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Tirupati . lucknow . cuttack . patna NEARBY European lawmakers begin J&K visit Sena not promised Invite to MEP from United Kingdom rescinded after he asked to meet people without escort top post: Fadnavis Peerzada Ashiq ‘It will be a BJPled govt. for 5 years’ Srinagar Questions grow over As many as 23 Members of Alok Deshpande JNU students protest the European Parliament Ajeet Mahale draft hostel manual (MEPs) arrived in Kashmir Mumbai NEW DELHI NGO’s invite to MEPs on a twoday visit on Tues A day before the meeting of The Jawaharlal Nehru day to assess the ground sit newly elected MLAs of the University Students’ Union held uation after scrapping of Suhasini Haidar Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), a strike against the institute’s NEW DELHI J&K’s special status and re Maharashtra Chief Minister draft hostel manual on Devendra Fadnavis said the Tuesday, calling the changes corded the feedback from The Members of European “arbitrary, undemocratic and the Army, local officials and Parliament (MEPs) visiting Shiv Sena was not promised irrational” and demanding 15 delegations, as the Valley India were promised a the top post for twoanda its immediate withdrawal. observed a complete shut “prestigious VIP meeting” half years when the alliance down and saw a spurt in with Prime Minister Naren was formalised before the CITY Ī PAGE 2 DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD street protests. dra Modi, and the NGO that 2019 Lok Sabha polls. “We are looking for the Ground survey: Members of the European Union delegation organised the visit claimed Highlighting the party’s U.P. villagers attack facts. It is a good occasion to at the Dal Lake in Srinagar on Tuesday. * NISSAR AHMAD that he wanted to meet stand amid the ongoing police team, 3 injured get some views. I do not have them as “influential deci tussle with its alliance partn the Chief Minister’s post for LUCKNOW enough facts to reach a con sionmakers from the Euro Madi Sharma er over power sharing, Mr. twoandahalf years [each Three policemen, including a clusion. We are conscious of 5 migrant workers shot dead pean Union”, invitations ac Fadnavis on Tuesday said he for the BJP and Sena].” station house officer, were the context. We are also con cessed by The Hindu show. Sharma said. “As you will be will be the Chief Minister for injured in an attack by some scious that we were being Special Correspondent victims, who hailed from The invitation that went aware Prime Minister Modi the next five years and that Deputy CM’s post Srinagar villagers in Varanasi’s kept away from some peo West Bengal, were abducted out to more than 30 MEPs had a landslide victory in the BJP Legislature Party Asked about the 50:50 for Rohaniya area, the police said ple,” Spanish MEP Herman Coinciding with the visit of from their rented from Brusselsbased British the recent elections in India would elect its new leader mula and the talk of giving on Tuesday. The police team Tertsch said. 23 Members of the accommodation in Katrussu PIO Madi Sharma, who ac and is planning to continue on Wednesday. “There the post of Deputy Chief Mi had gone to Harsons village Earlier in the day, United European Parliament to area around 7.30 p.m. companied the MEPs dele on his path of growth and should be no doubt in any nister to the Sena, he said an after a crime branch team Kingdom MEP Chris Davies, Kashmir, suspected militants “One injured has been gation, said that she ran a development for India the body’s mind that it will be a “appropriate decision” arrived to apprehend two whose invite was rescinded abducted and shot dead five shifted to a Srinagar nongovernmental organisa country and its people. In BJPled government for the would soon be taken. suspects in a loot case. after he made a request to migrant workers and injured hospital,” Kulgam deputy tion called WESTT (Wo that respect, he would like next five years,” he told re Mr. Shah will not take NATION Ī PAGE 9 meet people without any es another in south Kashmir’s commissioner Showkat Ajaz men’s Economic and Social to meet influential decision porters at his official resi part in Wednesday’s meet DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD cort, said, “I am not pre Kulgam on Tuesday. The told The Hindu. Think Tank), although her makers from the European dence ‘Varsha’. ing of the legislature party Abhay Chautala rules pared to be part of a PR stunt DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD link to the government and Union.” After the election results for undisclosed reasons. He out merger with JJP for the Modi government to the Prime Minister’s Of It also explained that the on October 24, the Shiv Se is likely to visit Mumbai on CHANDIGARH and pretend that all is well. The cavalcade also drove next to Hari Niwas where Na fice (PMO) are unclear. The threeday visit would in na has been pushing for a November 1 or 2. Indian National Lok Dal It’s very clear democratic past four detention centres, tional Conference vicepresi Hindu attempted to email clude meetings with Mr. Mo rotational CM, with Sena The meeting will be at leader Abhay Chautala on principles are being subvert where three former Chief Mi dent Omar Abdullah is being Ms. Sharma, whose Twitter di and senior officials, a visit chief Uddhav Thackeray last tended by Union Minister Tuesday set aside speculation ed in Kashmir and the world nisters and several main detained. The members also account describes her as an to Kashmir, and a press con week reminding the BJP of Narendra Singh Tomar and about coming together of his needs to start taking notice.” stream politicians were be took boat rides on the Dal “international business ference on Wednesday. the 50:50 formula “agreed BJP vicepresident Avinash party and its offshoot outfit – Around four MEPs have ing held since August 5. lake in the evening. broker”, but the message Ms. Sharma claimed that upon” between himself, BJP Rai Khanna. It is likely to the Jannayak Janta Party in reportedly backed out from The EU delegates held Global Youth Foundation bounced back and said the all expenses for the visit president Amit Shah and pass a resolution giving all Haryana. “The chapter is travelling to Kashmir. acrossthetable interactions head Touseef Raina, who page was invalid. (flight and accommoda Mr. Fadnavis ahead of the rights to Mr. Shah to elect closed... they have gone On arrival, the European with 15 delegations, includ met the MEPs, said he high “I am organising a presti tions) would be sponsored Lok Sabha polls. the leader of the legislature away and we are separate Union (EU) delegates drove ing of traders, grassroots lighted that youth of J&K wit gious VIP meeting with the by the Delhibased Interna Commenting on this, Mr. party. now,” he said. through Srinagar city from leaders, students, a three nessed “enough bloodshed Prime Minister of India, His tional Institute for Non Fadnavis said, “I have con NEWS Ī PAGE 12 the airport to their hotel lo member women’s group and and wanted an end to it.” Excellency Narendra Modi Aligned Studies (IINS). firmed with Amit Shah and CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 12 DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD cated near the Dal lake, un civil society members, at the and it is my privilege to offer he told me that the BJP has BROTHERHOOD UNBOUND EDITORIAL OPPORTUNITIES Ī PAGE 5 der a heavy security blanket. Lalit Grand Palace hotel, just CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 12 this invitation to you,” Ms. CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 12 not given any assurance for Ī India, Saudi Arabia constitute Justice Bobde City’s air quality dips with spike in stubble burning appointed Strategic Partnership Council next CJI The AQI on Tuesday was recorded at 400, up from 368 a day before Staff Reporter has started to build up due Special Correspondent New Delhi to which visibility has de PM Modi addresses Future Investment Initiative Summit New Delhi Delhi’s air quality deteriorat creased. Emergency action Justice Sharad Arvind ed further on Tuesday and to control pollution, and not Special Correspondent Bobde was appointed the remained one notch short of to contribute to it, should be NEW DELHI next Chief Justice of India the ‘severe’ category (AQI taken,” said Anumita Roy Prime Minister Narendra (CJI) on Tuesday after Pre 401), the worst for this sea chowdhury, head of ‘clean Modi on Tuesday an sident Ram Nath Kovind son so far. air’ programme at the nounced the formation of signed the warrant of his The Air Quality Index on Centre for Science and Envi the IndiaSaudi Strategic appointment. Tuesday was recorded at ronment, Delhi. Partnership Council that will The 63yearold judge 400, ‘very poor’ category, at “The peak pollution on be led by the leaderships of will take oath as the coun 4 p.m., which is the average The visibility level dropped with smog shrouding the city Deepavali night was chiefly th both countries. The announ try’s 47 CJI on November of the past 24 hours, accord on Tuesday. * V.V. KRISHNAN due to firecrackers, and now cement was made in Saudi 18 and will have a tenure of ing to the Central Pollution local pollutants are getting capital Riyadh where Prime 17 months until April 23, Control Board (CPCB). lution in Delhi was 25% on governments of Punjab and trapped and the mixing Minister Modi paid a visit 2021. As per convention, The air quality has wor Tuesday and is expected to Haryana with folded hands height [height at which pol during October 2829. CJI Ranjan Gogoi, who will sened since Monday, when it increase to 29% on Wednes to take some concrete steps lutants are spread out in the The Indian leader demit offfice on November was at 368, mainly due to day, which will be the sea immediately and save Delhi atmosphere] has also re thanked the hosts for far 17, had recommended the stubble burning in Punjab son’s highest, said SAFAR. from becoming a gas cham duced,” she said. sighted economic planning name of Justice Bobde — and Haryana. The stubble An increase in the boun ber,” he said in a tweet. The Delhi government on for Saudi Arabia and praised Prime Minister Narendra Modi with the King of Saudi Arabia, the most senior judge of fire counts in the two States dary layer wind speed is ex At 8.30 p.m. on Tuesday, Tuesday attacked Haryana Crown Prince Mohammed Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, in Riyadh on Tuesday. * ANI the Supreme Court — to have increased from 1,654 to pected to improve the air Delhi’s AQI was 417, in the and Punjab for the air pollu Bin Salman for his leader succeed him. 2,577 during the past 24 quality by November 1. ‘severe’ category, according tion in the city. “Latest NASA ship role in giving a new vi dress its expectations and the founding document set Justice Bobde is part of hours after a noticeable dip to CPCB. Anand Vihar and images show a drastic spurt sion to one of the largest aspirations,” said Prime Mi ting up the bilateral Strategic the fivejudge Constitution on Sunday, said the govern CM’s appeal Wazirpur remained the most in crop residue burnings in energy suppliers in the nister Modi in Hindi, deliver Partnership Council was Bench that will soon deliv mentrun SAFAR (System of Chief Minister Arvind Kejri polluted areas with AQI at the neighbouring States, world. “In talks with the ing the keynote address at signed by Prime Minister er the judgment in the Ram Air Quality and Weather Fo wal requested the Punjab 469 and 454 respectively. which has severely affected Crown Prince today, we the Future Investment Initia Modi and the Crown Prince JanmabhoomiBabri Masjid recasting and Research). and Haryana governments to The visibility levels also Delhi’s air quality,” an offi agreed on setting up the tive Summit in Riyadh. Mohammed Bin Salman. title dispute case. The contribution of crop take action against stubble dropped with smog shroud cial statement said. Strategic Partnership Coun A joint statement at the residue burning in neigh burning. “On behalf of Del ing the city. PAGE 13 cil that will help India ad end of the visit stated that CONDEMNS TERRORISM Ī ‘PRACTICAL JUDGE’ Ī PAGE 12 bouring States to the air pol hi’s residents, I appeal to the “Since Deepavali, smog SEE ALSO Ī PAGE 3 80hour battle to rescue boy from borewell fails ‘No cyberattack on Most welcome Kudankulam plant’ free bus rides, Hundreds of residents of T.N. village line up on roads to bid tearful farewell to twoyearold Sujith but some men Officials deny that the site was hacked R. Krishnamoorthy nating from the abandoned tives and wellwishers from are critical Kathelene Antony borewell around 10 p.m on surrounding villages paid P. Sudhakar ly due to the malfunction Tiruchi Monday. homage at the graveyard. TIRUNELVELI ing of a mechanical device Hemani Bhandari The more than 80hour long Sixtyyearold Subramani, Hours after a cybersecurity in the turbine section, and Shinjini Ghosh battle to save twoyearold Special equipment used a family friend, said nobody expert claimed on Twitter not due to any electronic New Delhi Sujith Wilson, who had fal As per the NDRF’s guide was allowed to witness the that the Kudankulam Nu complication. “Mahilayein apni free tick- len into an abandoned bore lines, the decision to remove retrieval operation or the bo clear Power Plant’s “While the first reactor et le lein [women, please well at Nadukattupatti, near his remains from the bore dy. Relatives of the family ad (KKNPP) domain controll of KKNPP is generating take your free tickets],” an Manapparai, in Tamil Nadu well was made. “Soon, spe mitted that retrieving the bo erlevel access could have 1,000 Mwe power, the ca nounced the conductor of a on Friday, failed on Tuesday cial equipment was used to dy was difficult since the been compromised, offi pacity of the Russian sup DTC bus as women passen with rescue workers manag retrieve him from the well. A diameter of the borewell into cials categorically denied it plied VVER reactor, the se gers hopped on the vehicle ing to retrieve only his “high team of doctors took around which the boy had fallen was on Tuesday. cond unit is producing 670 on Tuesday morning. Their ly decomposed and dismem 45 minutes to confirm his just four inches. KKNPP Site Director San Mwe electricity [as on face lit up when he handed bered” body. death and give a detailed re Although efforts were on jay Kumar said the totally Tuesday morning],” Mr. Ku them a pink ticket. The boy was formally de port,” he said. to dig an adjacent passage to isolated network of KKNPP mar said. The Delhi government clared dead at 2.30 a.m. and Prayers in vain: Twoyearold Sujith Wilson was laid to rest at A pall of gloom pervaded reach the twoyearold for could not be accessed by A press release from the rolled out the free bus ride his body was retrieved by Fathima Pudur in Tamil Nadu’s Tiruchi district on Tuesday. * PTI Fathima Pudur in Malaiyadi over 36 hours, NDRF and any outside network from plant information officer al scheme for women in DTC teams of the National Disas patti panchayat, the native SDRF officials began at any part of the globe. so said a cyberattack was buses from Tuesday. ter Response Force (NDRF) napparai Government Hos Fathima Pudur shortly after village of the child’s family, tempts to lift the boy through Hence, there was no ques not possible as the control Though the initiative and the State Disaster Res pital and then to the burial 8 a.m. as relatives and well and in neighbouring Vilan the opening of the aban tion of it being hacked. systems are not linked to was lauded by women, ma ponse Force (SDRF) a couple ground for the final rites as wishers grieved in silence. kurichi and surroundings as doned borewell around 1:20 Asked if power genera outside network on ny male passengers, whom of hours later. people lined up on the roads Commissioner of Revenue wailing relatives had a last a.m. on Tuesday. tion was stopped last week Internet. The Hindu spoke to, took it The body, covered by a to bid a tearful farewell. Administration J. Radhak glimpse of the coffin. The pa in the second reactor due with a pinch of salt. CONTINUED ON PAGE 12 polythene sheet, was shifted The mortal remains were rishnan said rescue workers rents of the child were incon Ī to a possible compromise, ‘CONTROL SYSTEMS ARE DEEP TRAPS EDITORIAL for postmortem to the Ma laid to rest at a graveyard at had noticed foul smell ema solable as hundreds of rela Ī Mr. Kumar said it was pure HACK-PROOF’ Ī PAGE 13 DETAILS ON Ī PAGE 3

