C M Y K RNI Regn. No. CHHENG/2012/42718, Postal Reg. No. - RYP DN/34/2013-2015 -.(/-0*1&2 5-47; )-6)70;+*0;03 @""7"0 6055$ (3033$$"("3 $(-0;7"-057()-+6-< 036(5<-3+7(3" + %7--! => ?- - 3 ' **34*5 *6 !"#$%&'( ) #(* '' + ! "$% !& 2-0)(" he Gujjar community agi- Ttation demanding five per cent quota in jobs and educa- tional institutes turned violent in Dholpur district on Sunday 34$5*0 as shots were fired and three police vehicles torched. day before the Comptroller Unidentified miscreants Aand Auditor General fired 8-10 rounds in the air (CAG) is expected to submit to while the blockade on the the President a much-awaited Agra-Morena Highway was in report on its audit of big-tick- place, Dholpur Superintendent et military procurements in the of Police (SP) Ajay Singh said. last few years, including the The agitators set afire three controversial Rafale deal, the police vehicles, including two Congress on Sunday accused jeeps and a bus, he added. CAG Rajiv Mehrishi of con- The SP said the protesters flict of interest. also pelted stones, injuring the protest. Administration neighbouring Karauli districts, violent in some areas and saw Addressing a Press four Army jawans, adding that and police will investigate the police said. rail and road traffic being conference, senior police had to lob tear gas shells reasons of the incident. Gujjar The agitation has affected disrupted — warning him Congress leader Kapil done, but how can CAG to disperse the crowd. leader Kirori Singh Bainsla has the train movement in North against violation of court direc- Sibal questioned how Mehrishi investigate himself when he Chief Minister Ashok appealed to maintain peace so Western Railway (NWR) and tives on agitation. could “investigate himself” was the Finance Secretary. Gehlot called the stone pelting people should listen to him." West Central Railway (WCR) On Saturday, a since he had been the Union There is a clear conflict of inter- and the torching of vehicles Gujjars are holding a sit-in zones of the Indian Railways Government delegation had Finance (Economic Affairs) est.” unjustified. "Holding protest is protest on rail tracks in causing inconvenience to com- met Bainsla and his supporters Secretary when Prime Minister The CAG report on the justified but sitting on railway Malarna Dungar of Swai mon people. to hold talks, but no agreement and educational institutions ed that no public or private Narendra Modi announced the The President has to forward tracks is not. Protesters should Madhopur district from Friday The agitators have now could be reached. as promised by the State property should be damaged Rafale deal in April 2015. the CAG report to the Lok come forward for talks. The evening. The agitation started blocking highways con- Bainsla has said that the Government. and rail or railway traffic be dis- Accusing Mehrishi of being Sabha, the Rajya Sabha and the Government is open for dia- spread as Bainsla refused to call necting major cities. community will continue their In the notice pasted by the rupted during any agitation. “complicit” in the “irregulari- Government. The report could logue and has constituted a off the stir. The Rajasthan protest demanding five per Karauli district administration “If the Supreme Court and ties” in the deal, Sibal said there be tabled in Parliament before committee," he said. As a precautionary mea- Government on Sunday past- cent reservation to the Gujjars, at Bainsla’s Hindaun residence, high court directives are not was no reason or occasion for Wednesday, the last day of the Referring to the violence in sure, authorities have imposed ed a notice at the residence of Raika-Rebari, Gadia Luhar, it has been stated that Supreme followed, you will be held you to audit the 36 Rafale air- Budget Session and the last day Dholpur, Gehlot said, "Anti- prohibitory orders under CrPc Gujjar leader Bainsla — who is Banjara and the Gadaria com- Court and different high courts responsible for contempt of craft deal. of sitting of Parliament before social elements have joined section 144 in Dholpur and leading the protests that turned munities in Government jobs have on several occasions direct- court,” the notice said. “Finance Ministry plays the Lok Sabha elections. an important role in these The Congress leader negotiations... Now it is clear alleged that CAG is going to that the Rafale deal happened completely save the under Rajiv Mehrishi. Now he Government in its report. is CAG. We met him twice on “The whole deal was mate- September 19 and October 4, rialised in the supervision of 2018. We told him about the Rajiv Mehrishi who was the R ', *,$"--$ RR scam. We told him that the deal then Finance Secretary. When should be probed because it is the negotiations started the he year-long bitter political QRQR corrupt