Hemant Back As Jharkhand CM NRC: Ravi Shankar Prasad at SwearingIn Ceremony, AntiBJP Opposition Leaders Display Bonhomie

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Satyasundar Barik har sent their wishes to Mr. ‘Hidden elements behind protests against CAA’ BHUBANESWAR Soren. In a second stint at the CPI (M) general secretary Shaheen Bagh protesters Nistula Hebbar has been done so far.” helm, Hemant Soren, exec Sitaram Yechury, CPI gener told to end anti-CAA stir NEW DELHI Referring to the protests utive president of the Jhark al secretary D. Raja, RJD NEW DELHI Union Law Minister Ravi against the Citizenship hand Mukti Morcha, was leader Tejashwi Yadav, Dra Hundreds of protesters Shankar Prasad has clari (Amendment) Act, especial sworn in as the 11th Chief vida Munnetra Kazhagam opposing the amended fied that while there is a ly in Uttar Pradesh where 19 Minister of Jharkhand in president M.K. Stalin, party Citizenship Act gathered at Shaheen Bagh on Sunday for a “possibility” that the Na people have died so far, Mr. Ranchi on Sunday. MPs Kanimozhi and T.R. candlelight vigil even as tional Register for Citizens Prasad said, “ Hidden ele Governor Draupadi Mur Baalu, Aam Aadmi Party those sitting here on an (NRC) “may take place”, it ments have joined hands to mu administered the oath MP Sanjay Singh and Lok indefinite stir were reportedly will only be through a due escalate the violence to Mr. Soren. Two MLAs of tantrik Janata Dal leader asked to end their sitin. The legal process, with rules for around the protests. In Ut the Congress and one of the Sharad Yadav also took part protesters, however, refused it being defined “through Ravi Shankar Prasad tar Pradesh, that is what Rashtriya Janata Dal were in the ceremony. to budge saying that their adequate consultation”. happened, and the Internet inducted into the Ministry. Meeting of minds: Rahul Gandhi, left, greeting Tejashwi Yadav The 44yearold JMM demands must first be met. Speaking to The Hindu, tations. But nothing has had to be shut down for that At the ceremony, parties after Hemant Soren, centre, was sworn in on Sunday. * PTI leader took over as the

CITY Ī PAGE 2 Mr. Prasad said, “Prime Mi been done so far.” reason.” opposed to the BJP found a Chief Minister of the tribal DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD nister Modi has clarified He added that the data The Minister said that the common platform to dis erupting against the Citi stage in the galaxy of Oppo dominated Jharkhand for that no discussion has ta for the same “would be col CAA was perfectly legal and play bonhomie. Exactly a zenship (Amendment) Act sition leaders. Chief Minis the second time. He was the U.P. DGP told to apologise ken place so far. There is a lected, scrutinised by the constitutional, and berated month ago, Uddhav Thack and the National Register of ters Bhupesh Baghel of Deputy Chief Minister in to inter-faith couple possibility that it [the NRC] registrars, appeals will be the Congress for not repeal eray had taken oath as Mah Citizens, the presence of Chhattisgarh, Ashok Gehlot the Arjun Munda Ministry NEW DELHI may happen, but there is a heard, but most important ing the 200304 amend arashtra Chief Minister, Opposition leaders as of Rajasthan and Mamata in 2010 and went on to be The Delhi High Court has legal process attached to it; ly, the RegistrarGeneral ment to the Citizenship Act, which was seen as a loss for sumed significance. Banerjee of West Bengal at come Chief Minister in ordered the DirectorGeneral NRC preparation has a dis will have to notify the pe which enjoins the govern the BJP in the power game tended the swearingin, 2013. of Police of Uttar Pradesh to tinct legal process to be in riod and duration of the ex ment to prepare an NRC. in the face of rare Opposi Rahul takes centre stage while former Chief Minis apologise to an interfaith itiated, with defining of ercise in the official gazette. tion unity. At a time when Former Congress president ters Tarun Gogoi of Assam CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 12 couple, who had eloped rules with adequate consul Nothing so far, not a word, INTERVIEW ON Ī PAGE 13 countrywide protests are Rahul Gandhi took centre and Jitan Ram Manjhi of Bi CASES TO BE DROPPED Ī PAGE 12 against the wishes of the woman’s family, for illegally arresting them. It also CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC ordered the U.P. government to pay a compensation of Today’s youth prefer to follow ₹50,000 each to Sandeep Big moment Kumar and his wife Nisha. CITY Ī PAGE 3 the system, detest anarchy: PM DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD Capital may have ‘They get restless if the system does not respond properly’ a rainy start to 2020 NEW DELHI Special Correspondent to me, they appreciate the The Capital is likely to NEW DELHI system. Not just that, they witness thunderstorms Prime Minister Narendra prefer to follow the system. accompanied by hail and Modi on Sunday said the And in the event of the sys lightning on January 1 and 2. youth preferred to “follow tem not responding proper A western disturbance is likely to bring a change in the system” and “courage ly, they get restless and even wind direction that will help ously question the system it courageously question the bring relief from the ongoing self” if it didn’t respond pro system itself! I consider this cold wave conditions, said perly, adding that they attribute as a virtue.” the meteorological “detest” anarchy. He said, “The country’s department. His statement was made Narendra Modi youth detest anarchy of any CITY Ī PAGE 3 in the backdrop of protests sort” as well as lack of gover DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD across the country, includ including “millennials” and nance, instability, nepotism, ing on campuses and led by “Gen Z”, he said this was the casteism, favouritism and students, against the Citizen “social media generation”. gender discrimination. ship (Amendment) Act. “All of us experience that Mr. Modi said he believed In his last ‘Mann Ki Baat’ this generation is extremely that the coming decade for radio address for 2019, Mr. talented. It thrives on the India would be not just Modi said the coming de dream to do something new, about development and pro cade would see the contribu something different. It has gress for the youth but also Thespian’s day: President Ram Nath Kovind presenting the Dada Saheb Phalke Award for 2018 to actor Amitabh Bachchan in tion of those born in the 21st its own set of opinions. And the country’s progress.

