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P rinted at . Chennai . Coimbatore . Bengaluru . Hyderabad . Madurai . Noida . Visakhapatnam . Thiruvananthapuram . Kochi . Vijayawada . Mangaluru . Tiruchirapalli . Kolkata . Hubballi . Mohali . Malappuram . Mumbai . Tirupati . lucknow . cuttack . patna NEARBY BJP­Sena win in Maharashtra, hung House in Haryana Congress puts up a robust show in northern State even as the debutant Jannayak Janta Party emerges as a regional force to reckon with Early Diwali Now, open heart surgery BJP will stake claim to at Rajiv Gandhi Hospital gift, says PM NEW DELHI form govt.: Amit Shah Prime Minister Narendra Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal Modi on Thursday thanked on Thursday inaugurated a VIKAS VASUDEVA a surprise by winning 10 the people of Maharashtra facility for open heart surgery CHANDIGARH seats. The party could play a and Haryana for what he in addition to other services at Rajiv Gandhi Super Contrary to nearly all exit key role in the formation of called an “early Diwali Speciality Hospital in east poll projections, the ruling the next government, and is gift”, re­electing the BJP in Delhi. According to a Delhi BJP picked up just 40 seats scheduled to hold a meeting Maharashtra and making it government statement, the in the Haryana Assembly of its national executive and the single largest party in other facilities now on offer elections and looked to se­ party MLAs in Delhi on Fri­ Haryana. Ī PAGE 12 at the hospital include a ven Independents and 10 day. DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD 16­bed ICU, an OT complex, MLAs of the debutant Jan­ JJP leader Dushyant hepatobiliary, bariatric and nayak Janta Party ( JJP) to Chautala, who won from ‘Karnataka metabolic surgery centres . hang on to power in the 90­ Uchana Kalan, said, “Party CITY Ī PAGE 3 member House. MLAs will take a collective model’ again? DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD The Congress put up a decision. It is too early to A section of the Congress surprisingly robust perfor­ say anything. The MLAs will Ex-DU professor Geelani was ready to replicate the mance, winning 31 seats, select our party leader in dies of cardiac arrest “Karnataka model” in while the JJP displaced the the House… then we will NEW DELHI Haryana by offering the Indian National Lok Dal as take a step further.” Former Delhi University post of Chief Minister to Haryana’s regional force professor S.A.R. Geelani, who Dushyant Chautala. But and heir to the politics of Return of rebels? was arrested and later Bhupinder Singh Hooda, Haryana strongman Devi The BJP, however, may not acquitted by the Supreme who was given a “free Lal. need the JJP as five of the se­ Court in connection with the hand” to form a Sena’s Uddhav insists on 50:50 formula The Congress and the JJP ven Independents are said Parliament attack case, died government, refused to here on Thursday following a busted the BJP’s claims of to be BJP rebels. speak about it. Ī page 13 cardiac arrest, his family said. Sharad Vyas press conference after the re­ the evening, authorised par­ wave in the rural belt. winning 75­plus seats, re­ Eight Ministers of the out­ DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD CITY Ī PAGE 5 Alok Deshpande sults, said it was time to im­ ty president Amit Shah to In absolute numbers, the sulting in a hung Assembly. going Manohar Lal Khattar DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD Mumbai plement the 50­50 formula hold discussions with Sena BJP­Sena tally fell by 29 seats, At one time, the BJP and government were rejected A true legatee Talks with NSCN-IM The ruling BJP­Shiv Sena al­ for power­sharing, as decid­ chief Uddhav Thackeray on while the Congress­NCP al­ the Congress were level at by the voters as was BJP remain inconclusive liance on Thursday managed ed earlier. government formation. liance notched up an addi­ 35 leads, but the BJP pulled State chief Subhash Barala. of Devi Lal NEW DELHI/ GUWAHATI to retain control of the Maha­ Mr. Thackeray said, “It is The BJP also