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c m y k c m y k THE LARGEST CIRCULATED ENGLISH DAILY IN SOUTH INDIA CHENNAI I MONDAY 1 I FEBRUARY 2021 WEATHER Max: 30OC CITY | 2 FINANCIAL CHRONICLE | 7 SPORT | 8 Min: 22sOC Nadda slams Cong govt in Nirmala Sitharaman to Shastri says PM’s words Rainfall: Nil Puducherry over graft present Union Budget today will boost team’s morale ASTROGUIDE Sarvari: Thai 19 deccanchronicle.com, facebook.com/deccannews, twitter.com/deccanchronicle, google.com/+deccanchronicle Vol. 16 No.307 Established 1938 | 8 PAGES| `3.00 Tithi: Chaturthi Star: Uthiram Rahukalam: 7.30 am to 9 am Country saddened by Sasikala starts journey with Yamagandam: 10.30 am to 12 noon PRAYERS AIADMK party flag on car Fajar: 5.22 am insult to tricolour: PM G. BABU JAYAKUMAR | Zohar: 12.27 pm DC A MESSAGE TO RULING PARTY Asar: 3.41 pm DC CORRESPONDENT CHENNAI, JAN. 31 Maghrib: 6.09 pm CHENNAI, JAN. 31 NDA GOVT FEARS Isha: 7.23 pm UP farmers pledge Sending across the mes- Breaking his silence on the sage that she is indeed in events that took place at TRUTH, ARRESTS charge of the AIADMK, the Red Fort just after the V.K. Sasikala sat on the CORONA Republic Day parade on support for protest SCRIBES: RAHUL front seat of the Toyota January 26, when unruly MUV used by the late J. elements hoisted a flag SANJAY KAW |DC “the movement has to be DC CORRESPONDENT Jayalalithaa as she rode C UNT other than the national tri- NEW DELHI, JAN. 31 continued with full NEW DELHI, JAN. 31: the distance in Bengaluru, colour at the iconic venue, strength.” from the Victoria Hospital CASES DEATHS Prime Minister Narendra With more farmers stream- Mahapanchayats held in The Congress on Sunday to a farmhouse in the out- Modi said on Sunday that ing in to the protest sites at Muzaffarnagar and Math- launched a scathing skirts, with the AIADMK (+11,006) (+106) the “country was saddened Delhi borders, Bharatiya ura earlier had resolved to attack on the arrest of a flag fluttering on the bon- by the insult to the tricolor Kisan Union (BKU) leader support the ongoing BKU- journalist who was cov- net on Sunday. 1,07,57,878 1,54,513 on January 26 in Delhi”. Rakesh Tikait said on led protest at the Ghazipur ering the farmer protest Acknowledging the Delivering his monthly Sunday that the farmers' border against the three at the Singhu border. cheerful welcome by sup- ‘Mann ki Baat’ address, Mr unions were ready for a new farm laws. In Punjab, “Those who fear truth porters, who showered covid19india.org Modi said, “The country respectable solution and Chief Minister Amarinder arrest honest journal- flower petals on the vehi- was saddened by the insult would never ever agree to Singh has called an all- ists,” party's former pres- cle and raised slogans in V.K. Sasikala, a close aide of former chief minister J. STATE GOVERNMENT BULLETINS to the tricolour on January anything under pressure. party meeting on Tuesday ident Rahul Gandhi her praise, Ms Sasikala, Jayalalithaa, arrives at a resort in Bengaluru after being 26 in Delhi. We have to Thousands of people con- to show unity with the pro- tweeted, tagging a video the former aid of Jayala- discharged from hospital on Sunday. She came in a car (+508) infuse the times to come verged for a 'mahapan- testers and evolve a con- purportedly showing lithaa, waved at them and with an AIADMK flag fluttering on the bonnet. 12,356 with new hope and novel- chayat' on Sunday in sensus on the way forward journalist Mandeep greeted with gloved hands TN: 8,38,340 ty. Last year, we displayed Baghpat in western Uttar on the three contentious Punia being held by the all those who were around would have no place in the with her open palms tak- exemplary patience and Pradesh, the third such farm laws. As the stream of police at the border even as she was escorted party anymore by remind- ing a sabatham (vow) even WORLD CONFIRMED CASES courage. This year too, we congregation in the region farmers heading for Del- protest site. to her temporary resi- ing everyone that she had as she was leaving to have to work hard to attain in as many days. BKU hi’s borders remained inc- Congress general secre- dence by a convoy of vehi- already been expelled fol- Bengaluru to start her jail our resolves. We have to leader Rajendra essant on the 67th day of tary Priyanka Gandhi- cles. lowing her going to jail. sentence four years ago, 10,33,50,614 take our country forward Chaudhary told the crowd, the massive agitation.