New Delhi on Sunday. Mr. Bachchan said he was looking forward to doing more work in the future. * PTI (REPORT ON PAGE 9) century. Referring to the ma the best part is, especially in EDUCATIONPLUS Ī PAGES 18 & 19 CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC ny terms for the youth today, the case of India, according CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 12 ‘No BJP person will decide if we are citizens or not’ For backing CAA, Mayawati Kin of the dead wait for Akhilesh says he will not fill any form under the National Population Register suspends MLA justice in U.P.’s Firozabad Omar Rashid noncooperation. desh during protests over the LUCKNOW “The question is will you Citizenship (Amendment) Staff reporter Samajwadi Party president support me or not? If we Act. Except for the death of bhopal Six persons died of gunshot wounds during CAA protests Akhilesh Yadav on Sunday don’t fill, you and I will all be one protester in Bijnor, the Declaring that the BSP acts said he would not fill any thrown out. I won’t fill NPR. police had distanced them immediately against legisla Hemani Bhandari form to enrol in the National What will you [government] selves from the other deaths, tors who break party disci FIROZABAD Population Register, saying do,” Mr. Yadav asked. saying they did not fire at the pline, party president Among six persons killed in the BJP “will not decide if we He appealed to the youth crowds. Mayawati on Sunday sus Firozabad during protests are citizens or not”. and the people of the country Referring to those inci pended the membership of against the Citizenship “I am a citizen of India. We Akhilesh Yadav to “save India” from those pe dents, Mr. Yadav said the BJP an MLA in Madhya Pradesh, (Amendment) Act (CAA), all are. No BJP person will de ople who are “tearing the government and Chief Minis Ramabai Parihar, for not 2019, on December 20 was cide if we are citizens or not. will be the first person not to Constitution into shreds”. ter Yogi Adityanath were sole toeing its line on the Citi a differentlyabled man And if the need arises, we will fill any form,” the former Ut “Tell me, youngsters, you ly responsible for the “injus zenship (Amendment) Act, with a fiveyearold daught not fill any form,” Mr. Yadav tar Pradesh Chief Minister want NPR or rozgar [employ tice, you can see, the people and supporting it publicly. er. Another victim leaves said addressing student lead said. Referring to Mahatma ment],” Mr. Yadav asked. who are getting killed by pol The BSP has two MLAs in behind an ailing and depen ers of his party at the Samaj Gandhi’s disobedience in According to the State pol ice bullets.” the State and supports the dent mother. wadi Party headquarters. South Africa, Mr. Yadav asked ice, 19 persons have died, “This injustice is taking Kamal Nath government The dead have been

“How will you make us fill his party persons to use a si most of them through gun place as the CM wants to save identified as Mohammed Mukeem’s family recalls the tragic event. * HEMANI BHANDARI the form? And if required, I milar strategy of shot wounds, in Uttar Pra his seat,” Mr. Yadav said. 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Protesters Noor Mohammed, 59, is Rasulpur bypass between were throwing stones. We feeding his fiveyearold M.P. gets its first elephant colony in Bandhavgarh forest Naini Glass junction and Ja kept his body at home that granddaughter Afreen. It tavpuri junction. night. We didn’t know what was chicken and rice for The stretch was the to do… that’s when our el lunch. “We’ll take care of 38 elephants that strayed into Bandhavgarh from north Chhattisgarh last year have stayed back centre of protests against ders came and told us to her now. She doesn’t realise the CAA, which started take him to hospital for a he’s gone,” Mr. Noor said. Sidharth Yadav Madhya Pradesh, which in Wildlife wing, said that both from the main market in postmortem and also get Rashid was differently Bhopal the 2019 census recorded animals can coexist within the Mohammedganj area. an FIR registered,” Mr. Tau abled. He couldn’t move his Last November, elephants in the most number of the same territory. “While Arman, a labourer, was feeq said. right hand. Mr. Noor herds, 38 of them, estimated tigers at 526, thus one is a herbivore, the other walking back from his fac Mukeem was shot at in showed his documents and wandered into the forests of securing the title, presently is a carnivore, so there is no tory when his brother Far front of his uncle Kallu. The pictures. “How could he be Bandhavgarh looking for has no knowhow of dealing competition. The presence man met him and told him two were returning from a protester?” asked the food and water, like each with elephants. of elephants will not alter to quickly go home because work at a banglemaking grieving father. year. A year on, they have Experts from West Bengal the movement of tigers in the situation was becoming factory. stayed back in Madhya and Chhattisgarh were the area.” he says. tense. But as he was cross Seeing the crowds, they Helpless mother Pradesh for the first time roped in, who held “We have proposed to the ing the bypass, a bullet hit started running back when Navi Jaan of Mohammed over seasons and even bred workshops with local staff Centre to secure the right to him on his chest and he Mukeem was hit at the back ganj had gone to the factory two new calves, choosing on imparting techniques to collar the elephants to track died instantly. by a bullet near his shoul in the morning after help not to return to the New home: Elephant herds travel for miles each year in avert mananimal conflicts. their movement. The State People nearby informed der. “I found a wooden ing his mother Hakeela Be withering forests of north search of new habitats. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT/ FILE PHOTO As regards monitoring, has so far allocated no his paternal uncle Mo cart, put him on it and gum to the washroom as Chhattisgarh. three patrolling teams track separate funds for the hammed Taufeeq that Ar pushed about 3 km to the she has a knee injury and The herd has found Director Sidharth Gupta. herds of 20, 10 and eight the herd’s movement round upkeep of their habitat man was lying dead by the government hospital. He has difficulty walking. plenty of space, food and Stating that the species is over two months last year. theclock, says Mr. Gupta, though,” says Mr. Chauhan. road. Mr. Taufeeq and oth was referred to Agra. He “He had left the house af water within the core area of migratory, and often travels That we have two new Ruling out the possibility Besides Bandhavgarh, ers then brought the body wasn’t treated well there; ter lunch. I told him he is the Bandhavgarh Tiger hundreds of miles to look members now indicates that of conflict between the herd two male elephants have home and informed his wasn’t even cleaned,” Mr. not eating enough. He said Reserve, and that’s why it for newer habitats with the species is comfortable and tigers, J.S. Chauhan, strayed their way from father Yameen who was at Kallu said, adding that he he’ll come back and eat may have stayed back, enough food and water, he here.” Additional Principal Chief Odisha into the forests of their residence in Azadna was taken to Delhi where he well. He will not come believes Reserve Deputy says: “The animals came in The ‘Tiger State’ of Conservator of Forests, Narsingpur. gar a few metres away. breathed