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DELHI Timings Wednesday, Oct. 30 Vice-President stresses need RISE 06:31 SET 17:38 JNU students protest against draft RISE 08:35 SET 19:35 Thursday, Oct. 31 for parliamentary reforms RISE 06:32 SET 17:38 RISE 09:40 SET 20:23 hostel manual, lock Dean’s oﬃce Friday, Nov. 1 Naidu lays out a 16-point agenda for the way forward RISE 06:33 SET 17:37 RISE 10:39 SET 21:16 JNUSU terms changes in rules ‘undemocratic’, demands withdrawal of document Staff Reporter New Delhi Special Correspondent VicePresident M. Venkaiah New Delhi Naidu stressed the need for The Jawaharlal Nehru Univer parliamentary reforms while sity Students’ Union on Tues addressing The First Arun day held a strike against the Jaitley Memorial Lecture or institute’s draft hostel manual ganised by Delhi University that seeks to introduce chang on Tuesday. es like imposing a curfew on “There is a need for reo students, increasing hostel rientation on the part of MPs fees, enforcing dress code and more so a pressing need and barring students from for parliamentary reforms to participating in protests. restore the trust of the people Vice-President M. Venkaiah Naidu speaks at The First Arun The students called the in parliamentary institu Jaitley Memorial Lecture organised by Delhi University on

changes “arbitrary, undemo tions,” he said. Tuesday. * PTI cratic and irrational” and de manded immediate withdra Points out problems such concerns had become nures for Standing Commit 0 wal of the document. Mr. Naidu, also the Rajya Sab even more pronounced com tees to ensure their effective The students double ha Chairman, said the pro pared to earlier leading to an functioning and said he DISCLAIMER: Readers are requested to verify and make appropriate enquiries to locked the Dean of Student’s blems in the parliamentary erosion of trust of the people would take up the issue with satisfy themselves about the veracity of an advertisement before responding to office and put up a notice that system include the declining in these lawmaking bodies. the Lok Sabha Speaker. any published in this newspaper. THG PUBLISHING PVT LTD., the Publisher & number of sittings of legisla He said there is a need to Owner of this newspaper, does not vouch JNU students raising slogans against the university administration inside the campus on for the authenticity of any advertisement Tuesday. * R.V. MOORTHY tures, persistent disruptions, Agenda includes improve the representation or advertiser or for any of the advertiser’s This office has products and/or services. In no event can declining quality of debates, Mr. Naidu also laid out a 16 of women, stronger rules the Owner, Publisher, Printer, Editor, Dir- <> ector/s, Employees of this newspaper/ been double read: “This office has been dents by the Dean of to take the professor to a growing number of legisla point agenda for the way for with regard to attendance, company be held responsible/liable in any manner whatsoever for any claims locked because the double locked because the Students. hospital. tures with criminal records, ward for parliamentary re regular reports on the perfor and/or damages for advertisements in this newspaper. behaviour of the behaviour of the Dean of Stu The students on Monday The university said such high degree of absenteeism, forms, which includes the mance of legislators, the need Dean of Students is dents is unbecoming of a JNU had protested at a meeting of behaviour was highly con inadequate representation of need to review antidefection to make effective interven unbecoming of a official. You can collect the the Inter Hostel Administra demnable and it would take women, increase in money law to address “grey areas” tions with regard to criminal JNU official. You keys after giving the explana tion (IHA), which was con severe action against the prot and muscle power in elec that led to the expulsion of le ity and unethical conduct can collect the keys tion for your actions at the ducted to discuss the draft esters. “The university shall tions, lack of inner democra gislators and a review of the among legislators, the need after giving the JNUSU office.” hostel manual. The university not be allowed to be held hos cy in functioning of the polit “Whip System which was sti for simultaneous elections explanation for had said the Dean of Students tage to the whims of a small ical parties among others. fling reasonable dissent with and more. He added that the your actions at the ‘Attempt to mock’ had fallen ill because of the section of these agitating stu He said with a higher num in parties even over noncon government needs to be res The notice was an attempt to protests and also alleged that dents and brook no indisci ber of literate people and sequential matters”. ponsive to the views and con JNUSU office mock the language of the not the students had “blocked” pline in the campus,” the un those with advanced qualifi He also mentioned that cerns of Opposition while Notice by students ices that were sent to the stu an ambulance that was called iversity had said. cations it was ironical that there is a need to fix longer te among other interventions. Six-day Urdu Heritage Festival opens today NSUI launches initiative Jamia’s 99th Foundation Former judge to manage to fight hate speech Special Correspondent The festival will have Manish Sisodia said New Delhi Sufi music, dance, poe Urdu is an integral Special Correspondent Day celebrations begin affairs of Sai Baba temple T he Delhi government try, plays and other per part of Delhi’s cultu NEW DELHI on Tuesday announced formances that will in ral and literary histo The National Students’ Union of India 4 new departments to open soon: V-C Plea alleges irregularities in administration that it will be organis clude artistes like Anwar ry. “We want to en (NSUI) on Tuesday launched a Twitter ing a sixday Urdu Her Hussain, Sufi Nizami sure that Urdu is not handle and created an email address Staff Reporter upon the history of JMI and Staff Reporter taking policy decisions as itage Festival from Oc brothers, Sithara, Fareed only well preserved for people to report instances of hate NEW DELHI the role played by it during New Delhi well as supervising and ma tober 30 at Central Sabri, Talat Aziz and Rek but it also advances speech. Festivities to celebrate Jamia the freedom struggle. She The Delhi High Court has naging the routine dayto Park in Connaught ha Bhardwaj. linguistically and so The NSUI said it would take up the Millia Islamia’s (JMI) 99th said Jamia is a nationalistic appointed a former judge as day matters. Place. Deputy Chief Minister cially,” he added. onus of filing FIRs against those who Foundation Day began on institution in the true sense an administrator to manage propagate hate and ensure that these Tuesday with its ViceChan where teachers are working the affairs of Sai Baba tem Restrictions applied people are forced to fight legal battles. cellor Najma Akhtar appeal hard to motivate students to ple at Lodhi Road here, However, it made it clear All India Congress Committee Joint ing to students and staff to work towards whose administration is fac that the administrator shall Secretary and national incharge work towards taking the un nationbuilding. ing allegations of neither take any policy deci (NSUI) Ruchi Gupta said: “NSUI will iversity to reach a new Emphasizing the role of irregularities. sions nor make any financial take up the fight against hate speech in height in the centenary the alumni in the develop Justice Anup Jairam commitments for or on be our polity and public discourse. We year. ment of the university, the Bhambhani said it has be half of the Samaj that in will in collaboration with others online She said the university ViceChancellor said the un come imperative to take volves a financial outflow of identify propagators of hate speech would soon be opening four iversity will hold a grand away the reins of manage over ₹10 lakh without prior and file FIRs against them across the new departments — Design meet with them to seek ment of the Shri Sai Bhakta approval of this court. country.” She added that at present, & Innovation, Environmen their cooperation in this Samaj, the society which The court was hearing a there is zero cost of propagating hate tal Science, Hospital Man regard. manages the temple, from petition by several lifemem speech even as it renders target groups agement & Elder Care (hos The highlights of the the incumbent officebear bers of the Samaj and mem vulnerable, coarsens our discourse and pice) and Foreign threeday festivities include ers so that they may also feel bers of the managing com almost irretrievably undermines our Languages. She added that nukkad natak, stage plays, the urgency of conducting mittee alleging irregularities Constitutional values of equality, fra the university is planning to business idea competition, fresh elections to the ma and mismanagement in the ternity, and inclusive diversity. start a medical collegecum Urdu poetry game of ‘Bait naging committee. administration and its fai The twitter handle to tag instances hospital for which “Prime baazi’ and Tamseeli Mushai The courtappointed re lure to hold elections, which of hate speech is @FightAgainstHate, Minister Narendra Modi has ra where the students will tired justice Pratibha Rani were last conducted in the NSUI said, adding that they are assured me of all impersonate other poets protem as an administrator 2006. looking for volunteers to help them assistance”. and represent a traditional to take over, manage and ad The court listed the mat monitor social media and news re Starting off the threeday mushaira, the university minister the affairs of the Sa ter for further consideration ports. festivities, Ms. Akhtar dwelt said. maj, including in relation to on November 22.

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Court acquits man in brother’s murder case DELHI TODAY Talk: “Why has the Harappan Script not been Deciphered?”, an ilustrated Victim’s mother and younger sibling, both eyewitnesses, turned hostile lecture by Dr. V.N. Prabhakar, Dir- ector, Institute of Archaeology, Ar- Nirnimesh Kumar man refused to mend his aber clothes with the blood group of chaeological Survey of India at New Delhi Conference Room – I, India Interna- rant behaviour. the deceased but the court dis tional Centre (IIC), 6:30 p.m. A Delhi court has acquitted a missed it saying that the blood Talk: Seminar on “Land, People and man of a murder charge after Mother lodged complaint could have spread onto his Faith in Wang Meng’s Zhe Bian his mother and youngest si The police had lodged the case clothes when he was helping his Fengjing” by Prof. Manoranjan Mo- hanty, Honorary Fellow and Former bling, both eyewitnesses in the based on the victim’s mother’s younger brother, as argued by Chairperson, ICS at Seminar Room, In- case, turned hostile during the complaint. During the trials, the counsel for the accused. stitute of Chinese Studies (ICS), Civil trial. victim’s mother said she did not Additional Sessions Judge Lines, 3 p.m. The man was accused of kill know how he received the inju Pooran Chand also rejected the Music: Hindustani violin recital by Ra- ing his brother in west Delhi’s ries and who killed him. prosecution argument that the gini Shankar from Mumbai, a disciple of Padmabhushan Dr. N. Raja, accom- Nangloi over a share in ancestral disclosure statement of the ac panied by Abhishek Mishra on the property, said the prosecution. DNA test matched cused was admissible as the tabla at C.D. Deshmukh Auditorium, India International Centre (IIC), 6:30 The victim was married and had Though the prosecution weapon of oﬀence was reco p.m. a daughter. The deceased’s fath through the DNA test matched vered on the basis of this (Mail your listings for this column at er had disowned him when the the bloodstains on the accused’s statement. [email protected])

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Over 2.2 lakh pink tickets issued in the ﬁrst shift till 5 p.m.

Special Correspondent New Delhi The Aam Aadmi Party go vernment rolled out its free ride scheme for women pas sengers aboard public buses on the festival of Bhai Dooj here on Tuesday with Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal terming it a “historic move” towards ensuring women’s safety and empowerment besides increasing their par ticipation in the Capital’s workforce. The scheme came into ef fect following the notifica tion of an amendment to the Delhi Transport Corpora tion (Free and Concessional Smiling faces: A woman passenger showing the pink ticket issued to her in a DTC bus in the Capital on Tuesday; (right) a marshall delpoyed in a bus travels with Passes) Regulations 1985 to passengers. * SUSHIL KUMAR VERMA, R.V. MOORTHY enable the issuance of “sin gle journey free travel pass Hemani Bhandari another bus to Trilokpuri this is also free,” she said quite some saving for me and in and criticised the move es” — pink tickets — to fe Shinjini Ghosh where she works in a factory. with a smile and added that I can concentrate on their saying, “What will happen if NEW DELHI male passengers under the “This is a very good move. the government had already treatment better.” the Kejriwal government cluster scheme. “Mahilayein apni free ticket Women who work in facto made “water free and re While a few men on the goes? Women will have a pro According to government le lein [women, please take ries and private companies duced power tariff”. buses praised the scheme, blem shelling out money.” records, over 2.20 lakh fe your free tickets],” an will benefit from it,” she said. many complained about The marshals said that it male commuters were is analyses the outcome of the BJP terms free bus ride nounced the conductor of a Maina, who works at a sa Some concerns poor maintenance and fewer was a “good move”, but they sued pink tickets to avail current scheme. AAP’s ‘election stunt’ DTC bus as women passen lon, took the bus from Sha “One should not forget that number of buses on the road. too should be equipped to do free rides aboard DTC buses “Now women who had to NEW DELHI gers hopped on the vehicle karpur to her workplace in the Delhi elections are not far Neeraj Arya (26), who tra their job. Sonu Kumar, an of in the first shift till 5 p.m. drop out of schools and col The BJP on Tuesday attacked on Tuesday morning. Their Laxmi Nagar. She said she away. While the Chief Minis vels from Kondli to Safdar ficial on duty, said, “We are The ridership numbers, ac leges because of high tran the AAP government for what face lit up when he handed usually travels in buses as she ter has tried to bring in a jung Enclave to work in an IT here to protect women but cording to a senior Delhi go sportation costs don’t need it termed was the “election over a pink ticket to them. doesn’t want to spend ₹40 on scheme to help women, it is company said, “Giving free we don’t even have a stick in vernment official, were like to sacrifice their education. stunt” of providing free rides to The Delhi government has an autorickshaw ride. Now, important to wait and see for bies is not a solution. They case it is required.” ly to go up following the They can now take buses to female passengers on State rolled out the free bus ride with the free ride scheme, how long this lasts. Even ear could have subsidised it. Ima On the buses, as people compilation of data for the good schools and colleges run buses. In addition to demanding that similar scheme for women in Delhi she can save ₹10 on the bust lier, there were specific days gine the loss DTC will suffer spoke of the move and their whole day and was expected away from home. Similarly, facilities be extended to senior Transport Corporation buses ticket too. when bus rides were free for because of this move. They opinion, the staffers and pas to be released on women whose offices were from Tuesday. Though the in “It is not a big amount but women. So this is nothing should rather spend on get sengers fondly remembered citizens and students, the party Wednesday. far need not worry about also sought a white paper on itiative was lauded by wo anything free is welcome,” special. The government ting more buses on the road late former Chief Minister In his address through the transportation cost,” Mr. men, many male passengers, she laughed. should be applauded only if and on their maintenance. Sheila Dikshit, who, during the Capital’s existing transport the recently launched AK Kejriwal said. infrastructure alleging that whom The Hindu spoke to, Seated next to her was Raj the scheme lasts for long During rain, the roof of the her regime, had introduced app on Tuesday morning, “All these steps cannot be over a hundred bus routes had took it with a pinch of salt. pal (50), who was travelling [beyond the election buses start leaking,” he said. the free ride for women on the Chief Minister said the taken at once. We will cer become inoperable since AAP The DTC staff, too, raised is from Kalyanpuri to Mori Raksha Bandhan and Bhai phase],” said Parvati Jadgish “Kacchi mitti ka aaina move will help in women tainly do this too [free rides came to power. sues over their working con Gate. She said she was very Kumar, a 56yearold house dikha rahe hain Kejriwal ji Dooj. empowerment by bridging for senior citizens and stu ditions and complained happy with the government’s wife. [Kejriwal is showing people “Ye [Arvind Kejriwal] bhi the gender inequality that dents] but let us start with about being neglected while decision as she doesn’t have The Madipur resident ad an unrealistic dream],” said achchhe hain, lekin unka exists in society. women and see the results Each pink ticket has a such initiatives were being to spend any money on her ded: “My husband is diffe Pankaj Bhardwaj, an electri [Sheila Dikshit] daur alag Similar facilities may be and based on the result we face value of ₹10, carried an implemented. bus travel now. rently abled and so is my son. cian who travels from Harsh tha [Kejriwal is also good, but offered to senior citizens will deliberate on making image of the CM and also Santosh (32), was travell “Metro travel is very ex More often than not I take Vihar to Trilokpuri. Sheila’s time was different],” and students in the near fu these rides free for senior ci bore a message wishing for ing from Loni to Anand Vi pensive, so I take the DTC the bus to the hospital. If the As the conversation pro recalled Babu Ram, a con ture, the Chief Minister said, tizens and students too in the progress of female com har. She deboarded to take bus whenever I go out. Now, scheme lasts, it would mean ceeded, the bus driver butted ductor for the last 34 years. after the Delhi government future,” he said further. muters and their families. Spread word on work done by Cong., Chopra tells workers

