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& ( D6 ) E # E E /12$/%"3)456 !" #$!% 4;,A04=,:08=B 9 $$, . (=7$:, :& :&0=0= ! " # &= 8B;$B:$$86 0 6/84:086 :&:%%804 &(:&30 ""#$!#% %#%#% #&#%%# C$ % !-$05 //+" C 0 #8 * )7)89& )5: R HAPPY NEW YEAR 67 ( proved that free and fair polls were not possible under a par- angladesh Prime Minister tisan Government. T h e BSheikh Hasina’s ruling BNP’s decision to stay away alliance on Monday swept to a from the general election five landslide victory in the gener- years ago was not wrong, he al elections, securing a third said. The NUF is a coalition of have written to Rajya Sabha straight term, an outcome that opposition parties such as the Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu, would be good news for India’s BNP, Gono Forum, Jatiya demanding that the triple talaq ties with Dhaka, especially on Samajtantrik Dal-JSD, Nagorik Bill should be sent to the national security front. Oikya and Krishak Sramik a select committee of the The Opposition alliance, Janata League. &8968$7: House for consideration and comprising jailed ex-premier Bangladesh’s Chief Election the motion was initiated by ! " Khaleda Zia’s BNP and some Commissioner KM Nurul he Opposition parties led Trinamool Congress MP #$ % small parties, rejected the poll Huda, however, ruled out any Tby the Congress put up a Derek O’Brien. As per the res- & # ' outcome as “farcical” and scope of holding fresh election united front in the Rajya Sabha olution submitted by the ( )# demanded fresh election. The as demanded by opposition on Monday to thwart the Opposition, the Chairman will L) ) Election Commission, how- alliance, saying the allegations Government move to pass the have to take it up before tak- M ever, ruled out holding a fresh of ballot stuffing on the night contentious triple talaq Bill. ing up the triple talaq Bill for , election. before election is “completely While the Government pressed discussion. The Awami League-led untrue.” “We are not going to for a discussion on the Muslim The resolution has been P Grand Alliance won 288 seats hold a new election. There is no Women Protection of Rights signed by Congress, NCP, TDP, ! in the 300-member Parliament. scope to hold the national on Marriage Bill 2018 after Law RJD, AAP, SP, BSP, DMK, CPI ""$% The ruling alliance, which got election again,” Huda told the Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad and CPM and the AIADMK. ) L M # nearly 82 per cent of the total media. tabled the Bill, the Opposition The AIADMK has been sup- &. # votes polled, bettered its pre- The CEC expressed com- stuck to its demand for send- portive of the Centre on most vious best performance of 2008 " plete satisfaction over the elec- ing the Bill to a select com- issues, but last week it vehe- when it bagged 263 seats. tion and said the voter turnout mittee of Parliament. mently opposed the passage of # The Opposition Jatiya in December, 1971. the elections and assured her of ly partially paralysed, faces an in the polls was 80 per cent. After the passage of the Bill the Bill in its present format in ) Oikya Front — National Unity Hasina said the victory is India’s continued support to uncertain future in a Dhaka jail Responding to the vote-rigging in the Lok Sabha last week, the Lok Sabha. Front (NUF) — secured seven nothing for her for personal Bangladesh’s developmental where she is lodged after her allegations, Awami League Opposition members con- The Opposition meeting, seats with over 15 per cent of gains, rather it is a great strides. conviction in corruption cases. Joint General Secretary Abdur vened a meeting on Monday chaired by Rajya Sabha Leader & the votes, Election responsibility towards the India’s ties with Bangladesh Meanwhile, the Opposition Rahman said foreign and before the legislation was to be of Opposition Ghulam Nabi O && P Commission secretary country and its people. under Hasina’s rule grew NUF rejected the results and domestic observers have introduced in the RS Azad, was attended among ( )/ Helaluddin Ahmed said, She said the Opposition steadily. The last few years urged the Election expressed satisfaction over the In view the tough stand others by leaders of 12 %%/ # adding that others won three was in a state of wilderness that have been a “golden chapter” in Commission to immediately election process and declared taken by the Opposition, it’s Opposition parties, including # # seats. caused their debacle in the elec- India-Bangladesh relationship scrap the “farcical election” that it was held in a fair envi- unlikely that the triple talaq Bill Samajwadi Party’s Ram Gopal # Voting was postponed in tions. “It was a credible and when complicated issues of and hold a fresh one under a ronment. will become a law during the Yadav, TMC’s Derek O’Brien, 0 one constituency and result not transparent