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;& #%7 %7 7 SIDISrtVUU@IB!&!!"&#S@B9IV69P99I !%! %! ' 23%.2- 45" &'(' () !"#$% *+(,+$- 5(- +=9 6'N'0=-0=89O 05'45'54 ! " # ""#$!#% %#%#% ',-5- '=4@ =9=9&59:(95>'?,59+5 9=85 #&#%%# /01 .122& AB C- 5 - # 6 $ ) #(6 #(78 5 # #$ %%!&'! !! " (' & )! 456&50' 456&50' .. *P !# ith the AAP and the he Opposition , #( !9&!9!0-,!:O WCongress going public TMahagathbandhan is final- & , 2 ' in asserting that they will not ly in place in Bihar. The 9& : 9 # # 9& # enter into an alliance, it is now Congress on Tuesday agreed to " NCP chief Sharad Pawar, who contest on nine seats as against 8 + O9 9, O0-, + # has entered the scene to play its insistence for 11 seats. The the mediator, in what is being alliance’ mainstay RJD will - 6 seen as a last-ditch attempt to contest 20 seats, seven less PNS: BJP Lok Sabha MP forge a pre-poll alliance than it fought in 2014 thus Shatrughan Sinha may be pit- between the two parties in paving the way for the accom- - ted on a Congress ticket from Delhi to take on the BJP, which modation of other smaller par- # Patna Sahib against Union holds all the seven Lok Sabha ties in the grouping. $ ## # Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad. seats in the Capital. Upendra Kushwaha’s RLSP The confusion over After a series of flip-flops will fight on four seats and Jitan 9 Darbhanga seat is also under- between both the parties, P Ram Majhi’s HAM on three 0-, stood to be cleared as Kirti sources said Congress Central seats. RJD leader Tejashwi Azad will be the Congress leadership has started a rethink Yadav, who is spearheading # candidate from the seat. While on the insistence of their the formation of the much- Azad was suspended from alliance partners’ tallest leader hyped grand alliance, has BJP and he joined Congress, Pawar, who met Congress chief rushed to Ranchi to brief and Sinha has kept it a secret on his Rahul Gandhi and Mallikarjun further deliberate with RJD part but has made his inten- Kharge first and then AAP’s ! P patriarch Lalu Prasad, cur- tions obvious by criticising his Sanjay Singh, also a Rajya " # rently cooling his heels in jail parent party BJP and Prime Sabha member. The Maratha $ % &! in a multi-crore fodder scam. by RJD which had field- what the other was Minister Narendra Modi on strongman had last month P% "( The Mahagathbandhan in ed him on its ticket five to get. The cur- several occasions. hosted a mega Opposition Bihar formally acknowledges years ago but expelled rent impasse sur- meeting that starred Rahul Congress, RJD, RLSP, HAM, him later on disciplinary joint Press conference by rep- faced following Tejashwi indi- Gandhi, Arvind Kejriwal and her party colleagues at her also urged the leadership to Sharad Yadav’s Loktantrik grounds. resentatives of all the grand cating “fissures” as crisis over Mamata Banerjee. home to reconsider a tie-up spell out its stand to avoid con- Janata Dal and Mukesh Sahnis “RJD is to contest on 20 alliance partners. seat-sharing deepened in the Following Pawar’s media- with AAP — an idea that she fusion among party workers. Vikasheel Insaan Party as its seats, Congress on 9 seats, Sharing of seats in the Bihar Mahagathbandhan. tion, Delhi Congress president has resisted vehemently so far. While Dikshit has strong- constituents. While Congress RLSP on 4, HAM on 3, LJD Grand Alliance was hampered Amid hard bargaining by Sheila Dikshit convened an Sources said 13 former ly opposed a tie-up with the wants to take on board and VIP on 2 seats each,” said by squabbles between smaller smaller parties, the major play- urgent meeting with the three Congress district presidents AAP, Congress incharge of Madhepura MP Pappu Yadav, AICC sources, adding that a partners like the RLSP and the ers — RJD and Congress — working presidents — have written a letter to party Delhi PC Chacko made it whose wife Ranjeet Ranjan is a formal announcement would HAM with each party demand- locked horns over the seat Devender Yadav, Haroon Yusuf chief Rahul Gandhi asking for clear on Tuesday that “Delhi Congress MP, it was opposed come up on Wednesday at a ing a share that was bigger than sharing arrangements. and Rajesh Lilothia — of Delhi an alliance with the AAP. leaders have to follow the Pradesh Congress Committee Dikshit, a three-time Chief Congress’ policy decision to go (DPCC), which had opposed an Minister whose rule ended for alliances with parties R alliance with AAP. The leaders with AAP’s rise in Delhi, had opposed to the BJP”. Even did not divulge any details and on Monday warned in a letter after Pawar’s intervention, only stated that the meeting was to Rahul and UPA chairperson Sheila said she was against the over decision of candidates for Sonia Gandhi