RNI No.2016/1957, REGD NO. SSP/LW/NP-34/2016-18 Follow us on: @TheDailyPioneer facebook.com/dailypioneer instagram.com/dailypioneer/ Established 1864 OPINION 8 Published From AVENUES 10 WORLD 12 DELHI LUCKNOW BHOPAL CLUTCHING AT 2018 HIRING TRENDS IN 43 KILLED IN KABUL GOVT BHUBANESWAR RANCHI RAIPUR STRAWS START-UP ECO-SYSTEM COMPOUND ATTACK CHANDIGARH DEHRADUN Late City Vol. 154 Issue 346 *Air Surcharge Extra if Applicable LUCKNOW, WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 26, 2018; PAGES 16 `3 BATSMEN NEED TO SUPPORT BOWLERS:} KOHLI} 15 SPORT www.dailypioneer.com Federal Front staggers Post tepid response from TMC and BJD, KCR hopes hinge on SP, BSP DEEPAK KUMAR JHA/ will not involve the Congress. OMER FAROOQ n NEW Significantly, Mamata did DELHI/HYDERABAD not make any comment after meeting KCR in Kolkata on fter lukewarm response Monday. It was only KCR who Ato his proposed Federal promised that a concrete result Front from West Bengal Chief of the deliberations will come Minister Mamata Banerjee out soon. and her Odisha counterpart Sources said while KCR Naveen Patnaik, TRS supremo repeatedly asserted the need for K Chandrasekhar Rao is in all the regional parties to come Delhi hoping that his pro- together and offer an alterna- posed meeting with BSP chief tive to both the Congress and Mayawati and Samajwadi the BJP, the other regional Party president Akhilesh leaders indicated that they Yadav will help his effort to would like to wait and watch till Prime Minister Narendra Modi strolls on the Bogibeel Bridge, the longest rail-cum-road bridge on Brahmaputra river, after it prop up non-BJP non- the 2019 polls were over. was inaugurated by him in Dibrugarh on Tuesday PTI Congress alliance for the next "Some of the leaders want year's Lok Sabha polls. to keep their options open till Sources said KCR is after the elections and take a expected to meet Mayawati final decision depending on the and Akhilesh on Wednesday, election results," sources said. NDA Govt changed latkane bhatkane but so far the meetings are not "At the moment it appears confirmed. While Mayawati is that any third front or Federal in Delhi, SP sources in Front will have to wait till the Lucknow said Akhilesh has elections are over. At best it work culture of past, says PM Modi not yet planned any visit to would be a post-poll arrange- PTI n KARENG CHAPORI (ASSAM) has become a truth in the real The bridge will cut down Delhi. It is interesting to watch ment, not any pre-poll alliance," rime Minister Narendra sense," he said in a apparent rail distance (between the moves of KCR as his coun- ing the BSP, SP and TMC, has would join a broad coalition Sarkar' come back to power," he said a TRS leader. PModi on Tuesday said his dig at the previous Congress- Dibrugarh in Assam to terpart in Andhra Pradesh and accused the TRS of being a BJP with the Congress, leaving only alleged. Meanwhile TRS member Government has changed the led UPA Government. If for- Naharlagun in Arunachal TDP supremo N Chandrababu agent and feels that his pro- TRS in the Federal Front. Meanwhile, reports from of Parliament Vinod Kumar "dilly-dallying" work culture mer Prime Minister Atal Pradesh) to below 200 km Naidu is also meeting posed front cannot rescue the "KCR's attempts to rope in Hyderabad said even as KCR's said the idea of Federal Front regarding implementation of Bihari Vajpayee had a second from 700 km now, Modi said. Opposition leaders as part of BJP as the front constituents regional parties and State Chief mission to bring regional par- is not new as KCR had thought development projects. term, Bogibeel bridge would After inaugurating the his effort to form an anti-BJP will State specific anti-BJP Ministers to be part of the ties together to form a Federal about it back in 2006. Addressing a rally here have been ready by 2008-09. bridge, the prime minister grand alliance that will also alliance. Federal Front will only help the Front reached New Delhi after "Both NDA and UPA are after inaugurating the coun- After his Government, no flagged off the Tinsukia- include the Congress. Criticising the TRS chief's BJP," said Congress leader passing through Bhuvaneshwar seeking to rule the country on try's longest rail-cum-road attention was paid to the pro- Naharlagun Intercity Express, KCR is in the national efforts to forge a Federal Front Rajeev Gowda. and Odisha, it was clear that the their own while KCR wants bridge, at Bogibeel in Assam, ject till 2014, the Prime which will run five days a Capital to also call on Prime of regional parties, the Gowda further said the leaders whom he met so far that the power should be in the he said