Follow us on: facebook.com/dailypioneer RNI No.2016/1957, REGD NO. SSP/LW/NP-34/2019-21 @TheDailyPioneer instagram.com/dailypioneer/ Established 1864 OPINION 8 Published From WORLD 12 SPORT 15 DELHI LUCKNOW BHOPAL AYODHYA BREXIT TALKS NOW IN JUVE HOST BHUBANESWAR RANCHI RAIPUR PEACE HANDS OF BRITAIN: EU CHIEF ATLETICO IN UCL CHANDIGARH DEHRADUN Late City Vol. 155 Issue 69 LUCKNOW, TUESDAY MARCH 12, 2019; PAGES 16 `3 *Air Surcharge Extra if Applicable ALWAYS SPEAK OUT: } SUSSANNE } 14 VIVACITY www.dailypioneer.com Rahul quashes AAP tie-up rumour EC nips in bud squabble Win all seven seats in Delhi, Cong chief exhorts party cadre over polls during Ramzan PNS n NEW DELHI At a recent meeting with Fridays kept off his displeasure over the EC’s the Congress chief , the Delhi decision. ongress president Rahul Congress, led by Shiela Dikshit, schedule; Owaisi Criticising the Opposition, CGandhi on Monday set had unanimously refused an BJP spokesperson Shahnawaz aside all speculation about a alliance with AAP. Last week, slams parties for Hussain pointed out that Congress-AAP alliance in the after a meeting with Rahul and Navratas, when many Hindus national Capital by urging the UPA chairperson Sonia raising non issue observe fast, will also fall dur- party workers to work hard to Gandhi, Dikshit had claimed ing the elections. “Muslims do “win all the seven Lok Sabha the Congress had “no alliance not observe roza by not doing seats in Delhi”. yet” in Delhi. The meeting PNS n NEW DELHI their work. Islam also does not “There will be no tie-up and the comment both came ask us to stop our work for and the Congress will go it after AAP leaders urged Rahul he Election Commission worship. It is not that people alone on all seven Lok Sabha for a rethink, saying it should T(EC) on Monday acted who have jobs do not attend seats in Delhi. You should be his decision and not the swiftly to nip in the bud a con- Opposition parties against the them during Ramzan. They work hard to win all the seven State Congress’ diktat. troversy generated by leaders of ruling alliance. keep roza and do their work as seats of Delhi,” said Rahul The Congress has been the Trinamool Congress The Ramzan, which is a well. Creating such a contro- while addressing party’s booth under pressure from the TMC (TMC) and the Aam Aadmi month of rigorous fasting for versy is unfortunate,” he said. workers in Delhi. to enter into an alliance with Party (AAP) over scheduling of the Muslims, will begin on May Hyderabad MP Asaduddin It seems the Congress is the AAP. Delhi Chief Minister poll dates during Ramzan. 5 which coincides with the Owaisi said that he welcomes taking a long term view of its and AAP chief Arvind The EC clarified that the polling schedule in States. the conduct of the election dur- prospects in Delhi, where it was Kejriwal too has been keen on main festival (June 4) and Ramzan will end on June 4. ing Ramzan. a force to reckon with for a tie-up, saying it would stop Fridays (falling in the holy After the announcement of “As a Muslim I welcome decades. But the arrival of the the split of non-BJP votes. month) have been excluded poll schedule by the EC, AAP the election in Ramzan. AAP wiped out the Congress As the Opposition started from the polling dates. The leader Amanatullah Khan Muslims are more devotional from the scene. In 2004 LS recalibrating its campaign after Commission also said the Lok tweeted on Sunday that elec- in that month,” he said. polls, the Congress won six out the Pulwama terror attack and Sabha polls are being con- tions will be held in Delhi on Owaisi, the All India Majlis-e- of seven seats and in 2009 it the subsequent IAF air strikes, Congress president Rahul Gandhi and DPCC chief Sheila Dikshit at ‘Mera Booth, Mera Gaurav’ convention at Indira Gandhi ducted during the Ramzan May 12, when Muslims will be Ittehadul Muslimeen chief, also won all seven seats. But after Rahul held a meeting with Stadium in New Delhi on Monday Ranjan Dimri | Pioneer because a full month cannot be observing Ramzan. “There will said those who are making a AAP turned the 2014 polls into leaders of the Delhi Congress excluded. be less polling among Muslims, controversy around the polls triangular contest, the BJP to discuss the issue. by splitting anti-BJP vote. Delhi and it will contest all the but spoke with the British with The BJP accused and it will directly benefit the dates don’t understand Islam. swept Delhi winning all the After the Congress refusal Rumours are that Congress seats on its own,” the AAP’s love, while (Veer) Savarkar Opposition parties of creating BJP,” he