RNI Regn. No. MPENG/2004/13703, Regd. No. L-2/BPLON/41/2006-2008 QRQR he exit polls have predict- Ted that the BJP will retain power with a bigger mandate in Maharashtra — where it is in alliance with the Shiv Sena — and Haryana. All the exit polls, conduct- ed by various media houses and poll agencies, have ruled out any possibility of political rivals posing a challenge to the BJP in Haryana and the BJP-Shiv Sena alliance in Maharashtra. Haryana and Maharashtra reg- istered 65.5 per cent and 60.25 per cent polling respectively on Monday. Some of the exit polls indi- cated that BJP on its own may reach the majority figure of 145 in Maharashtra on its own with CNN-News18-IPSOS pre- dicting 243 seats for the BJP- Shiv Sena alliance with the BJP winning 141 and Shiv Sena 102 seats in the 288-member Assembly. India Today-Axis predicted between 166 and 194 seats for the alliance in Maharashtra. CNN-News18-IPSOS has restricted political rivals the Congress-NCP combine in Maharashtra to 41 seats, while CNN-News 18-IPSOS pre- suggest the BJP’s facile success emerging as the single largest Chief Minister (Manohar Lal India Today-Axis exit poll pro- dicted 75 seats for the BJP, 10 in Maharashtra may whittle party with 122 seats and 27.8 Khattar) in the Jat land of jected Congress-NCP alliance for the Congress, and zero for down the influence of its taci- per cent vote share. The Shiv Haryana is likely to pay divi- to win 72-90 seats in the State. the INLD. Other parties in turn ally Shiv Sena which until Sena came second with 63 dends. Fadnavis was the only counter the criticism of dom- strategies of cultivating the Abhay Chautala. Dushyant The ABP-C Voter predicted Haryana are projected to win the fag-end of the campaign seats and 19.3 per cent votes. Brahmin in his Cabinet and inant Maratha political lobbies, dominant communities. floated his own party, the 204 seats for the BJP-Shiv Sena anywhere from 8 to 12 seats, was questioning the confi- The Congress and the NCP only the second Brahmin to Fadnavis and his party roped in The meteoric rise of the Jannayak Janata Party (JJP), and 69 for the Congress-NCP according to various exit-polls. dence of Chief Minister came third and fourth with 42 occupy the CM post in a scion of Chhatrapati Shivaji BJP in Haryana also coincides which managed to win 4.9 per in Maharashtra. The ABP-C Voter fore- Devendra Fadnavis vis-à-vis and 41 seats respectively. Maharashtra. The first was late by nominating Sambhaji Raje with the fall of the INLD and cent of the votes in the 2019 In the 90-member Haryana casted that the BJP will improve the Congress-NCP alliance. It is the first time that the Manohar Joshi of the Sena. to the Rajya Sabha in 2016. its subsequent breakup. Before Lok Sabha elections, and is Assembly, the BJP is predicted its 2014 results by winning 72 The BJP and the Shiv Sena BJP’s strategy of projecting a Of the total 18 Chief Therefore, the successive 2019 Lok Sabha elections, contesting Assembly poll sep- to win maximum 80 seats seats, while the Congress will had fought the 2014 Brahmin Chief Minister Ministers that Maharashtra has victory of the BJP in the two INLD leader Dushyant arately. Exit poll of Republic TV while an average of all exit polls bag only 8 seats in Haryana. Maharashtra Assembly elec- (Fadnavis) in the Maratha land had till date, 12 were from the caste-conscious States may Chautala was expelled from the projects the JJP to win 5 to 9 indicated 66 seats for the party. A majority of exit polls tions separately with the BJP of Maharashtra, and a non-Jat Maratha community. As to change conventional poll party after a fight with his uncle seats in Haryana. hief Minister Kamal Nath Cmet the Union Minister for Home Amit Shah in New Delhi ing it is tantamount to “putting major fire broke out at the on Monday. Kamal Nath a ticket” on visiting the historic AGolden Gate hotel in the informed him about the dam- gurdwara. Pakistan is expected Vijay Nagar area of Indore on age caused by the floods due to to earn up to 258 crore — Monday. Fire tenders were the excessive rainfall in many about Pakistani 571 crore — quickly dispatched and the districts of the State. R per annum from pilgrims vis- blaze has been extinguished. The Chief Minister asked iting Darbar Sahib in An unknown number of peo- the Union Home Minister for Kartarpur, the final resting ple were inside the four-storey early release of relief amount of place of founder of Sikhism hotel when the fire erupted and Rs 6,621.28 crore from the the corridor on Wednesday,” Guru Nanak Dev, officials said have all been safely evacuated National Disaster Relief Fund L the MEA said. on Monday. by emergency personnel. for immediate help of the farm- M