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SSP/LW/NP-34/2019-21 Follow us on: @TheDailyPioneer facebook.com/dailypioneer instagram.com/dailypioneer/ Late City Vol. 155 Issue 122 Published From *Air Surcharge Extra if Applicable LANDMARK 5 WORLD 7 SPORT 11 DELHI LUCKNOW BHOPAL MODI GETS CLEAN CHIT DOZENS OF ROCKETS FIRED AT BHUBANESWAR RANCHI DELHI BEAT RR RAIPUR CHANDIGARH FOR GUJARAT SPEECH ISRAEL FROM GAZA BY 5 WICKETS DEHRADUN HYDERABAD VIJAYWADA LUCKNOW, SUNDAY MAY 5, 2019; PAGES 12+4 `3 www.dailypioneer.com Ph-V campaign ends, bigwigs in fray USUALSUSPECTS SWAPAN DASGUPTA Voters to decide Rajnath, Sonia, Rahul, Smriti’s fate; polling on 51 seats tomorrow DEEPAK K UPRETI n NEW DELHI India needs to address he high-pitched cam- Tpaigning for the fifth phase of the Lok Sabha polls in 51 seats spread across seven States hostile Western media ended on Saturday with the BJP won by the BJP while National marred by the panic over Fani, trying hard to keep the steam Democratic Alliance (NDA) which caused large-scale n the summer of 2014, the influential British weekly The on and repeat 2014 magic and had swept all five seats of destruction in Odisha. IEconomist — also read by a section of India’s decision- the rival Congress seeking to Bihar. The Congress could win A high-decibel campaign makers — created a minor flutter by endorsing the Congress. retrieve ground it had lost in only the Rae Bareli and Amethi for seven Lok Sabha con- Actually, more than being enthusiastic about the UPA-II that had the last general elections. — out of the 80 seats in the stituencies in the Bundelkhand completed an uninspiring five years, the magazine was In 2014, the BJP had con- entire State. region of Madhya Pradesh outrightly disapproving of the challenger, Narendra Modi. Its solidated its position from the State-wise distribution of ended at 5 pm on Saturday. argument was less focused on the future of Indian capitalism fifth phase onwards to single- Lok Sahba seats in this poll Polling for Tikamgarh, under Modi but principally centred on the BJP’s alleged handedly cross the majority round is: UP (14 constituen- Damoh, Khajuraho, Satna, programme of social divisiveness. mark. For the Congress, its cies), Rajasthan (12), Madhya Rewa, Hoshangabad and Betul In any case, The Economist’s advice to Indian voters was president Rahul Gandhi is in Pradesh (7), West Bengal (7), seats, all held by the BJP cur- greeted with indulgent smirks and attributed to the ignorance of the fray against BJP’s Smriti Bihar (5), Jharkhand (4) and rently, will take place on May distance. At the same time, there was some unease in India at Irani from his pocket-borough Jammu & Kashmir (2). The 6. This will be the second the sheer presumption of a British publication advising Indians Amethi. However, the contest phase would see conclusion of phase of polling in MP, the first on voting preferences. seems to be tougher this time voting in all 29 seats of phase having been held on Last week, The Economist did it again. Once again it called given the BJP’s focus on the seat Rajasthan, which were won by April 29. Union Minister for a vote for Rahul Gandhi and the Congress. It approved the for the last five years. Rae the BJP in 2014. Virendra Kumar Khatik is the idea of India undergoing a spell of coalition uncertainty Bareli, Congress leader Sonia In contrast to previous BJP candidate from Tikamgarh because it was preferable to the supposed anti-democratic Gandhi’s constituency, is one of rounds, poll campaigning in while former Union Minister tendencies of the Modi Government. Of course, this time the the 12 Lok Sabha seats in Uttar Rajasthani artist Gopal Biss during an election awareness campaign for Lok Sabha polls in Bikaner on Saturday PTI this phase has been peaceful and sitting MP Prahlad Patel is charge of trying to influence voting behaviour was less marked Pradesh which will go to polls even as electioneering during the party’s Damoh candidate. because more than half of India had already voted. More to the on Monday. Lok Sabha poll, yielding a duck Rajnath Singh is seeking re- Chambal dacoit Malkhan the last couple of days was Turn to Page 4 point, the publication’s main target audience in Bengaluru and The other seats in the elec- for the BSP and only six seats election from Lucknow con- Singh of Pragati Sheel Mumbai had already voted or, given the abysmal turnout, not torally important UP are for the SP. stituency, which has been rep- Samajwadi Party (Lohia). In the voted. Dhaurahra, Sitapur, In this phase, the BSP is resented in the past by the BJP Faizabad parliamentary con- This week, however, the outrage over The Economist Mohanlalganj (SC), Lucknow, contesting on five seats — patriarch Atal Bihari Vajpayee. stituency, under which the editorial has been more marked. Part of this is because the Banda, Fatehpur, Kaushambi Dhaurahra, Sitapur, Rajnath Singh is facing temple town of