■ P4 Vadra said journalists As an augury to what But going by the hype before resuming her new at a faster pace.” covering the farmers' might happen in Tamil Na and hoopla over her first political life that has the DEATHS This was the only direct, ern UP, had taken out a to be exemplary to the movement are being du politics, Ms Sasikala’s whiff of freedom after four potential to splinter the but brief, reference to the tractor rally as part of world. Today, India is arrested, cases are being nephew and the founder of years of incarceration, Ms AIADMK. events of that day in his their protests against the undertaking the world’s slapped on them and the Amma Makkal Munnetra Sasikala’s next long drive In the event of the pre- 22,33,799 speech, that otherwise three farm laws. The gov- biggest Covid vaccine pro- Internet is being shut Kazhagam T.T.V. Dhina to Chennai in a motor- sent honchos of the COUNTRIES, focused on India’s vaccine ernment had backed the gramme… We are (also) down in many places. karan explained in Benga cade, probably by Febr- AIADMK giving way to AREAS WITH programme, the Padma rationale behind the farm vaccinating our citizens “The BJP government luru the use of the AIA- uary 7, could attract more her to take over the reins CASES 219 honours for “unsung laws but their implementa- faster than anywhere in wants to trample upon DMK flag by saying that supporters and her entry of the party, as she would worldometers.info heroes”, innovation, self- tion has already been the world. In just 15 days, the voice of the farmers she was indeed the general into Chennai, too, could be expect them to do, the reliance and development. stayed by the Supreme India has vaccinated over but they have forgotten secretary of the AIADMK. marked by more dramatic party’s prospects in the It may be recalled that Court. 30 lakh corona warriors, that the more you sup- It was a clear warning to scenes. polls that are due in about GST hits all-time high of the events had taken place On India’s Covid vaccina- whereas an advanced press, the more voices all those leaders holding She might even drop in three months could be `1.19 lakh crore in January in Delhi shortly after noon tion drive, Mr Modi said: country such as America will rise against your the reins of the party as at the resting place of jeopardised in view of her when farmers, mostly from “Our vaccination pro- took 18 days to get the same atrocities,” Ms Vadra many of them had openly Jayalalithaa, on which unpopularity among the New Delhi: GST collections for Punjab, Haryana and west- gramme too is turning out done; Britain 36 days!” tweeted. said that Ms Sasikala she had slapped thrice common people. ■ P2 January touched an all-time high of about `1.20 lakh crore, the Finance Ministry said on Sunday. Its is 8 per cent higher than that in CHENNAI TEST the same month last year. “The Rajeev Ranjan takes gross GST revenue collected in January 2021 till pm on 31.01.2021 TNCA IN TALKS is `1,19,847 crore, of which CGST is `21,923 crore, SGST is `29,014 over as TN chief secy WITH BCCI ON crore, IGST is `60,288 crore and DC CORRESPONDENT Cess is `8,622 crore” the finance CHENNAI, JAN. 31 ministry said in a SPECTATOR ENTRY statement. Rajeev Ranjan, who was DC CORRESPONDENT secretary in the Union CHENNAI, JAN. 31 Dr Kafeel Khan named in list of ministry of fisheries, ani- mal husbandry and dairy In an effort to allow spec- Gorakhpur history-sheeters development, has taken tators for the second Test over as chief secretary of between India and Gorakhpur (UP): Dr Kafeel Khan Tamil Nadu on Sunday. England to be held at the and 80 others have been includ- The senior IAS officer M.A. Chidambaram Sta- ed in the list of history-sheeters who hails from Jharkh- on the chief secretary dium from February 13, in Gorakhpur district of Uttar and took the charge in grade and be eligible for the Tamil Nadu Cricket Pradesh and they will be on the Chennai from K. Shanm- pay and perquisites. Association (TNCA) has radar of police, officials said. ugam who retired on Mr Ranjan's tenure ends initiated talks with the The 81 people have been includ- Sunday. The former chief on September 30 and it officials of the Board of ed in the list on the instruction secretary, who was given would be up to the govern- Control for Cricket in of senior superintendent of a number of extensions, ment in place then to take India (BCCI). The open- police Jogendra Kumar, they has been retained as a call on extension as ing Test, starting on said.