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Muslim community knows
only how to produce
children: UP Minister
Sambhal: UP Jal Shak-
ti Minister Baldev Sin-
gh Okhla on Tuesday
stirred up a controver-
sy when he said that
the Muslim community
“only knows how to
produce children.”
His statement came
after a journalist asked
for his comment on the
recent viral video in
which AIMIM leader
Ghufran Noor can be
seen urging Muslims to
produce more children
saying that it is the key
to making party supre-
mo Asaduddin Owaisi
the Prime Minister of
the country. “They are
already producing chil-
dren. Who is stopping
them? They only eat
and produce children.
They don’t think that
their children should
study in good institu-
tions and progress,” the
UP minister said. —ANI
OMICRON SPREADS ITS
TENTACLES IN MAHA,
EVADES VACCINE TOO
Mumbai: Eighty-one
percent of the 54 pa-
tients detected with
theOmicronvariantin
Maharashtraarecases
of breakthroughinfec-
tions, which means
they got infected while
they were fully vacci-
nated. A few have even
taken a third injection
of Pfizer vaccine. Ac-
cordingtoexperts,this
is in line with the
growing evidence that
the variant can evade
the immune response.
LOK SABHA MP KUNWAR DANISH ALI
TESTS +VE, WAS IN PARL ON MONDAY
BOOSTER JAB TO
HELP: MODERNA
New Delhi: Lok Sabha MP Kunwar Danish Ali, who
attended Parliament on Monday, said he has tested
positive for Covid-19. The BSP leader added that he is
fully vaccinated, and urged people who had come in
contact with him to isolate themselves. “Despite being
fully vaccinated, today, I tested positive for #COVID19.
Yesterday, I attended Parliament also. I request all
those who came in my contact to get tested and isolate
themselves. I am having mild symptoms and hope to
recover soon,” he tweeted.
Washington: Moderna has
said that a booster dose of
its Covid-19 vaccine should
offer protection against
the rapidly spreading
Omicron. Moderna said lab
tests showed the half-dose
booster shot increased
by 37 times the level of
so-called neutralizing
antibodies able to fight
Omicron.
CORONA
CATASTROPHE
INDIA
UP
5,326
new cases
453
Omicron tally
23
new cases
00
new fatalities
UP Jal Shakti Minister Baldev
Singh Okhla
First India Bureau
Prayagraj: Address-
ing the huge gathering
of female beneficiaries
of various Central and
State Government
schemes at the Parade
Ground here on Tues-
day, Chief Minister
Yogi Adityanath cred-
ited Prime Minister
Modi with empower-
ing women of the
country for the first
time in the recent his-
tory of India.
He said that the PM
through schemes such
as Beti Bachao, Beti
Padhao and building of
toilets has not only
been giving women
their long due rights,
but also has been con-
tinuously enhancing
their self-esteem by
making them self-reli-
ant through various in-
novative measures.
The CM said that PM
Modi’s initiative to give
property ownership
rights to women is a
landmark move, which
will go a long way in
empowering women in
society.
He added that the UP
Government was com-
mitted to pursuing the
Central Government’s
mission of women em-
powerment with zeal.
Deputy Chief Minis-
ter Keshav Prasad
Maurya, Prayagraj MP
Rita Bahuguna, and
BJP MP from Mathura,
Hema Malini, were
among those present at
the event.
It is worth mention-
ing here that the Yogi
Government has un-
dertaken several initia-
tives for empowerment
of women, including
‘Mission Shakti’ and
‘Banking Sakhi’. The
Government has also
set up a large number
of ‘pink toilets’ meant
for women.
PMModigivingwomentheirlongduerights:Yogi
Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and Dy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya felicitate Prime Minister Narendra
Modi in Prayagraj on Tuesday. —PHOTO BY ANI
CRUCIAL READ
UP GOVERNMENT SEEKS GUIDANCE ON SC
QUOTA FOR NISHADS
Lucknow: Sensing the increasing resentment among
the Nishads on the reservation issue, the Uttar Pradesh
government has shot off a letter to the Registrar
General of India and the Census Commissioner of
India seeking guidance over reservation to the Nishad
community under Scheduled Caste (SC) category.
More on P2
LANDSLIDE WIN
FOR TRINAMOOL IN
KOLKATA CIVIC POLLS
COLD WAVE, FOG IN
STORE FOR NORTH,
CENTRAL INDIA
Kolkata: TMC on Tuesday
registered a landslide vic-
tory in Kolkata Municipal
Corporation polls, winning
134 of 144 wards. BJP,
which had emerged as
the main Opposition party
in Assembly polls earlier,
won 3 seats, while the Left
Front and Congress won
two each.
New Delhi: The MET
department has predicted
cold to severe cold wave
conditions over central,
north and east India in the
next two days, following
which a relief is likely.
Cold wave conditions are
likely to persist in parts
of Punjab, Haryana, Delhi
and Rajasthan.
KULDEEP SENGAR
ACQUITTED IN
RAPE SURVIVOR’S
ACCIDENT CASE
New Delhi: A Delhi court
has discharged former
BJP MLA Kuldeep Singh
Senger and five others in
the 2019 accident case of
the Unnao rape survivor,
saying that prima facie
no charges are made out
against him. Additional
Chief Metropolitan Mag-
istrate Ravindra Kumar
Pandey noted that the
charge sheet did not find
mention of any record or
evidence regarding crimi-
nal conspiracy between
the accused persons
ordered to be put on trial
with the accused Sengar.
More on P7
WOMEN’S MARRIAGE AGE
CAUSING PAIN TO SP: MODI
PM CHIDES RIVALS FOR BASHING DECISION; ATTENDS ‘NARI
SHAKTI’ PROGRAMME IN PRAYAGRAJ, TRANSFERS `1K CR TO SHGs
Prayagraj: Prime Min-
ister Narendra Modi
took a jibe at the Sama-
jwadi Party on Tuesday
and said the govern-
ment’s decision to raise
the marriage of women
to 21 has caused pain to
some. PM Modi was ad-
dressing a rally in UP’s
Prayagraj, which was
attended by over two
lakh women.
Taking a swipe at
his rivals, PM Modi
said women are hap-
py with the govern-
ment’s decision to
raise the marriage age
but this has caused pain
to some. “We are trying
to increase the age of
marriage of women
to 21 years so that
they can have time to
study and progress.
The country is taking
this decision for its
daughters. Everyone is
seeing who is having
problems with this...it
has caused pain to
some,” he said.
PM’s remark follows
after some SP MPs
made adverse com-
ments on
the issue re-
cently. PM also
took a dig at SP
rule from 2012 to
2017. Ahead of the UP
Assembly polls, PM
transferred Rs1,000
crore into bank ac-
counts of various self-
help groups. Nearly 16
lakh women will ben-
efit from the scheme.
Bill linking voter ID,
Aadhaar gets RS nod
New Delhi: The Elec-
tionLaws(Amendment)
Bill, which aims to im-
plement long-pending
electoral reforms in-
cluding linking Aad-
haar with the voter ID
card, was passed in the
Rajya Sabha amid a
walkout by the Opposi-
tion on Tuesday. The
Bill was passed in the
Lok Sabha on Monday
.
Besides linking elec-
toral roll to Aadhaar,
the proposed legislation
seeks to make the stat-
utes gender neutral by
substituting the term
‘wife’ with ‘spouse’ to al-
low husbands of service
voters to cast their vote
from the place where
their wives are posted.
It also seeks to provide
four qualifying dates—
January 1, April 1, July
1 and October 1—in a
year for registration of
voters, instead of a sin-
gle qualifying date—
January 1.
Earlier in the day, RS
proceedings were ad-
journed till post-lunch
session without trans-
acting any business af-
ter oppn objected to al-
location of time for pas-
sage of Election Laws
(Amendment) Bill with-
out them being part of
BAC meeting. —ANI
LOK SABHA ADJOURNED AS OPPN
DEMANDS MoS MISHRA’S SCALP
TMC MP DEREK O’BRIEN SUSPENDED
FROM RS FOR ‘UNRULY BEHAVIOUR’
New Delhi: Lok Sabha was adjourned till 2 pm
on Tuesday following ruckus from Opposition
members demanding the resignation of Union
Minister of State for Home Ajay Kumar Mishra
and to exempt Tamil Nadu from National Eligibility
cum Entrance Test (NEET). Opposition members
stormed the Well of the House shouting slogans
and displaying placards as soon as the Question
Hour began. Due to continued disruptions,
Speaker Om Birla adjourned the House 47
minutes into Question Hour.
New Delhi: Trinamool Congress MP Derek O’Brien
was on Tuesday suspended from Rajya Sabha
for remaining part of the
current Session for ‘unruly
behaviour’ in House. He
allegedly threw RS Rule
Book towards Chair during
discussion on Election Laws
(Amendment Bill) 2021.
He was suspended after House passed a motion
moved by MoS for Parl Affairs in this regard.
Prayagraj has
been land of con-
fluence of Ganga-
Yamuna-Saras-
wati, symbol of our mother
power for thousands of
years. Today this city is also
witnessing such a wonderful
confluence of women and
power. —Narendra Modi, PM
PM Modi interacts with women
during distribution of certificates
to women beneficiaries under
various government schemes at
Parade Ground, in Prayagraj on
Tuesday. —PHOTO BY ANI
Volatile Sensex
snaps falling,
surges 497 pts
New Delhi: Bottom
hunters gathered on
Dalal Street on Tuesday
after a sharp drop in the
previous sessions, tak-
ing benchmark indices
higher and helping
them snap two-day los-
ing streak.
The 30-share pack
Sensex rose 497 points
or 0.89 per cent to close
at 56,319.01. The index
closed nearly 600 points
lower from day’s high.
Its broader peer NSE
Nifty advanced 156.65
points or 0.94 per cent to
16,770.85.
However, selling at
high levels indicates
that the overall trend
remains weak in the
market.
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At least three people were killed and 44 injured after a massive fire broke out
at the Indian Oil Corporation (IOC) refinery at Haldia in West Bengal’s Purba
Medinipur district on Tuesday afternoon. Sources said that they had seen a flash
which might have started the fire. Authorities have started a probe to ascertain
the cause of the incident.
Bhilwara: 12 employees of Agucha Mines were injured when a blast occurred
in a vehicle that was moving ahead of them in Bhilwara district. “Employees
were moving in a vehicle when a blast occurred in another which was moving
ahead. They were admitted to a hospital where their condition is stable,” SHO of
Gulabpura police station Satish said.
3 KILLED, OVER 40
INJURED IN FIRE AT
IOC REFINERY IN
WEST BENGAL
12 EMPLOYEES OF
AGUCHA MINES
INJURED IN BLAST
IN BHILWARA
`1 LAKH FINE FOR PLEA AGAINST PM
MODI’S PIC ON VACCINE CERTIFICATES
Thiruvananthapuram: Kerala HC on Tuesday dismissed a
petition questioning PM Modi’s picture on Covid-19 vax
certificates & fined the petitioner `1 lakh while calling the
plea “frivolous” and “politically motivated”. It said Modi is the
country’s PM and not that of any political party or ideology
and that such a petition was “not expected from a citizen”.

UTTAR PRADESH
LUCKNOW | WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 2021
02
First India Bureau
Lucknow: Sensing the
increasing resentment
among the Nishads on
the reservation issue,
the Uttar Pradesh gov-
ernment has shot off a
letter to the Registrar
General of India and
the Census Commis-
sioner of India seeking
guidance over the reser-
vation to the Nishad
community under
Scheduled Caste (SC)
category
.
A state government
spokesperson said that
special secretary of the
Uttar Pradesh govern-
ment Rajnish Chandra
has sent the letter in
which he has drawn the
attention of both the
authorities towards the
Majhwar caste which is
mentioned at number
53 in the list of SCs of
the UP government.
The memorandum
given to the state gov-
ernment by Sanjay Ni-
shad, president of the
Nishad Party, has also
been attached with the
letter. The Nishad Party
is a BJP ally in UP.
Sanjay Nishad has
stated in his letter that
Majhi, Majhwar, Kewat,
Mallah and Nishad sur-
namesareusedbypeople
of Majhwar caste in dif-
ferent areas of the state.