Ayodhya falls, Catfight has Amethi publication is a repeat offender. The convention in India is that (SC), Barabanki (SC), Faizabad, Mohanlalganj, Fatehpur and Samjawadi Party’s nominee sitting BJP MP Lallu Singh is the media, while entirely free to parade their political and Bahraich (SC), Kaiserganj and Kaisarganj. While Samajwadi Poonam Sinha, wife of actor- taking on Nirmal Khatri of the ideological bias, stop short of actually telling people how to Gonda. SP-BSP-RLD has Party is fighting on seven seats politician Shatrughan Sinha. Congress. Khatri is a former vote. Maybe this is hypocritical and it would be more honest if, emerged in UP as the main — Lucknow, Banda, Former Union Minister Uttar Pradesh Congress prick up its ears like publications in the United States and, increasingly, the UK, rival of the BJP and banking on Kaushambi, Barabanki, and Congress candidate Jitin Committee chief. openly endorse parties or leaders. However, for good or bad its combined vote bank share Faizabad, Bahraich and Gonda. Prasada is contesting from In 2014 elections, 12 of 14 this is the convention. It would also be helpful if global which was divided in the last Union Home Minister Dhaurahra against former seats of this phase in UP were publications — The Economist no longer thinks of itself as merely a British publication but a magazine that is published from London — stop extending the spirit of globalisation to other countries. In some quarters, national sovereignty is an 42 passengers outdated concept — which is why Brexit is so utterly despised by them — but here in India, cutting across the political divide, injured as bus it is cherished. The Congress may have been flattered that its leader has secured an influential international endorsement. At the same time, the more sober in that party must have overturns after recognised the ominous implications of the gratuitous advice from editorial writers in London. In the days to come, The hit by truck Economist editorial will become what we in India call ‘timepass’. It is unlikely to influence the verdict in even a single PTI n NOIDA constituency. At best it will encourage a few political upstarts in the Congress to claim credit for this searing indictment of Modi. bus ferrying 42 female However, there is a larger issue at stake here. A few weeks Aemployees of a private ago, the head of the Overseas Congress questioned the company overturned after it Congress president Rahul Gandhi with party general secretary and sister Priyanka veracity of the air strikes in Balakot. When quizzed, Sam Pitroda was hit by a speeding truck, Gandhi Vadra during the mahila workers meeting, ahead of the fifth phase of Lok said that his doubts arose from reading about the issue in the resulting in injuries to passen- Sabha poll in Amethi on Saturday PTI New York Times, a publication he had faithfully read for the past gers in Noida Sector 93 on 50 years. In Kolkata, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Saturday around 6 am. AGENCIES n AMETHI BJP slamming the Congress Banerjee raised similar doubts and even questioned the “The bus had 42 passen- for taking the segment for wisdom of the anti-satellite systems India has developed. She gers, all women employees of a he last day of the Lok granted with dynasty politics. too said she had based her opinion on foreign publications. private firm, who were on their TSabha poll campaigning Campaigning for her Neither Pitroda nor Mamata were being disingenuous. way to work when their vehi- in Amethi turned interesting brother, Priyanka said, “Smriti Those accustomed to reading the mainstream publications in cle overturned after being hit with Priyanka Gandhi Vadra Irani comes here and distrib- the English-speaking countries of the West will have noticed the by a truck,” Phase 2 SHO and Smriti Irani locking horns utes shoes and sarees. She strong disapproval of the Modi Government. This does not stop Farmood Ali Pundir said. on several issues. should come and beg for votes at their outrage over beef lynchings and the supposed The injured were rushed to Sitting MP and Congress rather than distribute you marginalisation of India’s Muslims. The hatred of Modi has gone a nearby hospital, while those chief Rahul Gandhi is seeking shoes. I also want to ask if the so far that it stretches to a denial of the economic progress critically wounded were taken to defend his turf for the BJP is so concerned about made in the past five years. The Western pundits have to Kailash Hospital, he said. fourth time against Union Amethi, why did they wind up traditionally carped against corruption but when the “The truck involved in the Minister Smriti Irani, who projects which Rahul Gandhi Government has acted to curb cronyism and corruption, it has incident has been impounded had brought down Rahul’s initiated.” chosen to focus on the collateral tremors.

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