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SSP/LW/NP-34/2016-18 Follow us on: @TheDailyPioneer facebook.com/dailypioneer instagram.com/dailypioneer/ Late City Vol. 155 Issue 12 Published From *Air Surcharge Extra if Applicable LANDMARK 5 WORLD 7 SPORT 10 DELHI LUCKNOW BHOPAL DON'T LOSE HOPE BY 3 GABBARD SAYS SHE WILL RUN BHUBANESWAR RANCHI AUSTRALIA BEAT INDIA RAIPUR CHANDIGARH STATES' RESULTS: SHAH FOR US PREZ IN 2020 BY 34 RUNS IN 1ST ODI DEHRADUN LUCKNOW, SUNDAY JANUARY 13, 2019; PAGES 12+8 `3 www.dailypioneer.com USUALSUSPECTS SWAPAN DASGUPTA SP-BSP leave Cong high & dry 10% quota nips in bud Maya, Akhilesh announce to fight 38 seats each in UP in LS polls PNS n LUCKNOW RLD optimistic of Cong hopes UP urying the over-two- pro-reservation protest Bdecade-long hatchet, the ties rethink, but Samajwadi Party (SP) and the getting berth in mong the many points raised as objections to the 124th Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) on ready to go solo AConstitution Amendment Bill to enable means-tested Saturday announced a mega SP-BSP alliance reservations was the contention that it was a direct alliance in Uttar Pradesh, deliv- Lucknow: On a day when the Varanasi: Senior Congress consequence of the BJP’s defeat in Madhya Pradesh, ering the first opposition front BSP and the SP announced a leader P Chidambaram on Rajasthan and Chhattisgarh. to take on Prime Minister tie-up in UP for the coming Saturday said his party was The argument is not devoid of merit. During the Narendra Modi in the Lok Lok Sabha polls, the Rashtriya ready to fight the Lok Sabha campaign, particularly in Madhya Pradesh, the BJP Sabha election due by May. Lok Dal (RLD) kept its hopes elections alone but hoped discovered that there was a fierce reaction to the Both parties will contest 38 alive, saying the talks for find- there would be a rethink on Government’s decision to reaffirm the draconian provisions seats each and they have left ing a place in the alliance were the SP-BSP alliance for Uttar of the legislation on the prevention of atrocities against two seats out of 80 for smaller continuing. Pradesh. The Congress can’t be Dalits. The reaction was strongest among poorer sections of allies. “The alliance of the two underestimated in Uttar castes not included in the caste-based reservations. This, That times have changed parties has been announced Pradesh and will fight on its coupled with the growing demand for reservations among was evident from the missing today...As far as we are con- own strength if required, he non-OBC intermediate castes such as Patidars, Marathas photos of SP patriarch cerned, our talks for the same said after the two parties and Jats, was a clear indication that the uneasy social Mulayam Singh Yadav and BSP supremo Mayawati and Samajwadi Party president Akhilesh Yadav during a joint Press conference in Lucknow on are continuing,” RLD national announced a seat-sharing pact, consensus that existed on reservations since the Mayawati’s mentor Kanshiram Saturday PTI spokesperson Anil Dubey said. keeping the Congress out. implementation of the Mandal Commission provisions in the from the hoarding behind the Detailed report on P5 Detailed report on P5 mid-1990s was on the verge of breaking down. It was dais at the venue of the joint SP- This will be a new political rev- Bareli, represented by Congress last long, even beyond LS polls entirely possible that the 2019 general election would have BSP press conference. The olution. We have buried the president Rahul Gandhi and and in UP Assembly elections). Progressive Alliance (UPA) if “Our prior experience with degenerated into regional caste conflicts. announcement of the alliance hatchet and decided to come UPA chairperson Sonia Mayawati said that the SP- needed. the Congress has not been Obviously the return of caste to the top of the political comes ahead of Mayawati’s together. We have decided to Gandhi, respectively. BSP alliance was not limited to “Now, our party has decid- good. Our votes get trans- agenda would have adversely affected the BJP the most. birthday on January 15. On that prioritise national interest, “I have full confidence that Lok Sabha polls but would ed not to forge an alliance with ferred to other parties but not Narendra Modi’s appeal among voters depends, among day, Mayawati and Akhilesh are putting behind the incident — just as our alliance defeated the continue for UP polls and the Congress anywhere in the of the Congress. In such a sce- other things, on his development plank and the ability to expected to share the stage to the State Guest House incident BJP in the Lok Sabha bypolls, other elections as well. “This country. Looking at our past nario, the Congress