Special Correspondent He said that several peo brought to Delhi during the would surprise its oppo Poorvanchalis, who want to NEW DELHI ple had writtenoff the Con 15year rule of Sheila Dikshit nents. go home to celebrate the fes Delhi Congress chief Sub gress party in both the States government and how, the tival, are being virtually loot hash Chopra told cadres to but the party workers fought AAP government is taking Chhath Puja ed by the BJP government by draw energy from the work hard. credit for many initiatives Mr. Chopra and Kirti Azad, charging exorbitant fares. He done by the Congress work “You need to go meet peo brought in by the Congress chairman of the campaign said that special trains are ers in Maharashtra and Ha ple in your area at parks in government,” Mr. Chopra committee, also hit out at deployed to ease the rush for ryana and work towards a the morning or at events in said. both the Central and State the festival from New Delhi comeback in the upcoming the evening and spread the Mr. Chopra said that the governments for their “lax and Anand Vihar Railway Delhi Assembly polls. Mr. vision of the Congress. If so party would look towards preparations” for the Chhath stations to Bihar and U.P. but Chopra was addressing a meone is not convinced, you fielding a number of young, Puja festival, the most impor are being charged fares ma meeting of the districtlevel need to show them the deve fresh faces in the upcoming tant festival of the Poorvan ny times more than the nor party workers on Tuesday. lopment that the party had election and promised that it chalis. Mr. Azad said that mal trains. Stray incidents of stubble burning on Delhi’s outskirts Though not as rampant as in Punjab or Haryana, some fields with burnt patches were found in 5 villages

Nikhil M Babu after Deepavali celebra New Delhi tions, Delhi’s air quality in AAP blames Around 11 a.m. on Thursday dex was recorded at 400, Haryana, Punjab last week, Sunil Ram (36) one notch short of ‘severe’ toiled on his rice field, heap category. and Centre ing more stubble into burn “The smoke from stubble ing mounds of crop residue, burning can lead to respira Staff Reporter in the Capital’s Tigipur vil tory diseases, worsening of New Delhi lage. The smoke rising from heart diseases, and bron The Aam Aadmi Party on the field could be seen from chial asthma,” said Ashwani Tuesday criticised the the village road, about 50 Mehta, a senior consultant Centre as well as the go metre away. at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, vernments of Punjab, Ha On the right side of the Delhi. He added that people ryana for not controlling muddy path, which led who already have respirato stubble burning in agricul from the village road to the ry diseases are affected tural fields, which has been field, several burnt patches more by the smoke. on the rise. were seen in another field, Sanjeev Khirwar, secre The party also urged the suggesting similar fires in tary, Environment Depart governments to take steps the recent past. ment, said, “In Delhi, stub to prevent burning of crop “Around 10 a.m., I had set ble burning doesn't happen, residue. small fires at different according to reports from Addressing a press con points. Then water was let the Development Depart ference, senior AAP leader into the field from the chan ment. But if you have specif Dilip Pandey said: “Accord nel, so that there would not ic details, we will inform the ing to data from the Punjab be much smoke,” said Mr. district officials and take ac A farmer burning stubble in a field in Bakhtawarpur village on Pollution Control Board, Ram from Bihar, who has tion against it.” the outskirts of Delhi. * SANDEEP SAXENA the State recorded 9,600 been working in the field for incidents of stubble burn the past four months. The stubble middleman will sow wheat by Novem aware of the ban but did not ing till October 27 last. This The Hindu found workers Farmers said that stubble ber 5 and if we don’t remove how else to dispose of the year, the figure has shot up setting stubble on fire in two burning was “very less” in the leftover stubble, it will leftover stubble. to 12,027. Punjab and Ha more rice fields — in Tigipur Delhi as middlemen were get stuck in the machine.” “The Delhi government ryana recorded an increase and Daryapur — during a vi collecting stubble from the Other farmers too said should help farmers in dis of at least 2,400 farm fires, sit last week. More than 10 fields at a rate between that they burn the stubble posing of the stubble and al a major contributor to the rice fields were found with ₹2,000 and ₹3,500 from a left on the field after selling so provide Super Straw air pollution in the Capital, burnt patches in Tigipur, ‘killa’ (measurement similar the heap of it to middlemen. Management System [Sup till October 27.” Jhangola, Jatikra and Shikar to an acre) of rice field. The The farmers also said that erSMS] machines, which He said the increasing pur on the outskirts of Del stubble was then sold either the government is not help cut the stubble and spread it number of stubble burning hi. The burnt patches to dairies or as packing ma ing them in selling the stub while harvesting. If farmers cases caused spike in pollu ranged from one or two in terials in markets. ble and they are dependent are setting the leftover stub tion in Delhi, but neither some fields to several in at “We sold the stubble for on middlemen for the ble on fire, then the district the Centre nor the govern least four of the 10 fields. ₹2,000 a killa, but some of it process. administration officials ments of the neighbouring was still left. So we set it on should make sure than States have done anything. Pollution concerns fire,” said Suman Yadav, 52, Ban on burning there is no stubble left for “Air quality monitor SA The top 14 mostpolluted ci as she pushed more stubble Open burning of waste is burning,” said Vivek Chatto FAR had predicted that the ties in the world are located into the fire in her rice field banned in Delhi by an order padhyaya, a senior pro share of smoke from stub in India, according to the close to Daryapur village. of the National Green Tribu gramme manager of ‘Clean ble burning in Delhi’s World Health Organization, Ms. Yadav, whose mouth nal with a fine ranging from Air Programme’ at the PM2.5 concentration is like and Delhi ranks sixth among and nose were covered with ₹5,000 to ₹25,000. Most of Centre for Science and Envi ly to jump to 25% on Tues them. On Tuesday, two days a piece of cloth, said: “We the farmers said they were ronment, Delhi. day,” said Mr. Pandey. 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THE HINDU DELHI WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2019 CITY 5 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE IN BRIEF DDA issues public notice on Fatherson duo killed by speeding SUV Woman duped of her jewellery in south Delhi NEW DELHI Accused fled the spot leaving the two in a pool of blood; vehicle identified A 35-year-old woman was amendments to MPD2021 allegedly duped of her Staff Reporter son Kishore, who had come fled the spot leaving the two tered. CCTV footage of the jewellery by a man, who Public can send suggestions and objections within 45 days NEW DELHI from Nepal to celebrate Dee in a pool of blood,” he said. spot and nearby areas have lured her by claiming that he A 40yearold man and his pavali. A PCR call was received af been scanned. “The vehicle can let her have ‘darshan’ of Staff Reporter so permitted in the base son, who were on their way A senior police officer said ter which the police rushed has been identified. Teams goddess Lakshmi in south NEW DELHI <> Delhi is Delhi, the police said. The continuously ment subject to relevant back after attending the Dee that the fatherson duo had to the spot and took the in are trying to identify the ac woman told the police that T he Delhi Development growing...The provisions of the building pavali celebrations at Con gone to attend the laser show jured to a nearby hospital. cused. Further investigation Authority (DDA) has issued byelaws, structural safety naught Place, were killed in Connaught Place’s Central However, the two were de is under way,” he said. the accused was known to ‘mixed use’ policy her and she trusted him. a public notice seeking sug norms and fire safety clea when their bicycle was hit by Park along with a few friends clared brought dead, the pol The police said that the gestions and objections aims to balance the rance,” the notice added. a speeding car near Ranjit when the incident hap ice said. victim used to stay with his from stakeholders pertain socioeconomic The urban body had ap Singh flyover on Monday pened. “The two were on a The officer said that a case family in the Railway Colony ing to the amendments to need and the proved the proposed modi night. bicycle and were at the end under Section 304A (causing near Tilak Bridge area. While Woman’s purse the Master Plan for Delhi – impact of the said fications to the MPD2021, The police said that the of Ranjit Singh flyover when death by negligence) and 279 he used to wash cars for a liv snatched metres 2021 with regard to the op activity in the in an authority meeting victims have been identified a speeding car hit the cycle (rash driving) of the Indian ing, his wife works as a house eration of gyms and fitness residential area held on October 9. as Heera and his 10yearold from behind. The accused Penal Code has been regis help. away from centres in the city. Delhi Development Authority “Delhi is continuously Interested stakeholders growing. The development police station have a period of 45 days to notice. of basic publicsemi public approach the DDA with However, according to facilities along with general Man intervenes in fight, Four held, one apprehended Staff Reporter their respective objections the notice, new wellness commercial facilities could NEW DELHI and suggestions to the pro and fitness centres esta not keep pace with growing A 52yearold woman, wife posed amendments. blished from the date of population resulting in the gets stabbed by juvenile for 17yearold’s murder of a journalist, became a “Nursing homes, well notification will be permit increase of mixed use. The victim of snatching in Out ness centres, including day ted on ground floors and “mixed use” policy aims to Victim’s condition is said to be stable 3 pistols recovered from accused: police er Delhi’s Paschim Vihar spas, weight loss centres, basements only. balance the socioeconom when the family was on its ayurvedic centres and sa The notice added that ic need and the impact of Staff Reporter Sadhu and his Staff Reporter declared brought dead. Dur NEW DELHI <> New Delhi way to celebrate Bhai Dooj lons offering fitness and preprimary schools (other the said activity in the resi brother Anil were ing probe, it was revealed on Tuesday afternoon. aesthetic medical services, than those on plots abut dential area,” the landown A 17yearold boy was ap passing through Four persons were arrested that the boy was going on his The journalist, Kamal operating in plots abutting ting commercial streets), ing agency had said. prehended for allegedly the area when he and a juvenile apprehended motorcycle when the ac Narang, who works with a the Master Plan roads and will be restricted to the The DDA had further ad stabbing a man,who tried on Tuesday for allegedly kill cused intercepted him and noticed the boy national daily, said that Zonal Plan roads shall be ground floor. ded that the move followed to intervene in a fight bet ing a 17yearold boy in opened fire at him before he, his wife Suman Narang permissible up to 100% of “Fitness centre (includ “various representations” ween him and his grandpa quarrelling and northwest Delhi’s Adarsh fleeing the spot. The victim and their daughter were in builtup area and the limit ing gymnasium, yoga or received from interested rents, in Uttam Nagar, the intervened. Sadhu Nagar, the police said on from Mukundpur was an erickshaw, a few on the size of the plot meditation centre) is per stakeholders seeking modi police said on Tuesday. asked the boy to Tuesday. known to the accused. “A metres away from Pas would not apply,” read the mitted on all floors. It is al fication of the MPD2021. A senior police officer stop fighting... DCP (North West) Vijayan murder case was registered,” chim Vihar police station, said that the victim has Police officer ta Arya said the accused Ms. Arya said. when two bikeborne men been identified as Sadhu have been identified as Ran came and snatched his (22), a helper at a gym in and had a heated argument jeet (19), Lalit Kumar (19), ‘To settle score’ wife’s purse. “The purse Hari Nagar. He was alleged with his grandparents. Sad Naresh (20) and Vishal Giri The accused allegedly told contained two mobile Software engineer, his friend ly stabbed by the juvenile hu and his brother Anil (19). The police said they re police that the boy had bea phones, cash and docu in the early hours of Mon were passing through the ceived a PCR call at 1.03 a.m. ten up one of them some ments,” Mr. Narang day in Shiv Vihar. area when he noticed the regarding gunshot injury in time ago and they decided to added. injured in road accident The police said that a boy quarrelling and inter Azadpur’s Lal Bagh. On kill him to settle the score. The couple then ap PCR call was received vened. Sadhu asked the reaching the spot, they Three pistols and four live proached the police but around 12.30 a.m. regard boy to stop fighting. But the found that the injured per cartridges were recovered were allegedly not provid Men on motorcycle kicked the techie off his twowheeler ing a stabbing incident. accused started arguing son had already been taken from the accused persons, ed “due diligence”. “We When the police reached with the victim. The grand to a hospital where he was the police added. gave the statement and Special Correspondent Genpact Underpass on Golf consciousness, I found my the spot, they were told parents also sided with the they registered the case GURUGRAM Course Road at 4.30 a.m. self in the hospital,” said An that the man had been minor,” the officer said. under Sections of theft A software engineer and his Ansari from Sector 56 was sari. He claimed that the rushed to Deen Dayal The police said that the though we told them that friend were injured after two his way to Sikanderpur me man riding the motorcycle Upadhyay Hospital. He un boy then brought a knife it is a snatching case,” he men on a motorcycle alleg tro station to drop Amitesh also carried a gun and had derwent a surgery and his from the house and said. edly chased them on Golf when two men with their pointed it towards him. condition is said to be stabbed Sadhu in the Additional Deputy Course Road and kicked faces covered chased the Mr. Ansari has suffered a stable stomach. Commissioner of Police them off their twowheeler duo and tried to stop them. fracture in the collar bone During investigation, the The officer said that a (Outer) Rajender Singh Sa on Monday morning. When Ansari did not stop, while his friend also sus police said, it was revealed case of attempt to murder gar said, “The victim’s The police said the inci one of the accused kicked tained injuries. Amitesh had that the minor is a school has been registered and the statement has been re dent took place when Mo his motorcycle down. come to visit Ansari on the drop out and is staying with juvenile was apprehended corded again and relevant hammad Ansari and his “I lost control and we occasion of Diwali. his maternal grandparents from Safeda Park in Shiv Vi Sections have been added. friend Amitesh Kumar, a both fell down. I hit my head The police have regis in Shiv Vihar. har on Monday. The wea The case is being moni guard at a hospital in Delhi, against the central verge and tered a case of rash driving “On Sunday night, the pon used in the crime has tored.” were emerging out of the passed out. When I regained and causing hurt. accused came back home also been recovered.

DELHI THE HINDU 6 NORTH WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2019 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Amarinder seeks WB support for alternative crops

SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT ventional wheatpaddy cycle rector, Agriculture and Wa ical and financial support, projects for submission to CHANDIGARH to a diversified cropping pat ter, the Chief Minister said which the World Bank could the World Bank, for their Punjab Chief Minister Ama tern, aimed at income en encouraged by the State go provide,” he said. technological and financial rinder Singh on Tuesday hancement and water vernment’s programmes, Capt. Amarinder directed support. He also urged the sought the World Bank’s conservation. many farmers were adopting the State agriculture depart WB to provide support for technological and financial At a meeting with a World alternative crops by shun ment to come out with a promotion of fruit and lives support to help the State’s Bank delegation, led by Dr. ning wheat and paddy cultiv blueprint of crop diversifica tock exports in Punjab, as it farmers shift from the con Juergen Voegele, Global Di ation. “They need technolog tion and groundwater saving had done in Uzbekistan. Man succumbs to stab injuries

Special Correspondent Ghaziabad A man, who was allegedly stabbed for protesting against the harassment of his sister, succumbed to in juries on Sunday night at Delhi’s Safdarjung Hospi tal. The incident happened in front of a college at Kai rana in Shamli district on October 23. According to sources, af ter repeated complaints of his sister, Vicky decided to confront the accused . Ho wever, the 22yearold was stabbed and beaten by a group of young men. The incident got captured on a CCTV camera and was shared on social media. The main accused was identiﬁed as Anuj Kumar. SHO Kairana Police Station said Section 302 has been added to the FIR following Vicky’s death. EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

THE HINDU DELHI WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2019 WEST 7 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Cash, vehicles How can BJP-Sena form govt. worth ₹5.5 cr. 45 Sena MLAs keen to form seized from amid mutual distrust: Chavan gangster’s government with BJP, says MP ‘If Sena approaches Cong., party high command will take a call’ house Sena MLA hits back, says Sanjay Kakade’s remarks aimed at ‘defaming’ party legislators Shoumojit Banerjee Pune