lost the Lok tional 21 seats, compared to ahead by the evening, mak­ However, the Chief Minister As the deadline to sign the rashtra Assembly, but with a time to remind the BJP about Sabha bypoll in Satara, the 2014 numbers. The BJP ing it the single largest party himself romped home by Dushyant Chautala made a final Naga peace accord reduced mandate. The al­ the formula arrived at when where it had fielded the in­ won 103 seats out of the 150 it within the striking distance over 45,000 votes. good debut for his nears, Naga interlocutor R.N. liance suffered losses in Vi­ BJP chief Amit Shah visited cumbent Nationalist Con­ contested, while the Sena se­ of power. Soon after the results Jannayak Janta Party, Ravi’s talks with the NSCN­IM darbha and western Maha­ my home...” Prior to elec­ gress Party (NCP) MP cured a clear mandate on 56 In a tweet, party presi­ were declared, veteran Con­ claiming the legacy of (National Socialist Council of rashtra, with nine Ministers tions, the Sena had pitched Udayanraje Bhosale after he seats out of 124. The saffron dent Amit Shah made it gress leader Bhupinder former Deputy Prime Nagaland­Isak­Muivah) on losing in the election. Yuva Sena chief Aaditya switched sides. alliance’s final tally stood at clear that the BJP would Singh Hooda appealed to all Minister Devi Lal. Mr. Thursday remained With reduced numbers, Thackeray as the next depu­ 159. The BJP’s 14 allies also stake claim to power when Opposition parties to join Dushyant, grandson of Om inconclusive. the BJP will now be depen­ ty Chief Ministe, a demand Exit polls belied contested on the lotus he thanked the people for hands against the ruling BJP. Prakash Chautala and son N ATION Ī PAGE 9 dent on the Sena to form the which the BJP neither accept­ Proving all exit polls wrong, symbol. giving the party another of Ajay Chautala, entered DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD government. Upping the ed nor denied publicly. the Congress­NCP combine chance to serve them. CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 12 politics after his grand­ FRIDAY REVIEW Ī 8 PAGES ante, Sena chief Uddhav The BJP’s parliamentary crossed the 100­seat mark, CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 12 The JJP, which contested A LOCAL DISCONNECT BEHIND father was convicted in a (TABLOID) Thackeray, speaking at a board, which met in Delhi in riding an anti­incumbency T AMED VICTORS Ī EDITORIAL its maiden election, sprang BJP’S POOR SHOWING Ī PAGE 12 corruption case. Ī page 13 NCP bags Satara LS seat, HC seeks response from ED India, Pakistan sign Kartarpur pact LJP retains Samastipur on Chidambaram’s bail plea It will facilitate Indian pilgrims to visit Gurdwara Kartarpur Sahib NDA allies stay ahead in Assembly bypolls ED told to reply within a week Special Correspondent Sahib in Narowal district of Special Correspondent Staff Reporter New Delhi Pakistan, will have to neces­ NEW DELHI New Delhi India and Pakistan on sarily register online at pra­ BJP ally Lok Janshakti Party The Delhi High Court on Thursday signed an agree­ kashpurb550.mha.gov.in. in (LJP) retained the Samasti­ Thursday sought the res­ ment to operationalise the advance and the applicant is pur Lok Sabha seat, while ponse of the Enforcement Kartarpur corridor that will required to register himself/ the Nationalist Congress Directorate (ED) on a bail facilitate pilgrims from In­ herself in advance of pro­ Party (NCP) retained the plea of senior Congress dia to visit the Gurdwara posed date of travel. Regis­ Satara Lok Sabha seat in the leader and former Union Kartarpur Sahib in Pakistan. tration does not confer a byelection results declared Finance Minister P. Chi­ The agreement is valid in­ right to travel.” on Thursday. dambaram in the INX Me­ itially for five years. India The LJP’s Prince Raj, son dia money­laundering will hand over the list of pil­ Electronic authorisation of party MP Ram Chandra RJD workers celebrating on case. grims to Pakistan 10 days in “An Electronic Travel Auth­ Paswan, whose death in July the streets of Patna on Justice Suresh