“Due to the use of
various surnames, they
are not issued SC cer-
tificates whereas other
SC people using vari-
ous surnames are get-
ting benefits meant for
SC members,” he said.
“He has demanded that
all the people with sur-
name of Majhwar caste
should also be given SC
certificates,” the
spokesperson added.
Amit Shah had earlier
assured the commu-
nity that the govern-
ment would fulfil
their demands and re-
solve all the problems.
However, Shah did not
mention the reserva-
tion issue at the joint
BJP-Nishad rally in
Lucknow on Decem-
ber 17, that angered
the community who
went on rampage at
the venue.
Reacting to the let-
ter, Sanjay Nishad
said: “The party
thanks the BJP lead-
ership and CM Yogi
for taking up the is-
sue. The Nishad com-
munity has been
fighting for justice
since long. The reser-
vation to the Nishad
community under SC
category was one of
the main demands of
the community.”
UP govt seeks guidance on Nishad Party’s demand for SC quota
RESERVATION DEBATE
Shah had failed to mention the
reservation issue at BJP-Nishad party
rally, that angered the community
Sanjay Nishad thanked CM Yogi for taking up the issue.
PM HAILS GROWING WOMEN POWER
MODI LAUDS RESPONSIBLE ROLE OF BANK SAKHIS FOR FINANCIAL EMPOWERMENT OF RURAL AREAS IN UP
First India Bureau
Prayagraj: It was an
exuberant display of
women empowerment
at Prayagraj on Tues-
day when Prime Minis-
ter Narendra Modi and
CM Yogi addressed a
huge gathering of fe-
male beneficiaries of
various Central and
State Government’s
schemes gathered from
across the state at the
Parade Ground.
The Prime Minister
also transferred Rs
20.20 crore to 1,01,000
beneficiaries under the
Mukhya Mantri Kanya
Sumangala Yojana as
well as Rs 1,000 crore to
the accounts of 1.60
lakh Self-Help Groups
(SHGs) comprising 16
lakh members amid
thunderous applause
from the gathering.
Furthermore, the PM
also laid foundation
stone for 202 Supple-
mentary Nutrition
Manufacturing Units
and transferred Rs. 4000
as first month’s stipend
to the account of 20,000
Business Correspond-
ent-Sakhis
(B.C.-Sakhis).
Speakingattheevent,
PM Modi lauded initia-
tives undertaken by CM
Yogi to empower wom-
en on his own apart
from implementing
Central Government’s
schemes. The Prime
Minister remarked: “I
am delighted to see the
growing confidence of
women in Uttar
Pradesh, thanks to vari-
ous Central and State
Government’s schemes.
He said that the em-
powerment of women
through schemes like
the Business Corre-
spondent-Sakhis (BC-
Sakhis) is evident.
“These banking sakhis
are doing a great job,
bringing banks to the
door steps of the rural
population. They are
responsible for trans-
actions worth Rs 75,000
crore.”
He added that
schemes like Matri Van-
dana Yojana under
which a woman re-
ceives Rs 5000 during
her pregnancy as well
as Sukanya Samriddhi
Yojana, which takes
care of the education of
a girl child through di-
rect money transfer are
bringing about real
change in the social sta-
tus of women.
“Two crore women
have received Rs 10,000
crore under Matri Van-
dana Yojana. Similarly,
bank accounts of 2.5
crore girls have been
opened under Sukanya
Samriddhi Yojana”, the
PM informed.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi transferring Rs 1000 cr to the accounts of 1.60 lakh women SHGs and laying the foundation stone of take-home ration (THR) nutrimix
plants in 202 developmental blocks of Uttar Pradesh in Prayagraj on Tuesday. CM Yogi Adityanath, Dy CM Keshav Prasad Maurya, Union Minister Anupriya Patel, MoS
Consumer Affairs Sadhvi Nirajnan Jyoti were also present.
A huge crowd of women gathered to hear Prime Minister Narendra Modi at the Parade Ground in
Prayagraj on Tuesday.
‘Daughters of UP will not
let previous govts return’
Prayagraj: Stating
that the entire coun-
try is a witness to the
development that has
taken place in UP un-
der the Yogi Adity-
anath-led BJP govern-
ment, Prime Minister
Narendra Modi on
Tuesday said that
daughters here have
decided that they will
not let previous gov-
ernments come back.
Addressing the peo-
ple at the launch of
‘Kanya Sumangala
Yojana’ in Uttar
Pradesh’s Prayagraj,
the Prime Minister
said, “Right now I got
the privilege of trans-
ferring crores of ru-
pees to the accounts
of more than 1 lakh
beneficiary daughters
of Mukhyamantri
Kanya Sumangala Yo-
jana. This scheme will
benefit the daughters
of the state. Most of
the beneficiaries are
those girls who did
not even have ac-
counts until some
time ago. But today
they have the power
of digital banking.
Now daughters of Ut-
tar Pradesh have de-
cided that they will
not let the previous
governments come
back to power.”
Attacking the Op-
position over the is-
sue of woman empow-
erment, PM Modi
said,
“The double engine
government is work-
ing relentlessly to em-
power the future of
daughters without
any discrimination
and favouritism. The
central government
has taken a decision.
Earlier the age of
marriage for sons was
21 years, but for
daughters, it was only
18 years.”
“Daughters wanted
that they should get
time for pursuing
studies, to progress
and get equal opportu-
nities. Efforts are be-
ing made to raise the
age of marriage to 21
years for daughters.
The country is taking
this decision for the
daughters, but people
can see some are trou-
bled by this
decision,”he stated.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses the women at
Parade Ground in Prayagraj on Tuesday.
PM meets women from SHGs. Prayagraj MP Rita Bahuguna Joshi and Dy CM Keshav Prasad
Maurya were also present.
WOMEN EMPOWERMENT EVENT IN
PRAYAGRAJ TRENDS ON TWITTER
Prayagraj: Twitter was abuzz with the news about
the display of women empowerment at Prayagraj
on Tuesday when PM Modi and UP Chief Minis-
ter Yogi Adityanath addressed around 2.5 lakh
female beneficiaries in a one of its kind event. The
hashtag #NariShaktiDeshKiShakti remained the
top trending topic in India on Twitter throughout
the day. As the hashtag #NariShaktiDeshKiShakti
became the top trend, it crossed over 1.5 billion
impressions and reached over 192 million people.
Double Engine
govt is working
relentlessly
to empower
women: PM
Pay farmers timely, instructs CM
First India Bureau
Lucknow: Paddy pro-
curement is progress-
ing smoothly in the
Kharif Marketing Sea-
son (KMS) 2021-22 from
farmers, at MSP like it
was done in the previ-
ous years. Chairing a
high-level meeting on
Tuesday, the CM direct-
ed the officials to en-
sure timely payment to
the farmers against the
purchase.
The UP government
has bought around
33.852 lakh metric
tonnes of paddy so far
benefitting more than
4.78 lakh farmers.
According to Com-
missioner, Food and
Civil Supplies, Sorabh
Babu, “As on December
21, total paddy worth
more than Rs 6077.91
crore has been pur-
chased from the farm-
ers, and the payment is
being made within 72
hours of the purchase
directly to their bank
accounts.”
As per the reports
given by the depart-
ments, state govern-
ment agencies and the
Food Corporation of
India (FCI) has pro-
cured more than 1.15
LMT of Paddy in the
last 24-hours.
The process of paddy
procurement is being
conducted smoothly in
the state.
Arrangements have
been made to ensure
farmers are not har-
assed by middlemen.
Strict monitoring is
also being done to make
the process smooth.
CM Yogi addresses the gathering at Parade Ground in Prayagraj.
CM Yogi has given
instructions to
light bonfires, set up
night shelters and op-
erate them effectively
in all the districts, ad-
equate arrangements
for cleanliness,
and also distribute
blankets to the needy
in view of the cold
wave.
CM Yogi has direct-
ed to increase
the number of beds
in 100 bed capacity
government hospitals
of Jhansi,
Mahoba,
Chitrakoot
districts
to 200.
Yogi Speaks
Yogi Speaks
‘Edu institutes should adopt five
villages and help them develop’
First India Bureau
Agra: The 86th convo-
cation ceremony of Dr.
Bhimrao Ambedkar
University, Agra was
organised on Tuesday
and was attended by the
Governor of Uttar
Pradesh and Chancel-
lor Anandiben Patel.
The Governor gave
out 109 medals to 69
meritorious students
and Chal Baijanti
award to 6 students. She
also distributed degree
certificates to other stu-
dents of the university
.
In her address Patel
said that the students
should use their educa-
tion to do innovative
things using locally
available resources.
She added that the
students should not
only use their educa-
tion for personal devel-
opment but also aid in
the development of the
society and country as
well.
She further called
upon the teachers to
give all round educa-
tion to students so that
the students can make
good use of their edu-
cation for the develop-
ment of the country.
The Governor said
that educational insti-
tutions should adopt 5
villages and develop
them to ensure social,
economic and cultural
upliftment of these
villages.
Governor Anandiben Patel at the convocation ceremony of
Bhimrao Amdekar University in Agra.
Free ration
to 82% in
Dec: Govt
First India Bureau
Lucknow: More
than 82% of benefi-
ciaries have bene-
fittted from the free
ration scheme in
December.
Commissioner,
Food and Supply
Department Sorabh
Babu said, “Till the
ninth day of De-
cember Regular
(NFSA) distribu-
tion, a total of
around 6,88,690.741
MT of ration
among ration hold-
ers of Antyodaya
and Eligible House-
holds Category
.”

UTTAR PRADESH
03
First India Bureau
Lucknow: A picture is
worth a thousand in-
deed. A seemingly in-
nocuous photo clicked
at a wedding reception
attended by leaders
from different political
parties has triggered a
political slugfest in poll-
bound Uttar Pradesh.
The photo, which was
taken at the wedding re-
ception of Vice-Presi-
dent Venkaiah Naidu’s
granddaughter at Del-
hi, showed Rashtriya
Swayamsevak Sangh
(RSS) chief Mohan
Bhagwat and Samajwa-
di Party (SP) patron
Mulayam Singh Yadav
sitting together.
As the picture tweet-
ed by Union Minister
Arjun Meghwal gained
traction, the UP Con-
gress tweeted which
roughly translates to,
“Is the S in the ‘new SP’
meant to be Sangha-
wad.” This seems
to have prompted a
reply from the BJP
which said a “picture
says a lot”.
According to reports,
the two leaders met at
the wedding reception
of Vice President Ven-
kaiah Naidu’s grand-
daughter in Delhi.
Though there were var-
ious leaders present at
the event, this photo-
graph has created a new
row.
Stung by the Con-
gress tweet, a furious
Samajwadi Party did
not hold back. The par-
ty hit back sharing an-
other photo of Yadav
exchanging pleasant-
ries with the Natioan-
list Congress Party
(NCP) supremo Sharad
Pawar and said the Con-
gress has forgotten po-
litical etiquette.
“The Congress has
put up a photo from an
event where leaders of
its ally NCP (National-
ist Congress Party) also
sought Netaji’s (Mu-
layam Singh) blessing.
What does the Congress
have to say to this?” the
Samajwadi Party re-
plied on the Congress
tweet.
MSY-Bhagwat in same frame triggers political slugfest in poll-bound UP
PARTIES SPAR

According
to reports,
Mulayam Singh
and Mohan
Bhagwat met at
the wedding
reception of Vice
President
Venkaiah Naidu’s
granddaughter
in Delhi
RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat seated along with former UP CM Mulayam Singh Yadav at the event.
CRUCIAL READ
TOP OFFICIALS INSPECT PREPARATIONS
FOR PM’S DEC 28 RALLY IN KANPUR
Kanpur: The district administration of Kanpur is busy
finalising preparations for public meeting ahead of
PM Modi’s visit to Kanpur on December 28. The
public meeting to be attended by PM and benefi-
ciaries of 16 departments is to be held at the Nirala
Nagar Maidan here, for which CM Yogi himself will be
visiting the city to take stock of the preparations. On
Tuesday, DM Vishak G, Police Commissioner Asim
Arun, Atul Kumar, ADM City and other administrative
officers inspected the spot of the public meeting.
