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SSP/LW/NP-34/2019-21 Follow us on: @TheDailyPioneer facebook.com/dailypioneer instagram.com/dailypioneer/ Established 1864 Late City Vol. 155 Issue 93 Published From *Air Surcharge Extra if Applicable LANDMARK 5 WORLD 7 SPORT 10 DELHI LUCKNOW BHOPAL THE US IS FULL: TRUMP BHUBANESWAR RANCHI BJP FIELDS ANURAG ON UMA CSK BEAT KXIP RAIPUR CHANDIGARH SEAT, DROPS 10 MPS AT MEXICO BORDER BY 22 RUNS DEHRADUN HYDERABAD VIJAYWADA LUCKNOW, SUNDAY APRIL 7, 2019; PAGES 12+4 `3 www.dailypioneer.com CAPSULE USUALSUSPECTS ED, MICHEL SEEK ENQUIRY AAP, Cong plan to meet halfway INTO CHARGESHEET LEAK SWAPAN DASGUPTA New Delhi: The Enforcement Directorate (ED) and British- AAP may give in to Cong demand of 3 seats in Delhi if tie-ups in Haryana, Chd sealed national Christian Michel, alleged middleman arrested in the Cong still relevant RAJESH KUMAR n NEW DELHI West Delhi seats while the AgustaWestland VVIP chopper AAP may contest from East case, on Saturday sought before fter weeks of deliberations Delhi, South Delhi, West Delhi a Delhi court an enquiry into the Aand negotiation with and North East Delhi. The purported leakage of the Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam final seat sharing announce- supplementary chargesheet filed as political force Aadmi Party (AAP), the ment is expected to be soon. in the case to media. here is a temptation in some circles to dismiss Congress Congress has agreed in princi- This could have serious Tpresident Rahul Gandhi as a complete Pappu and an ple to enter into an alliance implication for the BJP which MAMATA SLAMS EC OVER airhead. While this perception may well be grounded in with its bitter rival in the won all even seats in Delhi in TRANSFER OF TOP COPS perceptions of his personality, it has no place in serious national Capital in the Lok 2014 polls. Kolkata: West Bengal Chief political analysis. Rahul as an individual may be important Sabha polls. According to sources in the Minister Mamata Banerjee on but what is relevant is that he happens to be the head, some Congress president Rahul Congress, “Its formula for Saturday wrote to the Election would say owner, of a political party that, despite its Gandhi on Saturday held a Delhi is based on a 3:4 ratio Commission protesting transfers diminishing fortunes over the years, is still relevant as a high-level meeting with Delhi (Congress-3 and AAP-4) is of four IPS officers, including social and political force. The Congress is a huge network Congress president and former calculated on the basis of seats Kolkata and Bidhannagar police and regardless of the leadership attributes of its President, Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit, won by them in the 2017 commissioners. The EC decision must be assessed in terms of its larger relevance as the AICC general secretary and Municipal polls in Delhi. the is “unfortunate”, “highly principal-but by no means the only-Opposition to the BJP Delhi affair incharge PC AAP had won 49 seats and the arbitrary, motivated and biased” and Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Chacko, KC Venugopal and Congress 31 after getting 26 per and taken at the behest of BJP, That the importance of the Congress extends well other senior leaders at his res- cent and 21 per cent vote share the letter said, urging the poll beyond the 44 Lok Sabha seats it won in 2014 is obvious. A idence, where it was reported- respectively. panel to review its decision. few months ago the Congress won three important State ly decided to go ahead with In the 2014 Lok Sabha Assembly elections in Chhattisgarh, Madhya Pradesh and alliance with the AAP. * Congress president Rahul Gandhi on Saturday held a high-level meeting with Delhi Congress president polls, the AAP polled 33 per CONG PLANS TO DILUTE Rajasthan. Additionally, it controls the State Government in While the Congress has and former Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit among others where it was reportedly decided to go ahead with cent of the vote share while the FORCES POWERS: MODI Punjab and is the mainstay of the coalition Government in decided to join hands with alliance with the AAP Congress got only 15 per cent. Sundargarh (Odisha): Prime Karnataka. More important, however, is the influence the AAP, the Kejriwal outfit is still * AAP wants Congress to forge alliance in Haryana and Chandigarh as quid pro quo and also unequivocally Put together, the vote share of Minister Narendra Modi said on Congress exercises over an important and influential section tight-lipped about the seat support full Statehood demand for Delhi Congress and AAP was 48 per Saturday that past Governments of the Establishment in India. There is, for example, a