had said. Some lead- According to EC, Lok seven seats. The Congress had then, Kejriwal had tweeted, has some secret understanding Delhi unit convener said. wrote letters to Britishers apol- a deliberate controversy over ers of the ruling Trinamool Sabha elections will begin on been in power for three con- “At a time when the whole with BJP. Delhi is ready to fight In an all out attack against ogising and asking to be let off,” voting during Ramzan saying Congress in West Bengal had April 11 and continue for over secutive terms spanning 15 country wants to defeat Modi- against Cong-BJP alliance. Prime Minister Narendra he said. Hindus too would be observ- spoken on the similar lines. a month till May 19 across years from 1998 to 2013. Shah duo, Cong is helping BJP People will defeat this unholy Modi, the Congress president He said Modi keeps talking ing “Navratra” fast when poll Kolkata Mayor Firhad seven phases. The last three alliance.” flayed him on a host of issues about Make in India, but his process would be underway Hakim said the seven-phase phases of polling — on May 6, Reacting to Rahul’s state- such as the Rafale deal, employ- shirt, shoes and phone, with next month. election will be highly incon- 12, and 19 — would take place ment on Monday, AAP leader ment generation, national secu- which he takes selfies, are Earlier, leaders of TMC venient for the minority pop- during Ramzan. Gopal Rai said his party is not rity and alleged agrarian dis- made in China. and AAP alleged that the ulation in the States of Bihar, Polling for a total of 169 CWC meet in Modi's in talks with the Congress for tress. He also said the choice Rahul said 40 CRPF per- polling schedule was designed Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal Lok Sabha seats (i.e. 31.12% of an alliance in Delhi and it will is between Mahatma Gandhi’s sonnel were martyred in the in a way that most of the con- as the election dates coincide the 543 seats) will take place. contest all seven seats in the India or Godse’s India with love Pulwama terror attack carried stituencies go to polls during with the month of Ramzan. The polling for 41 parliamen- home turf to finalise upcoming Lok Sabha elections. on one hand and hate on the out by the Jaish-e-Mohammed Ramzan so that Muslims can- “Election Commission is a tary seats in Uttar Pradesh; 21 Rai said Kejriwal will hold other. whose chief Masood Azhar not go out and exercise their Constitutional body and we seats in Bihar; 24 seats in West a meeting with all State unit “You have to decide, you was released from jail by the franchise. respect them. We don’t want to Bengal; seven in Delhi will be chiefs of the party and MLAs want Gandhi’s India or Godse’s BJP. They claimed that during say anything against them. But held during Ramzan. As per poll strategy today to discuss the strategy for the India. On the one hand there “Two of our Prime Ramzan, it will be inconvenient seven-phase election will be census, Muslim population in parliamentary polls. “The party is love, brotherhood, on the Ministers were martyred. We for Muslims and help the BJP tough for people in Bihar, Uttar Bihar is 17 per cent; 20 per cent PNS n NEW DELHI tary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra is is not in talks with the other is hate, fear. Gandhiji was don’t bow before anyone,” he as the community is largely Pradesh and West Bengal,” in Uttar Pradesh and 27 per also likely to address this meet- Congress for an alliance in fearless, stayed in jail for years, said. seen to be backing the Hakim said, while expressing cent in West Bengal. he Congress is all set to ing in her first public rally after Tgive the final shape to its entering politics. strategy for Lok Sabha elec- Patidar leader Hardik CAPSULE tions at its Working Patel, who shot to fame by Committee meeting in spearheading a quota stir in the SHARAD PAWAR NOT TO Ahmedabad on Tuesday and State and is set to fight the Lok CONTEST LOK SABHA POLL will sound the poll bugle from Sabha polls, will also join the Pulwama mastermind killed Pune: NCP chief Sharad Pawar Prime Minister Narendra Congress at the meeting in on Monday said he will not Modi’s home State, party lead- presence of party chief 18 terrorists, including JeM ultras, eliminated post suicide attack, says Army contest Lok Sabha election. The ers said. Rahul Gandhi. 78-year-old veteran politician The party is of the view Besides giving the final MOHIT KANDHARI n JAMMU rorists will continue till we kill said as two members of his that the narrative for the gen- shape to its LS election strate- all of them,” he added.