c m y k c m y k THE LARGEST CIRCULATED ENGLISH DAILY IN SOUTH INDIA HYDERABAD I SUNDAY I 27 OCTOBER 2019 WEATHER www.deccanchronicle.com Max: 31.1 OC Min: 23 OC SUNDAY SHINING BRIGHT, THIS RH: 65% Rain: Traces CHRONICLE FESTIVAL OF LIGHTS Forecast: Cloudy sky. LUXURY LABELS ARE tabloid Rain, thundershowers BRANCHING OUT TO CHILE MARCH BEARS STARK RESEMBLANCE TO INDIA >> PG 9 HOMECARE, FOOTWEAR likely. Max/Min 32/23ºC Vol. 82 No. 297 Established 1938 | 48 PAGES PLUS A FREE COPY OF 16-PAGE SUNDAY CHRONICLE | `5.00 DC wishes its readers a happy and prosperous Diwali Khattar to head coalition regime To take oath of office as Haryana CM today, Dushyant Chautala to become his deputy DC CORRESPONDENT NEW DELHI, OCT. 26 The BJP-Jannayak Janata Dy CM’s dad to be Party coalition govern- ment will take oath on Sunday, a day after BJP president Amit Shah released on parole announced his party’s alliance in Haryana with DC CORRESPONDENT Lok Dal (INLD) in 2018, Mr the Jat-dominated party. NEW DELHI, OCT. 26 Dushyant Chautala and Interim chief minister, his father Ajay Chautala Manohar Lal Khattar, will Immediately after Dushy- founded the JJP. be sworn-in as the next ant Chautala’s Jannayak Dushyant Chautala is chief minister of the state, Janata Party (JJP) extend- the great grandson of for- while the JJP’s Dushyant ed its support to the BJP, mer deputy prime minis- Chautala will be his its founder Ajay Chautala ter Chaudhary Devi Lal. deputy. has been granted furlough Ajay Chautala is sched- After facing severe criti- for a period of 14 days. uled to leave the Tihar jail cism over seeking support Ajay Chautala is the on Sunday. According to a of controversial leader father of Dushyant Chaut- prison official, Ajay Chau- Gopal Kanda, the BJP was ala. He was lodged in the tala has been granted a forced to clarify that it will Tihar jail after he was con- two-week furlough and it not take the support of the victed in a teacher recruit- will start from the day he Haryana Lokhit Party leg- ment scam in 2013 along will step out of the jail islator. Kanda is facing with his father and former premises. two abetment of suicide chief minister and INLD The development comes cases, including that of a leader Om Prakash Chau- on a day the BJP staked former female employee tala and 53 others, includ- claim to form the govern- and her mother. ing two IAS officials. ment in Haryana after Mr “I want to clarify one After being expelled Chautala’s party offered thing — the BJP is not from the Indian National support to the BJP. Devotees light thousands of earthen lamps on the bank of the HOLIDAY NOTICE The offices of Deccan Chronicle will remain closed going to take the support Saryu river during Deepotsav celebrations, on the eve of Diwali, in | of Kanda,” said Union Ayodhya on Saturday. — PTI today for Diwali. There will be no edition on Monday, Oct. 28, 2019 minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Saturday. He was in Chandigarh for the Sena seeks share BJP’s legislative meeting as a Central observer. ASTROGUIDE TEWARI: CONFER In the just-concluded Assembly polls in the Dakshinayana in CM’s tenure Vikari; RTC’s talks with striking state, the BJP bagged 40 Tithi: Ashwayuja Bahula BHARAT RATNA seats, six short of a simple DC CORRESPONDENT Sarnaik told reporters, Chaturdashi till 12.24 pm majority. Other than the MUMBAI, OCT. 26 after Sena chief Uddhav Star: Chitta till 3.16 am (early ON BHAGAT SINGH JJP’s 10 MLAs, the BJP Thackeray met newly- hours of Sunday) staff hit merger block also has the support of Newly-elected Shiv Sena elected party MLAs on Varjyam: 12.58 pm to 2.23 pm New Delhi, Oct. 26: seven Independent MLAs. MLAs on Saturday dema- Saturday. Durmuhurtam: 4.11 pm Congress leader Manish RAJESWARI PARASA | DC which had instructed it to huddled outside and then Earlier in the day, the nded written assurance He said Uddhav also to 4.57 pm Tewari has urged Prime HYDERABAD, OCT. 26 initiate talks. said they were not ready BJP legislative party met from the BJP on sharing made it clear to them that Rahukalam: 4.30 pm to 6 pm Minister Narendra Modi Only 21 demands were for further discussion,” in Chandigarh and elected the Chief Minister’s post he had “other options”, to confer the Bharat The Telangana State Road tabled while the JAC Mr Sharma said. Mr Khattar as the legisla- for two-and-a-half years but was not interested in HIJRI CALENDAR Ratna on freedom fight- Transport Corporation demanded a discussion on The JAC is planning a tive party leader. He then each. They also pushed exploring