deal. But how can he Ministry of Finance were part Tfight between the BJP and initiate a probe against himself,” of it,” the Congress leader said. R the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) “Naidu changes his friends measure and questioned the parties, including ruling TDP Sibal said. The Congress has sent a over “injustice” to Andhra before every election and falls treatment Modi had meted staging protest demonstrations, Demanding that Mehrishi memorandum to CAG R Pradesh reached a crescendo on their feet for political gains,” out to his wife Jasoda Ben. waiving black flags and releas- must recuse himself from the Mehrishi on the Rafale deal and on Sunday with Prime Minister Modi said. “You brought triple talaq ing black balloons in the air CAG report, Sibal alleged, reminded him about the ‘car- Narendra Modi and Andhra Also alluding to Naidu’s (Bill) but you can’t answer across the State. “This is the corrupt deal and dinal principle of law’. Chief Minister N Chandrababu repeated statements that he questions on those subjects in Continued on Page 4 fair investigation should be Continued on Page 4 Naidu turning it into personal was senior to Modi in politics, your personal life,” said a bit- attacks on each other. Modi ridiculed his opponent. ter Naidu. “I am going to attack ,83 9 , : 6756-- Taking exception to Modi “Yes he is senior to me in back- you because you attacked me 89 O addressing him as “father of stabbing his father-in-law NT personally”, Naidu said giving 3" : P he Bengal Police has named Lokesh” at a rally in Guntur on Rama Rao and changing point-by-point rebuttal to the " # TMukul Roy — BJP leader Sunday, Naidu launched a alliances,” Modi said. other attacks of Modi. and former confidant of TMC counter-offensive by asking, Naidu on his part went bal- Modi’s visit to the State was chief Mamata Banerjee — in “You have estranged your wife. listic answering Modi in equal marred by protests by several the murder of Satyajit Biswas, Do you have any respect in the a Trinamool Congress MLA family system.” from Krishnaganj in In a reflection of the nadir Nadia district. in the relations between the two !"# $ Roy’s name figured among sides, neither Chief Minister ! four accused two of whom Chandrababu Naidu nor any of were arrested on Sunday and his Cabinet colleagues were ! & remanded in police custody. present at the Gannavaram air- Demanding an impartial port to receive the Prime probe into the matter, Roy, the Minister. Only the Chief erstwhile TMC MP who joined Secretary and the Director !"#$% the BJP following differences General of Police were present with Mamata, termed the FIR as to complete the formality. “politically motivated, and said, In his first visit to the State “In the entire State of Bengal since the TDP walked out of ()& * ! whenever anybody is killed by the NDA over Centre not giv- ! their (TMC’s) own people or by ing Special Category Status to + ,- other miscreants, the TMC Andhra, Modi attacked the ) Government tries to implicate TDP Government in AP as L M that it is by leaders and workers “Baap Bete ki Sarkar” (rule of ) of the BJP. I demand probe by “Those who have been father and son) referring to +0 & & independent agency into the arrested were seen firing at my Naidu’s son Nara Lokesh, who P matter.” husband,” the grieving wife of is a Minister. ' Biswas, a popular leader the deceased youth leader said “Naidu promised sun rise from Krishnaganj-Ranaghat- claiming the assailants had but gave son rise,” Modi $#()( Hanshkhali region of Nadia, earlier been the followers of the quipped. + O was on Saturday gunned down victim but late last year had Referring to the TDP join- ( L alleged by BJP supporters while switched over to the BJP. ing hands with the Congress, M! he was inaugurating a Saraswati Attacking the Chief Modi said that Naidu had for- O Puja Pandal at Majdia village Minister, a livid Roy said, gotten that NT Rama Rao had near his home, barely 15-20 km “Mamata is afraid of us. founded the TDP to make away from Bangladesh border. Continued on Page 4 India free of the Congress. & * + 34$5*0 hours) of total duration in winter season. disturbances against normal models cannot predict fog 2017-18 as compared to 29 “When passage of a west- of 4-5 every year. February also directly and can only be done he occurrence of fog due to days (174 hours), 20 days (93 ern disturbance affects the witnessed one western distur- through objective and subjective Tfrequent western distur- hours), 26 days (120 hours) for plains on a large scale it caus- bance in the first week while methods,” said IMD officials. bances and high speed of winds 2014-15, 2015-16 & 2016-17, es y widespread rain and thun- the second one is expected on “Dense fog in Delhi and in north India, including Delhi respectively.