his last on Decem now,” Ms. Hakeela sobbed. CM A ND-NDE YK EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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Staff Reporter Supply and transport of essential goods and services affected NEW DELHI Delhi Police on Sunday de Staff Reporter tained 35 people, includ New Delhi ing two women, when Hundreds of protesters op they staged a protest out posing the amended Citizen side the Uttar Pradesh ship Act gathered at Sha Bhawan against manhan heen Bagh on Sunday dling of Congress general evening for a candlelight vi secretary Priyanka Gandhi gil even as those sitting here by the U.P. Police. on an indefinite demonstra The Indian Youth Con tion were reportedly asked The sit-in protest has been going on for nearly a week now. gress led by IYC president to end their sitin protest. * FILE PHOTO: R.V. MOORTHY Srinivas B.V. staged a prot Organisers of the demon est outside the U.P. Bha stration, however, refused not just to daily commuters ganisers, however, said that wan but were immediately to budge saying that their but also to the supply and the protesters would not detained. The protesters demands must be met first. transport of essential goods move until they get written were taken to Mandir In a notice said to be past and services, the notice assurance that the NRC and Marg and Connaught ed near the protest site and states. As the national high CAA would be rolled back or Place police station and signed by the area SHO and way, which acts as a “link a Central government repre were subsequently issued on Saturday, protes road”, is being blocked, hea sentative meets them. released. ters have been asked to stop vy traffic has been accumu Amrish Ranjan Pandey, the demonstration with im lating on the DND and Math Braving weather IYC national media in Protesters wearing bandages to express solidarity with the students while watching a play outside Jamia Millia Islamia on mediate effect. ura Roads, disrupting daily “It has become very cold charge, said that there was Sunday. * SHIV KUMAR PUSHPAKAR The sitin has been going life and supply of essential here, but thinking of the a complete breakdown of on for nearly a week now goods and services there conditions we might have to law and order in the State. with scores of residents and too, it adds. face in detention centres, “Priyanka Gandhi was others coming out and lend It also states that health we are continuing the prot in Lucknow on the founda Play reenacting police crackdown ing their support. Protes and emergency services at est,” he added. tion day of the party. She ters, led by housewives, the nearby Apollo Hospital Meanwhile, large number was stopped and manhan who have pitched tents on has also been affected as a of people from nearby areas dled by the State Police the middle of the NoidaKa consequence of the road be as well as those protesting at when she was on her way on students staged outside Jamia lindi Kunj Highway, have ing shut. Hence, the notice Jamia Millia Islamia gath to meet the family mem blocked the road. calls for the demonstration ered here on Sunday even bers of a retired IPS officer. The blocking of the road to be stopped. ing to hold a candlelight vi We seek investigation into Titled ‘Jamiawala Bagh’, it draws parallels with Jallianwala Bagh massacre is creating inconvenience Meraj Khan, one of the or gil. the incident,” he said.

Staff Reporter New Delhi CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC Two weeks after police Exconstable crackdown on students prot Clarion call esting against citizenship law arrested after near Jamia Millia Islamia, a play reenacting” the events video goes viral of December 15 was held in front of the university on Staff Reporter Sunday. NEW DELHI The play, organised by the A retired police constable Hamdard Alumni Associa has been arrested for alleg tion, titled “Jamiawala Bagh” edly making a video threa drew parallels with the Jal tening to shoot protesters lianwala Bagh massacre. agitating against the citi Scores of people watched zenship law. The video the play by wrapping ban went viral on social media. dages across their face to ex Police said that the man press solidarity with the in has been identified as Ra jured students of Jamia. kesh Tyagi, who had taken The performers narrated voluntary retirement in how the events taking place 2014. In the video, he is today had already taken A play presented by Hamdard Alumni Association detailing the December 15 events, outside seen wearing the uniform place in the past with the use Jamia Millia Islamia on Sunday. * SHIV KUMAR PUSHPAKAR of a Sub Inspector rank of of “time” as a metaphorical ficer of Delhi Police. narrator, played by a blind lathicharge “protesters.” CAA, antiNRC and other Meanwhile, students prot A case was registered folded woman. Speaking after the perfor posters, pictures of B.R Am esting at the university were against him on Thursday mance, one of the them bedkar, and slogans as well joined by residents of the by the Cyber Cell and he Characters and events urged the public to look as loud speaker system set area in large numbers as well was arrested. However, he Among the characters and beyond communal differenc up on the sides of the road as a contingent of the Aligarh was subsequently released events in the play were a es. running through the univer Muslim University’s Old Boys on bail. “General Dyer” giving direc “You might have a diffe sity. Designated areas have Association, who took out a In the video, the retired tions to open fire in an ac rent ideology but how can also been set up for volun march condemning police constable can be heard ad People march against the new citizenship law at Hauz Khas on Sunday. * R.V. MOORTHY cented Hindi, a swipe at you celebrate students being teers to make posters as well brutality in Uttar Pradesh. dressing the public saying CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC Home Minister Amit Shah beaten up, losing an eye, los as read and work. that the Ministry of Home with the phrase “a ap chro ing an arm? At least on this “Read for revolution” Candlelight march Affairs had given direc nology s amjheye” explain there shouldn’t be two opi reads one poster put up near Later in the evening, large tions to police officials and ing how the CAA would nions,” he said. a photo exhibition on the life numbers of protesters took they will abide by it and DU’s notice on ‘prior intimation’ for come first and the NRC after, of Mahatma Gandhi, where out a candlelight march to save the Constitution. He and a scene where a maroon Hub of protest each phase of his political Shaheen Bagh where area re also said that if he or his hijab clad woman yelling at The area around the univer career is captured in an icon sidents have been on a simi fellow officials are pelted protest opposed by students’ groups the “police” telling them to sity continues to be a hub of ic photograph along with a lar indefinite sitin protest stones at, then he will back off as they attempted to protest with colourful anti brief write up. for over the last two weeks. shoot them. They say it is a sign of country turning into surveillance State

