eye THE SUNDAY EXPRESS MAGAZINE SHINING KOLKATA,LATECITY DECEMBER20,2020 BRIGHT With the transition to 14PAGES,,`5.00 OTT platforms, the actors (EX-KOLKATA`7,`12INNORTHEASTSTATES&ANDAMAN) who owned the medium DAILY FROM: AHMEDABAD, CHANDIGARH, DELHI, JAIPUR, KOLKATA, LUCKNOW, MUMBAI, NAGPUR, PUNE, VADODARA WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM PAGES 11, 12, 13 ‘GIVE US FIVE YEARS FOR SONAR BANGLA’ SUNDAY STORY Shahsetstone,slamsMamata:you PAGE 7 willbealonebythetimeofelections Adhikari joins Twenty20 BJPwith TMC MP, in Premier nine MLAs League What happens when Kerala’s largest private RAVIKBHATTACHARYA The scoreboardshows the fall of India's wicketsatthe sector employer joins &ATRIMITRA Adelaide Oval in Australia on Saturday. AP panchayatdemocracy? MIDNAPORE,DECEMBER19 WELCOMINGTMC deserters intothe BJP fold to setthe tone 36/9: world didn’t end My ISOLATION forabitter campaign in West Bengal whereassemblyelec- tions aredue next year,Union but maybe new India Aweeklywindowintolivesof Home MinisterAmit Shah India’snewsmakers,impact SaturdaytargetedTMC leader ofthepandemiconthem and Chief MinisterMamata needs an oldlesson Banerjee,saying “thisisjustthe PAGE 8 beginning” and “you will be True 36-9, the newlow for alone” by the time the polls start. SANDEEPDWIVEDI Indian cricket, hurts,but then ‘Was chef of my At apublic meeting in NEWDELHI,DECEMBER19 sports has ahabit of reminding house,saw Yo uTube Midnapore, the stronghold of everyone that even the best can recipes to cook forson’ former statetransportminister INDIAWILL continue to wear have theworstofdays.Nothing ADIL HUSSAIN Suvendu Adhikari who quit the masksand remain optimistic worked forIndia Saturday. There ACTOR TMC and joinedthe BJP along about the vaccine.Christmas will were no lucky breaksoreventhe with Bardhaman Purba MP Sunil still be next week.And Indian rub of the green. Kumar Mondal, nineMLAsand cricketers will turn up at the The day’s firsthour in Test severalothers, Shah sought a5- Amit Shah with Suvendu Adhikari in West Midnaporedistrict on Saturday(left); people at the rallyvenue. Partha Paul MelbourneCricketGround on matches is as muchabout balls WORLD year mandatefor the BJP and Boxing Dayhoping to squarethe beatingthe bat by millimetres promisedtoturn the state into series underastand-in captain. and edgesfallingjustshortof SonarBangla. What Boris Beckerfamouslysaid fielders as it is about the fall of He also claimedthat his party To BJP from TMC, Congress and CPM: in 1987,after the second-round wickets.However, it turnedout would form the next govern- loss at Wimbledon as the two- to be amiraculous dayin ment with 200seats–thereare time defendingchamp, should Adelaide–the ball movedthat 294seatsinthe stateassembly. Meet the ones who have crossed over give perspective to anation in weebit moretokiss the edge Urging the people to oustthe mourning.“Ihaven’t lostawar, and travelledjustthat much TMC, he singledout Banerjee: no one got killed, Ijustlostaten- longer to reachthe fielders. MODERNA VACCINE “Today, under theleadershipof Saturdayatthe public meeting Congress; severalTMC district The inductees: nis match.” On Saturday,everything was CLEARED,MILLIONS Suvendu bhai, all good people RAVIKBHATTACHARYA in Midnapore. leaders and councillors. Suvendu Adhikari (TMC The eight-wicketloss in edgedtothe ’keeper –“caught OF DOSES ADDED TO from the Trinamool,Congress &ATRIMITRA Among them are While the TMC dis- MLA,former stateminister): A Adelaide on Saturdaywas TimPaine” wasonthe clipboard U.S. SUPPLY and CPM have joinedthe BJP to MIDNAPORE,DECEMBER19 formerTMC heavy- missedthemasgood Congress ChhatraParishad India’s 168thinTestmatches of all online scorers. Having slept work under theleadership of weight and MLA riddance, leader at the ageof20, he joined and 30th in Australia.And not with the whiffofarare Test win TRUMP SIGNS CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 JOLTINGTHE ruling party in Suvendu Adhikari; their number,the the co-operative movement in forthe firsttime, India, acountry in Australia, India woke up to STOPGAP FUNDING West BengalwhereAssembly Bardhaman Purba MP rangeoftheir political af- Midnaporein1996. Threeyears with amodestawayTestrecord, watchthe Baggy Green huddle BILL TO AVOID GOVT RELATED REPORTS electionsare due before next SunilKumar Mondal; filiation and their expe- later,hejoinedthe TMC. During is trailing afterthe opening ruffling the hair of itsfast SHUTDOWN PAGE 4 summer,10TMC MLAs, an MP another six MLAs of TMC; one rience, BJP leaders said,were the Nandigram movement, game on foreign soil. This isn’t a bowlers Josh Hazlewood (5/8) PAGE 10 and aformer MP joinedthe BJP MLAeachofCPI, CPM and straws in the shifting wind. CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 time forself-loathing but self- and PatCummins (4/21) on loop. examination. CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 