LMC COMM. ADDL
COMM INSPECT
NIGHT SHELTERS
Lucknow: Municipal
Commissioner Ajay
Kumar Dwivedi and Addl
Municipal Commissioner
Pankaj Singh on Tues-
day inspected the night
shelters near KD Singh
Stadium, bonfires near
Balrampur Hospital, Kai-
ser Bagh bus stand and
other places. Total 238
bonfires were lit at major
intersections, night
shelters, hospitals,etc to
help the homeless brave
the cold wave.
SUB-INSPECTOR
TERMINATED
FOR TAKING BRIBE
Etawah: A woman sub-
inspector was termi-
nated after charges of
taking bribe were found
true in departmental
enquiry. The SI was
posted in police station
in Saifai and anti-cor-
ruption team had caught
her red handed in 2017.
Police said SI Geeta of
Kaudiram area under
Basgaon police sta-
tion area in Gorakhpur
district was accused of
taking Rs 20,000 bribe.
Muslim Personal Law Board
opposes raising marriage age
First India Bureau
Lucknow: Even as PM
NarendraModionTues-
day lauded the NDA
government’s decision
toincreasethemarriage
age of girls from 18 to 21
years, the All- India
Muslim Personal Law
Board (AIMPLB), an
apex body of Muslim
community
,hasopposed
the decision.
General secretary of
the board Maulana
Khalid Saifullah Rahm-
ani in a statement has
asked the Centre to re-
frain from fixing the age
to 21 years. Pointing out
that such a move was
interference in the per-
sonal liberty of the per-
son, the board said the
government should stay
away from making such
“useless and harmful
laws”.
The Union Cabinet
hadapprovedaproposal
to raise the minimum
legal age of marriage of
girl from 18 to 21 and
Modi especially men-
tioned about it while ad-
dressing a women’s ral-
ly in Prayagraj on Tues-
day. Modi said the gov-
ernment had taken this
decision to provide
equal opportunity to
girls in every sphere of
life.
However, not only the
Muslim Board but
Khaps of Jat communi-
ty in West UP have also
come out in opposition
to the decision. Sama-
jwadi Party MPs
Shafiqur-Rahman Barq
and ST Hasan had also
opposed the govern-
ment. But SP president
Akhilesh Yadav had dis-
tanced himself from
their statement.
Maulana Rahmani
said,“Marriageisavery
important requirement
forhumanlifebutnoage
of marriage can be fixed
as it is also an issue re-
lated to the protection of
the moral values.”
“No particular age
can be considered as a
criterion for marriage,
while it has to do with
health and well-being, it
also has to do with the
protection of the moral
valuesinthesocietyand
the protection of the so-
ciety from the moral de-
pravity, that is why not
only in Islam but also in
other religion no age of
marriage has been
fixed,” he added.
First India Bureau
Lucknow: With dedi-
cated efforts of the Ut-
tar Pradesh govern-
ment towards making
the state ‘self-reliant’
in oxygen generation,
over 550 oxygen pro-
ducing plants in the
state have been opera-
tionalised.
Ensuring adequate
availabilityof medical
oxygen, the state gov-
ernment on Tuesday
announced that as
many as 551 oxygen
plants have already
been set up in Uttar
Pradesh while work to
get the other 10 plants
functional is going on
a war-footing.
In a proactive move
to equip the state with
medical oxygen, 561
oxygen plants were
sanctioned during the
second Covid-19 wave,
With as many as 23
plants becoming func-
tional in the span of
less than two weeks,
the government is
working on a mission
mode to ensure the
presence of all medi-
cal resources.
While reviewing the
Covid-19 situation
across the state in a
high-level meeting
with senior officials,
the CM said, “23 more
oxygen plants have be-
comefunctionalinless
than 2 weeks. The pro-
cess of establishing
the remaining under-
construction plants
shouldbecompletedin
atime-boundmanner.”
The CM further em-
phasised the impor-
tance of full vaccina-
tionsaying,“Complete
vaccinationhasproved
to be effective in fight-
ing new variants,
hence, the pace of the
ongoing vaccination
drive should be expe-
dited. All those who
have not taken the sec-
ond dose despite the
stipulatedtime,should
be contacted.”
Real-time monitor-
ing of the installation
workhasbeenplanned,
withthedistrictadmin-
istrations being asked
to continuously moni-
tor the progress of in-
stallationworkof these
plants and ensure the
availability of raw ma-
terial so that it can be
completed on time.
First India Bureau
Lucknow: Chief Sec-
retary Rajendra Ku-
mar Tiwari, on Tuesday
chaired a meeting to
review the updated pro-
gress of Smart City
Scheme, Amrit Yojana
and Namami Gange
Scheme.
In his address Tiwari
said under the Smart
City Scheme, if DPRs
for certain cities are yet
to be prepared, they
should be prepared by
December 31. He fur-
ther directed the offi-
cials to ensure that
work orders be issued
getting the remaining
tenders approved for
the Smart City scheme
by January 5, 2022.
The CS during the
meeting directed Divi-
sional Commissioner
and Municipal Com-
missioner of Lucknow
and Bareilly to ensure
that all the under-con-
struction projects are
completed at the earli-
est and review of the
progress of these pro-
jects be held on daily
basis.
He further directed
the officers to conduct
on-site inspection of all
the projects related to
Smart City Scheme this
week and inspect the
amount of machinery
and manpower de-
ployed at these projects.
Muzaffarnagar: A
womanwasshotdeadal-
legedly by her husband
overmonetarydisputeat
a village in Budhana
area here, police said.
The incident hap-
pened in Nagwa village
on Monday night when
Alka(30)wasfounddead
in her bed with bullet in-
juries, the police said.
Circle Officer Vinay
Gautam said Tuesday
her husband Manoj Ku-
mar and father-in-law
were taken into custody
.
According to the po-
lice,Alkawasmarriedto
Pramod five years ago
and after his murder 2.5
yrs ago, she was re-mar-
ried to her brother-in-
law Manoj. The victim
had some cash in her ac-
count and Manoj was al-
legedly demanding that
but she refused. —PTI
First India Bureau
Lucknow: Nitin
Ramesh Gokarn, Princi-
pal Secretary
, Public
Works Department UP
was honoured with the
77th SKOCH Public Ser-
viceAwardforhisdistin-
guished contribution in
civil works during the
SKOCH Summit held at
theWordHabitatCentre,
New Delhi.
The remarkable ef-
forts of Gokarn have
given new identity to UP
by expanding the road
network and to PWD by
effectively implement-
ing e-services in man-
agement.
The SKOCH Award is
counted as the country’s
prestigious non-govern-
mentawardgiventogov-
ernment and non-gov-
ernment organisations
and individuals for their
remarkable service.
All- India Muslim Personal Law Board General Secretary Maulana Khalid Saifullah Rahmani.
Maulana Rahmani said, “If a boy or girl feels the
need for marriage then forbidding him/her is cru-
elty and an interference in the personal freedom
of an adult. This can lead to an increase in crime
in the society.”
‘IF SOMEONE FEELS THE NEED FOR
MARRIAGE, IT IS CRUEL TO STOP HIM’
Over 550 oxy plants ready
to face any health exigency
—FILE PHOTO
Along with
hospitals and
med colleges,
oxygen plants
are also being
set up at CHCs
and PHCs
across UP
SKOCH award to Gokarn
CS Tiwari chairs review meet
to assess Smart City progress
The CS was informed total 504 projects worth Rs. 9,309
crore had been approved till December 16, under Smart
City plan of which DPR for 479 projects worth Rs 8,858
crore has been approved and tender for 386 projects
worth Rs 7,754 crore have been issued. He was further
informed that 161 projects costing Rs. 2,093 crore have
already been completed and work on 225 projects is on.
500 PROJECTS APPROVED TILL DEC 16
Woman shot
dead by hubby
following tiff
First India Bureau
Lucknow: Congress
General Secretary Pri-
yanka Gandhi Vadra
on Tuesday alleged
that her children’s Ins-
tagram accounts had
been hacked.
“Leave phone tap-
ping, even Instagram
account of my chil-
dren have been
hacked,” Priyanka
told reporters when
asked about allega-
tionsof phonetapping
of opposition leaders
by the government.
“Does the govern-
ment have no other
work?” she asked.
TheCongressleader
made the allegation
two days after Sama-
jwadi Party president
Akhilesh Yadav ac-
cused CM Yogi Adity-
anath of getting his
telephones tapped and
listening to the record-
ings of his conversa-
tions every evening.
‘Instagramaccounts
ofmychildrenhacked’
LADKI HOON...
As the picture tweeted
by Union Minister
Arjun Meghwal gained
traction, the UP Con-
gress tweeted which
roughly translates
to, “Is the S in the
‘new SP’ meant to be
Sanghawad.” To this
from the BJP wrote a
“picture says a lot”.
A PICTURE SAYS
A LOT, QUIPS BJP
PWD PS Ramesh Gokarn
—FILE
PHOTO

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SPIRITUAL SPEAK
The spirit is beyond
destruction. No one can
bring an end to spirit
which is everlasting.
—Bhagavad Gita
IN-DEPTH
Piyush Goyal
@PiyushGoyal
Held a meeting with Food Ministers
from various states. Inaugurated the
Rice Fortification Dashboard and
held wide ranging discussions on
community kitchens as well as Fair
Price Shop transformation to ensure
food security nutrition for all.
Avinash Pande
@avinashpandeinc
On behalf of the Uttarakhand
Screening Committee, thanks to all the
applicants, State Congress Committee
and District Congress Committee
office bearers for their cooperation.
@INCUttarakhand is definitely headed
for victory. @INCIndia
@kcvenugopalmp
TOP TWEETS
PUTIN’S
UKRAINE
FORMULA
s reports pile up
about Russia’s mili-
tary mobilization on
Ukraine’s border and
the Kremlin’s diplo-
matic demands, questions
abound. What is going on? What
will come next? Will Russia in-
vade? In fact, Russian President
Vladimir Putin is following an
eight-year-old script.
In the fall of 2013, Putin’s gov-
ernment launched a multifac-
eted offensive to prevent
Ukraine, Moldova, and Armenia
from signing free-trade agree-
ments with the European Un-
ion. That set off a gradually
deepening crisis that would pro-
foundly alter Ukraine’s domes-
tic politics, Russia’s position in
Europe, and the future of NATO.
Less than a year later, Russia an-
nexed Crimea and embarked on
a barely disguised effort to dis-
mantle the rest of Ukraine. The
Kremlin then launched two
more incursions into eastern
Ukraine to save the separatist
statelets that it had managed to
set up there. Since then, 14,000
people have died in this low-level
“frozen” conflict.
PROJECT-SYNDICATE.ORG
A
fter a year in
which people
longed to get back
to “normal,” it is
now clear that
COVID-19 will not make this
possible. The pandemic, now
heading into its third year,
has profoundly affected indi-
viduals, communities, coun-
tries, and international coop-
eration, creating four tough
challenges for 2022. Rebuild-
ing trust will be critical to
confronting all of them.
The first challenge is that
people’s relationship to work
has changed. In some coun-
tries, lockdowns, the death of
loved ones, and the general
uncertainty of the pandemic
have prompted or accelerated
arethink.IntheUnitedStates,
the number of workers quit-
ting their jobs exceeded four
million in each month from
July to October 2021. Many
young Chinese are joining the
“lie flat” movement by opting
outof longworkinghours,do-
ing the bare minimum to get
by
, and striving for only what
is absolutely essential for sur-
vival.Thepandemichasdeep-
ened the divide between those
who can work from home and
the many who cannot.
In 2022, people need to
trust that going back to work
will genuinely improve their
lives. Getting to that point
will require action by both
governments and companies.
Investment to help remedy
the disruption in education
caused by COVID-19 is cru-
cial. Some 1.6 billion students
in 180 countries were kept out
of school as a result of the
pandemic. Establishing pro-
grams to help students catch
up – and gain the skills and
training needed for the twen-
ty-first-century economy –
will help them get better jobs.
