millenniumpost.in RNI NO.: WBENG/2015/65962 SUNDAY millenniumPUBLISHED FROM DELHI & KOLKATA VOL. 3, ISSUE 326 | Sunday, 3 December, 2017 | Kolkata | Pages 16 | Rs 3.00 post NO HALF TRUTHS CITY PAGE 3 WORLD PAGE 6 FILM PAGE 16 STEEL TYCOON LAKSHMI MITTAL TRUMP NEARS BIG LEGISLATIVE WIN SPINNING MEETS MAMATA AT HER RESIDENCE AS US SENATE APPROVES TAX BILL A WEB Quick News44 SP LEADER PROMISES CM SUPPORT IN FIGHT TO SAVE INDIA FROM BJP MISRULE BJP wins in EVM areas, Mehbooba elected PDP chief for 6th straight term Mamata uniting Oppn against loses in ballots: Oppn OUR CORRESPONDENT JAMMU: Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister LUCKNOW: A day after the Mehbooba Mufti was on communal BJP, says Akhilesh BJP swept the Uttar Pradesh Saturday re-elected the civic polls, Opposition par- president of the People’s ties on Saturday demanded Democratic Party (PDP) SOUMITRA NANDI what Digital India is all about,” he that all elections in the future for the next three years. quipped. be held through ballot papers Mehbooba’s election KOLKATA: Samajwadi Party Yadav was accompanied by instead of electronic voting for the sixth consecutive leader and former Uttar Pradesh Samajwadi Party national Vice- machines (EVMs). BSP chief term was unanimous, chief minister Akhilesh Yadav on President Kiranmoy Nanda. “The Mayawati, who had in March party leaders said. Saturday lauded the efforts of West strategies for getting the entire raised doubts over EVMs after She thanked party leaders for “reposing their Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Opposition on a single platform the Assembly elections, threw trust and electing me as their president”. Banerjee to unite the entire Oppo- against the BJP were discussed in an open challenge to the BJP to with them, then they should set “Will work tirelessly to fulfil our shared sition. He also assured her of full the meeting,” a senior TMC leader hold the 2019 Lok Sabha polls aside EVMs and hold elections vision of development, inclusiveness and rec- support in her fight against the said. using ballot papers. through ballot paper. And, I onciliation in J&K,” she wrote on Twitter. communal policies of the BJP. After the BJP won the Uttar Samajwadi Party (SP) can say with full confidence The PDP leadership met at the official resi- Yadav, who was in the city to Pradesh civic elections, allega- spokesperson Rajendra Chaud- that if the 2019 Lok Sabha polls dence of the chief minister here for the election attend the state conference of his tions of rigging of electronic vot- hary alleged that the BJP again are held using ballot paper, of the party president. party, met Banerjee at her Kalighat ing machines (EVMs) had surfaced. misused EVMs to win 14 may- they (the BJP) will not come A law graduate, 57-year-old Mehbooba took residence in the late afternoon. Banerjee had said that the Election oral contests and reiterated the to power,” Mayawati claimed. the plunge into mainstream politics of the state Talking to reporters after the meet- Commission should convene an all- demand that ballot paper be “We fought the urban local in 1996 by joining the Congress, along with her ing, he said, “Mamata Banerjee is party meeting to discuss the matter. used in the future elections. SP body polls in Uttar Pradesh on father, at a time when militancy was at its peak working hard to fight against the “Whether one would accept or national president Akhilesh party symbol and I am happy to in the state. P4 communal policies of the BJP at not is absolutely their choice. But Yadav tweeted: “BJP has only say that along with the Dalits, the centre. Her efforts are welcome the Election Commission may call won 15 per cent seats in Ballot people belonging to backward to unite all Opposition parties to an all-party meeting. Let the issue paper areas and 46 per cent in castes, upper castes and minor- save the country from the hands be discussed”, Banerjee had said. EVM areas.” ities, especially Muslims, also India re-elected to world of BJP’s misrule is appreciable. The When she was asked whether Though the BSP managed voted for us in large numbers,” BJP has been pursuing the path of she was in favour of an investiga- to bag two mayoral seats — she claimed. Mayawati alleged maritime body’s Council falsehood.” tion into the charges of tamper- Aligarh and Meerut — the SP that the government machin- It should be noted that Baner- ing of EVMs, she had said, “I have and the Congress drew a blank. ery was “misused” in the urban LONDON: India has been re-elected to the jee, in her efforts to unite all Oppo- seen the Election Commissioner’s The BJP won 14 of the total 16 local body polls. “Otherwise, Council of the International Maritime Organ- sition parties, had said that she was version that there