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But if he doesn’t suc- The Commission will redraw can bring a new Delimitation advising SP chief Akhilesh to ceed, it’ll be good for us to work the size of Assembly con- Commission and implement "##$ set his “house” in order for that. separately. So we have decided stituencies and determine the same parameters in the entire %! Unfazed by Mayawati’s to fight the by-election alone,” number of seats to be reserved State, which would result in volte face, Akhilesh said his Mayawati said to a news agency for SCs and STs in the Valley. increasing the number of seats $& '& party is ready to fight the in New Delhi. According to highly placed in the Jammu region. bypolls on its own. Claiming that the BSP has sources, the proposed delimi- Apart from number para- votes, who were driven out Reacting to announcement not benefited from the alliance tation exercise was discussed in meters, area factor was also tilt- from the Valley two decades by the BSP supremo, Akhilesh with the SP in the recently con- a series of recent meetings ed in favour of Kashmir region ago when terrorism started. # +, $ on Wednesday said, “If the cluded elections, she said the chaired by Union Home when last delimitation process Srinagar Lok Sabha con- coalition has broken, I will transfer of votes between the Minister Amit Shah, and was undertaken in 1993. stituency has 12,94,560 voters reflect deeply on it and if the two parties did not take place. attended by Jammu & Kashmir The maximum number of and Anantnag constituency coalition is not there in the by- She even claimed that the SP Governor Satya Pal Malik, voters in the Assembly seg- has 13,97,272 voters. Baramulla - . $ elections, then Samajwadi Party could not even manage to Home Secretary Rajiv Gauba ments in the Kashmir region is Lok Sabha constituency in the will prepare for the elections. maintain its hold on Yadav and Intelligence Bureau never more than 80,000. Kashmir region has 13,17,738 The SP will also fight on all 11 seats as well as the constituen- Director Rajiv Jain. Certain Assembly segments voters. The number of voters in seats alone.” cies on which Akhilesh’s fam- The high-level meeting like Gurez in the Kashmir Jammu-Poonch and Kathua- “We will contest bypoll on ily members were contesting. decided to explore legal options Valley is having around only Udhampur Lok Constituencies all 11 seats after consulting “We can’t ignore political on the appointment of the new 25,000 voters. But nearly all is 20,47,299 and 16,85,779, party leaders soon. Even if our compulsions. In the Lok Sabha Delimitation Commission, as Assembly segments in Jammu respectively. custodial interrogation, advo- paths are different, we welcome elections, base vote of the Farooq Abdullah region have more than 98,000 If the new Delimitation cate MS Khan, appearing for it,” Akhilesh said. Samajwadi Party, the ‘Yadav’ Government had in 2002 voters each and majority of the Commission implements same ashmiri separatists Shabir the accused, told PTI. Shah and Mayawati’s decision to go it community, didn’t support the passed a law in thAssembly to seats have more than 1.25 lakh parameters across both the KShah, Asiya Andrabi and Andrabi were already in cus- alone in the bypolls is not just party. Dimple Yadav, Dha- freeze delimitation up to 2026, voters. divisions in the State, the num- Masarat Alam Bhat were tody in separate cases, while surprising for the SP leaders rmendra Yadav and Akshay which enabled the status quo In nutshell, Jammu region ber of seats would raise up to arrested on Tuesday in con- Alam was brought from but also for the BSP cadre as the Yadav have lost elections from giving greater number of has 37 seats with around 38 around 50 seats in the Jammu nection with a terror funding Jammu & Kashmir on transit money laundering case for BSP never fought any bypolls Kannauj, Badaun and Firo- Assembly seats to the Kashmir lakh voters and Kashmir region & Kashmir Assembly with total case and produced before a remand where he was lodged alleged terror financing, in the past. The former UP zabad respectively, and it has region. The last delimitation has 46 seats with more than 40 number of 87 seats, leading to Delhi court which allowed