PROJECT-SYNDICATE.ORG
KEY TO COVID POWERED
CHALLENGES OF 2022
The first challenge is
that people’s
relationship to work has
changed. In some
countries, lockdowns, the
death of loved ones, and
the general uncertainty of
the pandemic
have prompted or
accelerated a rethink
A
KMC OUTCOME A REASON
TO REJOICE FOR TMC
ven as the Trinamool supre-
mo was busy with the Goa
campaigning, her party work-
ers were led by Abhishek Ba-
nerjeeduringtheslogoversto
the run up to the crucial KMC
elections and on Tuesday
, the
TMC left its indelible mark on
the civic polls. By noon, the
writing on the wall was clear.
TMC had taken a lead in 133
out of 144 wards in the Kolka-
ta Municipal poll elections.
Earlier, the elections were
held on December 19 which
registered a 64 per cent turn-
out. With this civic poll vic-
tory, it was TMC’s third con-
secutive win in the Kolkata
Municipal elections.
As the TMC was leading in
133 of 144 KC seats while this
article was being written,
party supremo and West Ben-
gal CM Mamata Banerjee
said TMC maintained a
“landslide victory” as they
work at the grassroots. “Kol-
kata is now the safest city (in
the country). We have al-
ready beautified the city
. My
intention now is to see that
urban area, semi urban area
and village areas are devel-
oped,” she said.
Earlier, on Sunday sporad-
ic incidents of violence, in-
cluding hurling of two crude
bombs at two booths, marred
the KMC elections on Sunday
as nearly 40.5 lakh voters ex-
ercised their franchise.
In 2015, TMC had won 113
seats which was, so far, the
highest in recent times and
this year it has broken its
previous records turning the
Opposition into absolute
minnows. All the 16 boroughs
have been under the control
of Trinamool Congress.
Till late noon, no one from
the saffron camp had given
any comment neither was
there any tweet.
In a little over six months,
that the TMC has again
drubbed the BJP… but this
time the BJP was minus the
star power.
The TMC has bettered its
positionintheKMCbyatleast
20 seats as compared to the re-
sults of 2015 KMC elections.
It may be recalled earlier
that despite the starry cam-
paign by the BJP in 2021, the
TMC managed 215 seats and
BJP ended with 77. And by
November-end… defections
and desertions had reduced
the BJP to 70 and left the
TMC hovering around 221.
The Assembly poll story
might be hugely rejoicing for
the TMC, but Mamata had to
prove a point as she had lost
to Suvendu Adhikari in a
keenly contested contest at
Nandigram. She, however,
fought back and was su-
premely in power from Bha-
wanipore. Since then, Didi as
she is fondly known, has left
for the national vista to
broaden her party’s pros-
pects. Earlier, during the elec-
tion day… the Leader of Op-
position and BJP leader, Suv-
enduAdhikarihadsaid…“We
werepreventedbypoliceaswe
came out of my house where I
was holding a meeting. Police
hasnorighttopreventusfrom
going to Kolkata. Bidhanna-
gar Police has no role and this
is not the jurisdiction of Kol-
kata Municipal polls. My resi-
dence is in Bidhanagar Mu-
nicipality area and the police
have no right to stop us.”
Even the West Bengal Gov-
ernor,JagdeepDhankhar,had
tweeted, “Leader of Opposi-
tion has communicated “In
Salt Lake my residence was
totally blocked by Bidhanna-
garpolicewhere20BJPMLAs
including some state leaders
stayed. regards Suvendu
Adhikari Lop WBLA”. He also
mentioned that a delegation
of BJP MLAs will meet him
today on the issue.
However, in politics it is
kabhi khushi kabhi gham. If
the KMC outcome was a rea-
son to rejoice overwhelm-
ingly, grapevine has it that
Mamata who flew to Guwa-
hati to seek the blessings of
Ma Kamakhya and from
there she is expected to visit
Shillong where everything is
not so fine for the party
.
Frombeingtheprincipalop-
position party in Meghalaya
until of late, a beleaguered
Congress decided to support
the ruling National People’s
Party led by CM Conrad Sang-
ma,in“interestof thepeople.”
“We have decided to offer
our support to the govern-
ment on the aspect of govern-
ance in greater interest of
the people of Meghalaya,”
Congress leader Ampareen
Lyngdoh said.
In November, the Congress
suffered a huge loss when 12
of its 17 MLAs led by former
chief minister Mukul Sang-
ma defected to the Trina-
mool. The development re-
duced the Grand Old Party
(Congress) to a smaller party
and made the Trinamool the
state’s principal opposition
in a matter of time.
But in deciding to support
the current government, the
CongressgotclosertotheBJP
,
an NPP ally and a constituent
of the Meghalaya Democratic
Alliance (MDA) government.
The Trinamool said after it
emerged in Meghalaya, the
Congress was, perhaps, feel-
ing threatened. “But our in-
tention is not to threaten any-
body. We want to build the
party that will work for the
people,” TMC state chief
Charles Pyngrope said.
Mamata, as political sourc-
es say… will visit Shillong
after her Guwahati trip to
gauge the situation.
THE VIEWS EXPRESSED BY
THE AUTHOR ARE PERSONAL
E
Assembly poll story might be
hugely rejoicing for TMC,
but Mamata had to prove a
point as she had lost to
Suvendu Adhikari in a
keenly contested contest at
Nandigram. She, however,
fought back was supremely
in power from Bhawanipore.
Since then, Didi as she is
fondly known, has left for the
national vista to broaden her
party’s prospects
As the TMC was
leading in 133 of 144
KC seats while this
article was being written,
party supremo and West
Bengal CM Mamata
Banerjee said TMC
maintained a “landslide
victory” as they work
at the grassroots
ROBIN ROY
The writer is Senior Associate Editor,
Free Press Journal, Mumbai and former
Managing Editor, First India
West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee offering prayers at
Maa Kamakhya temple, in Guwahati on Tuesday. —PHOTO BY ANI

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INDIA
05
Goa:ECholdsmeetwithpol
partiesaheadofelections
Panaji: The Election
Commission of India
held a meeting with the
representatives of all
political parties in Goa
on Tuesday, months
ahead of the Assembly
election.
The meeting was
chaired by Chief Elec-
tion Commissioner Su-
shil Chandra and other
members of the com-
mission were present.
The meeting was held at
Hotel DoubleTree by
Hilton. Representatives
of BJP, Congress, TMC,
M a h a r a s h t r aw a d i
Gomantak Party
(MGP), Goa Forward
Party (GFP) met the
CEC.
After the meeting,
representatives of par-
ties said that they have
given some suggestions
to the Commission.
BJP Goa unit presi-
dent Sadanand Tana-
vade and Senior Con-
gress leader Altin
Gomes appreciated the
online registration sys-
tem of the SUVIDHA
App by the Election
Commission.
The GFP and BJP re-
quested the Commis-
sion to delay the imple-
mentation of model
code of conduct in the
State. —ANI
Plea in SC for fresh
Nat’l accreditation
policy for hospitals
New Delhi: A plea has
been filed in the Su-
preme Court seeking a
fresh national accredi-
tation policy that en-
sures the optimum doc-
tor to patient and nurse
to patient ratio is ad-
hered to in all the Na-
tional Accreditation
Board for Hospitals and
Healthcare Providers
(NABH) hospitals and
those who apply for ac-
creditation.
The plea filed by the
Indian Professional
Nurses Association, a
non-governmental reg-
istered body working
for the welfare of the
nurses across India,
also prayed to direct the
Quality Council of In-
dia and the National Ac-
creditation Board for
Hospitals and Health-
care Providers (NABH)
to place on record the
documents it peruses
while granting accredi-
tation. The plea also
sought direction for
forming a committee to
monitor the quality of
patient care, patient
safety and satisfaction.
The petitioner said
that the plea has been
filed in light of the RTI
responses and also in
the context of the over-
burden put on medical
staff during the ongoing
pandemic. In the RTI re-
sponse, Quality Council
of India admits that it
has no specified norms
related to the patient-
nurses ratio. —ANI
IN THE COURTYARD
Govt plans review plea for
OBC quota in local polls
New Delhi: The Union
government plans to file
a review petition in the
Supreme Court to allow
political reservation of
other backward classes
(OBC) in local bodies
and municipal corpora-
tions “for the time be-
ing” till the states meet
the criteria set by the
top court, a government
statement issued late on
Monday said.
The government plan
comes after the Su-
preme Court, in sepa-
rate verdicts delivered
over the past fortnight,
struck down 27% reser-
vation for OBCs in local
body elections in Maha-
rashtra and Madhya
Pradesh citing the ab-
sence of empirical data
on OBC.
The union ministry
of social justice and em-
powerment said it is
consulting the law min-
istry and other stake-
holders in this regard.
How apt is Cong’s appointment of in-charges?
Sharat K Verma
New Delhi: Is any work
being done in the Con-
gress party under some
plan, or is it a free meal
for all? This important
question is being raised
by party leaders and in
informal conversations,
the party leaders have
raised several logical
questions regarding the
appointment of Con-
gress in-charges.
Like some time back,
questionhadarisenasto
why Harish Rawat was
keptinchargeof Punjab
when elections are to be
held simultaneously in
Punjabandhisownstate
Uttarakhand?
He was earlier in
charge of Assam, from
where he was made in
charge of Punjab. Simi-
larly
, now it is being
asked that Imran
Masood has been made
in charge of Delhi even
whenthereisanelection
in his own state Uttar
Pradesh. Meanwhile
therearetalksof Masood
joiningtheSPbuthewas
madein-chargeof Delhi.
However, perhaps the
biggest question of all
this is as to why is Dev-
endra Yadav made in
charge of Uttarakhand?
Yadav vote in the state is
negligible and there is a
kind of prejudice to-
wards Yadavs since the
firing on the agitators
of Uttarakhand under
Samajwadi Party rule.
It is worth noting that
in 1994 when Mulayam
Singh Yadav was the
Chief Minister, seven
people were killed at
Rampur Tiraha when
agitators demanding
for the state of Uttara-
khand were fired upon.
Even though Devendra
Yadav has nothing to do
with Mulayam Singh
Yadav, but only after lis-
tening the word Yadav,
people here get upset.
Brahmin and Rajput
voters are in majority
in the state but Con-
gress has kept Deven-
dra Yadav as in-charge.
Banned Assam outfit inches
towards peace talks with govt
Guwahati: The Kamta-
pur Liberation Organi-
zation — a banned sepa-
ratist group active in
western Assam and
northern Bengal — is
inching closer to re-
suming peace talks
with the government.
The KLO was once al-
lied to ULFA, or the
United Liberation Front
of Asom, in Bhutan and
Myanmar, wants a sepa-
rate Kamtapur state for
the Koch Rajbongshi
community
.
On Tuesday, in a vid-
eo message sent from an
undisclosed location,
Koch Pavel, the KLO’s
Foreign Secretary, re-
minded the government
of the Cooch Behar
Merger Agreement that
recognised Kamtapur
as a “full-fledged con-
stituent state of Union
of India”. —Agencies
Meghwal: Govt will consider revoking
suspension if Opposition MPs apologise
New Delhi: Union Min-
ister Arjun Ram Megh-
wal on Tuesday said
that the 12 suspended
Rajya Sabha MPs from
the Opposition had low-
ered Parliament’s dig-
nity while adding that
the government will
consider revoking the
suspension if they apol-
ogise.
“They have (sus-
pended MPs) lowered
Parliament’s dignity.
They should have some
remorse. If they apolo-
gise, the government
will think about revok-
ing the suspension. It
has been Parliamenta-
ry tradition if some
MP does something to
lower Parliament’s dig-
nity, they apologised,”
Meghwal told the me-
dia. Union Min AR
Meghwal Asked about
the Bharatiya Janata
Party (BJP) Parliamen-
tary Party meeting, the
Union Minister said,
“Union Law Minister
Kiren Rijiju gave a
presentation that why
does the country need
the Election Laws
(Amendment) Bill that
was passed in the Lok
Sabha yesterday. Our
national president (JP
Nadda) addressed us at
the end that we have to
celebrate December 25,
the birth anniversary
of Atal Bihari Vajpay-
ee, as Good Govern-
ance Day.”
