RNI NO.: DELENG/2005/15351 millenniumpost.in REGD. NO.: DL(S)-01/3420/2018-20 PUBLISHED FROM DELHI & KOLKATA VOL. 13, ISSUE 82 | Saturday, 24 March 2018 | New Delhi | Pages 16 | Rs 3.00 NO HALF TRUTHS qNIFTY 9,998.05 (-116.70) qSENSEX 32,596.54 (-409.73) qDOW JONES 23,957.89 (-724.42) qNASDAQ 7166.68 (-178.61) pRUPEE/DOLLAR 65.01 (+0.10) pRUPEE/EURO 80.18 (+0.06) pGOLD/10GM 31,750 (+250.00) pSILVER/K 39,550 (+50.00) ANNA BEGINS SC POSER TO 12 TATAS WIN MARGOT ROBBIE HUNGER STRIKE AT STATES: WHY BID FOR TO PRODUCE NEW RAMLILA MAIDAN LOKAYUKTAS NOT BHUSHAN SHAKESPEAREAN FOR LOKPAL PG3 APPOINTED? PG6 STEEL PG12 DRAMA SERIES PG16 BJP’s ANIL AGARWAL BEATS BSP’s DR BHIMRAO AMBEDKAR IN CRUCIAL 10TH UP RAJYA SABHA SEAT High Court reinstates 20 AAP Shah pulls off stunning RS poll MLAs in gigantic blow to EC coup against Maya-Akhilesh OUR CORRESPONDENT UTTAR PRADESH WEST BENGAL KARNATAKA TELANGANA JHARKHAND CHHATTISGARH KERALA LUCKNOW/NEW DELHI: In a photo- finish to the keenly watched Rajya Sabha (RS) elections in Uttar Pradesh, the BJP on Friday took sweet revenge on the Opposition by ensuring victory of all its nine candidates, days after it lost two crucial seats in the Lok Sabha bypolls in the state. The remaining seat went to the Samajwadi Party in the polls marred by cross-voting from both sides, which PIC/MPOST led to the defeat of the BSP candidate in the prestigeous battle of ballots, touted UTTAR PRADESH WEST BENGAL KERALA JHARKHAND KARNATAKA TELANGANA CHHATTISGARH SAYANTAN GHOSH mendation given to the Presi- being influenced by the earlier as a test for the new found bonhomie TOTAL SEATS: 10 TOTAL SEATS: 5 TOTAL SEATS: 1 TOTAL SEATS: 2 TOTAL SEATS: 4 TOTAL SEATS: 3 TOTAL SEATS: 1 dent “is vitiated and bad in law order or observations on the between the parties headed by Akhilesh BJP 9 TMC 4 LDF 1 BJP 1 Cong 3 TRS 3 BJP 1 NEW DELHI: The Delhi High for failure to comply with prin- said aspect in this order”. Yadav and Mayawati. SP 1 Cong 1 UDF 0 Cong 1 BJP 1 Cong 0 Cong 0 Court on Friday restored the ciples of natural justice”. It said The judgement was read Besides BJP’s prominent winner legislatorship of 20 ruling party there was a “violation of natu- out by justice Sanjiv Khanna Union Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, BSP 0 Left 0 JD(S) 0 MLAs who were disqualified ral justice and no oral hearing in a jam-packed courtroom, the others who made it to the Upper for holding offices-of-profit. was given to the AAP MLAs after which the jubilant AAP House of Parliament from the party are poll panel against two MLAs who are cancellation of his vote,” SP MLC Sunil Yadav faction, was elected from Kerala Setting aside the order of the before disqualifying them as MLAs, who were present there, Ashok Bajpai, Vijay Pal Singh Tomar, believed to have cross-voted. “We have Singh Sajan said. defeating his Congress rival, in a bypoll Election Commission, the legislators”. congratulated each other. “The Sakal Deep Rajbhar, Kanta Kardam, given a written complaint to the Elec- For the 59 Rajya Sabha seats to be after he resigned from Rajya Sabha as a High Court gave a major relief “The order of remand is truth has triumphed. The peo- Anil Jain, Harnath Singh Yadav, GVL tion Commission that our MLA Anil filled, 33 candidates from 10 states mark of protest following JD(U) leader to the ruling party of Delhi but passed to the Election Com- ple whom Delhi had voted Narasimha Rao and ninth candidate Singh did not show his vote to the elec- were declared elected unopposed on and Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar the verdict came as an embar- mission of India to hear argu- as their representatives were Anil Kumar Agarwal, who pulled off tion agent of the party before casting it March 15 with the BJP accounting for joining hands with BJP-led NDA. rassment to the EC. The rec- ments and thereafter decide wrongly disqualified,” tweeted a surprise win with the help of second and we are awaiting a reply from the 16 of them. However, results for two In West Bengal, Singhvi and four ommendation of the Election all the important and semi- party chief Arvind Kejriwal preference votes. Other candidates, EC in this regard,” Deputy leader of the Rajya Sabha seats from Jharkhand were Trinamool Congress (TMC) candi- Commission followed the Pres- nal issues, like what is meant after the Delhi HC verdict. including SP’s actor-turned-politician BSP in the state Assembly Uma Shan- yet to be officially declared. Congress dates — Nadimul Haque, Subhasish idential order for the disqualifi- by expression office-of-profit The MLAs, who were Jaya Bachchan won with the help of kar Singh said. leader Abhishek