important role in re-
vival of BJP and changed the
face of electoral politics. People
related with the slogan and the
political acceptability increased
simultaneously
.
After the great win at
Ahmedabad Nagar Nigam,
Modi’s role in the party gained
prominence and he was entrust-
ed with the responsibility of Or-
ganising Secretary in Gujarat.
Modi took out yatras to connect
with the people of the state.
While he carried out ‘Nyay yatra’
championing the cause of farm-
ers in 1987, he also took out Lok
Shakti yatra in support of tribals
in 1988. In the same year, Modi
went on one more yatra - Kailash
Mansarovar yatra, which was
organised by External Affairs
ministry for the first time. Soon
after he returned from the yatra,
he came to know about his fa-
ther’s ill health. He immediately
went to Vadnagar, only to see his
father taking his last breath.
Modi’s father probably was wait-
ing for the last sight of his son.
However, undeterred by his
father’s demise, Narendra
Modi left his home the next day
for a journey meant for nation
building.
F
DOWN THE MEMORY LANE…
DUSTY LANES TO CROWNING GLORY- THE MAKING OF PM MODI – PART 3
NARENDRA MODI: FROM A ‘PRACHARAK’
TO A STRATEGIC BJP LEADER !
SHASHIKANT
SHARMA
The writer is Consulting
Editor, First India
Soon after coming into
BJP, in 1989 Modi had
a tough challenge
ahead which he turned
into an opportunity.
There was an election
of Ahmedabad Nagar
Nigam. Modi took over
the entire responsibility
of poll strategy and
publicity. He gave the
slogan – ‘Bas ab
Bhajapa’. That slogan
played an important
role in revival of BJP
and changed the face of
electoral politics. People
related with the slogan
and the political
acceptability increased
simultaneously.His role
in Party also gained
prominence
However, a major
political event
happened on 6th April
1980 when leaders of
Jansangh founded a
political party -
Bhartiya Janata Party
- which has become the
largest political party
and is presently ruling
the country. The first
session of BJP was held
in Mumbai where the
former Prime Minister
and where one of the
BJP’s founding
members Atal Bihari
Vajpayee had famously
said - Andhera
Chhatega, Kamal
Khilega
PM Narendra Modi with former PM late
Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
PM Narendra Modi with veteran RSS
leader Lakshman Rao Inaamdar.
PM Narendra Modi being welcomed at Ahmedabad Airport.
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Hardoi: Prime Minis-
ter Narendra Modi tar-
geted rivals Samajwadi
Party and the Congress
in Uttar Pradesh on
Sunday, adding to alle-
gations that the parties
are soft on terror. Point-
ing to the 2008
Ahmedabad serial
blasts, which claimed 56
lives and left over 200
people injured, he said
some parties are sym-
pathetic to terrorists.
Speaking at a rally in
Hardoi, he accused the
erstwhile Uttar Pradesh
government of seeking
to withdraw cases
against terrorists.
“The attitude of the
leaders of the Samajwa-
di Party and the Con-
gress has been even
more alarming. These
people address a terror-
ist like Osama as ‘ji’.
These people shed tears
over the elimination of
terroristsinBatlaHouse
encounter,” he said.
“Similarly
, in 14 cases
of terrorist attacks in
Uttar Pradesh, the Sa-
majwadi government
had given orders to
withdraw the cases
from many terrorists.
These people were set-
ting off blast after blast,
and the Samajwadi Par-
ty government was not
even allowing these ter-
rorists to be prosecut-
ed,” he added.
The BJP has tradi-
tionally accused the
Congress of appease-
ment politics because
of its sizeable Muslim
support base. Once this
support shifted to the
Samajwadi Party, the
barbs got sharper.
Campaign in the run-
up to this election was
sharply polarised, with
senior state leaders and
the Chief Minister ac-
cusing Akhilesh Ya-
dav’s party of being
supporters of Pakistan
and its founder Muham-
mad Ali Jinnah. Mr
Yadav’s father, party pa-
triarch Mulayam Singh
Yadav was dubbed
“Maulana Mulayam”.
Yogi Adityanath had
also alleged that the SP
was trying to turning
the assembly seat of
Bhojpur into an “Is-
lamabad”. —PTI
INDIA
05
New Delhi: The out-
come of the five state
elections will have an
impact on the Presiden-
tial poll and will also
bring some change in
the Upper House of
Parliament as except
for Punjab the other
four states were ruled
by the BJP with brute
majorities in UP and
Uttarakhand.
The Bharatiya Janata
Party may not be that
comfortably placed in
the Presidential elec-
tion which is likely to be
conducted in June-July
2022, as the President is
indirectly elected by an
electoral college con-
sisting of the elected
members of both the
Houses of Parliament
and the assemblies.
The electoral colleges
comprises 776 MPs of
both the Houses and
4,120 MLAs of all the
states and Union Terri-
tories. The electoral col-
lege has 1,098,903 votes,
and a majority is 549,452
votes. As far as the value
of votes is concerned,
Uttar Pradesh has the
highestnumberof votes,
approximately83,824fol-
lowed by Maharashtra
and West Bengal.