Since the beginning
of the Winter Session
on November 29, Rajya
Sabha has been facing a
ruckus over the revoca-
tion of the suspension
of 12 MPs from the
House. —ANI
Ruckus continues in Parliament; Suspended MPs have lowered Parl’s dignity, says Union Min
Delhi Police acted
swiftly: MoS Rai
New Delhi: Union
Minister of State for
Home Nityanand
Rai on Tuesday in-
formed the Lok Sab-
ha that Delhi Police
acted swiftly in an
impartial and fair
manner during the
violence in the North-
east part of Delhi in
Feb 2020.
Rai in a written re-
ply to Lok Sabha MP
Thomas Chazhikadan
said,“DelhiPo-
lice makes sus-
tained efforts
to obviate the occur-
renceof anyuntoward
incident in the NCT of
Delhi. During the vio-
lenceintheNorth-East
partof Delhi,DelhiPo-
lice acted swiftly in an
impartial and fair
manner.” MoS Home
further inform Lower
Housethatproportion-
ateandappropriateac-
tions were taken by
Delhi Police to control
the situation.
“ S i n c e re,
dedicated and
incessant ef-
forts made by Delhi
Police brought riot-
ous situation to nor-
malcy within a short
span of time and also
prevented riots from
spreading across to
other areas of Delhi/
NCR” he added. —ANI
BJP PARLIAMENTARY
PARTY MEETING BEGINS
New Delhi: BJP Parlia-
mentary Party meeting
has commenced at the
Ambedkar Interna-
tional Center in the
national Capital on
Tuesday. Prime Minister
Narendra Modi is not
attending the meeting.
Union Home Minister
Amit Shah, Finance
Minister Nirmala Si-
tharaman; Ports, Ship-
ping and Waterways
Minister Sarbananda
Sonowal, Minister of
State (MoS) for Food
Processing Industries
Prahlad Singh Patel;
Environment, Forest
and Climate Change
Minister Bhupender
Yadav, MoS Ministry
of External Affairs V
Muraleedharan and
other union ministers
are present at the meet-
ing. BJP chief JP Nadda
and other party MPs
are also present at the
meeting. In its notice,
the BJP Parliamentary
Party has requested
the attendance of all
BJP members of both
Lok Sabha and Rajya
Sabha. The winter
session of Parliament is
scheduled to culminate
on 23 December. —ANI
Oppn MPs hold march seeking
MoS Ajay Mishra’s suspension
New Delhi: Several
Opposition MPs of
both the Houses on
Tuesday marched from
the Mahatma Gandhi
statue in Parliament to
Vijay Chowk, demand-
ing suspension of Min-
ister of State for Home
Affairs Ajay Mishra
Teni over Lakhimpur
Kheri incident.
Congress leaders Ra-
hul Gandhi, Adhir Ran-
jan Chowdhury, Leader
of Opposition in Rajya
Sabha Mallikarjun
Kharge, Shiv Sena MP
Sanjay Raut, Trinamool
Congress MP Dola Sen
among others partici-
pated in the march. At
least 17 political parties
joined the protest
march including Shiv
Sena, TMC, NCP, Con-
gress, DMK and others.
Earlier today, the Op-
position leaders held a
meeting in the Parlia-
ment on Tuesday to
chalk out the floor strat-
egy for the day
.
Some of them were
seen carrying placards
that read “Sack MoS
Home”.
Teni’s son Ashish is
accused in the Lakhim-
pur Kheri case and is
presently in jail.
Rahul Gandhi while
addressing the media at
Vijay Chowk accused
Prime Minister Naren-
dra Modi of inaction
over the Opposition’s
demand for Teni’s dis-
missal. —ANI
LAKHIMPUR KHERI INCIDENT
Union Home Minister Amit Shah arrives to attend the BJP Parliamentary Party meeting at Ambedkar
International Centre in New Delhi on Tuesday. —PHOTO BY ANI
Rahul Gandhi along with Oppn MPs including Sanjay Raut, Adhir
Ranjan Choudhary, Mallikarjun Kharge, Anand Sharma others
march from Gandhi statue to Vijay Chowk on Tuesday.
N-E DELHI
VIOLENCE
Anita Hada
New Delhi: The in-
fighting within Bharati-
ya Janata Party (BJP)
in West Bengal does not
seem to be ending any-
time soon and the move
of replacing Dilip
Ghosh by making Su-
kanta Majumdar the
state president, does
not seem to be paying
any dividends.
On the contrary
, since
then, the internal strife
and controversies in
the party have also in-
tensified. Many senior
party leaders, who have
been associated with
the BJP for decades, are
angry with the politics
of Suvendu Adhikari,
who is joined BJP from
Trinamool.
Former Governor
Tathagata Roy, who was
a senior leader of the
party, targeted the in-
charge of the state and
the state leadership sev-
eral times and levelled
some serious allega-
tions regarding the
policies of the party
and the selection of
candidates.
Now, BJP MP Roopa
Ganguly has also made
similar allegations
stressing that the party
has sold tickets in the
Kolkata Municipal Cor-
poration elections,
claiming that she has
proof of this. She has
also said that she is not
an office-bearer of the
party, so she has no re-
sponsibility
. Ganguly is
a nominated member of
Rajya Sabha and her
term is to end in Octo-
ber next year. She has
an idea that the party
will not send her to the
Rajya Sabha again, that
is why she is separating
herself.
But apart from Gan-
guly, many other lead-
ers had levelled allega-
tions of tickets being
sold in the Assembly
elections and similar al-
legations are being
made in the corpora-
tion elections as well.
Bengal BJP’s internal strife does not seem to be ending!
POLITICAL SCHISM
lll
Now, BJP MP
Roopa Ganguly
has also made
allegations
stressing that
the party has
sold tickets in
the Kolkata Civic
polls, claiming
that she has
proof of this
Sukanta Majumdar Dilip Ghosh

INDIA
06
NIPUN ANTI-PERSONNEL MINES
ARMY GETS WEAPONS BOOST FOR PAK, CHINA BORDERS
New Delhi: The Indi-
an Army is set to re-
ceive indigenously de-
signed and developed
anti-personnel and
anti-tank mines,
which will help secu-
rity personnel foil at-
tempts made by adver-
saries on the borders
with Pakistan and
China.
“The Indian Army
is going to induct 7
lakh indigenously de-
veloped ‘Nipun’ anti-
personnel mines
which carry a potent
mix of RDX,” a secu-
rity official familiar
with the developments
also told.
The Corps of Engi-
neers is showcasing
the indigenous equip-
ment in Pune, which
were inducted into the
army for carrying out
anti-terror operations
against the enemy as
well as defending its
own areas.
“The Indian Army
started inducting 200
high head water
pumps which can help
pump water and fuel to
locations at higher al-
titudes in those areas.
Two hundred of these
pumps are being in-
ducted into the Corps
of Engineers under
the emergency pro-
curement powers,” the
official of the depart-
ment added. —ANI
Indian Ar-
my’s Corpo-
rations of En-
gineers getting a new
set of anti-personnel
and anti-tank mines
for acting as the first
line of Indian defence
against enemy infan-
try and armoured
columns or terrorist
trying to infiltrate
into own territory.
—Army official
The Corps of Engineers is showcasing the
indigenous equipment in Pune which were
inducted into the army for carrying out anti-
terror operations against the enemy as well
as defending its own areas. Nipun mines
were developed by an Indian firm in
partnership with the DRDO
POLLS IN MIND! PUNJAB CONG PANEL
HOLDS MEETING WITH RAGA IN DELHI
New Delhi: Members
of the AICC Screening
Committee for Punjab
on Tuesday held a meet-
ing with party leader
Rahul Gandhi at his
residence in the nation-
al capital.
Congress General
Secretary (Organisa-
tion) KC Venugopal and
AICC in-Incharge of
Punjab, Harish Choud-
hary, were present at
the meeting. Punjab as-
sembly polls are sched-
uled to be held in 2022.
In 2017 Punjab As-
sembly polls, Cong won
an absolute majority in
state by winning 77
seats ousted SAD-BJP
govt after 10 years. —ANI
New Delhi: Union
Minister of Jal Shakti,
Gajendra Singh Shek-
hawat, said on Tues-
day that Congress has
no right to raise the
issue of mob lynching,
as the biggest incident
of lynching in the his-
tory of Independent
India happened during
Rajiv Gandhi’s era.
Shekhawat’s re-
sponse came hours af-
ter Congress leader
Rahul Gandhi tweeted,
“Before 2014, the word
‘lynching’ was practi-
cally unheard of.
#ThankYouModiJi.”
BJP national spokes-
person RP Singh said,
“Rahul Gandhi forgets
that his father Rajiv
Gandhi supported mob
lynching of more than
3,000 Sikhs by Con-
gress MPs and work-
ers.”
Referring to Rajiv
Gandhi’s comment,
‘Jab bhi bada ped girta
hai, dharti hilti hai’
(whenever a big tree
falls, the earth shakes),
another BJP leader,
Manjinder Singh Sir-
sa, said, “It is true that
Rahul Gandhi didn’t
hear about lynching
before 2014, because
they equated the kill-
ings of thousands of
innocent Sikhs with
fall of big tree.” —ANI
Biggest lynching in Independent
India happened in Rajiv’s era: BJP
Punjab Assembly polls are
scheduled in 2022
KC Venugopal and Harish
Choudhary were present
Chhattisgarh CM in Delhi,likely
to meet Congress high command Gajendra Singh Shekhawat with Bhupender Yadav felicitates former Punjab Cabinet Minister Rana
Gurmit Singh Sodhi as he joins BJP during an event, at party headquarters, in New Delhi on Tuesday.
Rahul Gandhi addresses media at Vijay Chowk in Delhi on Tuesday.
New Delhi: Rahul
Gandhi on Tuesday
again lashed out at
the media when asked
about his latest tweet
on lynching and told
the journalist to stop
working as a govt
agent. When ques-
tioned, the Cong MP,
who was addressing
media at Vijay Chowk,
lost his cool and said,
“Sarkar ki dalali mat
kijiye (Don’t be an
agent of the govt).”
New Delhi: Attacking
the Centre, Congress
leader Rahul Gandhi
on Tuesday said the
incidents of lynch-
ing were unheard of
before the Bharatiya
Janata Party (BJP)-led
government came
to power in 2014.
Taking to Twitter,
Rahul Gandhi said,
“Before 2014, the
word ‘lynching’ was
practically unheard of.
#Thank you Modi Ji.”
RAGA: BEFORE
2014, WORD
‘LYNCHING’
WAS UNHEARD
RAHUL LASHES
OUT AT MEDIA,
SAYS ‘STOP
GOVT DALALI’
1 2
New Delhi: Chhattis-
garh Chief Minister
Bhupesh Baghel is vis-
iting New Delhi where
he is likely to meet par-
ty leaders Sonia Gandhi
and Rahu Gandhi on
Tuesday
.
According to sources,
there might be meet-
ings with Congress in-
terim president Sonia
Gandhi, party MP Ra-
hul Gandhi and Con-
gress general secretary
Priyanka Gandhi.
Baghel is also sched-
uled to visit Uttar
Pradesh for two days
where he will address
public meetings and
election rallies along
with Congress Uttar
Pradesh in-charge Pri-
yanka Gandhi in Luc-
know and Lakhimpur
Kheri and other areas.
Assembly polls in Ut-
tar Pradesh are slated
for early next year. —ANI
CRUCIAL READ
New Delhi: President Ram Nath Kovind visits Kerala on
Tuesday. As per the official statement, President will be in
Kerala from December
21 to 24. “On Decem-
ber 21, the President
addressed the fifth con-
vocation of the Central
University of Kerala in
Kasargod,” reads the
release. “On December
22, the President will witness the operational demonstra-
tion by the Southern Naval Command in Kochi,” it added.
Mumbai: Bollywood actor Aishwarya Rai Bachchan
returned to Mumbai Tuesday night after appearing before
Enforcement Directorate in New Delhi in connection
with the Panama Papers leak case. The ED on Monday
questioned Bollywood actor Aishwarya Rai Bachchan for
nearly 5 hours in the Panama Papers case. She deposed
before the investigators following the summons issued by
the federal agency against her to join the probe.
Dehradun: Uttrakhand
Chief Minister Pushkar
Singh Dhami injured
his hand during a
cricket match on
Tuesday. The match
was organised in Deh-
radun’s Abhimanyu
Cricket Academy
between Chief Min-
ister 11 Vs BJP Yuva
Morcha. Dhami was
playing for Chief Min-
ister 11. Despite his
injury, the Uttarakhand
chief minister played
the match and led his
team, Chief Minister
11, to victory.
