BJP Loses All 3 LS Seats in UP, Bihar
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NO.: DL(S)-01/3420/2018-20 PUBLISHED FROM DELHI & KOLKATA VOL. 13, ISSUE 73 | Thursday, 15 March 2018 | New Delhi | Pages 16 | Rs 3.00 NO HALF TRUTHS qNIFTY 10,410.90 (-15.95) qSENSEX 33,835.74 (-21.04) qDOW JONES 25,764.97 (-242.06) qNASDAQ 7504.86 (-6.15) pRUPEE/DOLLAR 64.83 (+0.06) qRUPEE/EURO 80.70 (-0.12) pGOLD/10GM 31,515 (+65.00) pSILVER/K 39,560 (+60.00) PINK LINE – BIHAR BY- SINGAPORE STARTS HAVING MORE DELHI METRO’S ELECTION MARKS LANDMARK PUBLIC WOMEN FILMMAKERS LONGEST – OPEN A TEJASHWI YADAV HEARING ON FAKE IS BRINGING A TO PUBLIC PG4 MOMENT PG5 NEWS PG11 CHANGE: LARA PG16 SP, BSP UNDERSTANDING CLICKS IN UP Underestimated BJP loses all 3 LS seats in UP, Bihar SP-BSP pact, SIMONTINI BHATTACHARJEE says Adityanath LUCKNOW/PATNA: In a stunning reversal OUR CORRESPONDENT of fortunes for the BJP ahead of the 2019 gen- eral elections, the party on Wednesday lost LUCKNOW: The Gorakhpur bypolls to all three Lok Sabha seats it contested, and Phulpur Lok Sabha by-elec- including its bastion Gorakhpur, and Phulpur tion results were a “lesson”, Uttar in Uttar Pradesh, besides Araria in Bihar. Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi A consolidation of OBC, Dalit and Muslim Adityanath said on Wednes- votes powered Samajwadi Party candidates to day, citing over-confidence and victory in Gorakhpur, a seat represented by the inability to understand the Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath for five suc- understanding between SP and cessive terms, and Phulpur, which elected his BSP as prime reasons for the BJP’s deputy Keshav Prasad Maurya in the 2014 defeat. formance in by-elections, not the Lok Sabha polls. BJP had won Phulpur for The fact that the BJP lost both policies of the Centre. the first time. the seats -- Adityanath and Phul- He noted that local issues Both of them had won their seats by mar- pur vacated Gorakhpur by his dominated and voter turnout gins of over 3 lakh votes. deputy Keshav Prasad Maurya -- was also low. Samajwadi Party’s Pravin Nishad defeated was a reason for the review, the “When the general elections BJP’s Upendra Dutt Shukla by 21,961 votes in chief minister added. are held, there will be national Gorakhpur, the seat which was with the party Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav with senior leaders Kiranmoy Nanda and Azam Khan addresses a press conference after the by-election results PTI “When the candidates were issues. Under the leadership of since 1989, while Nagendra Pratap Singh Patel declared, the SP, BSP and Con- PM Narendra Modi, there has of SP clinched the Phulpur seat drubbing the Alliance in Bihar which had trounced the BJP- general elections. gress were not together...they had been a sense of confidence which saffron party’s Kaushalendra Singh Patel by Highlights led NDA in 2015. The success was attributed to Congress president Rahul Gandhi not joined hands then. But sud- is prevailing in the country...but 59,460 votes. » A consolidation of OBC, Dalit the consolidation of OBC and Muslim voters described the results as a reflection of public denly in the middle of the elec- all these will be reviewed.” As trends began to turn the way of the and Muslim votes powered in favour of the Grand alliance after the two anger against the BJP. tion, the SP and the BSP forged The election results, he Samajwadi Party in Gorakhpur, a top official Samajwadi Party candidates to major parties--JD(U) and RJD came together. Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav an electoral understanding,” he stressed, were a lesson. scripted a major political controversy by ban- victory in Gorakhpur The SP and BSP had formed a coalition termed the victory as one of “social justice” told the media from his residence. “Gorakhpur has always been ning the media from the area where votes were government in the state in 1993 when the BJP, and profusely thanked the BSP for its support. “The over-confidence and a stronghold. Where we went being counted. » It brought back memories of despite emerging as the single largest party fol- The BJP had scored a thumping victory inability to understand the elec- wrong and how we can counter Lalu Prasad’s RJD retained the Araria Lok the triumph of the now-defunct lowing the demolition of the Babri mosque, in Uttar Pradesh in the 2014 Lok Sabha polls, toral understanding between the the SP, BSP combine, we will fig- Sabha seat where its nominee Sarfaraz Alam JD(U)-RJD-Congress Grand failed to get a majority. and together with ally Apna Dal, won 73 of SP and the BSP led to the defeat,” ure it out,” beat BJP’s Pradeep Kumar Singh by over 60,000 Alliance in Bihar In Gorakhpur, a consolidation