FREE PRESS 10 NATION INDORE | SATURDAY | FEBRUARY 10, 2018 UP minister receives death threat on phone, FIR lodged No death of shiksha mitras AGENCIES di Party legislator Vijay Police Aakash Kulhari said joined the BJP prior to the Mishra. the matter was serious. He 2017 Assembly polls after a He then asked his lawyer said the police were looking brief stint in the Congress. Minister to file an FIR. for a Rajat Kesharwani. He survived a murderous Nand Gopal Gupta Nandi Details of the call and the Nandi, who was earlier assault in 2015 when bombs on Friday alleged that he phone number from which with the Bahujan Samaj were lobbed at him, leaving during protests: UP govt received a death threat on the call was made have Party (BSP) and was a min- him critically wounded. his mobile phone, after been shared with the police, ister in the Mayawati gov- His wife is the Allahabad which police in Allahabad an aide told IANS. ernment between 2007-12, Mayor. AGENCIES tive Council Chairman lost their lives while partic- sha mitras’ in recruitment lodged an FIR. Following the FIR, the po- Lucknow Ramesh Yadav to verify a ipating in protests and agi- examination of teachers.” Nandi, the Minister for lice raided the house of a list of 104 ‘shiksha mitras’ tations. The leg- Stamp and Registration, man who owns an automo- The Uttar Pradesh govern- who had allegedly died dur- In reply, Basic Education islator, on a supplementary said he received the threat bile agency. The man, how- ment informed the Legisla- ing protests, and take ap- Minister Anupama Jaiswal question, said he had infor- on Thursday from someone ever, is on the run, an offi- tive Council on Friday that propriate action. said, “As per the informa- mation that 104 ‘shiksha claiming to be speaking on cial added. there had been no death of The list was presented by tion provided by the district mitras’ or teaching assis- behalf of former Samajwa- Senior Superintendent of ‘shiksha mitras’ or teach- Samajwadi Party legislator basic education officers, no tants for primary classes in ing assistants during their Anand Bhadauria. ‘shiksha mitra’ had died government schools had protests over various de- Raising the issue during while participating in the died during the protests mands. Question Hour, Bhadauria protests. The government and asked if the govern- The government was, asked the government how has given age relaxation ment would confirm the list however, asked by Legisla- many ‘shiksha mitras’ had and weightage to the ‘shik- and give compensation. Muzaffarnagar authorities against withdrawal of riots cases AGENCIES sponse to two letters from the Uttar against UP minister , Muzaffarnagar Pradesh Department of Justice, former Union minister Sanjiv have advocated against the with- Balyan, MP Bhartendu Singh, MLA District authorities are not in favour drawal of 10 such cases as the court Umesh Malik and BJP leader Sadhvi of withdrawal of the cases, mostly has already taken cognisance Prachi. In the two letters to the against political leaders, related to against the accused after Muzaffarnagar district magistrate, the Muzaffarnagar riots of 2013 in charge sheets were filed by the po- the Uttar Pradesh Department of which over 60 people were killed and lice and the special investigation Justice had sought information on over 40,000 rendered homeless, offi- team (SIT) probing the riots cases, 13 points including whether cial sources said here on Friday. the sources said. the cases could be withdrawn in The district authorities, in re- Some of the cases were filed public interest. Now Modi suggests ‘lunch pe charcha’ AGENCIES New Delhi

After the “chai pe charcha” campaign during the 2014 polls, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday asked his party MPs to hold “lunch pe charcha” to spread the good points of the Union Budget 2018-19 among the people. The Prime Minister’s sug- gestion came at a BJP Par- liamentary party meeting where party chief Amit Shah described Congress President Rahul Gandhi’s behaviour as “undemocrat- ic” and suggested ways to counter his criticism of the Rafale fighter deal. Sources present at the meeting said the Prime Minister described the Union budget as positive for the middle class and farmers and asked them to discuss its benefits among the masses. Intervening in Shah’s speech, Modi described how he held discussions with party cadres in his parliamentary constituen- cy Varanasi over lunch by bringing his own tiffin. The sources said Modi asked the MPs to hold such ‘lunch pe charcha’ by bringing their own tiffin in every assembly segment of their constituency during the Budget Session break. At the meeting, two book- lets containing the Prime Minister’s speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos and Shah’s speech at various platforms were distributed among the MPs. Renuka spares PM, takes on MoS Rijiju FP NEWS SERVICE New Delhi

Instead of targeting Prime Minister Modi for an un- charitable remark on Wednesday,senior Congress MP Renuka Chowdhury on Friday moved a privilege no- tice in the Rajya Sabha against Union Minister of State Kiren Rijiju for mock- ing her on the social media and suggesting by innuendo that PM had compared her with Surpanakha, the evil genius in the Ramayana TV serial. Though the PM made no such comparison and merely said that Renuka’s guffaw had reminded him of similar derisive laughter in the TV serial Ramayan, Rijiju mud- died the waters by posting on his Facebook account a TV serial clip of Surpanakha laughing her head off. Without mentioning Riji- ju's name, since he is a mem- ber of the other House (Lok Sabha), Samajwadi Party member Naresh Agarwal raked up the issue in the Ra- jya Sabha through a point of order to suggest that the member should apologise for his nasty conjecture in the social media.

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