Press Trust of India Shoumojit Banerjee elected as an Independent to It was the responsibility of Nagpur Pune the Upper House and switch the Bharatiya Janata Party The police have seized Amid the tension between ing allegiances with the BJP. (BJP) and the Shiv Sena to cash, a highend car and the Bharatiya Janata Party He is believed to have played provide a stable government other valuables worth ₹5.5 (BJP) and Shiv Sena over pow a vital role in engineering the for the people of Maharash crore from the residence of ersharing, the BJP’s Rajya saffron party’s victory in the tra, senior Congressman and a gangster in Nagpur, offi Sabha Member of Parliament Pune civic polls in February former Chief Minister Prith cials said on Tuesday. Sanjay Kakade has claimed 2017. viraj Chavan said on Tues Searches were carried that nearly 45 of the 56 new In March this year, prior to day. In the event that the out at the residence of San lyelected Shiv Sena Mem the Lok Sabha polls, Mr. Ka BJPSena powersharing Senior Congress leader Ashok Chavan is willing to wait and tosh Ambekar,who has a bers of the Legislative As kade had announced that he talks fail and the Sena ap watch the political developments. * FILE string of criminal cases sembly (MLAs) in would soon be entering the proaches the Congress with against him, on Monday. Maharashtra were keen on Congress after being denied a a proposal on government wide gap between the Sena’s have an LoP from its own He was charged with the joining hands with the BJP in ticket for the Pune Lok Sabha formation, it would place understanding and Chief Mi ranks. Maharashtra Control of Or a bid to expedite the process seat. However, the BJP MP’s the matter before the Con nister Fadnavis’ statements Mr. Chavan acknow ganised Crime Act along of government formation. announcement was not taken gress high command and that no such secret deal was ledged that the Congress had with eight others last week “Just like within the Na Sanjay Kakade, a Pune-based realtor, has stirred the hornet’s too kindly by Congress loyal discuss it with its allies, said cut,” he said. “Both parties fallen short in formulating a for allegedly cheating a tionalist Congress Party nest with his recent claims. * FILE ists in Pune, most of whom Mr. Chavan. [Sena and BJP] should hold a clear poll strategy and that it Gujaratbased business (NCP), there is a group which were opposed to Mr. Ka “These are ifs and buts… press conference to tell the was dogged by leadership man of ₹5 crore in a pro holds leaders like Chhagan government. “At least 45 of itical ineptness. “The alle kade’s induction in the party. in case we do receive such a voters of the State what was crises. Still, he said, people perty deal, a senior police Bhujbal, Jayant Patil or Ajit the 56 newlyelected Sena giance of the Shiv Sena’s Mr. Kakade chose to remain proposal from the Shiv Se decided between them in or had responded to their cam officer said. Pawar in high regard, there MLAs are directly and clearly MLAs is aligned with [late Se in the BJP after learning that na... To the best of my know der to end this confusion.” paigns highlighting the BJP’s Mr. Ambekar had alleg are sections within the Sena stating that they want to go na founder] Bal Thackeray’s there was no guarantee that ledge, no such proposal has Mr. Chavan had won a stiff government’s hollow assu edly demanded ₹1 crore who have high regard for ma along with the BJP. They do thinking and Uddhav Thacke he would be get a Congress come to us,” said the senior threeway fight in the Karad rances and severe shortcom from the businessman ny of their leaders, who I will not wish to go anywhere ray’s leadership. So, instead ticket to contest from Pune Congressman, speaking to South Assembly segment ings. He also said the Con when the latter demanded not name… These leaders are else,” Mr. Kakade said. of alleging that Sena MLAs Lok Sabha constituency. reporters in Karad in Satara. and defeated his rival, the gressNCP coalition had his money back. The gang in touch with Chief Minister are in touch with the Chief His disenchantment with Mr. Chavan said he won BJP’s Atul Bhosale, despite suffered in at least 25 As ster was in news recently Devendra Fadnavis and are Ratnagiri MLA incensed Minister, he ought to stick to the BJP ahead of the Lok Sab dered how the saffron allies highdecibel campaigns by sembly segments owing to when Nagpur Police made extremely keen on forming a Mr. Kakade’s statement has one party and prove his alle ha election stemmed from could form a government gi Union Home Minister Amit Prakash Ambedkar’s Vanchit him walk barefoot to a government with the BJP as incensed the senior Sena giance there,” Mr. Samant the allegedly ‘shoddy’ treat ven the mutual distrust bet Shah in Karad and Prime Mi Bahujan Aghadi (VBA), court on October 13. quickly as possible,” said Mr. leader and MLA from Ratna said. “He is doing it for his ment meted out to him by the ween them at the moment. nister Narendra Modi in which queered the pitch for Additional Commission Kakade, a Punebased real giri, Uday Samant, who al own political ends in the then Pune Guardian Minister “It appears that there is a Satara. both the opposition parties er of Police Nilesh Bharne tor. leged that the BJP MP was de hope that he will gain so Girish Bapat and the erst major hitch in their govern The Leader of Opposition and again benefited the BJP said as many as 30 criminal He also said the MLAs, an liberately attempting to mething in the event Mr. Fad while BJP State president mentformation talks. On (LoP) would be elected from Sena alliance. cases, including murder, xious to form the new go ‘defame’ his party’s legisla navis becomes chief minister Raosaheb Danve. the one hand, the Sena lea the NCP in the event the BJP “ Had we fought together, have been registered vernment soon, had allegedly tors with such remarks. Mr. again.” In December 2017, Mr. Ka dership is talking of a 50:50 and the Sena succeeded in then not only Mr. Ambedkar, against Mr. Ambekar in the urged the chief minister to Samant said Mr. Kakade’s re A known partyhopper kade had created a flutter af powersharing deal having forming the government, he but perhaps six to seven VBA last 20 years. settle (powersharing) issues marks on the Sena MLAs and wheelerdealer, Mr. Ka ter he predicted a dismal been settled with [Union said. For the first time in the leaders would have been re Deputy Commissioner with Sena chief Uddhav were “unfortunate”, and kade was earlier with Sharad showing by the BJP in the Guj Home Minister] Amit Shah. State’s political history, he turned as MPs,” Mr. Chavan of Police (crime) Gajanan Thackeray soon and form the brought out Mr. Kakade’s pol Pawar’s NCP before being arat elections. Now, it seems that there is a said, the Congress will not said. Rajmane said they seized a BMW and other vehicles, CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC motorcycles and cash col lectively valued at ₹5.50 Celebrating life crore from Mr. Ambekar Justice Bobde’s hometown and his accomplices. Police suspect he had amassed the seized immov delighted over his appointment able property through ille gal means. Further investi ‘Proud moment for legal fraternity in Nagpur’ gation is underway. Press Trust of India the way he used to work and Nagpur argue cases,” Mr. Khubalkar The legal fraternity in Nag said. Repairs to slow pur is delighted over the ap “We have seen Justice down rail traffic pointment of Justice Sharad Bobde work as a lawyer, se Arvind Bobde, who hails nior advocate and then as a to Hyderabad from the orange city in Mah Judge of the Bombay High arashtra, as the 47th Chief Court here. Justice of India (CJI). “He used to encourage ju Press Trust of India Aurangabad Justice Bobde, 63, will nior lawyers. Senior mem take oath as CJI on Novem bers and lawyers here are The repair work on a minor ber 18, a day after incum very happy and delighted damage detected on the bent Ranjan Gogoi demits of over his appointment. In his railway track between Potul fice, the Law Ministry said Justice Bobde will take honour, we are planning a and Lasur here will slow on Tuesday. oath as Chiej justice of India grand felicitation pro down trains on the Mumbai Born on April 24, 1956 at on November 18. * PTI gramme,” said Mr. NandedHyderabad route, Nagpur in a family of la Khubalkar. an official said. wyers, Justice Bobde com has been appointed to the Nagpur District Bar asso A local farmer detected a pleted Bachelor of Arts and top post in Indian judiciary, ciation (DBA) president Ka damage in the welding of LLB degrees from Nagpur Mr. Khubalkar said. mal Satuja said it was a mat the railway track and in University. “He has worked in the ter of great pride that a legal formed railway officials at Nagpur High Court Bar Nagpur bench for several luminary from Nagpur has Potul and Lasur stations in Association (HCBA) secre years and he was designated been appointed as the CJI. Maharahtra’s Aurangabad tary Praful Khubalkar, who as a senior advocate from “He is a role model for all district on Tuesday. once worked as a junior la Nagpur,” Mr. Khubalkar said. members of the legal frater “We will complete the re wyer in Justice Bobde’s Justice Bobde’s argu nity. He will always be a pairs in the next two days. chamber here, was all praise ments in the court as a la source of inspiration for Trains on the Mumbai for the CJI designate over wyer used to be so impres young lawyers who will be NandedHyderabad route his knowledge and sive that people would flock encouraged to strive for will be slowed down to professionalism. to listen to him, the HCBA excellence. avoid accidents. We have set It’s a proud moment for secretary said. “It is not only a dream the speed limit to 30 km per the legal fraternity in Nag “I had the opportunity to come true for Justice Bobde, Members of the Chhattisgarhi community celebrating Goura, Gouri puja with much pomp and gaiety in Nagpur on Tuesday. The hour,” PRO, South Central pur that Justice Bobde, once be in his chamber. I was his but for the entire legal frater festival celebrates the pastoral life of the people of Chhattisgarh, and the gathering sees the rituals of 'gedi', 'rout nacha', 'panthi nritya' and 'Goura Gouri' being performed in the traditional attire. * S SUDARSHAN Railway Rajesh Shinde said. a member of the bar here, junior and closely watched nity,” said Mr. Satuja. CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC Congress hopes to implement lessons learnt from Kolhapur Post-monsoon showers Hard-hitting campaign coupled with support from a disgruntled Sena resulted in formidable contests against BJP damage crops in Akola Shoumojit Banerjee Mandlik has been openly say Stating that the party was wait for any leader and took Several hectares of soyabean, Pune ing that Congressman Satej in the second place on at their own initiative to high As allies Bharatiya Janata Par ‘Bunty’ Patil has helped me least 1415 Assembly seats in light local issues and pro sorghum and cotton destroyed ty (BJP) and the Shiv Sena and I have to pay back his western Maharashtra, he blems in that constituency continue to jockey for power, debt,” he said, questioning conceded that the leadership and the Congress alternatives Press Trust of India Akola the BJP’s losses in western the Sena’s MP conduct crises prevailing within the to that,” he said, observing <> CM Maharashtra, especially Kol against the BJP. Congress at the Central and that in Sangli, Kolhapur and Heavy postmonsoon show @Dev_Fadnavis hapur, is emblematic of the He further alleged that Mr. State levels had hamstrung its the Vidarbha region, the Con ers in Akola district have instructed Chief fissures within their fragile Mandlik had actively cam advantages despite the elec gress gained more seats by destroyed various crops, Secretary to ideological alliance. paigned and backed his rela torate being disposed against stressing the lack of compen raising the demand for de provide immediate With Sena MP Sanjay Man tive, Rajesh Patil, the Con the BJP and the Sena. sation to farmers as promised claring wet drought in the dlik supporting the Congress gress candidate in the “There was no support or by the BJPSena government Vidarbha region and com relief to farmers in Kolhapur, the latter, in coa Chandgad seat and veteran moral boost for the party in and the prevailing pensation for farmers under affected by the lition with the Nationalist NCP leader Hasan Mushrif in the form of ‘star campaign unemployment. the Centre’s crop insurance heavy rains Congress Party (NCP) has the Kagal Assembly segment. ers’. If we are to take lessons Commenting on the nar scheme. Devendra Fadnavis performed surprisingly well Against this backdrop of from our success in Kolha row losses for the Congress in Farmers in Balapur, Pa Chief Minister in the ‘sugarbelt’ district the fraught SenaBJP rela pur, we need a senior leader the Shivajinagar and Pune tur, Barshitakali, Telhara Chief Minister Devendra while the BJP’s presence has tions, the Congress leader in every district like Satej Pa Cantonment seats in Pune ci and Akot talukas of Akola Fadnavis on Monday asked been wiped out, with two of ship in western Maharashtra til with good resources with ty, yet another Congress lead district were hit hard due to the chief secretary to carry its sitting MLAs suffering and Pune is hoping to take a the ability to campaign ag er said that a harddriving the showers recently. As per out an assessment of dam defeats. leaf from their strategy in Kol gressively,” Mr. Iyer said. campaign by party workers official data, more than 1.7 aged crops at the ear The CongressNCP alliance hapur and exploit divisions He said that the party coupled with covert support lakh hectares of soyabean, liest.“CM @Dev_Fadnavis in won six of the 10 Assembly within the Sena and the BJP would be mulling over this from a disgruntled Sena led 9,512 hectares of sorghum structed Chief Secretary to segments in Kolhapur, with Congress supporters celebrate the victory of Ruturaj Patil in the future. strategy in the crucial civic the Congress candidates to and over 1.5 lakh hectares of provide immediate relief to the Congress winning four from the Kolhapur Assembly seat. * PTI “We had laid the ground in polls in Pune, Satara and So put up formidable contests cotton have been damaged farmers who were affected crucial seats. The Sena could Kolhapur before the Lok Sab lapur that would be taking against their BJP opponents. because of the rains. by the heavy rains in some win only one (Shahuwadi seg BJP’s defeat in the district. Sena’s Mr. Mandlik had cam ha polls. Satej Patil conduct place in 2022. “After 2014, the BJP has en Speaking about the agrar parts of Maharashtra by ment) while the rest were While stressing that the paigned wholeheartedly for ed a shrewd campaign which A senior Congress leader, sured that the Sena doesn’t ian crisis, Union Minister of completing survey at the won by exCongressmen like BJP and the Sena would even the Congress’s Ruturaj Patil — not only took maximum ad requesting anonymity, said gain an upper hand in Pune. State Sanjay Dhotre on Mon earliest (sic),” the Chief Mi Prakash Awade (Ichalkaranji tually form a government nephew of senior Kolhapur vantage of the fractiousness that in the Assembly election, The Sena’s leadership is wor day said he had written to nister’s Office tweeted. seat) and other candidates despite some confusion, Mr. Congress leader Satej ‘Bunty’ between the saffron allies but the grassrootslevel worker, ried about the party’s future his agriculture counterpart Shiv Sena MLA from Bala who contested as Patil reprimanded the Sena Patil — in the Kolhapur South also successfully propagated without any support from the and the lack of morale within Narendra Singh Tomar, ask pur constituency, Nitin Tale, Independents. MP and other rebels within Assembly. This had directly the Congress’ alternatives to top, had gone out of the way its workers. This prevailing ing him to declare a wet on Tuesday promised to Earlier this week, BJP State the party for their ‘opportu contributed to the defeat of the BJPSena government’s to revive the party’s sagging discontent indirectly benefit drought in Vidarbha and take up the issue of crop chief Chandrakant Patil had nist politics’. the BJP candidate — erstwhile failures in the region,” said fortunes. ed the CongressNCP in some seeking compensation for damage in the first Assembly openly blamed Mr. Mandlik In order to settle scores sitting MLA Amal Mahadik. Pune City Congress secretary “In every Assembly seg parts,” said a citybased ana farmers under the Centre’s session and seek relief from for being responsible for the with the Mahadik clan, the “From the first day, Sanjay and spokesman Ramesh Iyer. ment, the workers did not lyst. crop insurance scheme. the government.