of OBC- the states 80 seats. The NDA allies had polled Adityanath stressed. BJP’s Keshav Prasad Maurya votes, in a set back for the JD(U)-BJP alliance, Dalit-Muslim votes, which used to get split 43.3 percent votes. Political bargaining has said. which went to the hustings for the first time between the SP and BSP, besides the support The NDA improved upon its performance started in the state and people “It is obviously not a satisfac- after Nitish Kumar returned to the NDA fold. The RJD retained the Jehanabad Assembly of smaller entities like the Nishad Party and in the 2017 Assembly polls, winning 325 seats of the state will understand it, he tory result. But one thing is cer- In small consolation for the BJP, its can- seat, with its nominee Suday Yadav defeating Peace Party, worked its magic for the Sama- in the 403-member Assembly, polling 48.7 said. tain that the SP was about to lose didate Rinki Rani Pandey retained the Bhab- his JD(U) rival Abhiram Sharma by more than jwadi Party candidates. percent votes. The SP won 47 seats with 21.8 The chief minister, who has and the BSP’s support helped it. hua Assembly seat for the party, defeating her 30,000 votes. The bypoll victories may now nudge the percent votes. The BSP won 19 seats with 22.2 represented Gorakhpur in the We have to adapt our strategy Congress rival Shambhu Singh Patel by about It brought back memories of the triumph of secular parties to forge a broad alliance of percent votes. The two parties together polled Lok Sabha five times, said local now,” UP Health Minister Sid- 14,000 votes. the now-defunct JD(U)-RJD-Congress Grand anti-BJP forces at the national level before the 40.8 percent votes. More reports on P5 issues led to the party’s poor per- harth Nath Singh said. WILL ACCELERATE FURTHER TO 7.5% IN 2019 -20 Cyber crime Corruption allegations against AYODHYA DISPUTE: becoming industry Shami to be probed by BCCI Apex court rejects World Bank projects India’s RAJNATH SINGH all interim pleas to MPOST BUREAU FY19 GDP growth at 7.3% intervene as parties NEW DELHI: The Committee of MPOST BUREAU a year,” the report said. In today’s Administrators (CoA) chairman In November 2016, the gov- Vinod Rai has instructed BCCI’s MPOST BUREAU NEW DELHI: The World ernment had scrapped high- paper Anti-Corruption chief Neeraj Kumar Bank on Wednesday projected value currency notes of Rs 500 to probe alleged corruption allega- NEW DELHI: The Supreme India’s GDP growth at 7.3 per- and Rs 1,000 in a bid to check tions against Mohammad Shami, sur- Court on Wednesday rejected cent for the next financial year black money, among others. CITY ... faced during a reported telephonic all interim pleas seeking to and accelerate further to 7.5 Later, India implemented conversation between the fast bowler intervene as parties in the sen- percent in 2019 -20. its most significant indirect tax COMPULSORY ROOFTOP PANELS SOON 3 and his wife Hasin Jahan. sitive Babri Masjid-Ram tem- The World Bank’s biannual of their scope” aimed at resolv- reform -- Goods and Services NATION Jahan has also filed a police ple land dispute case. publication, India Develop- ing issues related to credit and Tax (GST). complaint against the pacer alleg- A special bench compris- ment Update: India’s Growth investment and enhancing the Both of these initiatives had 50 MORE FLIGHTS CANCELLED 6 ing infidelity and domestic violence, ing Chief Justice Dipak Misra Story, expects the economy to competitiveness of exports. impacted the economic activi- resulting in BCCI withholding and Justices Ashok Bhushan clock a growth rate of 6.7 per “The Indian economy ties in the country in short run. EDIT Shami’s central contract. and S A Najeeb accepted the cent in the current fiscal end- is likely to recover from the India’s economic growth MAKING AMERICA GREAT 8 The CoA chief asked Kumar to Bhai had sent money to Md. Shami contention that only origi- ing March 31. impact of demonetisation, and had slipped to a three year low submit a report within a week. It is through a Pakistani lady by the name nal parties to the dispute be The report, however,the GST, and growth should of 5.7 percent in April-June INTERNATIONAL to be noted that the letter nowhere of ‘Alisba’.” allowed to advance arguments observed that growth of over revert slowly to a level consis- quarter of the current fiscal, mentions the word “match-fixing”. “Please investigate the above in the case and the interven- 8 per cent would require “con- tent with its proximate factors though it recovered in the sub- NEANDERTHALS WERE COMPASSIONATE 10 “This has reference to the vari- assertions/ allegations under the tion applications of unrelated tinued reform and a widening — that is, to about 7.5 percent sequent quarters.