Kait asked advance and those granted orization will also be gener­ necessitated the bypoll, de­ Thursday. * RANJEET KUMAR the agency to file its reply Former Finance Minister P. permission to go may be in­ Officials of India and Pakistan after signing an agreement on ated that pilgrims need to feated Ashok Kumar of the within a week. Chidambaram, centre, at the formed only four days be­ the Kartarpur Corridor in Gurdaspur on Thursday. * PTI carry along with their pass­ Congress by a margin of leader Alpesh Thakor, who The 74­year­old was ar­ ED office, in New Delhi on fore the proposed date of port, when they arrive at 1,02,090 votes. defected to the BJP from the rested by the CBI on August Thursday. * ANI travel. rate his 550th birth anniver­ According to the “do's the passenger terminal In Satara, the NCP’s Shri­ Congress during the Lok 21 from his residence in S.C.L Das, Joint Secretary sary celebrations on No­ and don'ts” issued by the building [PTB],” the Minis­ niwas Dadasaheb Patil had a Sabha polls, was defeated in Delhi. named as an accused nor in the Union Home Ministry, vember 12. Ministry of Home Affairs try said. lead of over 85,000 votes Radhanpur by Raghu Desai In the bail plea, Mr. Chi­ as a suspect therein. There signed the pact with Pakis­ (MHA), children below 13 Pilgrims would be al­ over the BJP’s Udayanraje of the Congress. dambaram has contended is no allegation against the tan Foreign Office spokes­ Same day return years and persons of about lowed to carry kirpans (dag­ Bhonsale. Mr. Bhonsale’s re­ In a setback for Bihar that the ED registered the petitioner in the body of person Mohammad Faisal at The agreement said pil­ 75 years and above will have ger), one of the five articles signation and defection to Chief Minister Nitish Kumar, Enforcement Case Informa­ the captioned ECIR,” the the Kartarpur zero point grims would be allowed to to travel in groups. of faith worn by Sikhs. Pil­ the BJP in September had the NDA won just one of the tion Report under Section 3 plea said. along the border. carry a maximum of Rs. “Eco­friendly material, grims have been advised not necessitated the bypoll. five Assembly seats, while of the Prevention of Money It further contended that The corridor is being 11,000 and a 7­kg bag that preferably cloth bags, to touch any unattended ar­ Of the 51 Assembly bye­ the Opposition Rashtriya Ja­ Laundering Act, solely all the evidence is docu­ built to connect Dera Baba could contain drinking wa­ should be used during the ticle and inform about lections held across the nata Dal took two — Simri based on the CBI’s FIR. mentary and in the custody Nanak in Gurdaspur with ter, and they would not be pilgrimage and the sur­ anything suspicious to the country, the Opposition Bakhtiarpur and Belhar. “The captioned ECIR is a of investigating agencies, Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in allowed to venture beyond roundings should be kept authorities. Playing loud Congress and the ruling BJP reproduction of the subject hence it cannot be tam­ Kartarpur, the final resting the shrine. They would tra­ clean,” the agreement said. music and taking photo­ won three seats each in the CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 12 FIR and the petitioner [Mr. pered with by Mr. place of Sikhism founder vel in the morning and re­ “All pilgrims who pro­ graphs without permission six bypolls in Gujarat. OBC JOLT FOR JD(U) Ī PAGE 13 Chidambaram] is neither Chidambaram. Guru Nanak, to commemo­ turn the same day. pose to visit Sri Kartarpur would also be not allowed. Construction activities banned A judge cannot SC tells telcos to pay govt. ₹92,000 crore be suspected of Sector benefited from AGR scheme but did not fulfil obligations to govt.: Bench from Oct. 26­30 in Delhi­NCR bias: Mishra Krishnadas Rajagopal The Supreme Court dis­ pump revenue from its share NEW DELHI missed the telecom service of telecom gross revenue in­ Task force also issues directions to shut coal­based industries Krishnadas Rajagopal In a blow to telecom service providers’ objection to the to developing