Pune: Defence Minis-
ter Rajnath Singh on
Tuesday witnessed a
MAE and inaugurated
an equipment display
on the second day of
PANEX-21, a HADR
Exercise for BIMSTEC
member nations,
organised at College of
Military Engineering in
Pune. Singh witnessed
a demonstration of ca-
pabilities of the IAF to
launch swift, coordi-
nated and incremental
relief efforts in case of
occurrence of calamity
in a particular region.
PRESIDENT KOVIND’S KERALA VISIT BEGINS
AISHWARYA RAI BACHCHAN RETURNS TO
MUMBAI AFTER BEING GRILLED BY ED
U’KHAND CM
PLAYS CRICKET
MATCH DESPITE
BEING INJURED
INDIA READY TO
HELP COUNTRIES
IN BAY OF BENGAL:
RAJNATH SINGH
GUJJARS, BAKERWALS
FROM JK’S TRIBAL
COMMUNITY THANK PM
New Delhi: The In-
come Tax Department
carried out a search
and seizure operation
on a Neyveli based
group, engaged in the
business of chit funds,
finance and real estate.
As per an official re-
lease, the IT depart-
ment conducted the
search operation on De-
cember 16. The group
also runs educational
institutions through its
trusts. The search ac-
tion covered around 30
premises located at var-
ious places like Neyveli,
Chennai, Coimbatore,
Nilgiris, etc.
The search action has
led to the seizure of un-
accounted cash of more
than Rs 12 crore.
During the course of
the search operations, a
remotely located cloud
server containing a par-
allel set of books of ac-
count secretly main-
tained by key persons
of the group has been
unearthed. Various doc-
umentary and digital
evidence have also been
seized. —ANI
Jammu: Leaders of the
People’s Alliance for
Gupkar Declaration
(PAGD) on Tuesday
termed the draft pro-
posals by the Delimita-
tion Commission as ‘di-
visive’ and said they
will stage a peaceful
protest against the draft
proposals on January 1,
2022.
The PAGD leaders
met at the residence of
National Conference
president and Lok Sab-
ha member Farooq Ab-
dullah here on Tuesday
.
MY Tarigami of the
CPI-M, who is the PAGD
spokesman said that ab-
rogation of Article 370
and 35-A was unconsti-
tutional and the step
was taken without tak-
ing into confidence the
stakeholders from JK
and Ladakh.
Tarigami Farooq Ab-
dullah and other mem-
bers of commission re-
iterated in commission
meeting that proposal is
not as per the wishes
and interests of people
and is just a step to cre-
ate wedge on regional,
community basis. —ANI
Panaji: Prime Minister
Narendra Modi is the
first politician from In-
dependent India to be
recognised as a world
leader, Goa CM Pramod
Sawant said on Tues-
day. “Prime Minister
Narendra Modi’s drive
to carve out a new India
has given him the iden-
tity of a world leader,”
Sawant said at a state
govt function here. “In
the 75 years of coun-
try’s Independence, this
is the first time that
such an honour has
been associated with In-
dia. This is very impor-
tant from our perspec-
tive,” he added. —ANI
PAGD leaders call delimitation
commission proposals ‘divisive’
BJP usurped
temple land in
Maha, siphoned
off crores: Malik
‘Modi 1st Indian to be known as world leader’
PAGD President Farooq Abdullah, alliance spokesperson MY Tarigami, alliance VP Mehbooba Mufti
and other leaders speak to media after a meeting at Abdullah residence, in Jammu on Tuesday.
Gujjars and Bakerw-
als from Jammu and
Kashmir’s tribal com-
munity visited New Delhi
on Tuesday to thank PM
Modi for recommenda-
tions of Delimitation Com-
mission that proposed
reserving nine Assembly
seats in JK for STs.
Union Minister Krishan
Pal Gurjar said people of
Gujjar Bakerwal commu-
nity live in JK. They had
many demands continu-
ously over years.
Mumbai: Maharashtra
Cabinet Minister
Nawab Malik on Tues-
day alleged that the BJP
leaders - MLC Suresh
Dhas and former Ashti
MLA Bhimrao Dhonde
from Beed district--
have usurped the tem-
ple land and siphoned
off crores of rupees by
indulging in Benami
transactions.
This statement came
a day after the ED con-
ducted searches at five
places related to Ma-
lik’s son Faraz Malik in
a case where a national-
ised bank was duped to
the tune of Rs 149.89
crore. NCP leader said
that his colleague in the
party, Ram Khade, has
filed complaint against
these illegal transac-
tions with ED. —ANI
JP Nadda, Pramod Sawant, Mandal Prabhari, Mandal President
General Secretaries attend BJP meeting in Goa on Tuesday.
I-T dept conducts
searches, seizes
unaccountable
over `12 cr in TN
Bhupesh Baghel
Nawab Malik

NEWS
07
B(AD) HUNGER
BJP leaders’ hunger to share
space with Prime Minister
Narendra Modi became a
laughing stock in Uttar Pradesh
when advertisements published
in several newspapers featured
the names of more than 15
ministers ahead of the kick off of
a mega scheme on Tuesday.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi in
Prayagraj on Tuesday
inaugurated schemes for women
and SHGs where he pushed for
developing women giving them
more power. However, in the run
up to this event, several ads
dotted the newspapers across
the state. What caught people’s
attention was the presence of
names of several ministers from
the state, their juniors and
various others. The images
featuring the ad did rounds
across various forums and
platforms as to how, as elections
are nearing in Uttar Pradesh,
leaders are trying to fetch the
cherry from the cake. For most
ministers, who have remained
elusive from work throughout
the course of four and a half
years or so, featuring with the
Prime Minister is an opportunity
to grab the eyeballs that could
otherwise be difficult. With
politicos pressing every ounce
of their energy ahead of
Assembly elections, people
would surely get more
opportunities to witness the ad
flamboyance riding on their own
monies.
—Vishal Srivastav
3 HELD FOR
KILLING
FINANCER IN
GHAZIABAD
Police here have arrested three
people for allegedly killing a
financer over his illicit
relationship with the wife of one
of the accused, officials said on
Tuesday. The deceased, Vikas
alias Neetu, a resident of DLF
Ankur Vihar, was shot dead by
motorcycle-borne assailants
when he was on his way to his
office in Pooja Colony here on
Monday morning, they said.
Police obtained footage of CCTV
cameras installed near the crime
spot and detained three people.
During interrogation, the accused
— Mintu alias Suresh (33),
Hansraj (40) and Rohit (19) —
confessed to killing Vikas over his
illicit relationship with Mintu’s
wife Rajjo, Superintendent of
Police (Rural) Iraj Raja said. Two
accused, Kuldeep and Channu, are
on the run, he said. Six months
ago, when Mintu found out about
his wife’s relationship with Vikas,
he asked them to stop seeing each
other but they did not listen to
him. Irked by this, Mintu came up
with a plan to kill Vikas, the police
said. According to the post-
mortem report, Vikas was shot
eight times. Police have recovered
a .32 bore country-made pistol
used in the commission of the
crime, Raja said. —PTI
DELHI COURTACQUITSEX-BJPMLA
SENGAR IN 2019 ACCIDENT CASE
New Delhi: A Delhi
court has discharged
former BJP MLA Kul-
deep Singh Sengar and
five others in the 2019
accident case of Unnao
rape survivor, saying
that prima facie no
charges are made out
against him.
Additional Chief
Metropolitan Magis-
trate Ravindra Kumar
Pandey discharged the
accused observing that
prima facie there is no
evidence against the
accused persons -- Sen-
gar, Komal Singh, Arun
Singh, Gyanendra Sin-
gh, Rinku Singh and ,
Awdesh Singh. The
court however ordered
framing of charges
against 4 other accused
—Ashish Kumar Pal,
Vinod Mishra, Haripal
Singh Naveen Singh
as there was prima fa-
cie sufficient evidence
against them. In its or-
der passed on Monday,
the court noted that the
chargesheetdidnotfind
mention of any record
or evidence regarding
the criminal conspiracy
between the accused
persons ordered to be
put on trial with the ac-
cused Sengar.
“Accused Ashish Ku-
mar Pal is directed to be
charged for offence pun-
ishable under section
304-A (causing death by
negligence),338(causing
grievous hurt by act en-
dangering life or person-
al safety of others), 279
(rash driving on a public
way) of IPC and accused
Vinod Mishra, Haripal
Singh and Naveen Singh
are directed to be sepa-
rately charged for of-
fence punishable under
section 506(ii) (threat to
causedeath)of IPC,read
with Section 34 (com-
mon intention) of IPC,
the court said.
Admittedly the case
of prosecution was that
he conspired with the
other accused to extend
the threat to the victim
or her family members
and he himself not ex-
tended any threat, the
court said. On August 1,
2019 the Supreme Court
transferred the case to
Delhi from a trial court
in UP. Besides, on De-
cember 20, 2019, Sengar
was sentenced to jail for
the remainder of his
natural biological life in
a separate case for rap-
ing the minor in 2017.
On March 4, 2020, Sen-
gar, his brother, and five
others were also con-
victed for the death of
the rape survivor’s fa-
ther in judicial custody
andweresentencedto10
years imprisonment.
Activists burn the effigy of rape accused Kuldeep Sengar during a
protest against the Unnao incident in Kolkata. —FILE PHOTO
New Delhi: The Delhi Court on Tuesday formally
framed charges against the truck driver and three
others in the Unnao rape survivor’s accident
case. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate
(ACMM) Ravindra Kumar Pandey formally
framed charges against driver Ashish Kumar Pal
for offences under section 279 (rash driving)/338
(causing grievous hurt) and 304 A (causing death
by negligence) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
DELHI COURT FRAMES CHARGES AGAINST
TRUCK DRIVER AND OTHERS
Jailed ex-BJP
MLA Kuldeep
Sengar
discharged of
plotting Unnao
rape survivor’s
accident
First India Bureau
Kanpur: Police have ar-
rested a dance teacher
who was sexually abus-
ing girls in the name of
teaching dance. The ac-
cused also used to black-
mail the girls by making
obscene videos. The
case was revealed when
a girl who was scared
transferred an amount
of 19 thousand rupees
from her mother’s bank
account following
which, the relatives of
the victim girl filed a re-
port against dance
teacher Himanshu Soni
alias Aryan in the police
station.
During investiga-
tions, it was revealed
that the accused sexu-
ally abused innocent
girls by trapping them
and had made many ob-
jectionable videos in
the past. All these vid-
eos have been recov-
ered by the police from
the mobile of accused
Aryan Soni. The ac-
cused dance teacher
has also extorted thou-
sands of rupees from
the family members by
threatening to make
these videos viral. This
whole matter is of the
Govind Nagar police
station area of Kanpur
district.
New Delhi: The Delhi
Police’s Special Cell
has arrested two men
from UP for allegedly
supplying illegal fire-
arms in the national
capital, officials said
on Tuesday. The ac-
cused have been iden-
tified as Chhote Ku-
mar (34) and Dinesh
(32), both residents of
Aligarh district in the
neighbouring state,
they said.
On Monday, infor-
mation was received
that 2 members of a
gang had collected the
consignment of am-
munition from an
arms supplier of Mad-
hya Pradesh, a senior
police officer said.
Both of them would
arrive at a spot near a
bus stand at the ring
road going towards
Naraina near Dhaula
Kuan to hand over the
firearms to one of
their contacts, the of-
ficer said. Thereafter,
a trap was laid near
the bus stop near
DhaulaKuanandboth
the accused were cor-
nered around 9.15 pm.
After sensing police
presence, they
whipped out their
weapons pointed to-
wards police, but they
were overpowered, Dy
Commissioner of Po-
lice (Special Cell) Jas-
meet Singh said.
Pithoragarh: Union
Minister of State for De-
fence Ajay Bhatt on
Tuesday said India has
become an exporter of
defence equipment un-
der the leadership of
PM Narendra Modi.