gains from maintain order and stability. Caste appeal counts for very give out a message of unity of June 2, 1995 — so that the we will crush the saffron party alliance will also continue dur- experience, when it comes to us but our own (vote) per- little in the endorsement of the Prime Minister but the among their respective cadre. BJP is not able to form a in the general elections,” ing the 2022 UP Assembly the SP and the BSP, our votes centage dips. In the last 2017 resurrection of caste identities damages his electoral appeal. Kannauj MP Dimple Yadav, Government this time,” Mayawati said, referring to the elections and media need not get consolidated successfully. UP Assembly elections, even The enabling amendment to accord 10 per cent wife of Akhilesh Yadav, too Mayawati said in the joint BJP’s defeat in the Phulpur, be bothered about the longevi- And that is why we have decid- the Samajwadi Party lost due to reservation to the poor among sections not benefitting from shares her birthday with press conference she addressed Gorakhpur and Kairana Lok ty of the alliance,” she said. ed to tie-up with the SP. We its alliance with the Congress,” caste-based reservation is an attempt to restore the Mayawati. along with Akhilesh here on Sabha bypolls in 2018. While BSP chef openly believe that we will dethrone the BS chief said. consensus on reservations. It may or may not succeed in “This press conference will Saturday. On whether it was a “nat- criticised the Congress, a dig- the BJP at the Centre, provid- “Why we didn’t take ensuring that dejected voters will return to the BJP but at give ‘guru and chela’ (Prime Mayawati said even as ural alliance”, Mayawati said, nified Akhilesh did not utter a ed that the BJP does not go for Congress in alliance? Let me least it may succeed in putting a lid on agitations by Minister Narendra Modi and there was no alliance with the “Yeh lamba chaleyga, aagey bhi word against the grand old tampering with EVMs like tell you, post-Independence, powerful social groups for quotas. It will also give Modi — if BJP president Amit Shah) Congress, both the parties had chaleyga, Lok Sabha chunav ke party. This also leaves room for before. The seat share has also the Congress was at Centre and he secures a renewed sleepless nights. We will contest decided not to field candi- baad, UP Assembly mein bhi the post-poll alliance of the SP- been finalised between the SP in many States. mandate in the general the 2019 elections in alliance. dates from Amethi and Rae yeh sthayee chalega (This will BSP combine with the United and the BSP,” Mayawati said. Turn to Page 6 124th Constitution election — the necessary breathing space to pursue CAPSULE Amendment Bill for his development agenda with single-minded vigour. 10% quota for poor There is nothing wrong Govt plans Delhi-Meerut 2 TUSKERS ELECTROCUTED or immoral for India needs mazboot, BY HIGH TENSION WIRE among the general Governments to respond Midnapore: Two elephants were to electoral verdicts with express bus as rapid rail killed probably after coming in category may or may either action or correction. contact with a high tension wire not succeed in ensuring That is what democracy is not majboor, sarkar: PM at a potato field in West all about. Midnapore districts on Saturday, that dejected voters will A more interesting project gets delayed a forest department official said. objection centres on the It is Sultanate vs return to the BJP but at assertion that the RAJESH KUMAR n NEW DELHI The total length of the BEZBARUAH QUITS GOVT Constitutional Amendment Samvidhan in LS expressway project is 82 km, of PANEL ON ASSAM ACCORD least it may succeed in will not pass judicial he Modi Government plans which the first 27.74 km will be Guwahati/New Delhi: MP scrutiny and will be struck polls, says Modi Tto run an “express bus ser- 14-laned, while the rest will be Bezbaruah, who was appointed putting a lid on down. This position is vice” on the Delhi-Meerut 6-lane expressway. the head of a Centre nominated based on the belief that DEEPAK K UPRETI n NEW DELHI expressway, taking note of An express bus service committee to assess the agitations by powerful the Constitution is cast in delay of the Rapid Rail Transit (also known as commuter bus implementation of Clause 6 of stone and that the sserting that the country System (RRTS) on the stretch. service) is a bus service that is the Assam Accord, has declined social groups for absence of means tested Aneeds a “mazboot sarkar” The Ministry of Finance has intended to run faster than to be a part of it, leaving the affirmative action in the and not a “majboor sarkar” that asked the Ministries of Road normal buses between the two panel in the lurch.