The BJP has a brute
majority in the assem-
blies of UP and Uttara-
khand and any reduc-
tion of seats will put the
game in the opposition
camp as the Chief Min-
isters of different re-
gional parties are try-
ing to join hands.
If they join hands
and put up a joint candi-
date, the BJP will find
it difficult to get
its nominee
e l e c t e d .
The only
way would
be a divi-
sion in the opposition
camp which may be a
difficult task. After
West Bengal Chief Min-
ister Mamata Banerjee
who is trying to expand
her party, Trinamool
Congress’ footprints at
the national level, Tel-
angana Chief Minister
K. Chandrashekhar
Rao (KCR) had a
meeting with Maha-
rashtra Chief Minister
Uddhav Thackeray
.
Not only is the Mum-
bai meeting important
but KCR is also meeting
Tamil Nadu Chief Min-
ister M.K. Stalin and
Kerala Chief Minister
Pinarayi Vijayan.
Even Mamata Ba-
nerjee is likely to
travel to Hyderabad to
meet KCR. He has the
support of former
Prime Minister H.D.
Deve Gowda who could
be another possible can-
didate for President.
However the Chief
Ministerstryingtounite
en bloc is not a good sign
for the Congress which
may get isolated in the
opposition while the
BJP has to search for a
consensus candi-
date for the
Presiden-
tial poll.
K C R ’ s
new initia-
tive is to save his home
turf as the BJP is ex-
panding its base in Tel-
angana. He is being
forced to take on the
BJP due to domestic po-
litical compulsions, oth-
erwise the party had
been bailing out the BJP
on key legislation in the
Upper House since 2014.
The southern states
and Maharashtra ac-
count for more than 200
Lok Sabha seats and al-
most half of the elector-
alcollegewhichcouldbe
crucial in the next Presi-
dential poll. If the re-
gionalpartiesteamup,it
will be unlikely that the
BJP will have its way in
the choice of President.
Thus the electoral
outcome in the five
states which include UP
will impact the presi-
dential election.
If the opposition puts
up a candidate like NCP
supremo Sharad Pawar
who is capable of mus-
tering support from oth-
ers like the Trinamool
Congress, the BJD, the
TRS,theYSRCP
,theCPI-
M, the CPI and the other
parties, then the BJP
will have a tough task
ahead of it. —Agencies
How Assembly polls will impact Presidential and RS elections
POLITICAL INTRICACIES
Patna: Lalu Prasad’s
RJD has slammed its
doors shut on the pos-
sibility of any under-
standing with the Con-
gress, its estranged ally,
for elections to 24 seats
of the legislative coun-
cil in Bihar.
State RJD president
Jagadanand Singh on
Saturday announced its
candidates for two
seats, having done the
same for 21 others a
week ago, and declared
that it was leaving one
for the Left parties.
Elections to the two
dozen seats, vacant for
quite some time, are ex-
pectedinMarchorApril.
The development
came barely a day after
Congress leader Priyan-
ka Gandhi Vadra came
outinsupportof Prasad,
whoisinjailafterconvic-
tion in yet another fod-
der scam case. The two
parties, along with the
CPI,CPI(M)andCPI(ML)
hadformedaGrandAlli-
ance to contest the 2020
Assembly polls. —PTI
THEY SAY OSAMA-JI:
PM SLAMS SAMAJWADI, CONG
POLLS
UTTAR PRADESH
Gurdaspur: Shiroma-
ni Akali Dal (SAD)
leader Bikram Singh
Majithia said on Sun-
day that the party will
decide on forming an
alliance with the Bhar-
tiya Janata Party
(BJP) post Punjab As-
sembly elections if the
SAD-Bahujan Samaj
Party (BSP) alliance
comes to power.
Talking to media,
Bikram Majithia said,
“My fight is for the peo-
pleof Punjab.Amritsar
East needs develop-
ment. There are poor
people who do not get
welfare schemes. It is
themostbackward.The
truth will win.”
“We will decide on
the tie-up with the BJP
afterthestateAssembly
polls,” he added.
Majithia, who had
filedhisnominationpa-
pers from two seats —
Majitha and Amritsar
East — in January
, will
be facing off with Pun-
jab Congress President
Navjot Singh Sidhu in
the Amritsar East con-
stituency
. —ANI
Will decide on tie-up with
BJP after Punjab polls, says
SAD’s Bikram Majithia
SAD leader Bikram Singh Majithia
Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses a public meeting in UP’s Hardoi on Sunday.
SP chief Akhilesh Yadav addresses party workers in Unnao.
Cong leader Rahul Gandhi with RJD’s Tejashwi Yadav. —FILE
Lambi: Former Punjab Chief Minister
and Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader
Parkash Singh Badal on Sunday took
a dig at Aam Aadmi Party (AAP),
saying the party does not have any
relation with Punjab. Speaking to the
media persons after casting his vote
with the entire Badal family, he said,
“AAP does not have any relation with
Punjab. Neither does it have any
sympathy with the state. They do not
know how many districts are there in
the state.” Slamming Chief Minister
Charanjit Singh Channi’s “UP-Bihar”
remark, Badal said that if you behave
inappropriately with the people of
other states, they would do the same
with you.