that an alliance alliance but will follow what- the Lok Sabha elections. with the AAP will hurt the ever the party leadership Sources said Sheila met Congress in the long run. She decides. O ! " # ! -4-' ! %'*+ R $ % he BJP-led Government in TGoa will face the floor test !,! %'!' ) on Wednesay, a day after it was ! formed. Governor Mridula 456&50'7,8,(-' & O Sinha has convened a special session of the Assembly on #! )'- n more trouble for cash- #' Wednesday at 11.30 am to Istrapped Jet Airways, an #( # enable Chief Minister Pramod 456&50' umbrella body of its domestic ! Sawant to prove his majority in pilots on Tuesday threatened to # the House, an official said. he all-powerful GST stop flying from April 1 if # % " Sawant on Tuesday said TCouncil on Tuesday their dues are not paid by his Government had sought a allowed builders an option to March-end even as aviation # $ floor test on Wednesday to choose between old tax rates regulator DGCA said only 41 prove its strength in the and the new ones for under- aircraft of the airline were in !%&'& Assembly. The Government construction residential pro- operation and more attrition is in the coastal State claims jects to help resolve input tax likely soon. " " support of 21 MLAs — 12 credit issues. As situation at the belea- # from the BJP, three each of The council, headed by builders — who were worried guered airline deteriorated, & + allies Goa Forward Party Union Finance Minister Arun about loss of input tax credit in Civil Aviation Minister Suresh ! % " P ! (GFP) and Maharashtrawadi Jaitley and including repre- the new tax regime. Prabhu directed senior officials "# $ ! % ' ( () Gomantak Party (MGP) and sentatives of all States, at its The new tax rate of 1 per of his Ministry to continuous- ( three Independents. 34th meeting here laid out cent for affordable houses and ly monitor developments relat- ) 456&50' leaders, met here to deliberate polls last year. The strength of the 40- transition rules for the imple- 5 per cent for others, without ing to the crisis. ,! over its candidates for the The Congress had won 68 member House has been mentation of new tax rates for ITC, will apply on new pro- In a related development, # # n a major decision, the BJP polls. seats, reducing the tally of the reduced to 36 due to the the real estate sector. jects. the Jet Airways’ Aircraft ''- ./ Ion Tuesday announced it “We have decided to fight BJP, which was in power in the death of Chief Minister Builders will get a one-time The move will help address Maintenance Engineers’ Union %0! will drop its all 10 incumbent the elections with new candi- State for 15 years, to a mere 15. Manohar Parrikar, BJP MLA option to continue paying tax apprehensions as well as poten- wrote to the DGCA on Tuesday #1/# MPs from Chhattisgarh and dates and new zeal,” Jain told The difference in the vote share Francis D’Souza and resigna- at the old rates (effective rate of tial disputes on various com- morning saying they were not 1/ replace them with new faces in reporters. of the two parties was a huge tions of two Congress MLAs 8 per cent or 12 per cent with putational and transitional paid salaries for last three # ./ % " the Lok Sabha polls, a decision The party decision means 10 per cent. Subhash Shirodkar and Input Tax Credit or ITC) on issues such as the loss of input months and that their “adverse that comes in the wake of the that Union Minister Vishnu The BJP is also considering Dayanand Sopte. ongoing projects (buildings credits and pricing that were psychological” condition has party’s drubbing in the recent Deo Sai and seven times Lok not fielding any family mem- The Congress is the sin- where construction and actu- bound to arise on account of put flight safety at risk. *+ Assembly elections. Sabha member and former ber of these sitting MPs, gle largest party in the State al booking have both started the change. “GST Council However, the Aircraft ,-%.%- BJP general secretary Anil Union Minister Ramesh Bais sources said. If the party indeed with 14 MLAs. There is also before April 1, 2019, but which today has approved transition Maintenance Engineers’ Union Jain, also the party affairs will not be fielded in the polls. adopts this criterion, the like- an NCP legislator in the will not be completed by March plan for the new rate structure issued a clarification hours incharge for the State, made the The announcement under- ly candidature of former Chief House. 31, 2019), Revenue Secretary A for real estate residential pro- later saying Jet Airways aircraft &2 announcement as the BJP’s scores the BJP’s bid to wrest its Minister Raman Singh, whose Sawant, 45, who succeeds B Pandey told reporters here.

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