Addressing election
rallies in Uttara-
khand’s Dharchula and
Pithoragarh as part of
the BJP’s Vijay Sankalp
Yatra, he said India has
not only taken major
steps over the last sev-
en years towards
achieving self-reliance
in manufacturing de-
fence equipment, but is
also exporting those to
72 countries. “We have
kept 209 defence equip-
ment for domestic pro-
duction, which used to
be imported earlier,”
Bhatt, who is also the
MP from Nainital, said.
“The Stockholm Inter-
national Peace Re-
search Institute, the
leading research insti-
tute in the field of de-
fence in the world, has
listed India among the
top 25 countries that
export defence equip-
ment,” he said.
The researches being
carried out by the De-
fence Research and De-
velopment Organisa-
tion (DRDO) are mak-
ing the country self-re-
liant in the sphere of
defence, the Union
minister said.
Police arrest dance teacher
for making objectionable
videos of several girls
Rohit Tewari, police station in-charge,
said that a case under POCSO Act has
been registered against the accused
Himanshu Soni along with charges of
rape, threatening, and blackmailing.
The accused has been sent to jail. Also,
father of victim has filed a complaint in
cyber police station under IT Act and
fraud charges
The accused Himanshu Soni alias Aryan in police custody.
2 from Aligarh held
for sale of illegal
weapons: Police
—REPRESENTATIONAL IMAGE
SEIZED
‘India has become exporter of
defence equip under Modi’
UNNAO RAPE CASE
First India Bureau
Hathras: DeputyChief
Minister Dr Dinesh
Sharma in his address
at the Jan Vishwas
Yatra organised on
Tuesdaysaidnewdevel-
opment stories have
been written in the last
4 and half years during
BJP rule in the state.
He added that the
huge gathering of the
people for the yatra is
proof that the opposi-
tion cannot compete
with the BJP even if
they unite together. He
further added that on
one side of the coin is
BJP while on the other
side is the quicksand of
parties and asked the
publictostayawayfrom
such parties.
The Deputy Chief
Minister said that the
opposition has neither
brought about develop-
ment nor helped the
publicduringtheCovid
pandemic and if one is
to search for images in
Google, no images of
the opposition leaders
helping people during
the Covid pandemic
will be found.
He added that when
the BJP leaders were
helping the public dur-
ing the Covid pandem-
ic, opposition leaders
were hiding in their
housewerespreading
lies about the vaccines
as well as calling it
‘BJP’s vaccine’. He fur-
theraddedthattheCov-
id situation in the state
is under control be-
cause of the vaccina-
tion drive which has
helped protect the peo-
ple of the state.
New devp stories written during BJP rule: Deputy CM
Muzaffarnagar: Three
policemen, including a
sub inspector, were in-
jured as villagers at-
tacked police party to
free a man accused in
many cases of cow
slaughtering in Bhopa
area here, police said.
However, accused
Mukim Qureshi was ar-
rested. Kikri Police
Outpost in-charge Re-
sham Pal and consta-
bles Bijendra and Amit
Yadav were injured in
Sikri village on Mon-
day when they have
gone to arrest Quershi,
involved in 11 cases of
cow slaughtering and
other crimes, a senior
police official said.
According to SHO
Subhash, a case was
registered under vari-
ous sections of the IPC
against 12 supporters
of Quershi, including
vice president of UP
Bhartiya Kisan Union
(Tomar faction) Haji
Shan Mohammad. All
the villagers involved
in the attack will be ar-
rested soon, he added.
3 COPS INJURED AS VILLAGERS TRY TO
FREE COW SLAUGHTERING ACCUSED
—REPRESENTATIONAL IMAGE
Deputy Chief Minister Dr Dinesh Sharma during the Jan
Vishwas Yatra organised on Tuesday in Hathras.
Ajay Bhatt

08
2NDFRONT
It is truly said that flowers are
the sweetest thing that god made
and forgot to put a soul into.
—Jagdeesh Chandra, CEO Editor-in-Chief, First India
Ahtesham Siddiqui
Lucknow: Four se-
nior IAS officers of Ut-
tar Pradesh cadre will
be promoted as princi-
pal secretaries in the
New Year. Of the offi-
cers of 1997 batch, two
are currently on cen-
tral deputation.
IAS Mahendra
Prasad Agrawal, who
hails from Gorakhpur
district is currently
posted as Commission-
er Ayodhya Division
and has previously held
posts like Commission-
er Saharanpur, VC LDA,
Houseing Commission-
er, DM of Kanpur, Faiz-
abad,Mathura,Pilibhit,
Etawah, Auraiya, Lalit-
pur, Sultanpur and
Chandauli.
IAS Dr. Hari Om,
who hails from Sultan-
pur district and is cur-
rently Secretary (GAD)
General Administra-
tion has previously
held posts like Secre-
tary PWD, District
Magistrate of Morad-
abad, Kanpur, Ambed-
kar Nagar, Mirzapur,
Allahabad, Saha-
ranpur, Kaushambi,
Auraiya, Sant Kabir
Nagar, Fatehpur, and
Gorakhpur is also
known to be a good poet
and writer.
IAS Kamini Chau-
han Ratan is originally
from Delhi. She is cur-
rently on Central depu-
tation and holds the
post of Joint Sectary,
Higher Education De-
partment. New Delhi
has previously held
er Commercial Tax, IG
Stamp and Registra-
tion, Secretary Food,
District Magistrate Bu-
landshahr, Meerut, Sa-
haranpur, Sultanpur
and Baghpat. Her hus-
band IPS Deepak Ratan
IG CRPF.
IAS Dr. Shanmuga
Sundaram MK who
hails from Erode in
Tamil Nadu, is also on
central deputation and
currently holds the post
of Development Com-
missioner and Secre-
tary Ships board Kochi,
has previously held
er Azamgarh, Commis-
sioner Housing Board,
District Magistrate Noi-
da, Hardoi, Buland-
shahr, Ghaziabad, Jhan-
si,MahobaandAuraiya.
The UP government
has presently focusing
on promoting all the
IAS officers of 1997
batch from secretary
to principal secretary.
The 1997 batch IAS of-
ficers are the smallest
cadre in the state’s bu-
reaucracy.
Four senior IAS officers to be promoted as principal secretaries
NEW YEAR GIFT

Mahendra
Prasad Agrawal,
Hari Om, Kamini
Chauhan Ratan,
Shanmuga
Sundaram MK
of 1997 batch
will get new
responsibilities
in New year
Mahendra Prasad Hari Om Kamini Chauhan Shanmuga Sundaram
ENTRY INTO SAFFRON PARTY ONLY
AFTER RIGOROUS SCREENING NOW
BJP’s joining committee collects all info about the person who wants to join the party
Gyanendra Kumar Shukla
Lucknow: The phrase
‘once bitten, twice shy’
fitstheBJP’sjoiningpro-
cess.Afewmonthsback,
theissueof expelledBSP
MLA Jitendra Singh Ba-
blu joining BJP has
sparked a controversy
within the ruling Party
with senior leaders rais-
ing fingers on the crimi-
nal past of the new en-
trant in the party
.
As Bablu is the main
accused in an arson
case, in which the resi-
dence of the BJP MP
from Prayagraj, Rita
Bahuguna Joshi, was
burnt down in 2009. Al-
though BJP had to can-
cel Bablu’s membership
after a sharp protest,
but taking lessons from
this episode, BJP has
made the joining pro-
cess very strict.
It is noteworthy that
former BJP state presi-
dent, Dr Laxmikant Ba-
jpai, has been made the
chairman of the BJP’s
joining committee. The
members of this com-
mittee are Deputy Chief
Minister Keshav Mau-
rya, Dinesh Sharma
and State Vice Presi-
dent Dayashankar Sin-
gh. This committee car-
ries out strict screening
of leaders who want to
join BJP from other par-
ties. These leaders have
to go through a rigorous
scanning process. They
have to state, while giv-
ing their resume, that
there are no criminal
cases pending against
them; in cases where
the joining committee
suspects, those leaders
are duly verified from
their respective police
stations.
While talking to First
India Dr. Laxmikant
Bajpai, President of
BJP’s Joining Commit-
tee, said, “Information
about every person who
wants to join BJP is
taken from the con-
cerned District Presi-
dent and Regional Pres-
ident. If needed, feed-
back is also taken from
other sources regarding
criminal antecedents.
As it is our priority that
no person from a crimi-
nal background should
become a part of our
party
. At the same time,
the utility of the con-
cerned person to the
party and any possible
loss due to his induction
is also assessed”.
According to a top
party functionary
, there
are strict instructions
from the party high
command that the mem-
bership drive should be
given impetus, but it
must be ensured that
people with a tainted
image among the public
cannot become a part
of the Saffron party
.
BJP joining committee president Dr Laxmikant Bajpai during the joining of various leaders.
TAINTED IMAGE DISQUALIFIES
Central team
updated after
joining process
First India Bureau
Lucknow: A person
wishing to be a part
of the party has to
submit his/her re-
sume. After this, the
District President
and Regional Presi-
dent of the con-
cerned district have
to agree about his
name, in case of dis-
agreement, he has to
give reasons as well.
Then the con-
cerned name is
brought to the no-
tice of State Presi-
dent Swatantradev
Singh and Organiza-
tion General Secre-
tary Sunil Bansal,
after their consent,
the joining commit-
tee conducts a thor-
ough discussion
about that leader.
The way of join-
ing is paved only af-
ter the consent of
the committee mem-
bers. After the com-
pletion of the join-
ing process, the list
of respective names
is sent to the central
team; comprised of
BJP national presi-
dent JP Nadda, na-
tional general secre-
tary (Organization)
BL Santosh, BJP in-
charge for the Uttar
Pradesh polls Dhar-
mendra Pradhan
and national
vice-president of
the party Radha Mo-
han Singh.
BJP National President JP Nadda welcomes a new
member to the party. BJP MP from Prayagraj Rita
Bahuguna Joshi also present.
Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) MP Atul Kumar Rai
Chargesheet against
BSP MP Atul Rai,
hearing on Jan 3
First India Bureau
Lucknow: Police
havefiledchargesheet
against Bahujan Sa-
maj Party (BSP) MP
Atul Kumar Rai in
matter of rape and
death of rape victim,
her witness.
Chief Judicial
Magistrate Ravi Ku-
mar Gupta has taken
cognizance of the
chargesheet and will
hear the matter on
January 3. Also,
court has ordered to
provide copy of
chargesheet to ac-
cused Atul Rai in
Naini central jail in
Prayagraj.
Additional com-
missioner of police
Shweta Srivastava
filed chargesheet
against MP Atul Rai
under charges of con-
spiracy, threatening
witnesses, destroying
evidences and incit-
ing for suicide. In 25
pages of chargesheet
19 witnesses are men-
tioned.
FIR was registered
against Atul Rai and
retired IPS Amitabh
Thakur in Hazarat-
ganj Kotwali by sen-
ior sub-inspector
Dayashankar Dwive-
di on August 27, 2021.
Amitabh Thakur
was also sent to judi-
cial custody on same
day while Atul Rai
was taken into judi-
cial custody on Octo-
ber 29.
A 24-old girl had
allegedly attempted
suicide with his
27-year-old friend
outside the Su-
preme Court in New
Delhi on August 16,
2021. The man had
sustained 65 per-
cent burn injuries,
while rape victim
had suffered 85 per-
cent burns injuries.
Both were suc-
cumbed to his inju-
ries during treat-
ment in hospital.
Lucknow: The Sama-
jwadi Party on Tues-
day accused the ruling
BJP in Uttar Pradesh
of resorting to misuse
of money and govern-
ment resources to gath-
er crowds for rallies
addressed by Prime
Minister Narendra
Modi.
In a letter addressed
to the Chief Election
Commissioner, SP’s
state unit chief Naresh
Uttam Patel said, “In
the rally of the Prime
Minister held in Praya-
graj (on Tuesday), hun-
dreds of UPSRTC buses
and private buses in
large numbers were ar-
ranged with he help of
RTO (regional trans-
port officer) in order to
gather crowds. This is a
misuse of government
machinery and money
.”
He also said the
Prime Minister is a
BJP MP from Uttar
Pradesh, and only few
days are left for the an-
nouncement of the
election dates.
The Prime Minister
is holding rallies and
addressing people for
BJP’s electoral prepa-
rations and Chief Min-
ister Yogi Adityanath
is misusing the govern-
ment machinery and
money, Patel said.