Patiala: Former Punjab Chief Min-
ister Captain Amarinder Singh said
that Congress will be wiped out from
the state in the Assembly elections.
Speaking to media, Amarinder Singh,
who left Congress and formed Punjab
Lok Congress, said, “I am certain of
winning Patiala. I think we will win
the elections...They (Congress) live
in a different world will be wiped
out in Punjab.” “Bhagwant Mann is
an anti-national and he is supporting
Arvind Kejriwal,” said the Punjab Lok
Congress founder after casting his
vote in Patiala. The former CM also
said that his party is performing well
and positive reports coming from the
ground.
AAP DOES NOT HAVE ANY
RELATION WITH PUNJAB:
PARKASH SINGH BADAL
CONGRESS WILL BE WIPED
OUT FROM PUNJAB, SAYS
CAPT AMARINDER SINGH
‘They’ll get answer from
people of UP on Mar 10’
PM accuses Congress
of appeasement politics
POLLS
PUNJAB
Ayodhya: Samajwadi
Party chief Akhilesh
Yadav took a jibe at in-
cumbent Chief Minis-
ter Yogi Adityanath on
Sunday by calling him
“Baba Bulldozer” and
said that “Baba” will
lose election just like
contentious farm laws
were withdrawn.
“BJP leaders are now
learning abcd, I want to
tell them, “agar Kaka
chale gaye toh Baba bhi
chale jaenge” (if black
farm laws were taken
back, CM Yogi will also
go back),” said Yadav
while addressing a
raaly in Rudauli of Ayo-
dhya district.
Akhilesh further
said, “Yogi changed
the name of every-
thing. Till now we were
calling him “Baba CM”
but today one of the re-
puted English newspa-
pers called him “Baba
Bulldozer”. —Agencies
EVERY VOTE COUNTS
People wait in queues to cast their votes at a polling booth during the third phase of Uttar
Pradesh Assembly elections in Hathras on Sunday. —PHOTO BY PTI
1 2
Just like farm laws, ‘Baba
Bulldozer’ will be gone:
Akhilesh’s jibe at Yogi
‘They’ appease Muslims for votes,
did nothing for triple talaq: Nadda
AKHILESH WILL
BE CM: SHIVPAL
Etawah: Shivpal Singh
Yadav on Sunday said
that the third phase of the
State Assembly elections
has made it clear that
Akhilesh Yadav will be-
come the CM. Yadav was
interacting with the media
after casting his vote in
Etawah on Sunday.
Lucknow: Union
Minister Anurag
Thakur on Sunday
slammed the Sama-
jwadi Party saying
that all criminals,
goons and rioters
have links with it.
His latest attack
on the party comes
a day after he had
questioned its chief
Akhilesh on the al-
leged involvement
of his party’s leader
in 2008 Ahmedabad
serial blasts case.
“All criminals,
goons and rioters
have their links to
the Samajwadi Par-
ty,” Thakur said.
He called out
chief Yadav for his
silence on the al-
leged connection of
his party’s leader
with 2008
Ahmedabad blasts,
saying that ‘Aantan-
kiyo ka abbujaan,
Samajvadiyo ka
bhaijaan, isliye
band hai zubaan’.
All criminals,
goons, rioters
have links to
SP:Thakur
Lucknow: Bharatiya
Janata Party (BJP) na-
tional president
JP Nadda on Sunday
while attacking his ri-
vals for communal poli-
tics endorsed his gov-
ernment’s triple talaq
abolish move and said
even Islamic countries
don’t have laws for
the upliftment of Mus-
lim women.
Targeting the previ-
ous regime for not do-
ing anything against
the unjust practise of
Triple Talaq, Nadda
said, “Those appeasing
Muslims don’t know
that there’s no triple ta-
laq in Afghanistan or
Pakistan or Bangladesh
or Iran or Iraq or Indo-
nesia. These Muslim
nations didn’t triple ta-
laq but our secular na-
tion had it.”
“PM Modi gave free-
dom to crores of Mus-
lim women,” said BJP
chief in Shravasti while
campaigning for his
party as Uttar Pradesh
undergo polling in the
third phase. —PTI
RJD snubs Cong in Bihar
legislative council elections
Parkash Singh Badal
Captain Amarinder Singh

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

NEWS
07
Congress gears up for Mission
2023 with district conventions
Training camp started in Bikaner on Sunday, senior leaders will participate
Laman Raghav
Bikaner: With assem-
bly elections scheduled
in Rajasthan in 2023,
Congress has now come
in election mode as the
party has started organ-
izing training camps to
train the workers.
One such training
camp was started in Bi-
kaner on Sunday
, which
the party state president
Govind Singh Dotasara
and Lalchand Kataria
are scheduled to attend
on Monday
.
During the session,
further strategy will
also be discussed with
the workers in this
camp.
During the training
camp, the optimum us-
age of social media is
being taught to the par-
ty workers and informa-
tion is being given to
them about the content
and videos that will be
beneficial for them in
future.
