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SSP/LW/NP-34/2019-21 @TheDailyPioneer instagram.com/dailypioneer/ Established 1864 OPINION 8 Published From WORLD 11 SPORT 14 DELHI LUCKNOW BHOPAL THE SOLDIER’S WILL PRESENT ALL EVIDENCE INDIA BEAT NZ IN BHUBANESWAR RANCHI RAIPUR CARETAKER IN ICJ ON FEB 19: PAK FM 2ND T20 CLASH CHANDIGARH DEHRADUN Late City Vol. 155 Issue 38 LUCKNOW, SATURDAY FEBRUARY 9, 2019; PAGES 16 `3 *Air Surcharge Extra if Applicable I HAVE EVOLVED IN FASHION: SHAHID} KAPOOR} 13 VIVACITY www.dailypioneer.com SC: Maya must pay Scoop adds sting in Rafale tale from own pocket The Hindu report disclosed that then Defence Secretary had objected to parallel negotiations by PMO with France; Govt rubbishes claims for statue splurge PNS n NEW DELHI Government in the Lok Sabha. nearly 50 minutes after the noted that Defence Minister PTI n NEW DELHI Final decision on Defence Minister entire Opposition trooped into was not present in the House. fresh media disclosure in Sitharaman later dismissed the Well of the House raising As the House resumed n a strong oral observation, April 2, says court Athe Rafale fighter jet deal the media report on the deal as slogans on the Rafale jet deal as proceedings after the adjourn- Ithe Supreme Court on Friday rocked the Modi Government “flogging a dead horse” and soon as the House met. ment, Saugata Roy (TMC) said BSP chief Mayawati should on Friday and created a massive slammed the Opposition for Members from Congress, alleged that parallel negotia- deposit public money used for uproar in Parliament even as playing into the hands of vest- Left, Trinamool Congress and tions were on when the erecting statues of herself and Defence Minister Nirmala ed interests of multinationals. TDP rushed into the Well of Defence Ministry’s negotiating elephants, the party’s symbol, at Sitharaman accused the “The Rafale issue is done with,” the House holding placards of committee was handling the public places in Uttar Pradesh Opposition of “playing in the she said in a suo motu state- a newspaper clipping which matter. He also alleged that to the State exchequer. hands of multinationals and ment amid the Opposition claimed the Defence Ministry “notorious” National Security The remarks were made by vested interests” and termed uproar over the Rafale matter. had protested to the PMO the Adviser Ajit Doval was con- the apex court which was hear- the media report one-sided. Sitharaman said the media mechanism being adopted for ducting parallel negotiations in ing a petition filed in 2009 by A report in The Hindu report was one sided and did the Rafale deal. Paris, undermining the bar- an advocate who had alleged appearing on Friday disclosed not publish Parrikar’s reply on Opposition members were gaining power of the that about `2,000 crore was then Defence Secretary G the said noting. heard shouting slogans Government. used from the State budget for Mohan Kumar had objected to The proceedings of the demanding resignation of “It concerns national secu- 2008-09 and 2009-10, when a parallel negotiations by the Lok Sabha was adjourned for Modi on the issue. They also rity...(Prime Minister Nare- Congress president Rahul Gandhi addresses a Press conference at AICC office in Mayawati was the Chief Prime Minister’s office in the ndra) Modi is destroying the New Delhi on Friday PTI Minister of Uttar Pradesh, for Rafale deal diluting status of defence of the country and installing her statues and BSP’s “Indian Negotiating team”. The undermining negotiatio- symbol at different places. report said then Defence ns...Why PMO interfered ?,” he It was contended that pub- Secretary had written to then charged. lic money cannot be utilised for A view of former UP Chief Minister Defence Minister Manohar Intervening in the matter Modi directly involved creating own statues and for Mayawati's statues among others at Parrikar about the alleged during zero hour, Speaker propagating the political party. Dalit Prerna Sthal in Noida PTI interference by the PMO. Sumitra Mahajan said a news- On May 29, 2009 the court A day after Prime Minister paper will write anything and had issued a show-cause notice However, the Bench told Narendra Modi accused the “you are raising the issue”. in deal tweak: Rahul to the Uttar Pradesh Mishra, who is also the party’s Congress of damaging Sticking to the demand for con- Government and Mayawati for Rajya Sabha MP, that it was fix- national security and not want- stitution of Joint Parliamentary Cong chief alleges “It is an open and shut using the public money for ing a date of April 2 as it will ing “a strong Indian Air Force”, Committee, Leader of Con- case,” said Rahul. He asked if