the in jail for alleged terror activ- Andrabi was in jail in a case of Chief Minister said if the SP made us think a lot,” she added. took place in the State in 1993. lakh voters, including more the total change in the politi- National Investigation Agency ities. Both Shah and Andrabi allegedly waging a war against does not learn from the mis- Stating that she has per- Currently, of the total 87 than 1.2 lakh Kashmiri Hindu cal landscape. (NIA) their 10-day custodial were produced before the court the country and delivering takes it made in the Lok Sabha sonal ties with Akhilesh and interrogation. from jail in pursuance to the hate speeches in Jammu & election, both parties will even- Dimple, Mayawati said they "#$%& The case relates to alleged production warrants issued Kashmir. tually contest independently in gave her a lot of respect. “Ever terror funding in the Valley and earlier. According to the NIA, the future also. since the SP-BSP coalition took involves Jama’at-ud-Da’wah The NIA had filed a Shah had received 10 lakh She said SP chief Akhilesh place, SP chief Akhilesh Yadav P)* (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed, the chargesheet in January 2018 from hawala operator Zahoor Yadav needs to set his party in and his wife Dimple Yadav have 2008 Mumbai terror attack against Saeed, another terror Ahmad Shah Watal, a co- order and weed out those who given me a lot of respect. I also +,-./0102 mastermind based based in mastermind Syed Salahuddin accused in the case. Besides, the were responsible for failing to forgot all our differences in the !"# $"!%%' Pakistan. and 10 Kashmiri separatists in money was also sent to the get their supporters’ vote en interest of the nation and gave ( !# !"* #+',%"!'! The NIA arrested the trio a case of alleged terror funding banned outfit Dukhtaraan-e- bloc during the Lok Sabha them respect. Our relation isn’t '"*L,'. !'!"/"."M+' during in-chamber proceed- and secessionist activities in the Milat of which Andrabi was the elections. “It’s not a permanent only for politics, it’ll continue % O!'("'/% ings before Special Judge valley. While Shah was in judi- chief, the NIA said. break up. If we feel in future forever,” she said. '..!#+."*% (."* ith more than 24 hours Rakesh Syal and sought 15-day cial custody in a decade-old Continued on Page 4 that the SP chief succeeds in his Continued on Page 4 2'.""'O!+(2"'"*3 enior Congress leader in Wgone without any trace of SMaharashtra and former the missing AN-32 aircraft in Leader of Opposition (LoP) in Arunachal Pradesh, the IAF on Legislative Assembly Tuesday intensified the search Radhakrishna Vikhe Patil on operations by deploying a long- Tuesday submitted his resig- range maritime reconnaissance nation as a member of the aircraft of the Navy besides ot- the Government adversely. the Minister’s tweet. Lower House. her aircraft. The Army and In- Taking a potshot at Nitish The Minister’s party col- The development comes do-Tibetan Border Police (IT- JP president Amit Shah on Kumar, Sushil Modi and other league Sushil Modi had a amid reports that he will be BP) too have joined the mas- BTuesday pulled up Union leaders for attending iftar, sharper response. “I don’t know joining the BJP along with sive search operations and are Minister Giriraj Singh for mak- Giriraj tweeted, “How beauti- what he tweeted. Let me say, I some Congress MLAs and may patrolling the area where the ing a provocative tweet with ful would this picture have am proud to be a Hindu. I take be inducted in the Devendra ill-fated transport aircraft car- picture of Bihar Chief Minister been if a Navratri meal would part in Holi programmes too, Fadnavis-led Ministry. rying 13 on board, including Nitish Kumar and his deputy have been organised with the not just iftar. I have been a part Vikhe Patil’s son Sujay six crew members, is feared to Sushil Modi attending an iftar same eagerness. Why do we of iftar celebrations for 25 Vikhe Patil had switched to the have crashed on Monday. party. Giriraj wondered why hold back on our own faith and years. People who never host- BJP from the Congress before Besides the induction of they don’t celebrate “Navratri” get into pretence,” he wrote ed a Holi Milan party are rais- Lok Sabha Polls.