Along with this, the
party workers are also
being made aware of the
customs, policy and ide-
ology of the Congress
party
. Cabinet Minister
Govind Ram Meghwal
and City Congress Pres-
ident Yashpal Gehlot
are overseeing the ar-
rangements for the
training program.
Notably
, different ses-
sions are being organ-
ized during the training
camp and subject ex-
perts have been called
for the every session.
Three subject experts
have been sent by the
party
,apartfromthis,lo-
cal ministers and office-
bearers are also inter-
acting directly with the
workers.
Congress workers in Bikaner
convention on Sunday.
Vaibhav, Awana pay
tributes to martyr
Ravi Katara
Bayana (Bharatpur):
The soldier of the In-
dian Army, Devendra
Gujar died three days
ago while being on
duty at Balwan Post in
Bandipora district of
Jammu and Kashmir.
He was a resident of
Nagla Giani.
Army sources in-
formed that soldier De-
vendra died due to
heavy snowfall. The
body of the soldier
could not be brought
due to bad weather for
three days. After the
postmortem in Delhi
on Saturday, the body
of soldier Devendra
reached Bayana late in
the evening, which
was sent to his native
village Nagla Giani on
Sunday morning.
Devendra was cre-
mated amidst the
chants of ‘Bharat
Mata Ki Jay’ in the
presence of a
huge crowd. Deven-
dra’s nephew lit the
mortal remains.Earli-
er, the soldiers of the
Indian Army gave the
last salute to the mar-
tyred soldier.
Meanwhile, RCA
President Vaibhav Ge-
hlot, Devnarayan
Board Chairman
Joginder Singh Awa-
na, MP Ranjeeta Koli,
Minister Bhajanlal
Jatav, Himanshu Awa-
na, District Collector
of Bharatpur, District
Superintendent of Po-
lice along with sub-di-
visional level officers,
and ex-servicemen
were present.
Vaibhav Gehlot, Joginder Awana paying tribute to martyr
Devendra Gurjar at Giani village in Bharatpur on Sunday.
Row over Didwana rape victim’s
cremation likely to end soon
First India Bureau
Nagaur/Jaipur: Amid
protest by family mem-
bers, Police shifted the
body of a 35-year-old
gang rape victim from
Sawai Man Singh Hos-
pital mortuary here to
Deedwana of Nagaur
district in early hours
on Sunday
.
The family mem-
bers, who had refused to
take the body, were pro-
testing at the mortuary
for compensation.Op-
posing the police action
of shifting the body, the
victim’s father threat-
ened to commit suicide
if the cremation was
done forcefully
.
Meanwhile, District
Collector Piyush Sama-
ria’s talks with rela-
tives concluded here
today and consensus
reached over SOG probe
and compensation un-
der SC/ST Act. The
family will get dairy
booth for employment.
The father of the
rape victim said he
would hang himself if
the body was cremated
without his consent.
The body has been shift-
ed to a government hos-
pital mortuary in Na-
gaur’s Deedwana and
heavy deployment of
police force was done
there in view of the ten-
sion.
Heavy police force deployed at SMS hospital. (Right) Cops shifting
body from SMS to Deedwana.
5 arrested for Air Force
diesel theft in Jodhpur
First India Bureau
Jodhpur: Special
Crime Team busted the
Air Force diesel theft
racket. More than 21,800
liters of illegal diesel
have been seized and
five arrested after raid-
ing an enclosure.
The police have also
seized a pick-up from
the spot in which 1000
liters of diesel, welding
machine, meter gauge,
and other materials
were kept.
Police Commissioner
Navjyoti Gogoi said
that teams are working
under the supervision
of DCP Crime Rajku-
mar Chaudhary to nab
the illegal business of
diesel and those selling
the illegal diesel. CST
in-charge Prakash Ram
received a tip from the
informer that the diesel
sent to the Air Force
was stolen midway in
an enclosure on Sala-
was Mogda road.
Acting on the infor-
mation, the crime spe-
cial team of the police
raided the enclosure at
Salawas and found two
tankers, one filled with
21,800 liters of diesel.
The police arrested five
people present there. As
per the modus operan-
di, after breaking the
lock of the oil tankers,
the diesel was stolen
and then the spot was
re-welded. Further, the
stolen diesel was sold in
the market.
Luxury rides for tourists in
Jhalana leopard safari
Nirmal Tiwari
Jaipur: Tourists in
Jhalana Leopard Safari
will now be able to take
a ride in luxury vehi-
cles.
The forest depart-
ment has decided to
permit premium seg-
ment vehicles in Jhala-
na. Vehicles having the
cost of Rs 50 lakhs or
more will be considered
in the premium seg-
ment.
Tourists will have to
pay 4 times more than
normal vehicle charges
for premium segment
vehicles.
The tender process
for premium segment
vehicles may start next
week.
Ranji Trophy: Raj opens campaign with
win over Andhra; Shubham,Ankit shine
Jaipur: Rajasthan
opened their campaign
in the Ranji Trophy
Elite Group E with an
emphatic 158-run win
over Andhra on the
fourth and final day of
the match on Sunday.