LETTER-WRITERS UNDERLINECHALLENGES JKCA ‘money laundering’ probe: ED orders Moradabad ‘lovejihad’: Sonia meeting:Ice attachment of Farooq residence, properties After wife’s testimony, breaks but the chill dering probeintoacase involv- mentionedthe Sunjwan resi- DEEPTIMANTIWARY ing the Jammu and Kashmir dence,jointlyownedbyFarooq man, brotherreleased NEWDELHI,DECEMBER19 CricketAssociation (JKCA), from andson Omar Abdullah, and the within remains the time the NC leader headedit. ED reiterated this. AS THEDistrict Development The attachedproperties in- Refuting the allegations, Council (DDC) polls in Jammu clude Farooq's residence on Omar Abdullah said the proper- and Kashmir drew to aclose on GupkarRoad,residential prop- ties were ancestral. “The proper- Saturday, theEnforcement erties at Tehsil Katiporain ties attachedare largely ances- Directorateissuedorders for Tangmargand Bhatindi in tral dating from the 1970swith provisional attachment of prop- Sunjwan, Jammu, commercial the mostrecent one built before erties worthclose to Rs 12 crore buildings in Srinagar's posh 2003. Therecan be no justifica- belonging to formerchief min- Residency Road area, and land at tion forthe seizuresbecause isterand National Conference four different places in J&K. The Farooq Abdullah theyfailthe very basic test of leader Farooq Abdullah. The cumulative book value of the having been acquired as the pro- properties include the house on properties is Rs 11.86 crore, the ceeds of the 'crime' being inves- Srinagar's Gupkar Road where agency said. Roshni land scam in the Union tigated,” Omar said in atweet. Farooq lives. The Sunjwanproperty is also territory. Alistof“encroached He addedthat the familywas The orders were issuedin under the scanner in the inves- properties” publishedbythe ad- exploring legal options and “will connection withamoneylaun- tigation intotothe alleged ministration as partofthe probe CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 Rashid Ali and Saleem Ali with familyafter their release in Congress leaders Ashok Gehlot, AmbikaSoni and AKAntony Moradabaddistrict of Uttar Pradesh on Saturday. Express afterthe meeting in NewDelhionSaturday. PTI MP: SDMS ATTACH PROPERTIESIN2CASES 5cases of non-payment amid drop in mandi trade ingly.The police said theyhad firm on theirdemands that in- ASADREHMAN foundnoevidenceagainst MANOJCG cludedinternalelectionsat alllev- &JIGNASASINHA Rashid Ali or his brother NEWDELHI,DECEMBER19 els and establishment of a“col- magistrates by forming ajoint manytraders have movedout by the 259mandisinMP LUCKNOW,NEWDELHI, Saleem,25. lective leadership mechanism.” IRAMSIDDIQUE committee and summoning of regulated mandi premises to droppedby4.48percent in DECEMBER19 Rashid wasgoing with Pinki, THE FIVE-HOUR-LONGmeeting FormerCongresspresident BHOPAL,DECEMBER19 the concernedparties,while procure grains from farmers in November compared with 22, to have their marriageregis- that Congress president Sonia Rahul Gandhi, it is learnt, in- traders areabsconding in two aprivate setup. Traders com- November last year. A22-YEAR-OLD man held un- teredonDecember 5when they Gandhi had Saturdaywith her dulged in some “plain speaking” WITH THE newfarmactscom- other cases, leaving the farm- ing to APMC mandisdropped To ensureeffectiveimple- der the newUttar Pradesh anti- were accostedbyalleged Bajrang colleagues, includingthe core but gave no indication on ingintoplayallowing deregu- ers in lurch and prompting the by 20.65 per cent in November mentation of the farm conversion lawinMoradabad Dal men, who accusedRashid of team of 23 leaderswho wrote whether he waswilling to return latedtrade outside mandi authorities to proceedwith withsix of the sevendivisions laws,soon afteritwas en- district and his brother were re- “love jihad”, and took them to to her seekingsweeping re- as Congress president. And apart premises in private tradearea, seizureofproperties. recording adropinbusiness. forced,awebinarwas organ- leasedonSaturdayafter two the police. Saleem waswith forms within, mayhavehelped from afew leaders–among them Madhya Pradesh has recorded This comes at atime when Ujjain’sAPMC mandi wasan isedfor the district administra- weeksinjail, following testi- them at the time. While Rashid break the ice but thechillisfar were Rajasthan Chief Minister five instances of non-payment the mandis areregistering a exception recording a24.49 tion staffatthe tehsil monybythe womanhewas al- and Saleem were arrested,Pinki from over. Ashok Gehlot, AKAntony, of dues of whichthree were re- decline both in their business per cent increase in business. level, Principal Secretary leged to have forcibly converted wassent to ashelter home. The letter-writers remained CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 solvedbythe sub-divisional as well as incomesbecause The overallrevenue generated CONTINUED ON