DELHI THE HINDU 8 SOUTH WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2019 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE IN BRIEF Maoist encounter toll mounts to four No alliance with Cong., Kerala police ‘Those killed in Kerala BJP for bypolls: Gowda commandos continue hunt for are not from Karnataka’ ‘Both the parties are not trustworthy’ group members Press Trust of India TTD to curb use of New Delhi plastic at Tirumala Special Correspondent absconding and had not Special Correspondent Chikkamagaluru TIRUMALA visited his family in the last Janata Dal (Secular) presi Thiruvananthapuram The Tirumala Tirupati Wrong information from the 20 years. His 75yearold dent H.D. Deve Gowda has Devasthanams is determined The number of alleged police has resulted in the mother Siddamma, elder dismissed any possibility of to curb the use of plastic Maoists shot dead by Kerala media reporting that two brother Manjunath were in having an electoral tieup atop the sacred shrine of police commandos in the suspected Maoists from shock as they learnt about with either the Congress or Lord Venkateswara. Speaking Agali forests in Palakkad Chikkamagaluru district his death through news the BJP for the December 5 to the media, TTD EO A.V. mounted to four on Tuesday. were among those killed in channels. bypolls in Karnataka, de Dharma Reddy on Tuesday Top police officers told an encounter in Palakkad on The earlier information scribing both the national said the board of trustees The Hindu that they were Monday. was shared based on inputs parties as “not trustworthy” had resolved to free the town bracing themselves for more This had left friends and received from the Kerala and having the “same cha from plastic within a span of casualties as the Thunder family members of Suresh, a police. “Now they (Kerala racter.” H.D. Deve Gowda three months. bolt commandos were scour suspected Maoist, at Angadi police) have confirmed that In an interview to PTI on ing the area for the remnants village of Chikkamagaluru in all four persons killed in the Tuesday, the former Prime Congress after the May 2018 IIT-Hyderabad student of the group of “armed shock and sorrow. encounter were from Tamil Minister said the JD(S) Karnataka election. jumps to death Maoist irregulars” they had Suresh Angadi, a Nadu, not Chikkamagaluru,” would contest alone the by “It was the Congress SANGAREDDY battled in the Manjakandi After the action: The bodies of Maoists killed in an encounter graduate, had been the Karnataka police said. polls to fill 15 vacancies in which came to me after the Pichikala Siddharth, 20, a forests on Monday. They said inside the Attappady forests being brought out on Tuesday. DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD the Karnataka Assembly election and persuaded us third year B. Tech student of the Thunderbolts had en and “certainly maintain for formation of the Con the IIT-Hyderabad allegedly gaged stragglers from the group from fleeing the Agali India (Maoist) in Kerala. and whether he had suc two .303 lee Enfield type equidistance” from the Con gressJD(S) government. In jumped to death from the armed group at least twice forests. They provisionally identi cumbed to the injuries sus bolt action rifles of 1940s de gress and the BJP. itially I did not agree but af hostel building on Tuesday. Before taking the extreme on Tuesday. The police tentatively fied the others killed in the tained in the gunfight on signer, three countrymade The veteran politician al ter prolonged persuasion by step, Siddartha sent mail to The combatants had dis identified the body as that of operations as Rema, Suresh Monday. The police also re but potent rifled muskets so said he was in fact reluc the Congress I accepted [the one of his friends, saying he covered the latest body of a Manivasakam, possibly the and Karthi. The police be covered several arms from and a 12 gauge shotgun. tant to have a tieup with the alliance],” Mr. Gowda said. did not find life interesting, ‘Leftwing extremist’ in the nom de guerre of the activist lieve that the dead were na the crime scene. They in The police also recovered the police said. Assistance to dense undergrowth in the who headed the Kabani Da tives of Tamil Nadu. cluded one AK 47 assault ri 7.62 mm ammunition used in overcome suicidal thoughts is Manjankandi area as they lam of the Western Ghats Zo Investigators said they fle retrieved from the spot SelfLoading Rifles from the available on helpline 040- moved to cut off the remain nal Committee of the pro were unsure about the tim where Manivasakam lay area where the gunfight ‘JD(S) leader praising BJP 66202000. ing members of the armed scribed Communist Party of ing of Manivasakam’s death dead. They also recovered occurred. to keep his flock together’ Children made to write in Top officials summoned in Walayar case Siddaramaiah flays Kumaraswamy Special Correspondent blood; Jacobites in a spot Staff Reporter the government and its arms Belagavi PALAKKAD were grievous. “In this cir Leader of the Opposition in PRESS TRUST OF INDIA amangalam in Ernakulam to The National Commission cumstance, we are summon the Legislative Assembly Thiruvananthapuram offer prayers following for Scheduled Castes (NCSC) ing the Chief Secretary and Siddaramaiah upped his at The Jacobite faction found strong resistance from the has summoned Chief Secre the DGP to our Delhi office.” tack on Janata Dal (Secular) itself in a bind with the Kera Jacobite priests and the tary Tom Jose and Kerala Further action would be in leader H.D. Kumaraswamy la State Commission for Pro faithful. police chief Loknath Behera itiated after taking a closer on Tuesday by accusing him tection of Child’s rights tak The Orthodox faction re in connection with the rape look into the case. Those res of putting up a show of sup ing up a case against it for cently tried to take posses and death of two minor sis ponsible for the rape and port of the BJP government allegedly forcing children to sion of the church. ters at Attappallam, near Wa death of the minor girls to prevent defections from write “sathyam” (truth) in To counter it, the Jacobite layar, in which all the ac would not be allowed to go his party to the BJP. blood as part of its protest faction had organised a cused had walked away scotfree, Mr. Murugan said. The Congress leader told Siddaramaiah against the Orthodox protest using students from scotfree. The case relates to the sex presspersons in Sambra Air church, which is trying to Sunday school and some The acquittals by a POCSO ual exploitation and myste port that some JD(S) MLAs He brushed aside allega gain control of churches were made to write “sath court here on Friday last had rious death of two minor Da were planning to join the tions that he was trying to armed with a Supreme yam” on white paper alleg caused a furore. There were lit siblings at Walayar in BJP. “To retain them in his dislodge the Yediyurappa Court order. edly using blood drawn widespread protests against The police using water cannon to disperse protesters in Palakad in 2017. party, Mr. Kumaraswamy is government. “It’s only the

Authorities on October 28 from their fingers. the failure of the prosecution Thiruvananthapuram on Tuesday. * S. MAHINSHA The elder girl, aged 13, al trying to praise the B.S. Ye family members of former were unable to implement a The panel took up the and the alleged role of the legedly committed suicide diyurappa government. He Prime Minister H.D. Deve court order directing them case after taking note of me government and some ruling man L. Murugan visited the tled by the investigation of on January 13, 2017, and her hopes that if he says good Gowda who get ideas of dis to facilitate entry of Ortho dia reports showing chil party members in weaken house of the victims and met ficers and the prosecution nineyearold sibling took things about the BJP, his lodging governments. Peo dox faction priests and fol dren writing on white paper ing the case. their parents on Tuesday. right from the beginning. the extreme step 52 days la own legislators will stay ple like us don’t harbour lowers into a church at Koth as part of the protest. Commission vicechair He said the case was scut The mistakes committed by ter. put,” Mr. Siddaramaiah said. such thoughts,” he said. Telangana RTC strike enters 25th day CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC Low key 100th Tough challenge day celebration Trade union leaders claim no employee has reported for work so far of BJP govt. Staff Reporter JAC. It said the State govern HYDERABAD ment should resolve the de Special Correspondent The Telangana State Road mands of the latter, includ BENGALURU Transport Corporation ing that of the merger with The 100th day celebration (TSRTC) strike entered its the government. of the Bharatiya Janata Par 25th day, the longest after ty government led by Karn 2011’s Sakala Janula Samme File affidavit: HC taka Chief Minister B.S. Ye in the united Andhra Meanwhile, observing that diyurappa is most likely to Pradesh. parts of the affidavit filed by be a lowkey affair follow TSRTC trade union lead State government’s Principal ing the floods that have af ers portended that this Finance Secretary were ‘mis fected more than half the year’s strike – which began placed and vague’, the Te districts. on October 5 – could soon be langana High Court on Tues The BJPled Karnataka the longest with the High day instructed the TSRTC government will complete Court hearing being sche Long battle: Telangana transport corporation members managing director incharge its 100th day on November duled for November 1. They coming out of the court in Hyderabad. * NAGARA GOPAL to file an affidavit over the 2. Party sources feel that said the corporation, before government’s claims that it holding programmes in a the bifurcation of erstwhile High Court hearings and gi ployees, including supervi overpaid the corporation. grand manner would send Andhra Pradesh, saw two ven the schedule, including sors, have reported for Posting the hearing on the a wrong signal as people of important strikes. First was the public meeting, I think work. ongoing strike by RTC work the State have been hit by Sakala Janula Samme and we can say that this strike Mr. Reddy reiterated that ers for Friday, the HC set the floods for the second another was in 2001, a time will cross 27 days,” said E. the TSRTC is to receive as Thursday as the deadline for time. when the then A.P. Chief Mi Ashok from the National much as ₹1,099 crore for the presenting the affidavit and Also, they feel that com nister N. Chandrababu Nai Mazdoor Union, a trade un period 20092014 and directed the MD to be pre pleting 100 days is not a du had ruled out ion supporting the TSRTC another ₹1,375 crore from sent in the court during next major milestone to privatisation. Joint Action Committee. 2014 onwards. He claimed hearing. The RTC officers celebrate. “The 2011 strike was 27 Soon after the High Court that crores of rupees have knowing the nittygritty of Meanwhile, the govern days long. Similarly, in 2001, hearing on Tuesday, TSRTC been accumulated as reim its finances should also be ment is expected to use the during N. Chandrababu Nai JAC convener E. Ashwatha bursements, which the tran present for eliciting informa occasion to create public du’s term as Chief Minister, ma Reddy, flanked by co sport juggernaut has not yet tion, the HC said. awareness about its the strike lasted for 24 days. conveners K. Raji Reddy and received. A division bench compris achievements in various In 2005 too, there was a Thomas Reddy, said the Earlier in the day, the ing Chief Justice Raghvendra sectors, especially han strike that lasted for a total of strike has been proceeding Andhra Pradesh Road Tran Singh Chauhan and Justice dling of flood relief. five days. In Telangana, in as planned. He claimed that sport Corporation JAC ex A. Abhishek Reddy declined The taming game: A participant trying to tame a bull at Hori Habbaa in Karnataka’s Haveri “It will mainly be a me

2015, there was an eightday despite the government pressed its solidarity with to give more time as sought district. The event is organised every year as part of Deepavali celebrations. * SANJAY RITTI dia campaign,” the party strike. Now, we have the pressure, no TSRTC em the demands of the TSRTC by the TSRTC counsel. CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC sources said. Renovation of 13th century temple to begin soon Crack in neck after head The temple in Shivamogga district, built during the Hoysala rule, has developed cracks and seepage massage can prove costly Staff Reporter on the roof of the building temple shortly to prepare an Shivamogga had weakened the concrete estimate of the costs for re Afshan Yasmeen vision. Managing to reach cause of cerebral stroke in Work on renovation of the plastering at many places. novation. Work is expected Bengaluru home, he realised he had dif young men, who have no lif historical 13th century to commence by the first A haircut with a complimen ficulty in speaking too. For estyle disorders such as dia Lakshmi Narasimha temple Wiring to be replaced week of December, he said. tary head and neck massage tunately for him, his family betes and hypertension. I in Bhadravati of Shivamogga The weeds would be re at an introductory price in a members rushed him to a have seen at least three such district that developed leaks moved and replastering Landscaping too new salon opened near his private hospital in Bomma cases in the last one year,” after the recent rains will would be done to stop the Meanwhile, devotees have house in HSR Layout in Kar sandra, where doctors diag said Dr. Huded, who is part commence soon. leakage. The concrete floor demanded landscaping and nataka was an offer that 38 nosed it to be a stroke. of the Bangalore Stroke Sup The temple, built during ing on the platform, also a garden at the entrance to yearold Ram Mohan Das Vikram Huded, Head of port Group. Several neurolo the Hoysala rule in the early called jagati, used by the de the temple. Nagaraj, a devo (name changed) could not Neurology at Narayana gists said there was a need 13th century, is a ‘trikuta’ — a votees as pradakshinapatha, tee and resident of Haladam resist. But the 30minute Health, said the sudden for further studies. temple with three shrines — has also developed cracks at manakeri in Bhadravati, said session proved too costly for turning of the head and the “Such head massages dedicated to deities Lakshmi several spots. The floor will the temple attracted a large the private company em crack had resulted in dissec ending with a sudden crack Narasimha, Venugopalaswa be relaid. As part of the the number of devotees on Vai ployee. tion of the major artery sup in the neck by untrained the my, and Purushothama. In need of attention: The Lakshmi Narasimha temple at renovation plan, the electric kuntha Ekadashi and during The therapist gave him a plying blood to the brain. rapists should be avoided. Rainwater seeped through Bhadravati in Karnataka’s Shivamogga district. * VAIDYA ity wiring in the entire build the month of Karthika. By neck massage and turned his Dissection occurs when a Timely diagnosis and the the terrace and into the ing would be replaced and taking up landscaping works head suddenly on both sides tear in the artery wall allows fact that the patient did not chinks of the pillars of the Shejeshwara R., Assistant and Heritage, told The Hindu upgraded, he said. and illuminating the temple, till a crack was heard. As he blood to leak between the have any other comorbidi portico and the main hall, or Director of the Department that the roots of the plants A team of engineers from it could be developed into a walked back home, he felt layers and separate them. ties helped in recovery,” said the navaranga. of Archaeology, Museums and weeds that had grown the department will visit the tourist destination, he said. uneasy with blurring of his “This is an important the doctor.