Chasing 368 for victory,
Andhra were bowled
out 209 in 53.3 overs
with Shubham Sharma
(4 for 32) and Aniket
Choudhary (3 for 50) do-
ing most of the damage.
Resuming at 100 for
four on the final day,
Andhra’s slim hopes of
salvaging the match
evaporated quickly as
Ricky Bhui fell to
Choudhary after having
added eight runs to his
overnight score. Yara
Sandeep, the other not-
out batsman, fell on the
same score of 120 when
Anirudh Singh had him
caught by Tanveer Ul-
Haq for 43.It was all
over for Andhra who
slipped to 120 for six.
Pinnati Tapaswi (44, 6
fours, 1 six) and Manish
Golamaru (29) put on 67
runs for the seventh
wicket to delay the in-
evitable. — PTI
Patwari booked for raping woman in
return of housing scheme sanction
Mukesh Mathrani
Barmer: Offering sanc-
tion of a house under
PM housing scheme, a
Patwari had raped a
woman in Barmer. Ac-
cused was repeatedly
making obscene video
calls to the victim. Re-
cently victim had recov-
ered one obscene video
call and lodged the com-
plaint against the ac-
cused. On basis of the
complaint and video,
police has booked the
accused. Incident has
been reported from Sed-
wa police station area in
Barmer. Jetharam, SHO
at Sedwa police station
said that victim ap-
proached the police
with complaint and vid-
eo evidence alleging
that a Patwari had raped
her and now blackmail-
ing her.
Aniket Choudhary (3 for 50).
BROTHER-IN-LAW ‘RAPES’ MINOR
MLA DUDI DEMANDS JUSTICE FOR VICTIM
A CONGRESS
‘SESSION’ THAT
WAS KEPT
‘UNDER WRAPS’!
Did the Congress hold a
session at Birla Auditorim
recently? Yes, the party
organized session for its leaders
and workers, who assembled in
thousands to attend the same.
Did the Congress hold a ‘parallel
session’ near Birla Auditorium
on the same day, one that pretty
much was ‘invisible’ to a ‘few’.
The answer may shock you, but
truth be told, the party leaders
did hold ‘session’ at Maharaj
restaurant near the auditorium
where along with piping hot cups
of tea, developments of
auditorium were ‘common
tongue’. Some stalwarts spent
their entire time in this ‘invisible
session’. Interestingly, newly
appointed Chairman sahab
preferred this session over the
Birla one. —Yogesh Sharma
THE JAI-VEERU
OF CONGRESS!
In the third Gehlot government,
two ‘special’ trouble shooters
of the government are being
discussed in almost every
‘power’ setting! The duo are
strongly handling the front
against the opposition, both
inside and outside the house.
While many senior BJP leaders
are attacking the government in
the house, but two ministers of
the government have
successfully doused the BJP’s
fire. Ministers Shanti Dhariwal
and Dr. Mahesh Joshi are
steadfast on their ‘positions’
and countering the opposition
eloquently and skillfully. In fact,
Dhariwal inside the house and
Mahesh Joshi standing outside,
are like a double pronged
shield of the Gehlot
government and this feat has
been achieved owing to the full
confidence of CM Gehlot in the
skills and abilities of both the
ministers! —First India Bureau
LEOPARD
CONSERVATION
AUTHORITY
Rajasthan will become
the first state in
the country to set up a
Leopard Conservation
Authority. The forest de-
partment has prepared
the proposal for the
formation of the Leopard
Conservation Author-
ity. State Wildlife Board
member Sunil Mehta
had given suggestions in
this regard.
Man booked
for sodomy
with cousin
Suryaveer Singh Tanwar
Jaisalmer: A man from
Ramdevra police sta-
tion area, sodomised
his 12-year-old cousin
recently and it was after
the minor informed her
mother of the elder
brother’s misdeeds that
the matter came to
light. The mother in
turn approached the po-
lice and registered a
case after which the
man was arrested.
Jaipur: Within the Con-
gress circles, Dotasra is
soon gaining popularity
that he initiates new steps
and takes fresh ap-
proach to organizational
work and politics. Since
organizational work stays
behind the curtain and
does not come in public
view, speculations can be
made on it, however, one
decision of Dotasra’s has
certainly not ‘ended well’.
Dotasra decided that
for the party’s session
on Saturday, the media
will not be allowed and
therefore, there was an
informal ban on media.
Interestingly, the party
that claims of living and
breathing democracy, had
itself kept one of the legs
of democracy - media-
away from its program
which perhaps was first
of its kind of development
in Rajasthan! Howev-
er, Dotasra’s ‘experiment’
proved to be a failure
since all the state media
carried indepth news of
the session. Therefore
only one question re-
mains: What actually was
the reason for carrying
out such an unsuccessful
experiment?
DOTASRA’S FAILED EXPERIMENT WITH MEDIA!

COVID-19
UPDATE
WORLD
5,903,460
TOTAL DEATHS
349,562,801
TOTAL RECOVERED
68,886,688
ACTIVE CASES
424,352,949
TOTAL CASES
INDIA
511,935
TOTAL DEATHS
42,086,383
TOTAL RECOVERED
224,155
ACTIVE CASES
42,822,473
TOTAL CASES
Family keeps us rooted, like
branches we spread out
reaching to the sky, but remain
one at the roots.
