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She said Minister’s decision not to join the case after the girl was it is “simply useless” to attend the NITI Aayog meeting, the reported missing since May 30. the meet as its agenda is fixed Bengal BJP leadership on Officials said the accused by the Centre without con- Friday said by doing so “she is persons will be tried under the sulting the States. hiding facts.” National Security Act (NSA) in Mamata also demanded a Attacking Mamata, West a fast track court. Two arrest- collegium be set up on the lines Bengal BJP president Dilip ed accused — Zahid and Aslam of Supreme Court to appoint Ghosh said, “The Chief — have confessed to killing the Election Commissioners. Minister knows that she will toddler after her father failed to Hitting out at the Election will speak to the Congress the annual plan of States as have to give detailed accounts return `10,000 he had bor- Commission for what she regarding this demand,” there is no financial power with of the grants that her rowed from them, police said alleged was its partisan Mamata said after a party the NITI Aayog,” adding “it is Government received from the in a statement. approach during the Lok Sabha meeting here. fruitless to attend the meeting.” Centre all these years. She also Replying to questions from Villagers sit on a dharna outside the police station to protest the murder of a 2-year-old girl in Aligarh on Friday PTI polls, Mamata said three nom- She has has written a letter “The experience of last knows that her Government reporters in Lucknow, ADG inated members of the EC to the Prime Minister express- four-and-half years we had will fail in doing so because of (Law and Order) Anand Proceedings have begun to While Congress president “The brutal murder in should not be given the man- ing her disapproval of the NITI with Niti Aayog brings me huge financial embezzlements. Kumar said, “The case will be charge Zahid and Aslam under Rahul Gandhi asked the UP Aligarh is yet another inhu- date to hold polls. Aayog that was formed by the back to my earlier suggestion to So she is not going in order to fast tracked. POCSO will also the NSA, the SSP said. Police to “act swiftly to bring man, unspeakable crime She appealed to all the Modi Government post 2014. you that we focus on Inter-State hide herself from embarrass- be included in the FIR. As of The National Commission the killers to justice”, party against an innocent child. I Opposition parties to unitedly The Aayog had replaced the Council constituted under ment and action.” now sexual assault is not ruled for Protection of Child Rights general secretary Priyanka cannot even begin to imagine demand constitution of a fact- Planning Commission. Article 263 of the Constitution, He also said that Mamata out.” has sought a report from the Gandhi condemned the inci- the pain her parents must feel. finding committee to unravel “I had written to you with appropriate modifications was not able to rise from the The girl’s father, Banwarilal SSP and issued directions on dent, calling it an “inhuman, What has become of us?” alleged EVM tampering and regarding the dissolution of the to enable ISC to discharge its petty regional politics. “Besides, Sharma, had threatened to go examining the report. unspeakable crime”. Priyanka tweeted. electoral malpractices. “There Planning Commission as it augmented range of functions she is mixing politics with on fast unto death, demanding The authorities swung into “The horrific murder of a Bollywood celebrities too are numerous evidences of had played significant role in as the nodal entity of the coun- development which is also the the arrest of the family mem- action only after the horrific little girl in Aligarh has shocked came together to demand cap- EVM programming and elec- working with the States,” she try,” she said. reason why she is not going to bers of the accused who, he incident drew widespread con- and disturbed me. How can any ital punishment for the culprits. tion malpractices. We think wrote in the letter iterating that Both Modi and Mamata Delhi. Her anger is against the said, “colluded” in the crime. demnation and outrage. human being treat a child with Akshay Kumar, Abhishek there should be a fact-finding “NITI Aayog was formed with fired relentless salvos at each BJP because she knows that However, Aligarh SSP Akash Hashtags with the child’s name such brutality? This terrible Bachchan, Javed Akhtar and committee to unravel the tam- no financial powers.” other during their two-month after 2021 her empire will Kulhari on Friday met Sharma were trending on Twitter with crime must not go unpun- Sunny Leone are among those pering of EVMs, hawala trans- The TMC chief also long election campaign often crumble down. This is an and persuaded him against sit- an estimated 56,000 tweets on ished. The UP Police must act who expressed their anguish at actions. Other Opposition par- reminded that the institution raising personal issues in the expression of that anger against ting on fast and assured justice the brutal case that shook the swiftly to bring the killers to the brutal killing of the child. ties should also demand it. I “lacks the power of supporting electoral slugfest. staring defeat,” said Ghosh. in a fast-track court. nation. justice,” tweeted Rahul. Continued on Page 7 26 killed, 57 CAPSULE Every Hindu wants Ram 12 INDIANS KILLED IN In a first, Jagan to hurt in UP dust DUBAI BUS ACCIDENT Dubai: At least 12 Indians were storm, lightning among the 17 people killed in a temple in Ayodhya: Yogi horrific bus accident in Dubai PNS n LUCKNOW when the vehicle, coming from Oman, rammed into a low- induct 5 Dy CMs severe dust storm and PNS n LUCKNOW clearance sign, police and the Alightning in various parts Indian mission here said. Andhra CM picks of Uttar Pradesh claimed at n his first visit to Ayodhya least 26 lives and left 57 people Oafter Bharatiya Janata CABINET SECY GETS injured as houses and walls col- Party’s resounding victory in 3-MONTH EXTENSION his deputies from lapsed and trees were uproot- the Lok Sabha elections, Chief New Delhi: Cabinet Secretary ed, prompting authorities to Minister Yogi Adityanath said Pradeep Kumar Sinha was on SC, ST, backward, launch large-scale relief oper- that millions of people want Friday given a three-month ations on Friday. construction of Ram temple extension, according to an Kapu, minority Mainpuri district bore the and it would be done in official order, making him the worst brunt of the vagaries of Ayodhya as per Hindu rituals. longest-serving bureaucrat in the PNS n HYDERABAD nature late on Thursday night Yogi was addressing the post in the last seven decades. as six people died there in sep- janmotsav (birthday) pro- n a sensational decision, arate cases of wall collapse gramme of Ram Janmabhoomi IAF INKS `300 CRORE DEAL IAndhra Pradesh Chief and lightning, the state relief Nyas chief Mahant Nritya TO PROCURE SPICE BOMBS Minister and YSRCP chief YS commissioner said. Gopal Das in Ayodhya, where New Delhi: The Indian Air Force Jagan Mohan Reddy on Friday Forty-one people were the Chief Minister also has signed a `300 crore deal announced the induction of injured in the district and unveiled a 7-foot statue of with a Israeli defence firm to five Deputy Chief Ministers, Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister YS Jagan Mohan Reddy addresses party MLAs at uprooted trees blocked vehic- Lord Ram. The statue has been procure a batch of SPICE one each from SC, ST, back- Jagan camp office at Tadepalli in Amravati on Friday PTI ular movement on the state installed at Ayodhya Shodh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath unveiling a statue of Lord Ram in Ayodhya on 2000 guided bombs, official ward, minority and Kapu com- highways, leading to massive Sansthan.