Union Minister Harsimrat The Government has taken As a precaution, people in ers and other affected people. ndia on Monday said it is Kaur Badal has slammed the initiative to put in place a nearby building were also In a memorandum sub- Iready to sign an agreement Pakistan for its insistence on state-of-the-art infrastructure evacuated. "There is no infor- mitted to the Union Home O with Pakistan on October 23 charging devotees for visiting and open the Kartarpur Sahib mation of any casualty so far," Minister, the Chief Minister for the operationalisation of the Kartarpur Sahib Gurdwara, Corridor on the auspicious Mahendra Singh Chauhan, Kamal Nath said that more than LM Kartarpur corridor, even as it saying the neighbouring occasion of the 550th birth Deputy Commissioner of the 55 lakh farmers and common expressed “disappointment” country has made a “business anniversary of Guru Nanak so Municipal Corporation' told, people have been affected due over Islamabad’s insistence on out of faith”. that pilgrims from India and adding that there were 25 rooms to the floods. The infrastructure levying $20 service fee per pil- “The $20 fee charged by those holding overseas citizen in the hotel. The cause for the has also suffered a big damage. grim and asked it to reconsid- Pak for Kartarpur Sahib dar- of India card can undertake fire has yet to be established. He further said that the state has Minister Kamal Nath had also tricts of the state between 14 er its decision. shan is atrocious. How will a visit to the holy Gurudwara In visuals of the massive received more than 46 percent given details of the damage and 16 October. “In view of the long pend- poor devotee pay this amount? Kartarpur Sahib in Pakistan, fire, the entire front of the hotel rainfall than normal. Out of 52 caused by the excessive rainfall The Chief Minister said ing demand of the pilgrims to Pakistan has made a business the Ministry of External Affairs is on fire, with plumes of districts of the state, 20 districts and floods to the Prime that after the assessment, now have visa-free access to out of faith. @ImranKhanPTI’s said in a statement. smoke billowing all around. In received 60 percent more rain- Minister Narendra Modi. At the Union Government should Gurudwara Kartarpur Sahib statement that this fee will “It is a matter of disap- another image, the front door fall than normal. All the crops the instance of Kamal Nath, the immediately provide relief fund and in the interest of opera- boost Pak’s economy & result pointment that while under- has been destroyed and a fierce of the farmers have been badly Prime Minister got the damage to the State Government, so tionalisation of the corridor in in earning foreign exchange is standing has been reached on blaze appears to have con- damaged. He put forth a caused by the excessive rainfall that the losses suffered by all time before the Guru Nanak’s highly shameful,” Harsimrat most of the elements for facil- sumed the interior. A medium- demand for listing the tragedy assessed again by the Central the affected people, especially birth anniversary on said a tweet. itating the visit of pilgrims sized truck and a tractor, with caused by excessive rains in the Study Team. the farmers could be compen- November 12, the Earlier, Punjab Chief from India, Pakistan continues what appear to be water tanks state in the category of a seri- The study team has sub- sated. The Union Minister for Government on Monday con- Minister Amarinder Singh had to insist on levying a service fee in tow, can be seen standing ous disaster. mitted its report to the Union Home Amit Shah assured the veyed that India would be also lashed out at Pakistan for of $20 per pilgrim per visit,” the outside the hotel, which stands It may be mentioned that Government after assessing Chief Minister of all possible ready to sign the agreement on demanding service charge, say- MEA said. on a crowded road. on October 04, 2019, the Chief the damage caused in 16 dis- help. go medical test before under- winter and lack of oxygen. taking the arduous journey. Making the important ommoners can now visit The temperatures there announcement about the CSiachen glacier, the world’s vary from minus 10 to minus Siachen, Singh said it is “now highest battlefield, as tourists 40 degrees Celsius and the open” to tourists, after inau- Jhabua assembly, around 2.77 and get a feel of how the troops have been guarding gurating a strategically impor- lakh voters are registered, who Armed Forces guard this strate- posts at heights ranging from tant bridge on the Shyok river oting for tribal-dominated will cast their votes at 356 gically important sector despite 16,000 feet to 24,000 feet since in eastern Ladakh.