remote and NEW DELHI providers, the Supreme government’s formulation of uncovered areas. SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT decided in its meeting. green crackers on Diwali and A judge need not recuse Court on Thursday upheld AGR. But all it ended up doing NEW DELHI The committee, which that too between 8 p.m. and himself from a larger the Department of Telecom’s was incur a colossal amount Hot mix plants, stone­crush­ now meets almost weekly 10 p.m. Bench scrutinising the cor­ move to recover adjusted For underserved areas of ₹49.120 crore under the ers and construction activi­ since the beginning of Octob­ Forecasts by agencies such rectness of his own past gross revenue (AGR) of about The judgment said the gross Universal Service Obligation ties that generate dust are er, didn’t suggest any specific as SAFAR say that no dramat­ judgment, a Constitution ₹92,000 crore from them. revenue shall be inclusive of Fund (USOF) and a commit­ prohibited from October 26 caution on crackers. ic dip in the city’s air quality Bench held in a verdict pu­ A Bench, led by Justice installation charges, late ted liability of ₹59,774 crore to 30 in Delhi and its satellite is expected until November 1. blished on Thursday. Arun Mishra, said the sector fees, sale proceeds of hand­ for ongoing projects includ­ towns, a committee oversee­ Green crackers However, the city’s air quali­ “No litigant can choose had long reaped the fruits of The court dismissed the sets (or any other terminal ing laying of optical fibre ca­ ing the implementation of This year, less polluting ty on Thursday was in the who should be on the the Centre’s liberalised service providers’ objection equipment, etc.), revenue bles up to gram panchayat the Graded Response Action ‘green crackers’ are available ‘very poor’ category with PM Bench. He cannot say that mode of payment by the re­ to the formulation of AGR. on account of interest, divi­ areas under ‘Digital India Plan (GRAP) said on in city stores unlike last year, 2.5 being the dominant a judge who might have de­ venue sharing regime. “It dend, value­added services, Mission’. Thursday. when there was a complete pollutant. cided a case on a particular has benefited immensely un­ “The telecom service pro­ access or interconnection As a sign of the liberalisa­ Coal­based industries, ex­ ban on all kinds of fireworks. Prashant Gargava, mem­ issue, which may go der the scheme as apparent viders, in spite of the finan­ charges, revenue from per­ tion allowed in the sector, cept power plants, will also “Supreme Court directions ber secretary of the Task against his interest, should from the gross revenue trend cial benefits of the package, missible sharing of infras­ the court highlighted how have to cease operations dur­ regarding firecrackers to be Force, said the Central Pollu­ not hear his case as part of from 2004 to 2015,” he said. started to ensure that they tructure and any other mis­ the 15% AGR, fixed as license ing those five days in the city strictly enforced by con­ tion Control Board was con­ a larger Bench,” Justice However, the service pro­ do not pay the licence fee to cellaneous revenue, without fee under revenue sharing, as well as the satellite towns cerned agencies,” was the on­ ducting checks throughout Arun Mishra wrote in the viders failed to fulfil their the public exchequer based any set­off for related item of was reduced to 13% and last­ of Faridabad, Gurugram, ly reference made by the the NCR and investigating in­ leading judgment for the obligations to the govern­ on an agreed AGR,” the Su­ expense, etc. ly to 8% in 2013. Ghaziabad, Noida, Greater committee on crackers. stances of burning of waste Bench. ment and raised frivolous preme Court observed in a The court explained that Noida, Sonipat and Bahadur­ The SC, in its October 2018 and violations of dust man­ objections. 153­page judgment. the government intended to CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 12 garh, the task force on GRAP judgment, had allowed only agement practices. DETAILS ON Ī PAGE 9 CM A ND-NDE YK