Manu Singhvi, who Chakraborty, Abir Biswas and Santunu cation of 20 MLAs. Quashing held under the government,” appointed parliamentary sec- first preference votes. Counting of votes The Samajwadi Party also lodged a was backed by ruling Trinamool Con- Sen — won the Rajya Sabha election. the order, the HC referred the the court said. retaries, had challenged their in the Rajya Sabha election from Uttar similar complaint with regard to MLA gress in West Bengal, and BJP’s Rajeev The TMC supported Singhvi in the case back to the poll panel for It asked the EC to “re-exam- disqualification for holding Pradesh began after a two-hour delay Nitin Agarwal, who had switched sides Chandrasekhar (from Karnataka) were Rajya Sabha poll who contested as the a fresh hearing. ine the factual matrix to decide office-of-profit. The court had as the Opposition Samajwadi Party and after his father quit the party and joined among the prominent winners. fifth candidate as the Congress did not A division bench of Jus- whether the petitioners (AAP reserved its judgment on Feb- BSP lodged a complaint with the Elec- the BJP recently. “Nitin Agarwal cast Backed by ruling CPI(M)-led LDF, have the strength in the Assembly to get tice Sanjiv Khanna and Justice MLAs) had incurred disquali- ruary 28 after the MLAs and tion Commission (EC). his vote without showing it to the elec- M P Veerendra Kumar, the President of its candidate elected. Singhvi secured 47 Chander Shekhar said that the fication on appointment as par- the Election Commission con- The Opposition parties moved the tion agent and we have demanded the the Kerala unit of Janata Dal (U) Sharad votes, he said. January 19 poll panel recom- liamentary secretaries, without cluded their arguments. See P3 ‘MOROCCAN ATTACKER WAS ON ISLAMIC EXTREMIST LIST’ Political parties face FB data theft: Cambridge Sonia complains growing public pressure as people France ‘IS’ shooting-hostage siege of restlessness, expect them to do their job Analytica gets Govt notice rushed from UNION MINISTER VIJAY GOEL leaves two dead; cops kill gunman DHIRENDRA KUMAR Shimla to Delhi NEW DELHI: As the uproar over TREBES (France): At least In today’s data leak at Facebook taking cen- three people were killed on Fri- OUR CORRESPONDENT tre stage, Union IT Minister Ravi day in a shooting spree and hos- paper Shankar Prasad has come into action tage siege in southern France by SHIMLA: UPA chairper- and held a series of discussions with a man claiming allegiance to son Sonia Gandhi, who had senior ministry officials to explore the Islamic State group, secu- come here to inspect her CITY ... steps to ensure that consumers data rity sources told AFP. Security daughter Priyanka Gandhi on social media is not misused to forces killed the gunman — Vadra’s under-construction JNU PROTESTORS LATHI-CHARGED 4 influence elections. believed to be a Moroccan who house at Chharabra, 15 km NATION Later on, the ministry has asked was on a watch list of suspected from here, complained of Cambridge Analytica and its inter- Islamic extremists -- after he restlessness on the interven- LS ADJOURNED TILL TUESDAY 7 mediaries through a notice, in carried out three separate ing night of Thursday-Fri- the first instance, to submit their attacks in the medieval town of ing at least two people, accord- erated area and I told people day, following which she was EDIT responses on the above data breach notice to Cambridge Analytica is Carcassonne and nearby Trebes. ing to sources. to come to shelter there,” she taken to Delhi. BUILD AND SELL 8 issue by March 31. the outcome of the brainstorming The man first hijacked a car A witness reported that said. “We were 10 people and The 71-year-old former “The ministry has issued a notice session with officials over the long- in Carcassonne, killing a pas- the assailant was armed with we got out by the emergency Congress president was here INTERNATIONAL to Cambridge Analytica, wherein the term solutions to address the perti- senger and injuring the driver, knives, a gun and grenades and exit at the back.” along with Priyanka Gan- serious breach of propriety and mis- nent issue. before shooting a policeman shouted “Allahu Akbar” (God is After letting his hostages go, dhi Vadra. TRUMP REMOVES NSA MCMASTER 10 use of data intended to profile and According to IT Ministry’s offi- who was out jogging with his greatest) before going into the the gunman remained in the Senior Medical Super- BUSINESS influence voting behaviour has been cial communiqué, the government colleagues nearby. He then supermarket. “A man shouted store with just one policeman, intendent at Indira Gandhi highlighted,” the ministry said.