—Jagdeesh Chandra, CEO Editor-in-Chief, First India
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2NDFRONT
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Rajendra Chhabra
Jaipur: With the return
of IAS Amit Dhaka to
his home cadre of Pun-
jab, from Rajasthan,
wherehewasservingon
deputation,onepossibil-
ity has suddenly
emerged. It is being be-
lieved that now the RLP
President and Nagaur
MP Hanuman Beniwal
may not pursue or show
interest in the Privilege
Motion action, which is
pending before the Par-
liamentary Committee.
Beniwal had brought
this Privilege Motion in
November 2019 against
then CS, DG, the then
Barmer SP Sudhir
Choudhary and Amit
Dhaka who was han-
dling the work of Home
department in CMO as
Special Secretary
.
The matter also per-
tained to 2019 when
Beniwal had travelled
to Baytu in Barmer dis-
trict for a political meet-
ing. This is a constitu-
ency of former minis-
ter Harish Choudhary,
who is a political oppo-
nent of Hanuman Beni-
wal. Meanwhile, stones
were pelted at Beniwal’s
vehicle in Baytu and the
MP accused Harish
Choudhary and his sup-
porters of the act. Beni-
wal even wanted to file
an FIR in the matter but
the police did not file an
FIR.
Beniwal thereafter
raised the issue of
Breach of Privilege in
the Parliament stating
that FIR by an MP was
not registered, and in
this, he made Amit Dha-
kaapartytothedevelop-
ment, along with other
officials of Rajasthan.
He had levelled an accu-
sation against Dhaka
that this officer had di-
rected the SP not to reg-
ister an FIR. However,
knowledgeable sources
claim that neither was
there any direct link be-
tween the incident and
Dhaka, nor was he any-
how associated with it.
However, through local
politics,Beniwalwanted
to settle his scores with
Dhaka. Notably, Dhaka
is a native of Nagaur.
Thereafter, a Parlia-
mentary Committee
has even summoned
Dhaka twice to Delhi
while the then SP of
Barmer district - Su-
dhir Choudhary - has
given his statements for
three hours straight be-
fore a committee com-
prising of 15 MPs. Fur-
ther action is now pend-
ing in the matter. But
now since Dhaka had
left Rajasthan, perhaps
Beniwal’s ‘issue’ has
virtually become in-
fructuous.
Dhaka’s return to Punjab may ‘ease’ Beniwal’s ‘fiery’ politics?
POLITICAL ANECDOTE
Gehlotextendshismoralsupport
toAkhilinhistimeofgrief!
LastritesofArora’smotherwereperformedatMokshaDhaminAdarshNagar
First India Bureau
Jaipur: A day after
Principal secretary
Finance Akhil Arora
lost his mother, Ka-
mal Arora, Chief
Minister Ashok Ge-
hlot reached Arora’s
residence and offered
his condolences to the
bereaved family.
Congress leaders Dr
Raghu Sharma and
RTDC Chairman Dhar-
mendra Rathore also
reached Arora’s resi-
dence to offer their con-
dolences.
Last rites of Arora’s
mother were per-
formed at Moksha
Dham located in
Adarsh Nagar and Ge-
hlot gave support to
Arora in his trying
times.
Notably, RHB Com-
missioner Pawan Arora
had also reached Aro-
ra’s residence. Moreo-
ver, former IAS Shrimat
Pandey, Principal Sec-
retary to CM Kuldeep
Ranka, IAS Sandeep
Verma, JDC Gaurav
Goyal ad many digni-
taries paid last tributes
to the departed soul at
Moksha Dham.
Rathore may get additional
responsibility for Gujarat
First India Bureau
Jaipur: Congress
leader RTDC Chair-
man Dharmendra
Rathore, has for long,
handled poll manage-
ment for the grand Old
Party in state. He was
instrumental in en-
suring party’s victory
in by-polls as he
camped in constituen-
cies and drew strate-
gies for victory.
Perhaps pleased with
this, now Congress may
assign a major task to
him, as Secretary for
Gujarat assembly polls.
Word is that appoint-
ment letter in this re-
gard is already on KC
Venugopal’s table at
AICC once he signs
it, his appointment as
Secretary will be final!
Gujarat In charge
Raghu Sharma has rec-
ommended his name.
First India Bureau
Kota: UDH Minister
Shanti Dhariwal on
Sunday inspected the
ongoing development
works in Kota and di-
rected officials to com-
plete them within the
stipulated period with
quality. He said that
Kota would also be
known as a tourist hub
in days to come.
The Minister inspect-
ed the beautification
work of the court chau-
raha and Ambedkar
statue site and instruct-
ed to raise the height of
the pedestal so that it
could be visible from a
distance. He instructed
them to paint the rail-
ing near the island in
green color and to put
an attractive railing on
the footpath around the
Ambedkar statue.
