Follow us on: facebook.com/dailypioneer RNI No.2016/1957, REGD NO. SSP/LW/NP-34/2019-21 @TheDailyPioneer instagram.com/dailypioneer/ Established 1864 OPINION 8 AVENUES 10 WORLD 13 Published From STOP MILKING THE B-SCHOOL TRUMP: EU NEEDS TO STOP DELHI LUCKNOW BHOPAL BHUBANESWAR TAKING ADVANTAGE OF US RANCHI RAIPUR CHANDIGARH THE ARMY ROUTE DEHRADUN HYDERABAD VIJAYWADA Late City Vol. 155 Issue 96 LUCKNOW, WEDNESDAY APRIL 10, 2019; PAGES 16 `3 *Air Surcharge Extra if Applicable MI TO FACE KXIP IN IPL CLASH} } 14 SPORT www.dailypioneer.com Naxals target BJP convoy; MLA, 4 cops killed All condemn terror act, ‘deeply anguished’ PM vows martyrdom won’t go in vain PNS n DANTEWADA Ultras shoot RSS JP’s lone legislator from BBastar region Bhima Mandavi and four policemen leader, his PSO at were killed as Maoists targeted a group of BJP leaders travel- ling in a convoy in a forested patch in Dantewada district on Kishtwar hospital Tuesday evening. The Naxals MOHIT KANDHARI n JAMMU blew up the vehicle of the 40- year-old Dantewada MLA with n a daring terror attack, a an IED and opened fire at the Isenior RSS leader and his occupants in Shyamagiri hills personal security officer (PSO) when the MLA’s convoy was were shot dead from close heading towards Kuwakonda range outside the main gate of from Bacheli area in one of my MLA colleagues, I outpatient department (OPD) Dantewada. don’t have words to express my of Kishtwar district hospital on Visuals from the blast site grief, it’s definitely a major Tuesday morning. showed the mangled remains of attack on democracy… My According to police, the the vehicle and a gaping hole Government is consistently personal security officer of on the road on which it passed working to win people’s confi- RSS leader died on the spot, before Naxals blew it up. TV dence and Naxals felt upset while RSS leader, identified as channels flashed grisly images about that and this brutal Chandrakant Sharma, was air- RSS activists raise slogans during a of body parts strewn along a attack is basically the result of lifted to Government Medical protest against the attack on their road bisecting a forest and a their frustration.” College Hospital in Jammu cadre Chandrakant Singh in Kishtwar, vehicle reduced to a heap of The State unit of the BJP where he succumbed to his Jammu on Tuesday PTI metal. The powerful blast left reacted angrily to the killing gunshot injuries. a big crater in the middle of the and alleged that State’s new Kishtwar Superintendent that the RSS leader was hit in road. Congress regime has nexus of Police Shakti Kumar Pathak the abdomen and his kidneys The attack has been with Maoists. BJP national told The Pioneer that after hit- were punctured by the bullets. described a classic case of a vice-president and former ting the RSS leader the terror- According to police, on complete intelligence failure. Chief Minister Raman Singh ists ran away with the service Tuesday morning around “It was a meticulously expressed shock over death of weapon of his PSO martyred in 12.30 pm when Chandrakant planned attack. Maoists specif- his party MLA and said the attack. The PSO has been Sharma, working as pharma- ically targeted BJP MLA’s bul- Maoists were freely roaming in identified as Rajinder Kumar. cist, arrived in the district letproof vehicle when he was Mangled remains of the vehicle after the BJP MLA’s convoy was attacked by Maoists in Dantewada on Tuesday PTI Bastar under the new Congress Police have launched hospital, Kishtwar, an uniden- rushing to Nakulnar to address regime. investigations in the case and tified terrorist, who was a public meeting in favour of against moving without fool- meet to assess the law and “Shri Bhima Mandavi was The sacrifices of these martyrs “It’s a failure of State is screening CCTV footages to already waiting there, opened the BJP candidate from Bastar, proof security measures. order situation. a dedicated karyakarta of the will not go in vain,” he tweet- Government, I see a big polit- track down the footprints of fire at him from a close range Baidu Ram Kashyap,’’ The brutal killing of the Prime Minister Narendra BJP. Diligent and courageous, ed. ical conspiracy in the killing the terrorists. The SP main- and fled. Bleeding profusely, Dantewada police chief Dantewada MLA triggered Modi condemned the killing of he assiduously served the peo- Baghel, who is facing flak because Mandavi was the lone tained the situation is well the RSS leader was carted into Abhishek Pallav told reporters outrage in Chhattisgarh with “dedicated party worker” ple of Chhattisgarh. His demise for allegedly adopting soft BJP MLA from Bastar, situation under control after the impo- the operation theatre and was at the blast site. Chief Minister Bhupesh Baghel Mandavi and the police offi- is deeply anguishing. My con- approach to armed Maoists, is very pathetic