Staff Reporter The notice is a plication of facerecogni New Delhi <> brutal reminder of tion software, it said that A call to defend the Constitution with creative expression A notice issued by Delhi the curbs which the notice was “another University making it man are being placed sign of our country turning datory to give prior intima into a surveillance State.” It The annual event of Safdar Hashmi Memorial Trust to highlight India’s secular traditions on the students’ tion before organising prot and citizens’ voice added that to protest was est on the campus was the Constitutional right of all over the Special Correspondent playwright and poet Safdar tacks on the Constitution of created as a platform for ar Mr. Sohail said this year’s condemned by students’ citizens and the students NEW DELHI Hashmi, who was violently at India. First with the abroga tists to defend creative free memorial will continue its groups on Sunday. country and must be free from any At a time when protests are tacked while performing a tion of Article 370, the dis dom and expression as Saf tradition of highlighting In The notice, issued by the KYS kind of paperwork. Students’ group being organised across the street play in Sahibabad on mantling of the Jammu and dar was attacked by forces dia’s secular traditions like university proctor states Students’ group KYS also country against the citizen January 1, 1989 and suc Kashmir Assembly and the bi that did not want him to the sufibhakti traditions and that prior intimation for list of speakers and the ex condemned the notice ar ship law, the National Regis cumbed to injuries the fol furcation of the State without perform. focus on classical music, folk gatherings, protests or de pected number of partici guing that it is an attempt to ter of Citizens and the Nation lowing day, has for thirty one the consent of the people of art, poetry and other art monstrations outside the pants. The notice, howev clampdown on the demo al Population Register, the years been a platform for Kashmir and then with the Religious intolerance forms that encapsulate the Arts Faculty Gate is manda er, does not mention any cratic voice of students. Safdar Hashmi Memorial creative expression that re passing of the amended Citi “The biggest threat to all fight for a secular nation. tory. The organisers will penalty in case these pro “The notice is a brutal re Trust (Sahmat) will start the sists communal forces. Safdar zenship Act, which is against forms of expression we have The memorial will be or have to furnish particulars cedures are not followed. minder of the curbs which New Year with its annual Memorial is conducted on the secular fabric of our found after Safdar’s attack ganised at 1 p.m. at Constitu of the demonstrations at Condemning the move, are being placed on the stu event that seeks to resist all the eve of his death anniver country. The memorial on Ja comes from one source, tion Club Annexe, Rafi Marg least 24 hours in advance. students’ group AISA, in a dents’ and citizens’ voice forces that threaten the right sary every year. nuary 1 will be a call for the which is religious intolerance on January 1. There will be These include name of the statement said: “Resistance all over the country,”it said, to freedom of creative Speaking about this year’s people to defend the Consti and a majoritarian discourse street plays, music, release of organiser, their institution, is our right! We won’t seek adding that it would be mo expression. event, Sohail Hashmi, Saf tution using creative that were being pushed then new books and a perfor contact information, na permission to resist!” bilising students against the Sahmat, created in memo dar’s brother said: “This year expression. and continue till today,” Mr. mance by Carnatic musician ture of the programme, its Linking the move with “diktat” in the coming ry of political activist, actor, we have seen a series of at He added that Sahmat was Sohail said. T.M Krishna. duration, use of logistics, reports of Delhi Police’s ap days.

Court lets off man in drunk driving Release interim amount to staff of DSGMCrun schools, orders HC case with softer punishment High Court was hearing a batch of petitions on nonpayment of dues of employees and exemployees Judge takes into account his old age and family dependency Staff Reporter as per the respondents and directed the Directorate of management has come for New Delhi also to Rajni Naik and Har Education (DOE) to deter ward to assist the Deputy Di Nirnimesh Kumar working as an accounts as him and out of remorse. Mo The Delhi High Court has di minder Kaur and the eight mine the dues payable to rectorate to finalise the New Delhi sistant in a private company. reover, he is shown to be rected its Registry to release writ petitioners in chart No. each of the petitioners after calculations. An Additional Sessions The public prosecutor op old, infirm person aged 56 “some interim amount” to III”. taking into consideration the Taking note of this, the Judge has modified three posed the plea submitting yearsold and is doing priv teaching and nonteaching The High Court’s order calculations given by both the court asked the petitioners days’ imprisonment to a that the magistrate court ate job to earn his liveli staff and exemployees of came while hearing a batch of DSGMC and the staff. The and also the management to day’s stay in the courtroom had awarded an appropriate hood. In this backdrop, I am schools run by the Delhi Sikh petitions all relating to non High Court had asked DoE to approach the Directorate till its rising for the day and sentence to the accused in of the opinion that he Gurudwara Management payment of the dues of the work out the dues payable concerned, failing which it reduced fine of ₹27,000 to view of the fact that cases of should be granted at least Committee (DSGMC) who employees and exemployees not only as per the recom will be open for the Directo ₹10,000 in a drunk driving drunk driving are increasing one opportunity to reform had moved the court over of the schools run by DSGMC. mendations of Sixth Pay rate to file its calculations on case on compassionate day by day. himself instead of sending nonpayment of their dues. Some of the petitions have ing directions to the manage Commission but also as per the basis of available record ground in view of the old age Allowing an appeal by the him behind the bars which sought initiation of contempt ment to release “arrears of the Seventh Pay Commission along with an affidavit point of the accused and his family accused against the magis would rather affect not only 167 petitioners proceedings against the man salary/gratuity/other terminal by way of a separate tabula ing out noncooperation by dependency. trate court judgment, Spe his future prospects but also Justice Rekha Palli ordered agement for “deliberate non benefits in accordance with tion. the parties. The court direct The 56yearold accused cial Judge Vidya Prakash may also cause great hard the Registry to release some compliance” of High Court the recommendations of Latika Chaudhary, counsel ed that copies of the calcula had pleaded guilty and said: “The appellant himself ship to his family members, interim amounts to “the 167 order to pay salary and ar Sixth and Seventh Pay Com for the DoE, contended that tions once finalised would be wanted the court to relieve voluntarily pleaded guilty to who are solely dependent petitioners in chart I and II to rears to the staff. mission”. in some of the matters, neith furnished by DoE to the par him of the jail term. He was the offences charged against upon him,” the Judge said. whom amounts are payable Other petitioners are seek In October, the court had er the petitioners nor the ties.