them since the Safar 26,1441 AH ers Bhagat Singh, (TSRTC) joint action com- all 26 demands, during the “Chalo Collectorate” on met Haryana Governor the case of Aaditya BJP and the Sena are PRAYERS Rajguru and Sukhdev. mittee (JAC) announced two-hour meeting. It yield- Monday and a large-scale Satyadeo Narain Arya and Thackeray for the bound together by the Fajar: 5.12 am In a letter to Mr Modi, that the RTC strike will ed no results and the dead- public meeting for RTC staked claim to form the Maharashtra CM post. “Hindutva ideology”. Zohar: 12.10 pm he also requested him to continue, as talks initiated lock continued with the employees, political lead- government in the state. “We want the BJP to The Congress and NCP formally confer the hon- walkout by JAC leaders. ers and the general public Mr Chautala accompanied give us in writing how leaders have also started Asar: 4.12 pm by the management at orific title of Shaheed-E- Of the four JAC leaders in Saroornagar on Octo- him. “The governor has power would be shared. In making overtures to the Maghrib: 5.54 pm Errum Manzil failed on Azam on them and dedi- Saturday. allowed in the meeting, ber 30. In several depots, invited us to form the gov- earlier discussions, it was Sena, though both parties Isha: 7.01 pm cate the Chandigarh air- The RTC JAC leaders Ashwathama Reddy RTC employees and their ernment on Sunday,” Mr decided that chief minis- do not want to take an ini- SUNSET TODAY 5.48 PM port to the memory of emerged midway from the alleged the government families sat on hunger Khattar said after meet- tership would be shared tiative in holding talks SUNRISE TOMORROW 6.13 AM Bhagat Singh. talks alleging that the had no intention to strike on Saturday. ing. equally. We want the chief with the party. MOONRISE TOMORROW 4.09 AM “I would like to draw committee comprising the resolve the issue. On Diwali, teacher A. The oath-taking ceremo- minister’s post for a peri- Reacting to the Sena’s your kind attention managing director, Sunil “The JAC wanted a dis- Narsi Reddy, an MLC, ny will take place at 2.15 od of two-and-a-half years. demand, Congress leader MOONSET TODAY 4.40 PM towards the fact that Sharma, and CM’s secre- cussion on the TSRTC will sit on hunger strike pm on Sunday, the day Uddhav, however, will Vijay Wadettiwar said, “It Shaheed Bhagat Singh, tary, Sandeep Sultania, merger as well, which is from 9 am at Dharna Diwali will be celebrated take the final call. We is up to Shiv Sena to Rajguru and Sukhdev among others, was not impossible and is not list- Chowk near Indira Park across the country. have passed a one-line res- decide if they want a five- COUNTER POINT inspired an entire gener- looking for solutions but ed in the 21 demands,” as well, demonstrating the Mr Khattar said that Mr olution, giving him full year CM or wait for the ation of patriots by their was merely buying time to Sunil Sharma said. “When support of the teachers’ Chautala will also take powers to take decisions,” BJP’s response on 2.5-year unrelenting resistance to satisfy the High Court, we told them this, they unions. oath as the deputy CM. Shiv Sena MLA Pratap CM demand.” British Imperialism and later their supreme sac- rifice on the 23rd of March, 1931,” the MP from Anandpur Sahib in Punjab said. DHANTERAS “It would be in the fit- KCR thanks Huzurnagar with `100cr ness of things that if on GOLD SALES 26th of January, 2020 all S.A. ISHAQUI | DC Nallamada Padmavathi ■ able tribal population, Mr three of them are hon- HYDERABAD, OCT. 26 Reddy, He had to cancel a Huzurnagar municipality will get `25 crore Rao promised a residential oured with the ‘Bharat campaign visit due to the and Nereducharla `15 crore for development school and a Banjara DROP 50% Ratna’. This gesture Chief Minister K. Chandr- rain. ■ Bhavan. would touch the hearts asekhar Rao on Saturday He kept off politics, say- Each of the 134 gram panchayats in the He said about 600 lift irri- ● Gold sales and souls of 124 crore gave a `100-crore gift ham- ing he would not speak constituency will get `20 lakh. Seven mandals gation schemes which have halved in Indians,” the Congress per ahead of Diwali to much about Opposition will get `30 lakh each. being controlled by the leader said, in his letter thank voters in leaders and their politics Irrigation Development Hyderabad on dated October 25. Huzurnagar for handing as it was a happiest occa- ■ Huzurnagar will become revenue division and Corporation, societies, Dhanteras due to His suggestions come out a thumping victory for sion.