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‘Number of those 65 million respectively. affected may be Current climate studies say that climate change has underestimated’ caused global mean sea level to rise by 1116 cm in the 20th Chidambaram suffers from Jacob Koshy century and is expected to Crohn’s disease: sources New Delhi NEW DELHI by as much as 2 m by the end Senior Congress leader and The number of Indians who of this century. Other than former Union Finance stand to be affected by rising India, the flood risk has also Minister P. Chidambaram, sea levels may have been un been underestimated for who is currently in derestimated by as much as China at 93 million, as op Enforcement Directorate 88%, according to a study posed to the current esti custody in the INX Media that uses a new modelling mates of 29 million; Bangla money laundering case, has approach. desh at 42 million vs 5 been suffering from the In India, 36 million people million; Vietnam 31 million chronic Crohn’s disease and would face annual flooding vs 9 million; Indonesia 23 needs immediate specialised by 2050 and 44 million by million vs 5 million; Thailand treatment at a super 2100 if emissions continue to 12 million vs 1 million. speciality hospital, sources rise unabated. Nearly 21 mil now rely on detailed maps of of land surfaces and fre mate Centre, an indepen “These assessments show Temperature Data: IMD, Pollution Data: CPCB, Map: INSAT/IMD (Taken at 18.00 Hrs) close to him said. PTI lion — and not 2.8 million — the globe taken by the Shut quently miss. CoastalDEM, dent organisation of scien the potential of climate Forecast for Wednesday: Heavy to very heavy rainfall very likely are expected to be living be tle Radar Topography Mis they claim, is more accurate tists and journalists working change to reshape cities, at isolated places over Lakshadweep, Tamil Nadu, Puducherry & N od for grant for low the High Tide Line, the sion (SRTM), which was a ra and “reduces linear vertical on climate change. economies, coastlines, and Karaikal, Kerala & Mahe, Coastal Andhra Pradesh & Yanam, Tel AgriGold victims boundary that marks the far dar mapping system that bias from 4.71 m to less than entire global regions within angana and Coastal & South Interior Karnataka GUNTUR thest to which the sea reach travelled aboard the space 0.06 m”. Below tide lines our lifetimes,” said Dr. Kulp city rain max min city rain max min Andhra Pradesh Home es into the land at high tide. shuttle Endeavour in 2000. It does so because it uses Their analysis suggests that in a statement. Agartala...... —....32.0....22.2 Kozhikode...... —....33.2....24.6 Minister M. Sucharita has said Ahmedabad...... 0.3....33.2....24.5 Kurnool ...... —....33.2....23.6 the State government gave The study, which appears The maps so prepared more variables — vegetation globally nearly 110 million “As the tideline rises high Aizawl...... —....24.2...... — Lucknow...... —....30.5....19.1 on Thursday in the peer re form the basis for determin cover, population indices — people live on land below er than the ground people Allahabad...... —....32.2....20.4 Madurai...... 0.8....31.2....23.6 its nod for release of ₹2,263 Bengaluru ...... 0.5....25.3....19.4 Mangaluru ...... —....33.4....23.5 crore to help the AgriGold viewed scientific journal Na- ing the elevation of the to estimate the actual land the current high tide lines call home, nations will in Bhopal ...... —....29.3....20.4 Mumbai ...... —....34.5....24.8 victims who had deposits ture Communications, em earth’s topography. surface and more sophisti and 250 million on land be creasingly confront ques Bhubaneswar...... —....31.7....22.0 Mysuru ...... —....26.9....19.8 ploys a new software called However, say the authors cated modelling techniques, low annual flood levels, in tions about whether, how Chandigarh ...... —....30.3....16.8 New Delhi ...... —....28.8....18.4 below ₹20,000 each. At a Chennai ...... 21.8....33.0....25.0 Patna ...... —....29.4....20.2 meeting held at the YSRCP CoastalDEM. Estimates on of the study, this approach claim the authors Scott Kulp contrast with SRTMbased much, and how long coastal Coimbatore ...... —....29.3....22.5 Port Blair...... —....32.2....26.3 central office at Tadepalli, the the risks posed by flooding overestimates the elevation & Benjamin Strauss, of Cli estimates of 28 million and defences can protect them.” Dehradun...... —....26.9....16.7 Puducherry ...... 16....30.6....23.4 Minister said that by the Gangtok...... —....19.9....11.5 Pune...... —....31.4....21.4 Goa...... —....33.5....23.5 Raipur ...... —....31.8....23.6 decision, 65% of the Guwahati ...... —....30.2....22.8 Ranchi...... —....28.2....16.6 depositors would be Hubballi...... —....29.0....21.0 Shillong...... —....21.7....11.6 benefited. OTPbased Hyderabad ...... —....30.2....22.8 Shimla...... —....18.6....11.7 ‘Court will take victim’s word in rape cases’ Imphal ...... —....28.6....18.1 Srinagar...... —...... —...... — Jaipur ...... —....32.4....19.0 Thiruvananthapuram...... 3.4....31.4....23.8 M .P. Cong. MLA offers refund system Kochi ...... —....32.0....25.0 Tiruchi...... 16.1....31.1....22.6 ‘If the woman says she didn’t consent to intercourse, court will presume she did not’ Kohima ...... —....24.2...... — Vijayawada ...... 2....33.6....25.4 job to Kafeel Khan for train tickets Kolkata ...... —....31.1....21.3 Visakhapatnam ...... 2.3....32.8....26.2 BHOPAL (Rainfall data in mm; temperature in Celsius) A Congress MLA on Tuesday Krishnadas Rajagopal man who accused her em coercion. The apex court NEW DELHI Special correspondent Pollutants in the air you are breathing Yesterday said he and his senior ployer of repeatedly raping said the HC seemed to have CITIES SO2 NO2 CO PM2.5 PM10 CODE NEW DELHI colleague Digvijaya Singh * Rape is presumed if occur her and taking inappropriate gotten “carried away” by the Ahmedabad...... — .75 .14 ... 84 ...99 .... In observation made at have offered a job on behalf rence of sexual intercourse is pictures for the purpose of settlement, which itself To make the refund pro Bengaluru ...... 12 .33 .87 .....— .107 ....* 4.00 p.m., Ghaziabad, of the Madhya Pradesh unit of Chennai ...... 17 .31 .55 ... 98 .....— ....* Uttar Pradesh, recorded proved and the woman blackmail. He had allegedly needed to be investigated. cess for tickets booked Delhi ...... 24 161 106 . 458 .449 ....* an overall air quality the party to Dr. Kafeel Khan * index (AQI) score of 446, claims the act was commit even gone to the extent of “When it is the allegation through agents transpa Hyderabad ...... 07 .38 .40 . 134 .....— .... indicating a severe level who was arrested after the ted without her consent, the calling her betrothed and of the appellant [woman], rent, IRCTC on Tuesday an Kolkata...... 23 .52 .14 . 256 .215 ....* of pollution. In contrast, death of over 60 children in a Lucknow...... 07 .21 .26 . 370 .....— ....* Pithampur, Madhya Supreme Court has held. sending him some of the pic that such document itself is nounced a new system Mumbai ...... 24 .15 .17 . 161 .105 ....* Pradesh, recorded a hospital in Uttar Pradesh’s healthy AQI score of 26 “Section 114A of the In The SC said the Gujarat High tures. She finally lodged a obtained under threat and wherein passengers will re Pune...... 101 .11 .95 ... 58 ...51 ....* Gorakhpur in 2017. Speaking dian Evidence Act, 1872 Court had committed an error. complaint and a case of rape coercion, it is a matter to be ceive refund for cancelled Visakhapatnam .28 .26 .41 ... 59 ...54 ....* to reporters here, Congress deals with the presumption was filed against him. investigated,” the court said. tickets via a onetime pass Air Quality Code: * Poor * Moderate * Good (Readings indicate average AQI) MLA Arif Masood said, “When as to absence of consent in states in her evidence before However, the Gujarat High The phone call to the wo word that will be sent to SO2: Sulphur Dioxide. Short-term exposure can harm the respiratory system, I met him (Dr. Khan) I felt making breathing difficult. It can affect visibility by reacting with other air certain prosecution for rape. the court that she did not Court quashed the case on man’s betrothed should also their mobile numbers. sorry for him. I had a talk with particles to form haze and stain culturally important objects such as statues and monuments. Digvijayaji on the issue. I and A reading of the Section consent, the court shall pres the ground that the parties be probed. It said the High The onetime password makes it clear that where ume that she did not con had reached a “settlement” Court had committed an er will be sent to the passen NO2: Nitrogen Dioxide. Aggravates respiratory illness, causes haze to form by Digvijaya Singhji have offered reacting with other air particles, causes acid rain, pollutes coastal waters. him a job.” “If the U.P. sexual intercourse by the ac sent,” a threejudge Bench of over a large sum of money. ror in quashing the trial ger’s mobile number pro CO: Carbon monoxide. High concentration in air reduces oxygen supply to government is not giving him cused is proved and the Justices U.U. Lalit, Indu Mal The woman subsequently court proceedings. The vided to the agent at the critical organs like the heart and brain. At very high levels, it can cause question is whether it was hotra and R. Subhash Reddy appealed to the Supreme court, without commenting time of ticket booking. The dizziness, confusion, unconsciousness and even death. justice, then the MP PM2.5 & PM10: Particulate matter pollution can cause irritation of the eyes, government is ready to take without the consent of the observed in a recent Court saying the “settle on the merits of the case, or traveller will have to share nose and throat, coughing, chest tightness and shortness of breath, reduced in such a good child woman alleged to have been judgment. ment” was a document dered the accused to coop the OTP with the agent for lung function, irregular heartbeat, asthma attacks, heart attacks and premature death in people with heart or lung disease specialist,” he said. PTI raped, and such woman The case involved a wo drawn under threat and erate with the investigation. getting the refund. Shamed for her Three policemen injured in Goodwin fraud: looks, woman lookout notice ends life attack by Varanasi villagers against owners 29 persons have been detained: police Press Trust of India Staff Reporter Kota Special Correspondent Mumbai A 21yearold woman, who LUCKNOW Man dies in The Thane police on Tues was married just six Three policemen, including day issued lookout circu months ago, allegedly com a station house officer police custody lars against the owners and mitted suicide in Rajas (SHO), were injured in an at the manager of Goodwin than’s Jhalawar district af tack by some villagers in Va Press Trust of India Group, who were booked ter being repeatedly ranasi’s Rohaniya area, the Amethi for alleged fraud last week. taunted by her husband ov police said on Tuesday. A man detained in On Saturday, the Dom er her “dark complexion”, SHO Rohaniya, with a connection with a case of bivali police booked the the police said on Tuesday. team, went to Harsons vil loot died in police custody three people after 35 cus Mangibai jumped into a lage in Jansa after a crime after allegedly consuming tomers of the jewellery well outside her house in branch team of the Jaunpur poison, officials said on store chain approached Banskhoyara village on police that arrived to appre Tuesday. However, family them alleging that the ac Monday, station house of hend two suspects in a loot members alleged that he cused had fled with the ficer Balveer Singh said. case were held hostage by was tortured by the police money they had invested Mangibai’s husband, Di the villagers and reportedly and killed in custody. in fixed deposit or savings nesh Lodha, has been thrashed. The mob attacked Satya Prakash Shukla, schemes. Senior police in booked under Section 306 the SHO and his team too. A 50, and his sons were spector S.P. Aaher said by (abetment of suicide) of the video of the attack, showing detained by the police on Tuesday, the number of IPC. a mob thrashing and slap Monday in connection with complainants had gone up Her father, Devlal, told ping the police officer , was a loot of ₹26 lakh from a to 69. The amount alleged the police that she got mar widely shared on social bank employee. ly swindled by the accused ried in April but her hus media. DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD is estimated at ₹3.87 crore. band used to humiliate her The villagers also at “We have issued lookout over her “dark complex tacked the policemen with be identified and action will circulars against A.M Sud ion”, the officer said citing stones and bricks, the police be taken against them.” The heer Kumar, the fulltime the FIR registered. said. police are investigating if director in Goodwin (Assistance to overcome SSP Varanasi Sureshrao the mob snatched any pol Group, A.M Sunil Kumar, suicidal thoughts is availa- A. Kulkarni said the two in ice weapons during the as managing director, and ble at Sanjivini: Society for jured constables were ad sault. Twentynine persons store manager Manish Kun Mental Health, Telephone: mitted to hospital. “Those have so far been detained in di. The case has been 011-4076 9002) involved in the incident will connection with the attack. transferred to the EOW.” Make My Trip, Oyo face antitrust probe Regulator finds prima facie violations of competition law, including by Goibibo

Special Correspondent chising services for budget tion 4 of the Act (relating to Mumbai hotels in India’. abuse of dominant position). The Competition Commis The competition watch “Thus, whether the com sion of India (CCI) has or dog observed that MMTGo mercial agreement between dered a detailed investiga prima facie appeared to be a OYO and MMT entails prefe tion into online travel dominant player in the rele rential treatment to OYO and booking companies Make My vant market. However, in the consequent exclusion of Trip and Goibibo and hospi case of OYO it noted, “Prima Treebo, Fab hotel and any tality provider OYO based on facie OYO is not found to other hotel chain and if so, complaints by members of hold a dominant position, the effect of the same on the Federation of Hotel and despite being a significant competition merits investi Restaurant Associations of player in the ‘market for gation,” the CCI said. India (FHRAI) alleging deep The FHRAI has alleged franchising services for bud “Further, the charging of discounting, payment issues cheating by OYO and the get hotels in India’”. service fee by MMT is alleged and cheating by these firms. other firms. to be discriminatory as such In an order dated October ‘Abuse of dominance’ fee is levied on certain hotels 28, the CCI said following a tions on the basis of the rele In a 26page order, the CCI and allegedly not levied on complaint from the FHRAI, it vant markets. While in the said there was a primafacie highend of chain hotels. had examined various as case of Make My Trip and case to investigate MMTGo Since MMT is prima facie pects of the three compa Goibibo (referred to as MMT and OYO for alleged violation found to be dominant, this nies’ businesses and con Go), it looked at the ‘market of the provisions of Section conduct of MMT merits in cluded that prima facie there for online intermediation 3(4) of the Competition Act — vestigation,” the watchdog were violations of competi services for booking of ho pertaining to anticompeti said, setting a 150day time tion law. tels in India’, for OYO it re tive pacts — as also grounds frame for its director general CCI assessed the allega viewed the ‘market for fran to probe MMTGo under Sec to submit a report. CM YK EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

DELHI THE HINDU 10 EDITORIAL WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2019 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Piecing together the Maharashtra mandate Missteps by the ruling alliance rejuvenated a moribund Opposition; a maze of social identities are now resurgent running a lacklustre campaign mine the direction of politics in from the top order in order to de despite having forged an alliance. the State. feat the Sena. The Enforcement Directorate’s It is the Shiv Sena which has Furthermore, there were also Brotherhood unbound notice to NCP’s party chief, Sharad emerged the real beneﬁciary of barely perceptible ominous signs Sena’s brinkmanship in talks with BJP is Pawar, was an act that actually these elections. Despite being a for the BJP. The party had long cul helped the party gain a second partner, albeit a junior one, in the tivated leaders from OBC back unlikely to fetch it dividends in Maharashtra A bhay Datar wind rather than putting the Op State government, the party found grounds in order to rise against a he protracted bargaining for power sharing bet position on the backfoot. The sight itself out manoeuvred by the BJP Marathadominated Congress and of Mr. Pawar, a septuagenarian on all counts. In their political al NCP. Indeed, it seemed that the ween two prepoll allies, the BJP and the Shiv Se he Legislative Assembly elec leader energetically campaigning liance, it lost the senior position to BJP was building a social alliance Tna, is holding up government formation in Maha tions in Maharashtra this across the State might not have at the BJP. The Sena had to perforce of nonMaratha communities, al rashtra, despite their victory in the Assembly election. Tyear took place in the sha tracted many voters but certainly contest a much lesser number of beit with a sprinkling of leaders The irony is starker when compared to Haryana where dow of the Lok Sabha election bolstered the morale of party seats this time than what had been from the Maratha community. The a new government has been in place, though the State held less than six months ago. The workers. Mr. Pawar also ensured customary. Yet, it managed to mar decision to make Mr. Fadnavis, elected a hung Assembly. The BJP could easily cobble alliance of the Bharatiya Janata that the alliance with the Congress ginally improve its tally, thus giv who is a Brahmin, one which has up a postpoll alliance in Haryana with regional outﬁt Party (BJP) and the Shiv Sena worked smoothly. The NCP also ing it much needed breathing never really been central to recent swept the Lok Sabha election, gained from the departure of ma space and bargaining power vis-à- electoral politics in the S tate, was