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IN BRIEF BJP to organise event HC directs U.P. DGP to apologise to for traders today NEW DELHI In an attempt popularise decisions made by the Modi interfaith couple for arresting them government to befit traders, the BJPon Sunday said it would organise “Vishal Vyapari Sammelan” on December 30. Government to pay ₹50,000 compensation each to duo within four weeks The event at Talkatora Stadium Soibam Rocky Singh The amounts Nisha before the court in July will be addressed by FM New Delhi <> Nirmala Sitharaman, Commerce should be paid last. The couple had got mar and Railways Minister Piyush The Delhi High Court has or along with a letter ried in U.P.’s Ghaziabad in Goyal, Housing and Urban dered the DirectorGeneral written by the DGP June 2018 as per Hindu cus of Police (DGP) of Uttar Pra toms and rituals after Nisha, Development Minister Hardeep of U.P. himself, desh to apologise to an inter a Muslim, embraced the Hin Singh Puri and other senior apologising to each leaders. faith couple, who had du faith. Traffic on a cold Sunday morning in the city. * R. V. MOORTHY eloped against the wishes of of them. How After marriage, the couple DELHI TODAY the woman’s family, for ille could the police started living at Kumar’s resi gally arresting them. officials so easily dence at the JNU Campus in Exhibition: “The Homeland” an ex- A Bench of Justice S. Mu come to JNU and Delhi. While Kumar’s pa Capital may welcome new hibition that interrogates the idea of home by Moutushi Chakraborty at IIC, ralidhar and Justice Talwant take away the rents had no objection, Nish 11 a.m. - 7 p.m. Singh also ordered the U.P. out informing the local pol couple a’s relatives were unable to Exhibition: ‘Alekhya’, a group show government to pay a com ice station. High Court reconcile with it. year with thunderstorms of painting and sculpture exhibition pensation of ₹50,000 each The court also accepted On a complaint by Nisha’s by Artist Nidhi and Artist Mohit Bhard- waj along with their Ganesh Prasad to Sandeep Kumar and his the report of a panel com not have any acquaintance, brother in Loni police sta Sahu and Krishna Shreshtha at wife Nisha. prising former High Court he may be permitted to take tion that she had been kid Cold wave likely to abate after today, forecasts Met dept. AIFACS, 11 a.m. - 7 p.m. “The amount should be Judge and former DGP of the along with him (if possible), napped, two police officers Exhibition: ‘A Dialogue with Soil’, a paid within four weeks along Delhi Police. The panel had his family member/acquain — a male and a female — from Staff Reporter sistence of cold northwester sius at Lodhi Road, 3.2 de solo glass sculpture show by Sisir NEW DELHI Sahana at Gallerie Ganesha, E-557, with a letter written by the given detailed suggestions as tance to remain with him till Loni detained the couple. ly winds in lower levels and grees Celsius at Palam and Greater Kailash-II, 11 a.m. - 7 p.m. DGP of Uttar Pradesh him to the protocol to be fol he is produced before the ju While Nisha was handed to The Capital is likely to wit likely weak easterly winds 3.6 degrees Celsius at Safdar (Mail your listings for this column self, apologising to each of lowed by the police in the risdictional Magistrate. her family, Kumar was kept ness thunderstorms accom on December 30, cold day to jung, said the Met depart at [email protected]) them for the conduct of pol event of an interState arrest. The committee also said in a police lockup for three panied by hail and lightning severe cold day conditions ment. ice officials,” the High Court It directed that the report the arrested person must be days and two nights. on January 1 and January 2 are very likely in Delhi and The maximum tempera said. be adopted for implementa produced before the juris The court had questioned under the influence of West across North India. It is like ture in various parts of Delhi tion by both Delhi and Uttar dictional Magistrate at the how the police officials had ern Disturbance, said Met ly to abate thereafter due to varied with 14.8 degrees Cel Disciplinary actions Pradesh in their respective earliest, in any case, not “so easily come to JNU” and department on Sunday. increase in easterly wind sius at Ayanagar, 15.6 de It also directed initiation of jurisdictions. beyond 24 hours from the take away the couple, des The disturbance is likely speed over northern parts of grees Celsius at Lodhi Road, disciplinary actions against The committee had sug date of arrest, excluding the pite Nisha being over 21 to bring a change in wind di the country.” The minimum 13.5 degrees Celsius at Palam three U.P. policemen for ille gested that in an interState journey time. years of age, and knowing rection that will help bring temperature in various parts and 15.8 degrees Celsius at gally arresting the couple arrest, since the arrestee is The court’s order came on fully well that she had mar relief from the cold wave of Delhi varied with 2.5 de Safdarjung. Delhi had re from Jawaharlal Nehru Un to be taken out of his State to a habeas corpus plea by Ku ried Kumar of her own free conditions. The forecast by grees Celsius being recorded corded the season’s coldest iversity campus here with a place away where he may mar, seeking to produce will. the IMD read: “Due to per at Ayanagar, 2.8 degrees Cel day on Saturday. BJP’s lies on unauthorised colonies BJP erects thousands of hoardings ‘Will raise pension for old, exposed on DDA portal: Sisodia of ‘newly authorised’ colonies widows and handicapped’ Chopra says manifesto to be out soon ‘PMUDAY registration is not for regularisation of illegal colonies’ ‘8,000 such hoardings put up at vantage points across city’ Special Correspondent NEW DELHI Staff Reporter was with the Centre and that Jatin Anand Territory