completion of projects Minister said. week and use the 4.9-km bridge Minister Narendra Modi and Congress said it is an attempt Congress would ensure that a have not made any direct com- hands of the regional parties to within a given time frame is no Asserting that the Bogibeel to cut down the train-travel other Union Ministers to talk to help the BJP return to power mahagathbandhan (grand mitment about their future meet the aspirations of the longer confined to paper but bridge will strengthen the time between Tinsukia in about issues related to after the next general elec- alliance) was formed with all course of action. people", he told the media. "If has become a reality. "We have country's defence prowess with Assam to Naharlagun town of Telangana where he retained tions. Claiming that the Chief regional, secular and progres- According to the sources in the regional parties had changed the earlier latkane movement of vehicles and Arunachal Pradesh by more power last week. Ministers of different States, sive parties. "This federal front TRS, both Naveen and Mamata responded positively back in bhatkane (dilly-dallying) work trains, he said, it is not only a than 10 hours. Itanagar, the The Congress which is whom KCR met would not fall idea... The truth behind it is remained non-committal about 2006, Telangana State would culture... Completion of pro- bridge, it is a lifeline for crores capital of Arunachal Pradesh is spearheading an assortment for the idea of a third front, as nothing but an attempt to the stand they would take on have become a reality then jects within a time frame is no of people in Assam and just over 15 km from of Opposition parties, includ- the leaders of regional parties ensure that BJP and 'Modi the formation of a front which only," he said. longer confined to paper but Arunachal Pradesh. Naharlagun. CAPSULE Bank strike today Rajnath lays base of over mergers, 2nd 576 city projects PNS n LUCKNOW Local Area Development Fund, 158 projects worth `17 in less than a week nion Home Minister crore besides inaugurating URajnath Singh laid the Vishram Sadan having 210 A cyclist dressed like Santa Claus New Delhi: Services of State- National Organisation of Bank foundation stones of 576 pro- beds at King George’s Medical rides through dense fog on a cold owned banks are expected to be Workers (NOBW). The UFBU jects worth `161 crore at a University from CSR fund of Christmas winter morning in New impacted on Wednesday due to claims membership of 10 lakh function on the occasion of Power Grid Corporation at Delhi on Tuesday PTI a nation-wide strike call given officers and staffers. the 95th birth anniversary of the medical university. by unions to protest against the According to AIBEA former Prime Minister Atal On this occasion, KGMU NORTH INDIA REELS proposed amalgamation of General Secretary C H Bihari Vajpayee in Lucknow Vice-Chancellor ML Bhatt UNDER COLD WAVE Vijaya Bank and Dena Bank Vekatachalam, the conciliation on Tuesday. urged the Union Home New Delhi: There was no with Bank of Baroda. meeting called by Additional The Union Home Minister to fund the con- respite from cold wave This will be the second Chief Labour Commissioner Minister’s announcements struction of a three-storeyed conditions on Christmas in bank strike in less than a week. did not lead to any assurance were greeted with applause building at Vishram Sadan north India with dense fog Last Friday (December 21), and so the unions are going and enthusiastic Bharatiya and a multi-level parking on partially stalling flight operations an officers' union of State-run ahead with the strike. Janata Party workers raised KGMU premises. The Union at Delhi airport, officials said on banks observed a day-long During the meeting, nei- slogans in praise of the late Home Minister gave an assur- Tuesday. strike to protest against the ther the Government nor the Prime Minister. ance to the V-C in this regard. merger and also demanded concerned banks came for- BJP Lucknow city unit On this occasion, Rajnath 1 HELD FOR VANDALISING immediate settlement of wage ward to assure that they will not chief Mukesh Sharma said Singh also inaugurated 17 RAJIV'S STATUE IN C’GARH negotiations. go ahead with the merger, he that Rajnath Singh laid the projects worth `2 crore under- Ludhiana/Chandigarh: A Youth Most of the banks have added. foundation stones of interna- taken by CSR fund of GAIL Akali Dal leader was arrested already informed customers The unions claim that the tional infrastructure to give and 418 projects other pro- for allegedly vandalising the about the strike. Private sector Government wants banks to shape to the dreams of jects.