the JJP, but is unable to reach an agreement with the Se GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCKPHOTO with the Indian National Congress ny a powerful dynast from within vis the BJP. regarded as part of this strategy. na, its oldest ally. The BJP and the Sena are closely being practically decimated and its ranks. At some places, the party leader, Prakash Ambedkar, and The nearresolution of the Ma aligned ideologically too, as the latter champions Hin the Nationalist Congress Party utilised this space to promote a which inflicted serious damage on Dents for the BJP ratha reservation issue was pres dutva more stridently than the former. However, tran (NCP) barely managing to save its new crop of leaders. Moreover, the the CongressNCP combine in the The BJP was confident of increas umed to have neutralised the Ma sactional politics often trumps ideological affinity as a skin. As late as last month, it ap NCP also introduced newer and Lok Sabha election , contested a ing its seat tally on the basis of ratha opposition to the BJP. Sena leader appeared to suggest in his caustic compari peared as if the results of the Lok younger faces in its electoral cam large number of seats in this elec Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s But the rhetoric of the Opposi son of the situations in the two States. In Haryana, the Sabha election would be repeated paigning which also contributed tion. This renewed accusations popularity and its message of mus tion campaign seems to have con in the Assembly elections. to the party fortunes — it sur that the VBA was merely the “B cular nationalism. Statespecific is centrated on these very points, new Deputy Chief Minister Dushyant Chautala got a re This perception was further passed the Congress to secure the team” of the BJP. Though it drew a sues were talked about sporadical turning them into weaknesses for prieve for his jailed father in exchange for joining hands strengthened by continuing waves third position in terms of seats blank, statistics suggest that it en ly. Welfare schemes which had a the BJP. There appears to have with the BJP, the Sena leader suggested. The BJP could of political defections from the won. sured the defeat of candidates of focus on individual beneficiaries been a reassertion of the political not pressure the Sena that way, he declared, upping the Congress and NCP to the ruling al The Congress too marginally the CongressNCP in at least a do were also not highlighted. The par sentiments of the Maratha com ante. Mr. Chautala retorted sharply, leading to an inter liance — of course engineered by improved its performance, so zen seats. Conversely, the fact that ty could have positioned itself as munity. State sparring between the two BJP allies. Devendra the BJP, and aided by the disarray mething that must have aston the VBA came second in many the best placed to tackle the agrar The Opposition also pointed out Fadnavis has meanwhile declared that he would remain that the Congress found itself in. In ished even its party leaders. There constituencies implies that it has ian crisis which deepened in the that the BJPSena, with its predo Maharashtra Chief Minister for the entire fiveyearte the meantime, the deft handling of was no Statewide vigorous cam developed a strong social base of wake of unseasonal rains during minantly urban leadership, does the Maratha reservation agitation, paign, and only Rahul Gandhi ad its own. It can be convincingly ar the election campaign. Instead it not comprehend issues related to nure of the legislature, shutting the door on the Sena’s the discontent generated by the dressed public meetings at a few gued that in these constituencies choose not to do so. the agricultural sector. There was demand for the top post after two and a half years. Both agrarian crisis as well as other is places. But a closer look suggests the presence of the CongressNCP A multitude of microfactors al also a latent focus on the Chief Mi parties met the Governor separately. sues had created an aura of invin the districtlevel leaders got their candidates actually benefited the so had an impact on the BJP’s for nister’s social background, imply The Sena is possibly upping the ante in an attempt to cible astuteness around the State act together to win their own ruling alliance, and harmed the tunes. If a poor selection of candi ing that he did not have the right drive the best bargain with the BJP, and the brinkman BJP leadership, particularly the seats. These cumulative factors en VBA. dates cost it some seats, backroom social credentials to lead the State. ship is unlikely to lead to a separation between the two. Chief Minister, Devendra Fadna sured that the Congress survived. But more significantly, Mr. Am manoeuvring also had a negative These factors could have led to a After all, the BJP has many allies, but the BJP is the only vis. The ruling alliance began to But numerous challenges still re bedkar’s longstanding argument impact. Reduced victory margins setback for the BJP. speak confidently of winning more main. The defection of numerous that a handful among the elite in a few urban seats, particularly What the results portend for the partner that the Sena could possibly get. The Maharash than 200 of the 289 seats in the dynasts from the party has not led castes have monopolised material in Pune, was an indication that the near future in Maharashtra will de tra theatrics of both parties, however, signifies a wea Maharashtra Assembly. it to look for and cultivate a newer resources and political power in party’s traditional voters are not pend on how the political parties kening of the BJP and a ceiling for the style of the par generation of leaders. It is still de the State to the detriment of Other willing to let themselves be taken tackle the agrarian crisis and the ty’s current leadership. In 2014, the BJP dislodged the Gains for the NCP pendent on old warhorses for its Backward Classes (OBCs) and Da for granted. In many constituen maze of resurgent and assertive Sena as the leader of the alliance in the State, after con However, a series of missteps not politics. lits has been receiving increasing cies, BJP activists rebelled against social identities. testing the Assembly election alone and cornering the only rejuvenated the moribund response. How the four principal the Shiv Sena’s candidates, and as latter into a postpoll partnership. Bolstered by its rising Opposition but also exposed the The Vanchit factor parties deal with it and the man a result, the Opposition won. In A bhay Datar is Assistant Professor, dissidence within the BJP. Initially The Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi ner in which the VBA itself capital deed, there was talk of these BJP Department of Political Science, People’s popularity, the BJP leadership had taken a dismissive the Congress and the NCP were (VBA), knit together by the veteran ises on it in the future will deter rebels being actively supported College, Nanded, Maharashtra attitude towards alliance politics in general and even humiliated several longstanding partners, including the Sena. It has even advertised its refusal to consult other parties — allies and the Opposition alike — on pol The new gold standard in development economics? icy matters as a sign of strong leadership. That principle is on test in Maharashtra. The BJP could win only 105 With RCT becoming a dominant factor, ‘randomistas’ could be changing the social sciences paradigm Assembly seats, compared to 122 in 2014, increasing its ment’ at all or an ‘existing treat crofinance, access to credit, response’ might be influenced if dependence on the Sena. The Sena too won fewer than ment’ other than the treatment behaviour, health care, immunisa the patient and/or the physician its tally five years ago, but has ended up with higher lev under study. tion programmes, and gender in are aware of the treatment given to erage vis-à-vis the big brother. As the haggling goes on, The next task is to allocate the equality. While Prof. Banerjee the patient. However, such kind of what is abundantly clear is that none of the issues at patients among two treatments/in thinks RCTs “are the simplest and ‘blinding’ is almost impossible to stake has anything to do with public interest. terventions at hand. Patients best way of assessing the impact of implement in economic experi A tanu Biswas might prefer some treatment to a program”, Prof. Duflo refers to ments as participants would defi the other. Prior knowledge of the RCTs as the “tool of choice”. nitely know if they get any finan treatments to be applied to them There has been tremendous in cial aid or training. Thus, Deep traps evelopment economics has might induce a ‘selection bias’ due ternational attention on Finland’s randomisation must have a much changed a lot during the to unequal proportions of patients Basic Income experiment (2017 less impact there. Often, econo The onus on closure of abandoned wells Dlast two decades or so, opting out from the study. ‘Rando 18), where 2,000 unemployed mists miss such an important should be on the local body, and not the owner mostly due to the extensive use of misation’ is a procedure used to Finns between ages 2558 were point. ‘randomised control trials’ (RCT). prevent this by allocating patients GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCKPHOTO randomly selected across the However, unless randomisation s with several such incidents in the past, the in ‘Randomistas’ are proponents of using a random mechanism — The early applications of RCTs country, and were paid €560 a is done, most of the standard sta tensive operation in Tamil Nadu to rescue a child RCTs to assess longrun economic neither the patient nor the doctor were mostly within the agricultu month instead of basic unemploy tistical analyses and inference pro Awho slipped into an abandoned borewell in Ma productivity and living standards would know the allocation. ral field. Sir Ronald Fisher himself ment benefits. Results from the cedures become meaningless. Ear napparai, Tiruchi district, ended in spectacular failure. in poor countries. Three rando ‘Control’ and ‘randomisation’ was very reluctant to apply statis first year data didn’t have any sig lier social experiments lacked Hopes for twoyearold Sujith Wilson were brightest in mistas, Abhijit Banerjee, Esther together constitute an RCT. In tics to social sciences, due to their nificant effect on the subjects’ em randomisation and that might be the initial phase, but they faded when the victim sank Duflo and Michael Kremer, were 1995, statisticians Marvin Zelen ‘nonexperimental’ nature. RCT ployment, in comparison with the one reason that statisticians such awarded the 2019 Nobel prize in and LeeJen Wei illustrated a clini got its importance in clinical trials control group comprising indivi as Sir Ronald Fisher were unwill further into the borehole, partly buried under earth. Economics for their RCTbased cal trial to evaluate the hypothesis since the 1960s, so much so that duals who were not selected for ing to employ statistics in social ex The valiant measures of the National Disaster Response studies on poverty worldwide. that the antiretroviral therapy AZT any clinical trials nowadays with the experimental group. Essential periments. Thus, “RCT or no RCT” Force (NDRF) personnel along with their State counter reduces the risk of maternaltoin out RCT were being considered al ly this was also an RCT. may not be just a policy decision parts and the slim hope for a happy ending of the kind An evolution fant HIV transmission. A standard most useless. Critics of RCTs in economic ex to economics; it is the question of witnessed in Kurukshetra 13 years ago kept spirits up The concept of RCT is quite old; in randomisation scheme was used periments think that in order to shifting the paradigm. The “tool” for some time, but the end was a tragedy. Unfortunate stances of RCTs can be traced back resulting in 238 pregnant women Marking a change conduct RCTs, the broader pro comes with lot of implicit baggage. ly, the truth is that no breakthrough method has in the 16th century. However, the receiving AZT and 238 receiving Social scientists slowly found RCT blem is being sliced into smaller With randomisation dominating statistical foundation of RCT was standard therapy (placebo). It is to be interesting, doable, and ef ones, and any dilution of the scien development economics, implicit emerged, whether in terms of technology or protocols, developed by British statistician observed that 60 newborns were fective. But, in the process, the na tific method leaves the conclu ly, economic experiments are be when it comes to rescuing small children who have fal Sir Ronald Fisher, about 100 years HIVpositive in the placebogroup ture of social science slowly con sions questionable. Economists coming more and more statistical. len into deep holes that are less than a foot wide. The ago, mostly in the context of de and 20 newborns were HIVposi verted from ‘nonexperimental’ to such as Martin Ravallion, Dani Ro This is one philosophical aspect disaster that befell the Tamil Nadu farmer’s family last sign of experiments. tive in the AZTgroup. Thus, the ‘experimental’. Numerous inter drik, William Easterly, and Angus which economists need to settle. week is no different from the one that took the life of In my experience I have seen failure rate of the placebo was 60/ esting applications of RCTs took Deaton are very critical of using Apparently, for the time being, another twoyearold in Punjab’s Sangrur district ear the proportion of events by the 238, whereas that of AZT was only place in social policymaking dur RCTs in economic experiments. many would concur with Harvard lier this year. Worryingly, more such disasters are same treatment varying between 20/238, indicating that AZT was ing the 196090s, and the ‘rando Randomisation in clinical trials economist Lant Pritchett who crit 10% to 35% in different clinical much more effective than the pla mistas’ took control of develop has an additional impetus — it en icises RCTs on a number of counts bound to occur, since there are many disused and unco trials. Is it due to unknown distri cebo. Drawing such an inference, ment economics since the sures that allocation to any partic but still agrees that it “is superior vered well holes scattered in farms in several States. No bution of treatment effects, and/or despite heterogeneity among the mid1990s. About 1,000 RCTs ular treatment remains unknown to other evaluation methods”. The time can be lost in implementing the safety rules relat other external effects such as hos patients, was possible only due to were conducted by Prof. Kremer, to both patient and doctor. Such debate would continue, while the ing to wells issued in the past, to save children at risk. pital care, hospital location, etc? randomisation. Randomisation Prof. Banerjee and Prof. Duflo and kind of ‘blinding’ is central to the randomistas continue to gain mo Tamil Nadu issued, under its Panchayats Act, the Thus, for an unbiased evaluation makes different treatment groups their colleagues in 83 countries philosophy of clinical trials and it mentum at the moment. Regulation of Sinking of Wells and Safety Measures of the treatment, its performance comparable and also helps to esti such as India, Kenya and Indone helps to reduce certain kinds of Rules 2015, incorporating measures ordered by the Su needs to be compared with some mate the error associated in the sia. These were to studyvarious di bias in the trial. It is believed that A tanu Biswas is Professor of Statistics, ‘control’, which maybe ‘no treat inference. mensions of poverty, including mi the ‘outcome’ or the ‘treatment Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata preme Court in 2010. Among the many steps pre scribed for orderly welldigging, there is a provision re quiring the holder of a permit or well to fill up an LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Letters emailed to [email protected] must carry the full postal address and the full name or the name with initials. abandoned hole up to the ground level using clay, sand or boulders (the court also mentions pebbles and drill EU team for Kashmir ■ The decision is not in the “died like a dog” will only ■ The U.S. and other global eliminate the scourge of Borewells as traps cuttings). For meaningful implementation of this provi The Union government’s best interests of the country. give a new push to the powers must not be lulled mindless terrorism. Irresponsible and careless sion, the onus should rest with the local body, and not decision to allow a The government should have Islamic State to refurbish its into a false sense of Meghana A., handling of abandoned or the owner of the borewell who is often a farmer of poor delegation of EU MPs to allowed Indian political puritanical ideology. complacency. The IS may go S hell Cove, NSW, Australia underconstruction tubewell means. Under a normative system, closing an aban visit Srinagar is an leaders to visit Kashmir or According to the survey by all out to carry out a pits is snatching the lives of unwarranted move and one have come to an the Pew Research Center spectacular attack, somehow ■ The U.S. may be taking young children across the doned well would no longer be seen as a wasteful ex that belittles our own understanding with other after 9/11, the number of and somewhere in complete pride in its length and breadth of the penditure by farmers, since they would not be charged Members of Parliament, parties. The unilateral Americans who believe that retaliation. All it takes to operation, but the country. Men and machinery for it, and panchayat personnel would execute the clo Parliament and our decision will only have military force can reduce the achieve that objective is a circumstances that may lead are being used to rescue the sure rather than merely certify that action has been ta democratic values (Page 1, negative impact. risk of terrorism dropped lone terrorist. Terrorism has to the genesis of such victim, with lakhs of rupees ken. Besides avoiding the ghastly human toll, time “Govt. signals shift in stand, Kamil S.V., sharply from 42% to 32%. to be eliminated in all its monsters have not been being spent; in most cases bound capping of open wells will eliminate the inten allows EU MPs to visit A ndroth, Lakshadweep The IS is a hydraheaded forms and manifestations if obliterated yet. By sidelining the efforts fail to bear results. sive, highcost rescues that the NDRF has to attempt; Srinagar”, October 29). monster. It is unlikely that the world is to be made a the Syrian Kurds and It is disheartening that Other Indians are still ■ It is a good decision and the death of a single leader safer place. However, one withdrawing U.S. troops people are not learning any the agency deployed its teams no less than 37 times un deprived of information one hopes that the foreign will diminish the basic may take exception to the from the conflict zones, the lessons from the past til 2018, mostly in Maharashtra, but also in Rajasthan, about their fellow citizens MPs do not have the “version ideology of the terror simile President Trump has situation on the ground incidents. The authorities Tamil Nadu, Gujarat and Karnataka. Deep borewell ac in Kashmir as of Modi or Doval”. They organisation which is not used to describe al could deteriorate. It has the need to crack the whip and cidents have also occurred in cities that rely heavily on communication channels should be able to speak to dependent on any particular Baghdadi’s end. potential to trigger another ensure that tubewell groundwater, and as the Supreme Court pointed out, it are still not free. Is this the the people of Kashmir and leader for survival. The U.S. J. Akshobhya, global security threat. The operations are safe. Those should be the task of the municipal and public health same Central government have the freedom to make should not commit the M ysuru U.S. and the other global who endanger human lives authorities to eliminate the lurking danger. In the that promised transparency their own assessments. strategic blunder of powers cannot abjure from must be penalised heavily. to the people of the T. Anwar, withdrawing its forces from ■ Ideally, the IS chief should their moral duty to end what There have to be awareness court’s view, the District Collector bears responsibility country? How long will the Bengaluru northern Syria as it will only have been captured alive and they started. You cannot campaigns too at regular for enforcement. Now that another life has been lost to people of Jammu and weaken the antiIS fight tried for heinous crimes create a problem and then intervals. neglect, it is time the State governments took safety se Kashmir suffer without Eliminated (Editorial, “Death of a against humanity. The claim adulation for executing Dr. Mohan Mangattussery, riously, came up with a census of well structures in freedom? U.S. President Donald terrorist”, October 29). successful U.S.led raid piecemeal solutions. Kochi need of attention, and capped the problem forever. A. Jainulabdeen, Trump’s contemptuous Kangayam R. Narasimhan, points to the need for the big Y. Meena, more letters online: Chennai remark that alBaghdadi Chennai powers to join forces to Hyderabad www.hindu.com/opinion/letters/