section did not have the courage to cross sharing. The AAP wants the * cent, just two per cent more of the bureaucracy that is inherently comfortable with the Congress to forge alliance in As per the seat-sharing formula being worked out, the Congress may get New Delhi, Chandni Chowk and than the BJP vote share of 46 the border and kill terrorists, and Congress. Likewise, a significant section of the intelligentsia, Haryana and Chandigarh as North West Delhi seats while the AAP may contest from East Delhi, South Delhi, West Delhi and North per cent. hit out at Congress saying while particularly those that have links with the State, are more at quid pro quo and also East Delhi Majority of the Delhi the “chowkidar” showed guts to ease with the Congress than with, say, the BJP. This is also unequivocally support full * The final seat sharing announcement is expected to be soon Congress leaders as well as hit terrorist safe havens inside true for that section of Indian business that values the use of Statehood demand for Delhi. members of the Congress Pak, the Cong wants to dilute discretionary powers of the Government to advance its “An alliance with the with the AAP,” the source said. in the pre-conditions for an ing less than” three seats in Working Committee are for an powers of the armed forces. prospects. Patronage politics is central to the Congress, and Congress is possible only if the The AAP has reportedly alliance, but that was left out Delhi. The AAP may concede alliance with AAP because it is the influence its exercises as a consequence of this hasn’t party agrees to do it for 10 seats conveyed to the Congress that considering Chief Minister to the Congress demand if the the only way that the Congress 2 TERRORISTS KILLED IN died out with its electoral misfortune. in Haryana, seven seats in it would support the grand old Amarinder Singh’s rigid stance,” party reciprocates to AAP’s can win seats in Delhi. SHOPIAN GUNFIGHT This election has witnessed a momentary revival of the Delhi and the Chandigarh Lok party in Chandigarh only if it the source said. demand. Several senior Opposition Srinagar: Two terrorists were Congress ecosystem. This didn’t happen because Rahul Sabha seat. Also, the party gets to contest three seats in Although the AAP is press- As per the seat-sharing leaders, including Sharad killed in a brief gunbattle with took over the mantle of the should also openly declare sup- Haryana — Faridabad, ing for a 5:2 (five for AAP and formula being worked out, the Pawar and Mamata Banerjee, security forces in Jammu & That the importance of the party from his mother. The port to full Statehood for Delhi Gurgaon and Karnal. “The two for Congress), the Congress may get New Delhi, had urged the Congress for tie- Kashmir’s Shopian district on Congress extends well leadership change was if it wants to forge an alliance party wanted to include Punjab Congress has demanded “noth- Chandni Chowk and North up with the AAP. Saturday, police said. incidental to the process. It beyond the 44 LS seats it happened because the won in 2014 is obvious. It outcome of the three BJP’s definition exercises influence over an Assembly elections and the electoral alliance of the Shotgun joins Congress, All A-SAT debris will important section of the Samajwadi Party and the of patriotism Establishment in India. Also a Bahujan Samaj Party conveyed an impression, at excludes India’s dissolve in 45 days, section of the bureaucracy is least at the beginning of inherently comfortable with 2019, that the BJP and to take on Ravi Shankar Modi would find it very diversity: Sonia the Congress difficult to repeat its 2014 PNS n NEW DELHI India allays US fears performance in 2019. PNS n NEW DELHI Regardless of whether or not such an assessment was ctor-turned-politician and PNS n NEW DELHI accurate, it was very real and was reflected in the chatter n her first poll rally in 2019 Arebel BJP leader that another UPA-style Government was imminent. It was Iahead of the upcoming Lok Shatrughan Sinha (72) on mid concerns expressed also felt that circumstances would propel Rahul to the Prime Sabha polls, chairperson of the Saturday officially joined the Aby some countries, includ- Minister’s post. United Progressive Alliance Congress at the party head- ing the US, over the danger This may explain two developments. First, the exodus of (UPA) Sonia Gandhi on quarters in the national Capital, posed by debris caused by the politicians whose main motivation for being in politics is to Saturday tore into the BJP on on the foundation day of the anti-satellite (A-SAT) missile exercise power away from the Congress was temporarily the issue of nationalism, saying BJP. The four-term parliamen- test conducted by India on halted.