of Delhi (Recogni NEW DELHI of the development was with New Delhi tion of Property Rights of Re Delhi Congress chief Sub Deputy Chief Minister Man the Delhi government. “The Thousands of hoardings pro sidents in Unauthorised Co hash Chopra said if the ish Sisodia on Sunday al government has fulfilled all claiming them “newly auth lonies) Act, 2019 by both party comes to power in leged that the BJP was mis its responsibilities like laying orised” have been installed Houses of Parliament. the city then pension for leading Delhiites by claiming drains, roads, sewer lines, by the BJP across illegal colo Leave aside the projection old people, widows and that 1,731 colonies have been water pipelines, street nies in the Capital. This is a of a Chief Ministerial face, handicapped will be regularised whereas the Del lights, CCTV cameras but move which seeks to say the hoardings even exclude raised to ₹5,000 per hi Development Authority’s the Centre did not do its more than meets the eye at BJP national president Amit month. He made the an (DDA) portal states that the part,” Mr. Sisodia alleged. first glance, said party Shah as well as party’s na nouncement while ad PMUDAY registration “is Chief Minister Arvind Kej sources. tional working president J.P. dressing rallies at Model neither regularisation of un riwal also tweeted at Union The party aims to erect a One such hoarding erected Nadda in line with its strate Town and Rajouri Garden Subhash Chopra addressed authorised colonies nor the Urban Development Minis total number of 21,000 such by the BJP in the city. gy to make the Delhi As Assembly constituencies rallies at Model Town and Manish Sisodia at a press structures therein”. ter Hardeep Puri saying that hoardings — bearing Prime * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT sembly elections a direct on Sunday as part of Con Rajouri Garden Assembly meet in the city on Sunday. “The DDA’s portal was the BJP has been “blatantly Minister Narendra Modi’s im contest between Chief Minis gress’ Jan Jagran Abhiyan. constituencies on Sunday. * R.V. MOORTHY launched by the BJP govern lying” about regularising un age and seeking to reinforce hoardings were put up at ter Arvind Kejriwal and Mr. He also said the Con ment on December 16 pur tures therein’,” Mr. Sisodia authorised colonies and his claim of having “removed vantage points in areas in Modi, a source said. gress was working on a de AAP government has not portedly to register resi said. thanked him for telling peo the blot of being unauthor cluding Burari, Sangam Vi “The decision to confer tailed manifesto for the met any of the targets it dents of unauthorised “This is a fraud on the 40 ple the truth on the DDA’s ised” from their foreheads — har, Kirari and Swaroop Na ownership rights to the resi upcoming Assembly elec had set as it could not even colonies to apply for owner lakh people living in Delhi’s portal. over the coming days as part gar among others overnight dents of such colonies is a tions in Delhi and would spend the budgeted allo ship rights. This came soon unauthorized colonies. BJP of its electoral campaign, between Saturday and Sun bigticket decision and the release it soon. cation for distributing after the BJP put up hoard must apologise to the people CM tweets said sources. day, said an insider. party has no qualms in seek pensions. ings across the city claiming for this huge betrayal,” he “DDA website says that “The intent of the hoard This comes in the wake of ing votes either in relation to ‘Govt.’s failures’ that the 1,731 unauthorised said. centre’s scheme will neither ings is not just to remind the Mr. Modi at his rally at Ramli the decision or in the name “The failure of the AAP go ‘15-year Cong. regime’ colonies are now author regularise unauth colonies residents of such colonies la Maidan last Sunday, calling of PM,” said Pratyush Kanth, vernment can be gauged The party alleged that sev ised. The BJP’s lies have ‘AAP govt. did its part’ nor their houses. Really about the removal of the stig the residents of such colo Delhi BJP media incharge. from the fact that pensions eral welfare schemes start been exposed by the DDA’s Mr. Sisodia added that there shocking. Can’t believe that ma of being unauthorised by nies “VIPs” and asserting “Mr. Shah will address a for the old, widows and ed by former Chief Minis own website. The Frequent were mainly two important BJP spoke such a blatant lie this landmark initiative of the that words such as “illegal”, booth workers’ convention physically challenged per ter Sheila Dikshit had been ly Asked Questions section works to be done with res to the people and has put up BJPled government but also “bulldozer” and “demoli specifically on the issue of sons have not been distri discontinued and that it uploaded on the DDA web pect to unauthorised colo so many hoardings. Thanks to pitch to them, once again, tion” had become a thing of the CAA on January 5. This buted. Instead, that mo would organise rallies site clearly states that the PM nies. The first one was to reg @HardeepSPuri ji for telling Prime Minister Modi as the the past after the Centre’s de will be followed by a three ney has been misused by across the State to remind UDAY registration ‘is neither ularise colonies and the truth to people through DDA sole face of the party in the cision to confer ownership day, backtoback campaign the Kejriwalled govern people of the “develop regularisation of unauthor second, to develop them. website [sic],” Mr. Kejriwal city,” said a source. rights on them post the pas at the booth level focusing on ment,” Mr. Chopra al mentdriven 15year Con ized colonies, nor the struc The task of regularisation tweeted. As many as 8,000 such sage of the National Capital the CAA,” the source added. leged. He added that the gress regime in Delhi”.