is nothing. But I mayoral seats. Earlier in the more of our candidates would isation under a category that represents nations willing to work with even the CPM have also gone through a video tape morning, Mayawati said “with have become mayors in the with the largest interests in international sea and Congress at the national level of BJP leader Subramanian Swamy full confidence” that the saffron state...and we would have won borne trade. India was re-elected to the council despite being political adversaries in which he says these EVMs can be party would be defeated in the more seats,” she said. under Category B at an assembly of the organisa- in her state for the “greater inter- PIC/MPOST tampered with.” general elections due in 2019 if Rajendra Chaudhary also tion at its headquarters here on Friday. est” of ousting the BJP. The former taking Bengal steadily on the path in the elections at Uttar Pradesh. Banerjee wrote on her Facebook ballot papers were used in place slammed the BJP for “misus- Indian High Commissioner to the UK Y K Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister also of progress. “Wherever there has been voting page soon after the meeting, “Akh- of EVMs. ing official machinery” and Sinha represented India at the assembly where praised the pro-people approach of Echoing the views of Banerjee, in ballot papers, the BJP has lost ilesh Yadav visited me today at my “If the BJP claims that they alleged the party misinformed India secured the second-highest number of Banerjee for the all-round develop- Yadav also alleged manipulation of while in places where EVMs have residence. We had a very cordial enjoy the mandate of the peo- the masses about its victory in votes (144) from member countries, just after ment of Bengal and said that she is electronic voting machines (EVMs) been used, they have won. This is interaction. My best wishes.” ple and the entire country is the elections. Germany’s 146 and ahead of Australia’s 143. P5 PM Modi & Prez Cyclone Ockhi ravages Kerala, Too soon to Trump are satisfied with say low growth VIRAT BATTING ON 156 Laskhadweep, Lanka coasts MURALI SCORES 155 outcome of GES OUR CORRESPONDENT trend reversed: INDIA AT 371 FOR 4 US WHITEHOUSE THIRUVANANTHAPURAM/ Manmohan KOCHI/ KAVARATTI: As many st In today’s as 531 fishermen were rescued from OUR CORRESPONDENT Kohli 1 stormy waters off the Kerala and Lakshadweep coasts due to Cyclone SURAT: Former Prime paper Ockhi on Saturday, said Kerala Chief Minister Manmohan Singh captain to score Minister Pinarayi Vijayan. Of these, on Saturday welcomed the ... 393 were from Kerala and 138 from 1,000 Kanyakumari uptick in the Q2 GDP growth CITY the Lakshadweep islands, Vijayan to 6.3 per cent but cautioned added. fishermen missing that it is too early to say there hat-trick 2 TEACHERS GET 2 DAYS’ POLICE CUSTODY 3 In Lakshadweep, houses suf- is a reversal in decline seen in fered damage, coconut trees were CHENNAI: Family members of the past five quarters. Singh of centuries in NATION uprooted and communication lines around 1,000 fishermen from Kan- also said at this rate it is not SUSHMA SWARAJ VISITS TEHRAN 4 were disrupted as rains accompa- yakumari district who ventured into possible for the Narendra nied by strong winds lashed the the deep seas when Cyclone Ockhi Modi government to equal 3-Test series BUSINESS islands under the influence of the struck the southern Tamil Nadu UPA government’s 10-year cyclone. As many 31 relief camps coast have demanded that aerial average growth rate. POLICY TO CURB PET COKE IMPORTS 5 were opened in the 10 inhabited searches and rescue operations be “July-September quarter islands. So far, 1,047 people have has registered a growth rate OUR CORRESPONDENT innings had 16 boundaries. commentator made a classic launched to trace the missing men. INTERNATIONAL been evacuated to the relief camps, of 6.3 per cent. This is to be The skipper made it look like comment. Lahiru Gamage at official sources said. Protesting on the roads, the families welcomed, but is too early NEW DELHI: Captain Virat a knocking session against a best could be a third pacer of POPE LEAVES B’DESH LAUGHING 6 Meanwhile, the Navy and Coast on Saturday said the fisher folk had to conclude that this repre- Kohli and opener Murali Vijay bowling attack, which at times a mid-level Ranji Trophy side! Guard continued the search for miss- ventured into the sea in around 100 sents a reversal of the declin- made a mockery of a sub-par looked inferior than a middle- The gulf between the two SPORT ing fishermen using ships, dornier boats three days back and have ing trend seen in the previous Sri Lankan attack with effort- rung first-class side playing sides was more evident as aircraft and helicopters in the “rough not returned.