He inspected the
beautification work of
Subhash Library and
Sheetla Mata Mandir
located on Station Road
and instructed to com-
plete the façade work of
the library building by
March, providing it a
regal Rajasthani look so
that the tourists visit-
ing the railway station
could know about
state’s architecture He
inspected beautifica-
tion work of college
building being done on
the lines of Jaipur’s Al-
bert Hall directed the
UIT Secy to impose a
fine of Rs. 20L for delay
in work at Antaghar.
Kota to soon develop as
tourist hub: Dhariwal
Shanti Dhariwal inspects various development works during his visit to
KotaonSunday. RajivAgrawal,ManjuMehra,RavindraTyagi,Harimohan
Meena, RD Meena, Rajesh Joshi and others were also present.
CM Ashok Gehlot visited Akhil Arora’s residence on Sunday to pay his last tributes to latter’s mother
offered condolences to the bereaved family. Also seen here is RHB Commissioner Pawan Arora,
Aparna Arora and other family members.
Vishwas’s‘Shabd-Baan’hithisformerparty
AAP as Cong gains ground in Punjab!
Aditi Nagar
New Delhi: Does poet
KumarVishwasholdpo-
litical capital in India
and will his statement
find a resounding ‘im-
pact’ in Punjab? While
the uninitiated may
claim that Vishwas does
not have the ‘vishwas’
of electorate, however,
an interesting discus-
sion is going on in the
political circles about
this and people are spec-
ulating if the Congress
benefit from Kumar
Vishwas’s statement?
There is widespread
speculation if the politi-
cal equation is really
changing after Vishwas’
statement, which may
lead, possibly, to BJP
also benefitting from
AAP’s defeat in Punjab?
Such discussions are
going on in the politi-
cal corridors of Delhi
where it is being said
that Aam Aadmi Party
will be at a direct loss
due to Kumar Vish-
was’s statement be-
cause before the state-
ment there was a close
fight between AAP and
Congress and Con-
gress had put all its
veterans in the elec-
toral fray.
Infact, it is being said
that after the victory in
Punjab, Kejriwal is eye-
ing Gujarat where As-
sembly elections are to
be held in December
this year and the Aam
Aadmi Party is prepar-
ing its roadmap in Gu-
jarat, following which,
Kejriwal’s eyes will be
on many states of
North India.
In such a situation,
there is speculation of
BJP’s far-reaching ben-
efits from AAP’s defeat
in Punjab. However, at
present, Congress is di-
rectly benefiting from
the statement of Kumar
Vishwas because amid
the poll propaganda,
Vishwas’sstatementhas
caused harm to AAP
. On
the other hand, Con-
gress is completely con-
fident of repeating its
government in Punjab.
That’s why there is
an old saying in poli-
tics: “There is no per-
manentenemyorfriend
in politics.”
RAJ IAS
Malhotra
appointed
Director in RBI
Central Board
First India Bureau
Jaipur: In what
could be termed as
a major news for
Rajasthan's bureau-
cracy, 1990 batch
IAS Sanjay Mal-
hotra, currently
posted on deputa-
tion at the Centre as
Secretary in the De-
partment of Cen-
tral Financial Ser-
vices, has been ap-
pointed as Director
on RBI Central
Board. Malhotra
has been appointed
with effect from
February 16, 2022.
Dimple Sharma
Jaipur: Inwhatcouldbe
termed as a meeting of
heavy-weights in na-
tion’s political capital,
RSS’s senior pracharak
IndreshKumarformer
Rajasthan CM Vasund-
haraRajeheldacourtesy
meet at Sangh’s Delhi of-
fice. The duo even held a
long discussion on vari-
ous subjects and Raje
wished Kumar on his
birthday
, while also pre-
senting the symbol of
‘Om’ to Indresh Kumar.
Vasundhara Raje with Indresh
Kumar at Sangh office in Delhi.
A MEET WITH
LONG-LASTING
EFFECTS!
‘GOVT COMMITTED TO EXPAND MED FACILITIES’
Assembly Speaker Dr
CP Joshi chairs Budget
Meeting at the Nathdwara
Municipal Board’s
Auditorium on Sunday.
Dr Joshi during his tour
to Rajsamand, visited
the residence of the
ex- chairman of Nagar
Parishad,Asha Paliwal to
offer his condolences on the
demise of Sandeep Paliwal.
Dr Joshi was accompanied
by Nandan Kaka.
A BUSY
SUNDAY
Hanuman Beniwal
Kumar Vishwas
Amit Dhaka
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THE ‘DIRECT’ BENEFIT...

elebrating the tran-
sition of grand wed-
dings to more inti-
mate nuptials, the
Jaipur Couture
Show 2022 revisits
the traditional tech-
niques synonymous with the
vision to refashion and recre-
ate veritable pieces of art
with a new commitment to
drapes silhouettes which
are luxurious yet light. Strad-
dling the present and tradi-
tion rooted in Indian heri-
tage, each designer’s cre-
ation exemplifies the guiding
philosophy—“all that we
were and more”, combining
historical opulence with
modern chic.