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Deepak allegedly told the according to law with res On reaching the spot, firing, the police said. Cows feed on garbage lying unattended in Anand Vihar on Sunday.* R.V. MOORTHY taken there where he reu police that he and Babu pect to a minor driving,” the officers were told that Efforts are on to identify CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC nited with his family. were going from Shahdara said an officer. four unidentified men the accused, they added. Kejriwal felicitates exservicemen, kin of slain soldiers FIR filed against firm on complaint by Ministry Press Trust of India The case was unearthed in enrolled in the ExService Press Trust of India servicemen. Mr. Kejriwal said. ments have improved in Del New Delhi RTI applications and follow men Contributory Health New Delhi “We cannot put a price to In the last five years, the hi today...,” he said. The police have filed an FIR ups filed by activist Commo Scheme. Mr. Batra had sent Chief Minister Arvind Kejri the lives of slain soldiers but government has recruited He added that the AAP against a private company on dore Lokesh Batra (retd). He an RTI query seeking file not wal on Sunday felicitated a we have tried to honour exservicemen on a large dispensation has recruited a a complaint by the Defence was recently informed by a ings about the issue. The not group of exservicemen and them. Soon after the forma scale in several departments lot of exservicemen in the Ministry for allegedly not re Defence Ministry official ings received show that “in the families of slain soldiers, tion of the AAP government, and utilised their abilities, Enforcement Wing of the turning a database contain through an email that the absence of any written con said a government we have worked to provide he said. Transport Department. “We ing personal information of police registered the FIR on firmation in form of ‘Confi statement. financial assistance of ₹1 want to work closely with ex 45 lakh exservicemen after it December 19 against a priv dentiality Certificate’ from Speaking at an event, he crore to the family of slain ‘Recruited ex-servicemen’ servicemen. We are very completed a contract for ate vendor who did not han the firm, the security of the said the AAP government soldiers living in Delhi and “This is the reason why edu proud of the nation’s army,” ECHS smart cards, the offi dover the personal data of database of ECHS beneficiar has never neglected the ex job to one family member,” cation and security arrange Mr. Kejriwal. cials said. the 45 lakh exservicemen ies cannot be confirmed.” CM YK EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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Trying to stay warm: A homeless family in a makeshift shelter; residents at the Bangla Sahib Gurdwara night shelter on a cold night in the Capital. * SUSHIL KUMAR VERMA Left out in the cold Plenty of room at night shelters The municipalrun Sheetla Mata Mandir night shelter in Gurugram mainly allows devotees to stay in the facility; staff says ‘vagabonds’ are denied entry due to security concerns in Dwarka Ashok Kumar One reason for the low occupancy is that GURUGRAM his December has been individuals do not want to leave their one of the coldest that families to come and stay at the facilities Gurugram has wit nessed in the past sever Elisha Vermani want to leave their families to T New Delhi al decades. But despite near come and stay here, he said. freezing temperature, the Muni It has been the coldest Decem Ranjeet Lal (35), who is un cipal Corporation of Gurugram’s ber since 1997 with minimum employed, said: “I have been Sheetla Mata Mandir night shel temperature dropping to 2.4°C, living here for a year and our ca ter was nearly empty on Decem and forecast show that a west retakers treat us like family. ber 24 when The Hindu made an ern disturbance is likely to They provide us with everyth onspot visit. bring rain in the first week of Ja ing we need.” Another regular In a city where hundreds, in nuary. Under these conditions, visitor of the shelter, Mahesh cluding children, spend the those living in the city without a Joshi (42), who is from Uttarak night shivering on pavements or roof over their head have been hand, said: “I come to stay here under flyovers, the shelter’s re forced to return to night shel every winter to look for work gister for December 23 showed ters to stay warm, but in Dwar and go back in March after the that only 39 people had stayed ka, several night shelters are snow clears from my village.” in the facility, which has a capac not packed to capacity. “Alcoholics Anonymous ity to accommodate 150 people. In Sector 10, a porta cabin holds a meeting here every The twostorey shelter — one night shelter is home to 48year evening and I do not allow the of the largest among the eight old Surender Chouhan, a rick people here to smoke or drink. I such facilities run by the civic shaw puller who works in the lived here for two years, and body — provides drinking water vicinity. “I am one of the oldest our old caretaker and his super and toilets. There is also a guard. regular occupants of this shel visors felt I was honest and res The security staff of the near ter and I cannot complain ponsible so they gave me a job by temple inform that only devo about it. We get proper bedding here,” said Mr. Kumar. tees are allowed inside the shel and blankets here, there is hot ter. The facility’s guard, Prakash water to drink and everything is Underutilised facility Negi, said that “vagabonds” are clean,” said Mr. Chouhan. The women’s shelter had just turned away as it is not “safe” to The cabin has a functional one occupant. The caretaker, allow them inside with the devo toilet but no bathing facility. Nidhi Kumari (25), said: “ There tees — mostly families with fe Mishri Chawdhary, caretaker aren’t more than 78 women on male members. of the shelter, said the cabin can a usual night. A couple of wo The 39 people that stayed in accommodate 2530 people. men come during the day so the shelter on December 23 But on any given night, there metimes but that is all.” were all devotees, he added. are never more than 25. Despite having the same Assistant SubInspector Ra Of the four permanent shel same facilities as the men’s shel jender Kumar, who is attached ters located in Dwarka, two are ter and an all female staff, the to the Sheetla Mata police post, situated within 500 metres of shelter has remained underutil said there was no separate space each other in Sector 3. While ised, said Ms. Kumari. for the devotees and that “the one is for men, the other is for “Sometimes the rescue van homeless and the worshippers women only. The facilities can brings a few women here but cannot be allowed to stay togeth accommodate a maximum of most of them can’t leave their er”. “The vagabonds are mostly Clockwise from top: Bhim Nagar night shelter; people using the facility; porta cabin shelter at Rao Mahabir Singh Chowk. * ASHOK KUMAR 70 people each, although the family on the road to come stay drunk, disoriented or drug ad actual number of occupants re here,” said Poonam Yadav (26), dicts. What if they misbehave have a total capacity of around years. He is satisfied with the fa shelter. mains fairly low. who works at the shelter as a se with a woman or a girl devotee? 