Nepal Set to Face Fresh Election Gurdwara Call Prime Minister Oli Gets Parliament Dissolved After Weeks of Tension Within Govt
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Kallol Bhattacherjee chanda’, who has been de New Delhi manding that Mr. Oli change Capital reports 1,091 In an emergency Cabinet his style of governance. new cases, 26 deaths meeting held on Sunday NEW DELHI morning, Prime Minister Protests break out Delhi recorded 1,091 new K.P. Sharma Oli recommend Immediately, after the an COVID-19 cases in the past 24 ed the dissolution of Parlia nouncement, seven Minis hours, along with 26 deaths ment of Nepal and called for ters close to Mr. Prachanda and 1,275 recoveries, said a general election. announced their resignation health bulletin released by The decision was ratified at a press conference. the Delhi government on Sunday. There are 10,148 by President Bidhya Devi Mr. Oli’s announcement active cases in the city. Bhandari in an official an was followed by deployment CITY Ī PAGE 3 nouncement hours later. of quick action forces across DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD “Prime Minister Oli had capital Kathmandu and oth the mandate to govern Nepal er major Nepal cities and but there were lingering pro towns where protests broke blems among the higher out spontaneously. ranks of the ruling party as Nepal held election in No senior leaders were unable ed to seek fresh mandate,” for a twophase election to vemberDecember 2017 and to go with the PM. There is a Rajan Bhattarai, Foreign Af be held on April 30 and May the elected 275member Pra tradition in democracy to fairs Adviser to Prime Minis 10 next year. The dramatic tinidhi Sabha is expected to deal with such situations by ter Oli, told The Hindu from move came after weeks of serve a full fiveyear term. Paying tribute: Prime Minister Narendra Modi visiting Gurdwara Rakabganj Sahib in New Delhi going back to the people and Kathmandu. tension with challenger on the occasion of the 400th Prakash Parv of Guru Teg Bahadur on Sunday. * PTI EDUCATIONPLUS Ī PAGE 5 Prime Minister Oli has decid The President has called Pushpa Kamal Dahal ‘Pra CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 8 CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC At 3.4°C, Delhi Farmers to step up protest, records coldest ‘BJP’s Bengal CM will be a son of the soil’ day of season Shah counters Trinamool’s ‘outsider’ tag, wraps up visit with roadshow in Bolpur reach out to NDA members Special Correspondent Shiv Sahay Singh to address the allegation of in Congress, did she call In NEW DELHI Kolkata the Trinamool Congress that dira Gandhi an outsider? Did Samyukt Kisan Morcha announces relay hunger strikes The mercury continued to On the second day of his the BJP is an “outsider par she use the term for Prime dip in the Capital with Sun campaign visit to West Ben ty”. Minister P.V. Narasimha Rao? Ashok Kumar day recording the coldest gal, Union Home Minister “To defeat you, Mamataji, Is she trying to create a coun NEW DELHI Govt. invites farmers for talks minimum temperature — Amit Shah on Sunday said we do not need anyone to try where people of one The leaders of the Samyukt 3.4 degrees Celsius — for the the State was yearning for come from Delhi. A son of State are not allowed in oth Kisan Morcha (SKM), a joint Press Trust of India those previously invited season. This was five de change, and added that the the soil will stand before you er States?” he said. front of farmer unions, on New Delhi protesting union leaders to grees colder than the nor BJP Chief Minister of the and defeat you in the polls. Mr. Shah, who visited Vis Sunday announced a further The government on Sunday provide details of their mal for this time of the year. State would be a dhartiputra In the coming election, we Amit Shah va Bharati University in San intensification of their agita invited the farmer unions remaining concerns and The maximum tempera (son of the soil). will give West Bengal a Chief tiniketan, held a roadshow tion against the three farm for the next round of talks doubts and suggest a date ture on Sunday was 22.4 de Mr. Shah’s remarks not Minister who is a son of the raked up by the Trinamool in Bolpur to wrap up his laws, including relay hunger and asked them to choose a as per convenience for next grees Celsius, which was only give some clarity about soil,” Mr. Shah said. was aimed at creating