in Bastar dur- sition of the curfew in later airlifted to Jammu where He added that the BJP leg- putting off his poll campaign cials and said the sacrifice of dolences to his family. My trib- said in a series of tweets, “I am ing Congress regime,’’ Singh Kishtwar and nearby areas. he succumbed to his injuries. islator was strongly advised mid-way to chair a high-level those killed will not go in vain. utes to the security personnel. deeply disturbed by killing of told reporters in Raipur. Official sources revealed Continued on Page 6 CAPSULE Modi addresses CAIT SLAMS RAHUL FOR PM exhorts first timers to vote CHOR BUSINESSMEN JIBE joint rally with If Cong-SP-BSP have Ali, New Delhi: Traders’ body CAIT Uddhav at Ausa on Tuesday slammed Congress chief Rahul Gandhi for his for Pulwama martyrs, Balakot in Maha’s Latur statement that funds for the TN RAGHUNATHA n MUMBAI we have Bajrangbali: Yogi ambitious ‘NYAY’ scheme will In continuation, Modi come from the pockets of “chor” rime Minister Narendra asked the first-time voters in PNS n MEERUT businessmen, and cautioned that PModi on Tuesday invoked the country if they would ded- the Congress may pay a heavy the Pulwama terror attack and icate their first votes for the fter calling the Indian price for it in the LS polls. the subsequent Balakot air cause of providing pucca hous- Aarmed forces ‘Modi ji ki strikes to seek votes for the BJP es to the poor people in the sena’ and branding the Muslim TERROR FUNDING CASE: from the first-time voters in the country. League ‘virus’, the BJP leader MIRWAIZ GRILLED BY NIA 2019 Lok Sabha polls. He asked if they would and Uttar Pradesh Chief New Delhi: Separatist leader Addressing a joint rally dedicate their votes to ensure Minister has now sparked a Mirwaiz Umer Farooq was on with Shiv Sena president irrigation water to the fields of fresh row by stoking the ‘Ali- Tuesday questioned by the Uddhav Thackeray at Ausa in the poor and good health facil- Bajrangbali’ debate following National Investigation Agency for Latur district in Maharashtra, ities for them through the Mayawati’s appeal to Muslim the second consecutive day in Modi appealed to the millen- Modi Government’s National voters two days ago. connection with a case related to nial generation to make best Health Protection Scheme “Agar Congress, SP, BSP ko funding of terror groups and and memorable use of their Ayushman Bharat. ‘Ali’ par vishwaas hai toh separatist organisations in first vote in the 2019 Lok “My appeal to you first- humein bhi ‘Bajrangbali’ par Jammu & Kashmir, officials said Sabha elections. time voters in this election is vishwaas hai (If the Congress, UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath being garlanded along with other leaders at an here. “I would like to tell the first vote for the nation. You have Samajwadi Party, and the election rally in Bareilly on Tuesday PTI time voters that it is a historic turned 18. The nation has Bahujan Samaj Party have faith PM BIOPIC: SC DISMISSES moment when you vote for the Prime Minister Narendra Modi addresses an election campaign rally in support of given you so much. The soci- in Ali, then we too have faith Pradesh…in Saharanpur, last week issued a warning to PLEA SEEKING STAY first time. You should make a alliance candidates at Ausa in Latur district, Maharashtra on Tuesday PTI ety has given you so much. You in our Bajrangbali),” Yogi said Bareilly where there is a size- the UP Chief Minister over his New Delhi: The Supreme Court resolve to exercise your first give vote to strengthen the while addressing an election able Muslim population and I ‘Modi ji ki sena’ remark and on Tuesday dismissed a petition voting right in a manner that dedicate their first vote to the their lives in the Pulwama ter- nation. You vote to form a rally in Meerut. want to ask them not to divide asked him to “be careful in filed by a Congress activist you will remember all your life brave jawans who participated ror attack,” the Prime Minister strong Government. You will Yogi’s statement is seen as your votes by voting for the your utterances in future”. seeking stay on the release of when you voted for the first in the air strikes on terror said, in an apparent disregard be able to say proudly that if an attempt to polarise Hindu Congress. Give your votes to “Congress ke log biopic on Prime Minister time, where did you vote, in camps at Balakot in Pakistan. to the Election Commission’s you cast vote for lotus symbol voters after BSP chief Mayawati SP-BSP and RLD alliance,” she atankwadiyon ko biryani khilate Narendra Modi saying the which elections you voted and I would also like to ask the first- diktat to political parties to (BJP) and bow (Shiv Sena), recently appealed to Muslims had said at the rally jointly held the, aur Modiji ki sena Election Commission would be whom did you vote for”.