election... But land and coastal boundaries non-partisan interim With the overwhelming winter session of Parliament. CPI’s D Raja, Kerala Congress’ ( ##O ) declared in another due to the (Opposition) BNP’s debacle in were resolved. Government. majority in the 11th general The Opposition parties Jose K Mani. death of a candidate, he said. the polls was caused by their Bangladesh has also “You (the EC) must cancel elections, Hasina is set to take Commenting on the own faults and weakness,” assured India that it will not this election right away. We office of the Prime Minister for *&! results, 71-year-old Hasina said Hasina said in an interaction allow its soil to be used for any reject the so-called results and the third consecutive time and +,(- / # the Awami League-led Grand with foreign journalists at her terrorist activities against the demand a new election under fourth time overall. % # 2 3 Alliance’s win in the election is official Ganobhaban residence. neighbouring country. The two a neutral government,” NUF Hasina, the daughter of , 4 another victory for the people “The people did not know countries share a 4,096-km chief and veteran lawyer Kamal Bangladesh’s founder 0 , of the country in December - who the Opposition leader border. Hossain said. Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujibur , # the month of victory. was...” she said, adding that the While Hasina was seeking BNP Secretary General Rahman, is termed by many as L M O She was referring to people wanted continuity of re-election for an overall fourth Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, the country’s iron lady. She won # Bangladesh’s (then East her Government. term as the Prime Minister, her who steered the party in the the historic fourth term as L M Pakistan) victory over West Prime Minister Narendra 73-year-old arch-rival Zia of absence of Zia, described the Prime Minister, becoming the 5 Pakistan (now Pakistan) in the Modi congratulated Hasina the Bangladesh Nationalist polls as a “cruel farce”. country’s longest-serving . country’s independence war over phone on her victory in Party (BNP), who is reported- He said the elections leader. # $ ( ) *+* ! " #$% (=%7: issued orders to ensure the suc- support for Women’s Wall. cess of Women’s Wall while “Senior officials are issuing he countdown for Women’s local bodies led by the CPI(M) circulars to subordinates while Monday midnight as against TWall, an exclusive wall by have swung into action to service organisations are intim- 500.90, Indian Oil Corp women to be formed from make it a landmark event. idating employees into joining /%( & ) (IOC), the country’s largest fuel Kasaragod in the north to “Women’s Wall is a reac- the event. Kudumbashree, Asha , , retailer, said in a statement. On Parassala in south, has begun tion to the attempts by the workers and MGNREGS work- > ( # December 1, subsidised LPG in Kerala. To be formed on the Hindu community to mobilise ers are being coerced to back 5??@2 price was cut by 6.52 a bottle. New Year day under the aus- women against the apex court the campaign,” he said. ) That price cut had come pices of the Marxists-led verdict and challenge the val- Elsewhere in the State, L M after six consecutive monthly Kerala Government, it is an ues of the social reformation people are divided over the fate # hikes in rates since June. The effort to check the growth of movement,” said Chief Minister of Women’s Wall, though it is # &8968$7: two price reductions have Sangh Parivar in general and Pinarayi Vijayan in a release on widely believed the CPI(M), mostly negated the 14.13 per the BJP in particular. Sunday. with its massive infrastructure rices of domestic cooking cylinder increase in rates Women’s Wall is answer to But Leader of the would make it a major success. ? # Pgas (LPG) were cut by a between June and November. the recent agitation by Hindus Opposition Ramesh “From District Collectors = # steep 120.50 per non-sub- IOC said non-subsidised against the Supreme Court organistions which staged success of Ayyappa Jyothi held Chennaithala said Women’s to local body councillors, all are % # # # sidised cylinder and 5.91 per or market priced LPG rates verdict quashing the ban on the Nama Japa Rallies at last week by the Sabarimala Wall was an attempt by the working to make this a major )# subsidised cylinder on have been cut by a steep entry of women to Sabarimala Sabarimala against the entry of Action Committee against the CPI(M) to weaken the demo- event. Now that the Ayyappa Monday, the second straight 120.50 per cylinder “due to Temple, think Left leaders. women in the child-bearing age court verdict. cratic forces and strengthen the Jyothi turned out to be a big 0 reduction in a month’s time fall in price of LPG in inter- The festival season of group.

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