The Samajwadi Par-
ty leader urged the
Election Commission
to ensure free and fair
elections and stop the
BJP government in the
state from misusing
government machin-
ery and money.
First India Bureau
Rampur: The police
on Tuesday filed a sup-
plementary charge-
sheet against Sama-
jwadi Party (SP) sen-
ior leader Azam Khan
for making derogatory
comments against dis-
trict magistrate dur-
ing Parliamentary
Election campaign in
Rampur.
The court had per-
mitted for review into
the matter in previous
hearing following
which police have sub-
mitted supplementary
chargesheet. The case
was filed against him
in Civil lines police sta-
tion on April 15, 2019.
FIR was registered
against him on com-
plaint of deputy dis-
trict magistrate (Judi-
cial) Ghanshyam Trip-
athi after the video of
SP leader went viral on
social media.
The case was later
transferred to Bhot po-
lice station. The copy
of the chargesheet will
be provided to Azam
Khan through court
and further proceeding
is underway.
State machinery used to gather crowds
for PM’s rallies: SP complains to CEC
Supplementary chargesheet
filed against Azam Khan
Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav at the Samajwadi Vijay Yatra in Mainpuri on Tuesday.
SP’s MLA protest to demand the release of Azam Khan during the
monsoon session of the state assembly, in Lucknow. —FILE PHOTO
—PHOTO
BY
PTI

09
LUCKNOW, WEDNESDAY
DECEMBER 22, 2021
City First in conversation
with Yashasvi Shrivastava, one
of the finalists of First Miss India
2021 held at Hotel Novotel,
Goa on October 30!
he dazzling diva,
Yashasvi Shriv-
astava hailing
from Mandsaur,
Madhya Pradesh
shifted to Pune to
pursue her edu-
cation. A lawyer by pro-
fession, she always car-
ried a strong desire for
the stage of modelling.
She is blessed with par-
ents who supported her
all the way and encour-
aged her to follow her
dreams.
Talking about how her
modelling career took
off, Yashasvi shared,
“Modelling caught my in-
terest when I was in first
year of College and got
selected in the Fashion
team and bagged the title
of Miss Pune 2016 Run-
ner up.” She further
shared that she was often
misguided as she further
took step in the industry.
After receiving an
opportunity at the
beauty pageant
First Miss India,
she gained her
c o n f i d e n c e
and belief in
people.
When asked about
what would she be if not
a model, she commented,
“I would want to be a suc-
cessful entrepreneur but
would always stick to the
creative side so some-
thing like being a Make-
up artist. Also, I don’t
want to restrict myself to
a single profession, I
want to explore and try
my hands on everything
that I would love to do.”
Lastly talking about
her source of inspira-
tion, Yashasvi credits her
Mother for letting her
choose her own path.
Keeping her passion as
the source of inspira-
tion that drives her,
the young model
sticks to maintain-
ing a positive envi-
ronment and being
led by her passion
itself, keeping all
the distractions at
bay and focusing
solely on herself.
She further wishes
to represent India
internationally as
a model. The beau-
ty with brains is
ready to set
the world
on fire.
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Every private villa boasts
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11
is officially the
holiday season,
the most joyous
time of the year.
With the shorter
days, cold winter
breeze,andChrist-
mas decorations every-
where, it is impossible not
to think about watching a
feel-good holiday movie
while you’re curled up in
your blanket.
I personally like to top
the experience with a little
hot chocolate and some
gooey marshmallows to
make it all the more cozy
.
There’s nothing better
thanenjoyingmyfavourite
movie with my family at a
time like this. Here is a list
of somesoul-warmingNet-
flix movies you are sure to
enjoy this Holiday season!
DEVANSHI MUDGAL
T
SINGLE
ALL THE
WAY
Peter’s family is
concerned that
he is unmarried,
so he invites his
closest buddy
home for the
holidays to act
as his lover.
When his
family
comes in
to play
match-
maker,
their plan goes
badly.
THE PRINCESS SWITCH
You’ll have to take another look at
this one. It is the classic princess and
the pauper come to life but with
Margaret, the Duchess of
Montenaro, and Stacy, a
normal Chicago girl.
ANGELA’S
CHRISTMAS WISH
Set in Ireland in the 1900s,
this movie depicts the narra-
tive of the strength of family
and a child’s naive wish to
keep her family safe around
Christmas in an adorable
animated programme.
THE
CHRISTMAS
CHRONICLES
Two children attempt to capture
Santa delivering presents, but they
wind up accompanying him as
his tiny assistants. It is engag-
ing for all ages.
THE
BOY CALLED
CHRISTMAS
Nikolas, a young man accompanied
by his furry mates, journeys north in
pursuit of his father, who is looking
for an elf settlement. Find out what’s in
store for him.
SINGLE
SINGLE
ALL THE
ALL THE
Set in Ireland in the 1900s,
this movie depicts the narra-
tive of the strength of family
and a child’s naive wish to
keep her family safe around
Christmas in an adorable
animated programme.
Two children attempt to capture
Santa delivering presents, but they
wind up accompanying him as
his tiny assistants. It is engag-
ing for all ages.
SANTA BROUGHT MOVIE
SANTA BROUGHT MOVIE
recommendations this year!
recommendations this year!
REVEL IN THE HOLIDAY MERRIMENT WITH 8 OF THE MOST HEART-WARMING MOVIES OF ALL TIME
HOME ALONE
Christmas just wouldn’t be the
same without this film. Kevin Mc-
Callister, being left behind by his
family on a trip to Paris must de-
fend his home from 2 burglars. Will
he be able to protect his house?
KLAUS
Jesper, a poor
postal school student, is
sent to serve on an Arctic
Circle island. It is here that
he meets Klaus, an elderly,
lonely carpenter who lives
in a cottage filled with
handcrafted toys.
THE HOLIDAY
CALENDAR
Abby Sutton, a strug-
gling photographer
working a dead-end
job at Sears has her
luck turned when her
grandfather gifts her a
magical calendar that
can predict the future.
Will she find her
dream career or true
love behind one of the
calendar doors?

12
CITY BUZZ
GET VACCINATED
STAY MASKED
B’DAY!
The birthday of IAS Arun
Kumar II was on Tuesday,
December 21. We wish
him all the best!
This holiday season, Chaudhary Charan Singh Airport, Lucknow
has been decorated with the colours of Christmas. As the nation
celebrates the theme, One Nation Billion Celebrations, the
decoration has been titled ‘Gateway to Goodness.’ Passengers
travelling through the airport can enjoy the associated
decorations and celebrations until the early weeks of January
2022. In the spirit of being the ‘Gateway to Goodness,’ the airport
ensures to bring the joy of Christmas by prioritizing passenger
safety and security amidst the fun.
GATEWAY TO GOODNESS
GATEWAY TO GOODNESS
Amaze became the official sponsor of UP Yoddhas for
the 2021-22 season of the Pro Kabaddi League on Tuesday.Vinod
Bisht, CEO, GMR League Games, mentioned that UP Yoddha is
delighted to partner with ‘Amaze’ as their official sponsors.
OFFICIAL PARTNER
OFFICIAL PARTNER
HONOURED!
HONOURED!
AWARDED!
AWARDED!
Mega Registration awareness camp at Swadeshi
Mela was organised by GST officials at Swadeshi
Mela held at Sangeet Natak Academy, Lucknow on
Tuesday. Alpana Verma, Pradeep Patel, Zeeshan Afzal, Yogesh
Singh, Kamna Dubey, Pushpraj Singh among several other
officers were present during the event.
AWARENESS CAMP
AWARENESS CAMP
ART EXHIBITION
ART EXHIBITION
Mukesh Singh
has been
honoured with
a Certificate of
appreciation
in the field
of ‘Policy
Advocacy’
by Times of
India. Minister
for MSME
UP Siddharth
Nath Singh,
and actress
Tisca Chopra
conferred the
award to him.
Uttar Pradesh was presented with the Best Shooting
State Award by the UP Artist Academy at an award
function conducted on Tuesday. Cabinet Minister Brajesh
Pathak conferred the award to Dinesh Sehgal, Deputy
Director at Information Department/Film Bandhu, UP
Government. Chandra Prakash and Nitin Mishra were
present among other dignitaries. Actors Ehsan Naqvi and
Kanchan Awasthi were also awarded during the event.
Cultural Bonanza
S
wadeshi Mela
Cultural pro-
gram was organ-
ised at Sangeet
Natak Academy, Uttar
Pradesh. Garba,
Ghoomar and Uttra-
khand’s folk dance
among other dance
forms were enjoyed
by the audiences.
The event that com-
menced on Decem-
ber 17 shall continue
till December 26.
—PHOTOS BY ASHOK DUTTA
An exhibition of
the artworks by
six young artists of
Lucknow from the
College of Arts and
Crafts was declared
open on Tuesday at
Jehangir Art Gallery.
The exhibition
was inaugurated
by senior artist
Rajendra Patil of
Maharashtra. This
exhibition shall
remain open till
December 27 for art
lovers.
How do you feel
about winning the
title of first-ever
Mrs Uttar Pradesh-
Queen of Virtue?
A: Winning always
comes with a feeling
of glory and that’s
what I felt. I felt sud-
den bursts of positiv-
ity and achievement.
It felt surreal and
with the confidence
of ‘I can do anything.’
What was your
thought when you
entered the pag-
eant?
A: I was hesitant at
first, as I come from a
background of aca-
demics and the world
of beauty pageants
are considered
unconvention-
al. But after ful-
filling my de-
cided duty of be-
ing a scholar at
IIM followed
by an as-
s i s t a n t
profes-
sor job
at the OP
General Uni-
versity, Lucknow
and becoming a
mother, I wanted to
explore more. I
wanted to do some-
thing for myself
which challenges
me on many levels,
emotionally, physi-
cally and mentally,
and that’s why I en-
tered Mrs Ut-
tar Pradesh.
How did you deal
with the pres-
sure and
nerv-
ousness
during
the prep-
arations?
A: To deal with
the nervousness
and anxiety of it all,
I had my family and
friends as my biggest
support system who
helped me redirect
my focus every time
I felt under-confi-
dent. Apart from
that, the grooming
team of Mrs Uttar
Pradesh helped us
ace every aspect right
from posing to walk-
ing the ramp to an-
swering the ques-
tions.
Word of advice for
the aspiring Mrs
Uttar Pradesh par-
ticipants.
A: I’d like to say, first
and foremost, try and
notice what you’re
good at and what you
need to improve fol-
lowed by avoiding
negative comments
and third, focus on
your overall well be-
ing, both physical and
mental. In the end,
you’ll always end with
a better version of
yourself.
ADITI SINGH,THEWINNER OFTHE MRS UTTAR
PRADESH- QUEEN OFVIRTUE,VEERED HERWAY FROM
BEING AN ACADEMICIANTO CREATING HER NAME IN
THEWORLD OF BEAUTY AND FASHION INDUSTRY. IT’S
SAIDTHATTHEWORLD IS FULL OF OPPORTUNITIES,
BUTTOTAKE A LEAP OF FAITHTO SEIZETHAT
OPPORTUNITY,TAKES COURAGE. HER JOURNEY IS ATALE OF
DETERMINATION, MOTIVATION AND DEVOTION. DEFYING ALL ODDS,
SHETOOKTOTHE JOURNEY OF MODELLING ASWELL ASTOOK CARE
OF HER RESPONSIBILITIES. CHERISHING EVERYTHING THAT CAME HER
WAY, SHE IS ALL SETTO CONQUERTHEWORLD. IN AN EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW
WITH CITY FIRST, ADITI SINGH GOT CANDID ABOUT HER JOURNEY FROM BEING
A PARTICIPANTTOTHEWINNER OF MRS UTTAR PRADESH- QUEEN OFVIRTUE.
MONICA
PRABHAKAR
JOURNEY OF A QUEEN
—PHOTOS BY ASHOK DUTTA
During the event
Renuka Tandon, Aditi Singh, Preeti Yadav
Aditi Singh after being
crowned as Mrs Uttar Pradesh
Aditi Singh with her son Aditya Singh
at Tender Hearts School, Lucknow

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