THE HINDU DELHI WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 2019 OPED 11 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Legal pluralism in personal law Science versus myths Uniformity in civil law can only be achieved in a piecemeal manner Today historians have no power before politicians, who are not so much invested in truth as in legend Even BJP governments in different States, including Gujarat, have re 19th century referred to falsehood of polyth duced fines under the amended Mo eism, paganism, and idolatry, as opposed to tor Vehicles Act despite the Centre the ‘truth’ of monotheism. But today it refers justifying the hefty fines. This proves to the cultural truth of a people. The Sanskrit the futility of one nation, one law. word ‘nyaya’, which 2,000 years ago meant F aizan Mustafa Not all Hindus in the country are D evdutt Pattanaik epistemology, refers today to justice in Hin governed by one law. Marriages di. And ‘itihasa’, which in Hindi today refers amongst close relatives is prohibited to history, meant narratives like the Ramaya In Jose Paulo Coutinho v. Maria Lui- by the Hindu Marriage Act of 1955, Rajputs appear in history roughly 1,200 na and Mahabharata where the authors — za Valentina Pereira (2019), the Su but is considered auspicious in the years ago in regions now known as Rajas Valmiki and Vyasa — are part of the story and preme Court has yet again revived south. The Hindu Code Bill recognis than, Delhi, Haryana, the Western Gangetic hence can confidently say, ‘thus indeed it the debate on a uniform civil code es customs of different Hindu com plains and Bundelkhand. For generations happened’ or ‘itihasa’, as opposed to ‘pura- (UCC) and referred to Goa as “a shin munities. Even the Hindu Succession they have skilfully used bards, ballads and na’ which are old chronicled narratives of ing example of an Indian State which Act of 1956 made several compromis epic poetry to turn defeats at the northern gods, kings and sages that authors did not has a uniform civil code applicable to es and could not make daughter a co frontiers of India into moral victories . Ra witness but heard from others. all...”. There are rumours that the go parcener till 2005. Wives are still not puts lost to Ghazni about 1,000 years ago, to GETTY IMAGES/ISTOCKPHOTO vernment may surprise everyone in * coparceners. Even today, property Ghori about 800 years ago, to Khilji about When myths become history the winter session of Parliament by devolves first to Class I heirs and if 700 years ago, to Babur and Akbar about But this meaning is lost to those who prefer introducing a UCC Bill, just as it did Savarkar’s twonation theory; and al the control over property remains there are no Class I heirs, then to 600 years ago. Yet we remember not their myths, legend and sacred lore to scientific by diluting Article 370 on August 5. so overlooked the history of the Hin with the husband. Even the Goa Suc Class II heirs. While heirs of sons are defeat, but their courage; pride; and the im historiography. For them, Ramayana is his But in fact it has been the judiciary, du Right’s resistance to the Hindu cession, Special Notaries and Inven Class I heirs, those of daughters are ages of warriors voluntarily offering their tory as is Prithviraj Raso that tells the story rather than the Bharatiya Janata Par Code Bill. tory Proceeding Act, 2012, enacted not. Even among Class II heirs, prefe heads to the goddess of war, of their brides of Prithviraj Chauhan, who, while defeated ty or the Rashtriya Swayamsevak With reference to the court’s judg by the BJP government in 2016, men rence is given to the male line. If a burning themselves in pyre rather than sur by Mahmood Ghori in battlefield and blind Sangh, that has been relentlessly ment in Jose Paulo Coutinho, it is im tions the surviving spouse only as the couple does not have a child, the pro rendering to the enemy,of their loyal horses. ed in prison, still managed to kill his captor pushing for the enactment of a UCC. portant to understand that the reali fourth preference in Section 52 (or perty of not only the husband but al Legends about courage composed by using his extraordinary archery skills. It does ty of Goa is a little complex. The Goa der of legal succession), after descen so of the wife goes to the husband’s poets, centuries after the events took place, not matter that Prithviraj Raso was com Some earlier cases Civil Code of 1867, which was given dants, ascendants, and brothers of parents. must be textbook material, we are told, not posed 400 years after the event. Or that we In some cases that dealt with the is by the Portuguese, begins in the the deceased. Similarly, there is no uniform ap facts about defeat collated by historians. know this story because James Tod, a cap sue of a UCC, the apex court’s obser name of God and the King of Portu As far as Muslims are concerned, plicability of personal laws among Shouldn’t textbooks be instruments to raise tain in the East India Company, collated the vations have been unnecessary obi gal. Uniformity is not necessarily a the Muslim Personal Law (Shariat) Muslims and Christians. The Consti the next generation of patriots, like hagiogra stories that Rajput kings wanted to tell about ter dicta (such as in Mohd. Ahmed promise for gender justice. On the Application Act of 1937 has not been tution protects the local customs of phies of saints are used to bind sampra- themselves, and presented it as a book, An- Khan v. Shah Bano Begum, 1985). In opposition of Hindus, the Code per extended to Goa. Muslims of Goa are Nagaland, Meghalaya and Mizoram. dayas? Historians disagree, but they have no nals and Antiquities of Rajasthan, highly some others (such as in Sarla Mud- mitted limited polygamy for Hindus governed by Portuguese law as well In fact, let’s leave aside discrimi power before politicians, who need to bind criticised even in the 19th century, that prac gal v. Union of India, 1995, in which on certain conditions, including “ab as Shastric Hindu law. natory personal laws; even land laws people with a single narrative, and so are not tically ‘invented’ the Rajput we know today. four Hindu men converted to Islam solute absence of male issue, the pre The majority in Shayara Bano v. enacted after 1950 in a number of so much invested in truth as in legend (in Today anything that does not correlate to to take second wives), the court’s ob vious wife having completed 30 Union of India (2017) did hold free States are gender unjust. These laws spiring memories, indifferent to facts) and Prithviraj Raso is seen as falsehood. Any ar servations have been reflective of years of age, and being of lower age, dom of religion subject to restric have been exempted from judicial myth (cultural truth that gives meaning to gument might get the Karni Sena, which be flawed and problematic judicial rea ten years having elapsed from the tions under Articles 25 and 26 of the scrutiny and have been included in the world and life, indifferent to facts). came infamous during the Padmavat contro soning. Instead of condemning the last pregnancy”. Constitution as absolute. Even the the Ninth Schedule. versy, at your doorstep. No textbook informs men in Sarla Mudgal, the court de The Code gives certain conces right to follow personal law had been No blueprint of a UCC has been Controlling the discourse of a people us how there are many conflicting stories monised Muslims by saying, “Those sions to Catholics as well. Catholics elevated to the highest status of fun prepared yet. No expert committees, History as a subject based on scientific prin about Prithviraj Chauhan not just in the Is who preferred to remain in India af need not register their marriages and damental right. UCC is only one of like the Hindu Law Committee of ciples of measurement and evidence is bare lamicPersian narratives, which is under ter the partition, fully knew that the Catholic priests can dissolve marriag the directive principles. The Su 1941, has been constituted so far. Sev ly 150 years old. In a short span it has be standable, but also in other Rajput and Jain Indian leaders did not believe in two es performed in church. Church tri preme Court rightly held in Minerva eral provisions of codified Hindu law come a serious force among people who legends. For example, how many of us know nation theory or threenation theory bunals are similar to the socalled Mills Ltd. v. Union Of India (1980) such as solemnisation of marriage, wish to control the discourse of a people. At about Bela, his daughter, who wanted to and that in the Indian Republic there Sharia courts and dissolution by that “to destroy the guarantees given satpati, kanyadaan, the sacramental first, this was the priest with his access to marry Brahma, prince of Mahoba, who was to be only one Nation — Indian them is mechanically approved by by Part III [fundamental rights] in or nature of marriage, income tax bene transcendental, mystical and occult realms; Prithviraj Chauhan did not approve of? The nation — and no community could the High Court. Why the court did der purportedly to achieve the goals fits for the Hindu joint family, and ab then it was the king with his access to mili story comes from the great epic Alha, popu claim to remain a separate entity on not, as a first step towards a UCC in of Part IV [directive principles] is solute testamentary powers may not tary, and later democratic, power; then the lar even today in Bundelkhand, where Jaya the basis of religion” (sic). It also stat Goa, recommend the adoption of a plainly to subvert the Constitution by find a place in the UCC. Provisions merchant, the entrepreneur, and the tech chand is the king of Kannauj, and hardly the ed there “there is an open induce reformed Hindu Code Bill in prefe destroying its basic structure.” like dower (payment by husband) or nocrat with control over economic power; ‘traitor’ that Hindutva history insists he is. ment to a Hindu husband, who rence to the Portuguese Civil Code is nikahnama (prenuptial contract) are and then the peasant and the worker, who Alha speaks of how Rajputs fought amongst wants to enter into second marriage not clear. Futility of one nation, one law to be incorporated in the UCC. Will had the numbers to replace regimes. Now it each other, how caste played a major role, while the first marriage is subsisting, The provision of matrimonial pro Since personal laws are in the Con Hindus accept these changes? is the scientist — the historian, the econo overshadowing merit. It does not paint a flat to become a Muslim”. In this judg perties being jointly held and equally current List, they may differ from Last year, the Law Commission mist, the sociologist, the anthropologist — tering picture of Prithviraj Chauhan, as fath ment, the court completely negated divided between spouses on divorce State to State. The framers of the had concluded that a UCC is neither who uses measurement to present truths er or leader, and perhaps explains how Raj the idea of legal pluralism; over exists under the 1867 Code. However, Constitution did not intend total un desirable nor feasible. Indeed, it is that are objective and ontological (indepen put infighting made India vulnerable to looked the fact that while all Con through prenuptial contracts, par iformity or one law for the whole best to enact a UCC in a piecemeal dent of the human mind) rather than epis foreign invasion. But historians and poets gress leaders including Jawaharlal ties may opt out of this joint owner country. States have made more than manner. temic (shaped by the human mind). Natural who say such things will be silenced. For a Nehru, Sardar Patel and Mahatma ship of properties. In many marriag a hundred amendments to the Code ly, priests, politicians and technocrats hate king now decides what our past should be. Gandhi voted for Pakistan, Maulana es, wouldbe wives are forced to sign of Criminal Procedure and the Indian F aizan Mustafa is Vice-Chancellor, NALSAR scientists; they yearn for the poets of yore. Abul Kalam Azad stood his ground on dotted lines. Thus, even where Penal Code. The law of anticipatory University of Law, Hyderabad. Views A history of language reveals how mean D evdutt Pattanaik writes and lectures on mythology in and voted against it; overlooked V.D. such joint ownership of assets exists, bail differs from one State to another. expressed are personal ings shift over time. The word ‘myth’ in the modern times

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Michael Kugelman liation path that, if successively seen Dangerous sweetness through, would produce a political Less than two months after U.S. Pre settlement that features a power In long and verse sweetness has through the sident Donald Trump abruptly called sharing arrangement with the Tali ages been equated with goodness but some off talks with the Taliban, Washing ban. That’s not a preferred endgame hardhearted research scientists have now ton is laying the ground to resume for India. If talks fail, an intensifying found that one of the sweetest substances in them. That this is happening before war means that Afghanistan would existence, the cyclamate, spells danger for Afghanistan has a new government — suffer rapid destabilisation, thereby the consumer. Cyclamates are hydrocarbon the results of its September 28 elec constraining India’s ability to operate compounds 30 times sweeter than sugar tion are yet to be announced — un in Afghanistan, a key strategic partn and since they are also nonfattening are be derscores the administration’s haste. er. Meanwhile, for Pakistan, a re ing widely used as artificial sweeteners in U.S. officials are escalating battle sumption of talks that produces a set the preparation of lowcalorie beverages, field pressure on the Taliban. This is tlement, resulting in its Taliban ally confectionery, canned fruits and fruit juices. part of a likely effort to soften up the occupying a political role, would In fact, in today’s world of increasing calo insurgents and get them to return to work just fine. If Afghanistan falls in rieconsciousness, the manufacture of die the negotiating table and make con to chaos, this would serve Islama tary foods has become a billiondollar (Rs. cessions (read: ceasefire) that they re bad’s interests as well because the Ta 750 crores) a year industry. Saccharine is fused to make the last time around. liban would grow even stronger — said to be 400 times sweeter than sugar but Meanwhile, the U.S. special repre and possibly seize power by force. since it leaves a bitter aftertaste, makers of sentative for Afghanistan reconcilia Even before Mr. Trump called off dietary foods and beverages have gone in for tion, Zalmay Khalilzad, has resumed talks, Islamabad had an upper hand cyclamates. The United States is the biggest his shuttle diplomacy. In recent days, over New Delhi in Afghanistan. Pakis user of cyclamates, 10,000 tons a year. he’s held meetings on reconciliation tan was an instrumental facilitator of with EU and NATO leaders. He also a U.S.Taliban negotiation meant to CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC made a trip to Islamabad, which re lead to an eventual outcome — a Tali D ATA POINT portedly included a meeting with a ban powersharing deal — that would A HUNDRED YEARS AGO OCTOBER 30, 1919 Taliban delegation. have served Islamabad’s interests. In At the same time, Mr. Trump conti dia, meanwhile, was left on the out Corporal Punishment. nues to telegraph his desire to pull side looking in, while Kabul, its key troops from Afghanistan. Witness his partner, was excluded from the talks. The following is the full text of the order recent decision to remove U.S. forces In fact, New Delhi’s dilution of Article passed by the Police Magistrate, Colombo, in from Syria and his grumbling about 370 may have been, at least in part, the cases in which Mr. H.D. Jayasuriya “endless wars”. With the 2020 U.S. an effort to push back against Islama charged Miss. M.A.S. Choate Principal of the presidential election fast approach bad’s upper hand in Afghanistan. Methodist girls School, Colpetty, with volun ing, a politically embattled Trump tarily causing hurt to his daughter by giving wants to be able to tell his base that Difficult decisions her twenty cuts with a cane on the 30th ulti he’s bringing troops home. In the coming months, New Delhi mo: — In this case it is admitted that the ac The U.S.’s policy in Afghanistan is could have some difficult decisions to cused, Miss Choate, Principal of the Colpetty to resume talks with the Taliban and make. If the situation continues to Methodist Girls’ College, gave Irene Jayasuri reach a troop withdrawal deal before deteriorate, with no end to the war in ya a public caning on the 30th ultimo, giving Mr. Trump decides to initiate a unilat sight, India will need to figure out her 20 cuts with a cane on her thighs... Irene eral withdrawal — that is, a removal how to secure its interests in a coun Jayasuriya is eleven years old and appears to of troops with no deal or ceasefire. try where it has a significant foot me to be rather a frail child. Miss Choate says This won’t be easy. The Taliban, print. If talks resume, it will need to she was justified in giving Irene the caning unlike the U.S., has the luxury of be decide how or if it should try to play a she did, as the offence she committed was, ing in no rush to reach a deal. It has role in them. Finally, if there is a re in her opinion, a very serious one indeed little incentive to accede to Washing conciliation process and the trend viz., corrupting the other young girls in the ton’s likely demand of agreeing to a lines point towards a settlement re school by telling them ugly things about her ceasefire before a troop withdrawal sulting in a Taliban powersharing form teacher, Miss. Herft. In support of her accord is signed, especially because role, New Delhi will need to weigh contention she has produced the documents doing so would deprive the Taliban whether it’s worth trying to engage B,C, D and E which purport to contain state of violence which serves as a power with its bitter rival’s powerful asset. ments made to her by other girls in the ful tool of leverage. These are tough questions. But then school of what Irene had been telling them. again, when it comes to policy in Af These documents are inadmissible in evi In a tough spot ghanistan, nothing is easy. dence for the purpose of proving such state For India, the implications of the ments as the girls who wrote them have not U.S.’s current policy in Afghanistan Michael Kugelman is Deputy Director and been called as witness. Had they been called are stark: It puts India in a tough spot Senior Associate for South Asia with the Asia the crossexamination might have elicited and Pakistan in a good place. If U.S. Program at the Woodrow Wilson the fact that they were obtained under com talks with the Taliban resume, this International Centre for Scholars, pulsion or pressure by a School Principal puts Afghanistan back on a reconci Washington, DC from her pupils.

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