confu twoday visit. strikes at protest sites and convenient date. round of talks.” normal for the season. the party’s chief ministerial The Home Minister said sion. “Mamata ji is having reaching out to constituents In a letter to the union He said the Centre was DETAILS ON Ī PAGE 2 candidate but are also aimed the insideroutsider debate memory loss. When she was CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 8 of the ruling National Demo leaders, Vivek Aggarwal, making all efforts to find cratic Alliance. Joint Secretary, Agriculture appropriate solution to At a press conference at Ministry, said: “ I request resolve their issues. Singhu, a protest site at the DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD DelhiHaryana border, SKM shared with the people,” hunger strikes from Monday. 34 arrested under new U.P. ordinance so far leaders said they would ap Bharatiya Kisan Union presi “Eleven leaders would ob proach the NDA leaders on dent Rakesh Tikait said. serve fast for 24 hours every In less than a month since its promulgation, 11 FIRs have been filed under the anticonversion law December 26 and 27, appeal The SKM leaders added day. We appeal to those ing to them to compel the that the NDA constituents holding sitins in other parts Omar Rashid police have lodged cases un Through a photo of the wed ter a man alleged that his blackmailed her. Recently, he BJP to withdraw the laws. would also be opposed if of the country as well to ob LUCKNOW der the new ordinance in ding posted by the accused daughter was married started threatening her to “We will go to the resi they did not support the serve hunger strike,” Mr. Ya With fresh cases in Shahja Gautam Buddha Nagar, Mau, on Facebook, they got to through deceit using a fake marry him by forcibly trying dences of NDA leaders over farmers. dav said. hanpur and Kannauj, the Bijnor, Hardoi, Sitapur, Mu know that the man was a name. A group of BJP leaders to convert her, the police the weekend and seek their Swaraj India president Yo number of FIRs lodged under zaffarnagar, Moradabad, Ba Muslim, alleged Ajay, claim had accompanied the com said. The man was also boo support for the agitation. gendra Yadav said the farm CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 8 the Uttar Pradesh Prohibition reilly and Etah. ing that even his sister did not plainant to the police. ked for rape and extortion. And their replies would be er leaders would hold relay AGENTS PROTEST Ī PAGE 9 of Unlawful Conversion of Re In Kannauj, a case was know of his religion. Addi In Shahjahanpur, a Muslim In Sitapur, 13 persons have ligion Ordinance, 2020, has lodged under Sections 3 and tional Superintendent of Pol youth, identified as Moham been arrested after a Hindu reached 11. 5 of the ordinance in Gurusa ice Vinod Kumar said the ac mad Saeed, was arrested on student allegedly eloped with The ordinance was pro haiganj against a Muslim man cused was arrested on charges of allegedly sexually a Muslim van driver of the mulgated on November 27 in his thirties for marrying a Saturday. “The man and the exploiting a woman after con same village, Makhu Behar in and since then, it has been in Hindu woman, aged 26, alleg woman had married as per cealing his religion, said San Tambaur, said Deputy Supe voked roughly once in 48 ho edly through a fraudulent Hindu rituals,” he said. jay Kumar, Superintendent of rintendent of Police, Lahar urs. At least 34 persons have Hindu identity. Police, Shahjahanpur City. pur, Yadvendra Yadav. The been arrested so far, the pol Ajay Verma, the brother of BJP leaders in tow The police said the accused girl’s father alleged that the ice in various districts said. the woman, said the man Superintendent of Police, raped the woman five years boy induced his daughter to Along with those in Shah named Taufeeq was going by Kannauj, Prabhat Verma said ago. He also clicked intimate flee from home with the in jahanpur and Kannauj, the a fake name of Rahul Verma. a complaint was registered af pictures of the woman and tention of conversion. Delhi HC orders police protection for old couple Duo claims assault by daughter, husband Staff Reporter and oldage ailments, said New Delhi that on October 12 he was The Delhi High Court has or beaten up by his daughter. dered the city police to en He had called the police and sure sufficient protection for some officers had visited the a senior citizen couple who premises.