installing her statues and party’s require detail consideration. the Opposition led by the gress in the Lok Sabha PM guilty in scam Modi can probe Robert Vadra symbol at parks in Lucknow During the pendency of Congress and the Trinamool Mallikarjun Kharge dubbed and P Chidambaram, why not and Noida, adjacent to the the PIL, the apex court on Congress launched a frontal Defence Minister Nirmala Sitharaman speaks in the Lok Sabha during the Budget the Centre as “anti-national.” order a Rafale deal probe. national Capital. February 22, 2010, had asked attack on the Modi Session of Parliament in New Delhi PTI Continued on Page 7 PNS n NEW DELHI “Whatever enquiry you When the matter came up the Election Commission to want to do, you do it. You for hearing on Friday, a Bench examine the plea for removal of ongress president Rahul implement the law. Robert headed by Chief Justice Ranjan installation of these symbols CGandhi on Friday went Vadra, P Chidambaram — you Gogoi said, “Ms Mayawati, pay from public places during the full throttle against Prime implement the law on every- all the money back. We are of 2012 Assembly polls. 7 get life for murders Hooch claims 34 lives Minister Narendra Modi over one. No problem. the view that Mayawati should EC on January 7, 2012 had disclosures in the controversial But you also give answers reimburse all the money she ordered that statues of Rafale fighter jet deal hurling on the Rafale matter,” spent.” Mayawati and elephants be that triggered 2013 in Uttarakhand, UP his “PM is a thief” jibe for the Rahul said responding to a The Bench, also compris- covered during the State umpteenth time on him. question on the ing justices Deepak Gupta and Assembly election. PNS n LUCKNOW/DEHRADUN spurious liquor at the feast fell A day after Modi cornered Enforcement Directorate inter- Sanjeev Khanna said, “We are The poll panel had said the ill last night itself but began to the grand old party in the Lok rogating Vadra in a money of the tentative view that measure was taken with the Muzaffarnagar riots hirty-four people died in die today morning, he said, Sabha by clarifying that there laundering case and the Mayawati has to deposit the idea that no one should get Ttwo adjoining districts adding 30-32 people are said to had been no misgivings in the Government’s sanction to pros- public money spent on her stat- political mileage. PNS n MUZAFFARNAGAR the accused on Wednesday. allegedly after drinking spuri- have consumed spurious liquor fighter jet deals as claimed by ecute Chidambaram in the ues and party symbol to the When the the apex court in According to the FIR, the ous liquor at a village in at the feast. the Congress, Rahul sought INX Media case. State exchequer.” 2009 had decided to entertain even persons were sen- two youths of Kawal village Uttarakhand’s Haridwar dis- A magisterial probe has answers to questions raised by A report in The Hindu on The SC made it clear that the PIL, it had noted in its order Stenced to life imprisonment under Jansath police station trict, officials said Friday. been ordered into the incident a media report that the PMO Friday claimed the Defence a tentative view was expressed the grievance of the petitioner on Friday by a court here for area were battered to death by The victims had consumed and 13 excise department per- conducted parallel negotia- Ministry raised strong objec- by it as the matter would take that “hundreds of crores of killing two men, which is three of the five men. the liquor Thursday evening at sonnel have been placed under tions in the Rafale deal. tions to “parallel discussions” some time for hearing. “We will public money” is being spent believed to have triggered the The two other accused, the ‘tehravin’— - the 13th day suspension in connection with Before Parliament could conducted by the Prime have it for final disposal on by the Uttar Pradesh Muzaffarnagar riots of 2013 in Afzal and Iqbal, however, were of mourning – to mark a death, the hooch tragedy, Haridwar begin, in a hurriedly Press Minister’s Office during the April 2,” said the SC. Government for “personal glo- Uttar Pradesh. later summoned by the court officials said. District Magistrate Deepak conference at AICC headquar- negotiations over the `59,000 Senior advocate SC Mishra, rification” by erecting statues Additional District and under provisions of section Sixteen of the victims died Rawat said. ters, Rahul said now it’s crys- crore Rafale fighter jet deal appearing for Mayawati and the particularly of leaders who Sessions Judge Himashu 319 of the Criminal Procedure in Uttarakhand’s Balupur vil- Meanwhile, Uttarakhand tal clear” that the “watchman” between India and France.