The Pink City’s fashion and
beauty extravaganza, ‘Jaipur
Couture Show,’ is back for its
tenth season. The three-day
fashion festival is set to take
place on April 6, 7 and 8 at The
Palace, Jaipur. The event will
bring together a medley of
fashion designers showcasing
their vivacious and latest col-
lections. The poster unveiling
ceremony was held at the U
Club on Saturday
.
Gaurav Gaur, director Elite
Miss Rajasthan along with
various dignitaries like pa-
tron JD Maheshwari, Nakul
Vijay, Ankur Jain, Virendra
Singh, Yasheel Pandel, Ajit
Soni and supermodels
Akanskha Bhalla, Astha
Khandelwal, Vasudha Tiwari,
Muskaan Kamdar among oth-
ers graced the occasion.
Rajasthan, according to
Gaurav Gaur, is evolving
quite quickly in the realm of
fashion today. He said, “For
the past ten years, the Jaipur
Couture Show has
served as a forum
for fashion,
jewellery
, and
accessories
designers,
as well as
models. This
year, various
fresh and well-
known designers
will also display their
craftsmanship and crafts-
manship and we’re beyond
excited to hold this.”
At the same time, like in
previous years, a gathering
of Bollywood and televi-
sion superstars will be vis-
ible on the Couture show’s
stage. Prince Narula and
Yuvika Chaudhary of Road-
ies and Bigg Boss fame will
spend four months on the
ramp. Shiney Ahuja, of
Metro, Bhool Bhuliya, and
Welcome Back fame, will
also be seen doing a run-
way walk in designer
clothes. The three-day
event will have 16 sequenc-
es with 4-5 celebs serving as
show stoppers. Khizar Hus-
sain and Karan Wig, two ac-
claimed artists, will choreo-
graph the show.
The season will definitely
provide an artistic sympho-
ny of fine craftsmanship and
finesse to cherish one’s spe-
cial moments.
JAIPUR, MONDAY,
FEBRUARY 21, 2022
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JAIPUR COUTURE SHOW 2022!
The grand poster launch ceremony of Jaipur Couture
Show Season 10 was held at U-Club, Jaipur on
Saturday. The star-studded event will be held from
April 6 to 8 at The Palace, Jaipur!
MITALI DUSAD
mitalidusad01@gmail.com
C
(L-R) Bai sa, Farah Ansari, Akanksha Bhalla, Shivani Soni, Ayush Soni, Ankur Jain, Poonam Madan, Gaurav Gaur, Karan Vig, Ajeet Soni, Dhirendra Raghav and Virendra Singh
Jagdeesh Chandra and Aarna Vishvkarma Jagdeesh Chandra and Gaurav Gaur
—PHOTOS
BY
MUKESH
KIRADOO
EXQUISITE ENSEMBLES
Aarna Vishvkarma, Akanksha Bhalla, Jyoti Saini, Srishti Khatri, Megha Shyam, Nupur Jhankal and Divisha Paliwal
JD Maheshwari

10-11
ETC
Scintillating
Scintillating Evening!
Evening!
Queen of Cosmos India, held on Hotel
Fairmont on Friday is still grabbing all
the attention. City First brings to you
some more glimpses of the glamorous
evening. Brand Ambassador Rishee
Miglani and Show Director
Lokesh Sharma along with
the First India team paid
immense gratitude to
the team including
the sponsors and
partners in the Queen
of Cosmos International
Beauty Pageant!
Jagdeesh Chandra with Manju Sharma and Rishee Miglani
Jagdeesh Chandra and the First India family with the winners. (L-R) Mitali Dusad, Anita Hada, Kavita Chauhan, Angela Kumar, Sanskriti Sharma, Aarna Vishvkarna, Sanskriti Negi, Khushi Verma, Ashok Singh and Shaan
Mandakini, Usha Punia, Vishaal Mathur, Meera Kataria and Hemant ambwani
Amisha and Bharat Anshuman Bhomia and Dhirendra Raghav Deepak and Anjali Gupta Shalini and Farha Ansari
Nikhil Anand and Timsy Sikri. Also seen are Ashok Singh and Mitali Dusad
Usha Punia, Meera Kataria and Rimmi Shekhawat
Richa and Vishal Jhalani
Parul amd Dushyant Beel
Aaysha and Pradeep Rohit, Ankit, Shivani and Payal Ayush, Purva and Piyush Ayan and Simran Pankaj and Reema Kothari
Indu, Gunjan, Rajat Sharma and Vineet Tusharika, Jagdeep, Vishaal and Gagan Gaurav and Swaroop Bhati
Vinay, Maria, Parul, Minal, Nupur, Dushyant and Rajiv Anjula and Mohit Falod with Arti Dubey, Poonam Madan and Dr Bhavna
Anjana and Kewal Miglani with
Akansha and Preeti Bakshi
Pooja
Karwasra,
Shruti
Pareek,
Bahaar,
Kalpana
Yadav,
Priya
Vinod
Singh,
Muskan
Moolchandani,
Nivedita
Dhariwal,
Dayana
Jayanath
and
Tripti
Arora
—PHOTOS
BY
SANTOSH
SHARMA

MUKESH
KIRADOO

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