200. The three facilities are sit cilities but rued that there was The officer added that the The shelters have working curity guard. We cannot even ask for their uated inside permanent struc no arrangement for medicines, canteen at the Bhim Nagar facili toilets, a geyserequipped bath These shelters are run by the identity cards and most of them tures. The rest of the shelters, at not even for common ailments ty had shifted to Khandsa Road ing facility, a television and suf Delhi Urban Shelter Improve do no have it. So, we do not al Rajiv Chowk, Sohna Chowk, Rao such as fever and body ache. and that the administration was ficient bedding. ment Board in alliance with low the homeless inside. The Mahabir Singh Chowk (near bus Rakesh, another inmate, said in talks with private firms to ar Yogendra Kumar, caretaker NGOs and charitable founda matter has been brought to the stand), Railway Station and IFF mersible pump had not been that most of the people who range free food for the inmates of the men’s shelter, said: “We tions. While ensuring proper in notice of the temple manage CO Chowk, run from inside por working for the past three days come to the shelter are drunk under the Corporate Social Res have 150 blankets and around frastructure and facilities are ment but the issue is yet to be re ta cabins with a capacity to hold leaving them without a drop of and create a nuisance. ponsibility scheme. 50 matresses, but only 3035 the responsibility of the govern solved,” said Mr. Kumar, 810 people each. water in the toilets. “There are Security guard Virender Ba He also promised to look into people come here every night.” ment, the NGOs function as wrapped in a blanket with a hea Two more shelters at Kadipur only two toilets for more than 50 hadur Singh confirmed that ma complaints of shortage of water, One reason for the low occu management agencies that take ter humming nearby. and Badshahpur are under people and one of them has ny people came drunk to the locked toilets and extra guards pancy is that the men do not care of daily maintenance. Four to five guards are on construction. been locked for a long time. It shelter but he was helpless to do at the Bhim Nagar facility. night duty at the shrine but it is would be better if mobile toilets anything about the menace. not enough for the sprawling No food, water can be stationed here,” he said. “At least two guards should be ‘Need more shelters’ premises, he added. Most of the people at the Bhim A municipal staff member deployed for better manage “People, including children, The devotees throng the tem Nagar facility complained that staying on the premises — the fa ment,” he said, adding that the sleeping under flyovers is a com ple during Shukla Paksha (wax free food was not available this cility has rooms for the GroupD shelter recently received around mon sight at Subhash Chowk, ing moon) on Sundays, Mondays year, unlike the previous years. employees — said they have to 100 new mattresses and quilts near HUDA City Centre metro and Tuesdays; the shelter, there The canteen providing subsided fetch drinking water from the after a gap of several years. station, Civil Lines bus stand and fore, lies mostly vacant during food at ₹10 per person shut nearby fire station or buy bot Kanhai village,” said Vijay Ku Krishna Paksha (waning moon), down six months ago. tles. He said that the local coun ‘Looking into issues’ mar, assistant project coordina said the staff. It had been inaugurated by cillor, Rajni Sahni, who also has MCG night shelters nodal officer tor of CHETNA, an NGO. Chief Minister Manohar Lal an office on the premises, is Mahender Singh said he was re He added that the combined Other night shelters Khattar under the Antyodaya aware of the issue but has done cently made aware of the issue at capacity of the night shelters in Besides the Sheetla Mata Mandir Aahar Yojana last year. nothing. the Sheetla Mata Mandir night the city should be 1,000, and night shelter, the municipal cor Bablu, a dailywager, said Fiftyyearold Mahender, shelter, and a room close to the more shelters should be built poration runs facilities in Bhim there was also no arrangement another dailywager, has been a temple’s main gate was being re along Sohna Road in Badshah

Nagar and Kanhai village, which for drinking water and the sub regular at the shelter for over 12 novated to be used as a night pur and the outskirts of the city. Children at the Bangla Sahib Gurdwara night shelter. * SUSHIL KUMAR VERMA

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Timings DELHI MONDAY, DEC. 30 AMU students to Punjab Minister files RISE 07:13 SET 17:34 Policemen named in RISE 10:19 SET 21:26 TUESDAY, DEC. 31 continue peaceful stir police complaint RISE 07:14 SET 17:35 RISE 10:55 SET 22:19 Nehtaur death probe Daily dharna near BabeSyed gate WEDNESDAY, JAN. 01 ‘Doctored’ video of him goes viral RISE 07:14 SET 17:36 Suleman was shot dead during CAA protests in U.P. town Press trust of india Press trust of india man said on Sunday. RISE 11:28 SET 23:12 Aligarh Chandigarh Mr. Randhawa told the Special Correspondent tor Ashish Tomar and Con was suspect. “The District Students of the Aligarh Mus Punjab Minister Sukhjinder media that he will also ask Ghaziabad stable Mohit. Magistrate has also pro lim University (AMU) on Sun Singh Randhawa has filed a Punjab’s Director General of Nine days after Suleman Afzal Ahmad Ansari, ad mised a magisterial inquiry day said that they would con police complaint alleging a Police Dinkar Gupta to tho died during a protest against vocate and uncle of Sule to the family members but it tinue holding peaceful “doctored” video was being roughly probe and identify the Citizenship (Amend man, confirmed that they seems the police were trying antiCAA agitation on the circulated on social media the culprits behind the ment) Act in Nehtaur town were only given a signed co to save their own”. campus. and other platforms that “mischievous act”. of Bijnor, the complaint of py of the complaint and This was decided at a showed him making some “It is a doctored video. I the family of the deceased were told that their FIR had Brother’s complaint meeting of the general body remark about a Sikh Guru want the matter to be tho against six policemen has been lodged. “It is against In the complaint, Shoaib Ma of the students on Saturday which he never made. roughly investigated and I been accepted and made natural justice. The law al lik, brother of Suleman, said evening and a “coordination The Congress leader also will also ask the DGP that part of the investigation. lows us to lodge a separate Suleman was picked up by committee” was formed to An anti-CAA protest at claimed a malicious attempt the culprits who tampered Sanjeev Tyagi, Superin FIR. It is up to the court to SHO Solanki, SI Tomar, Con decide the future course of AMU. * FILE PHOTO has been made to tarnish his the video and circulated it tendent of Police, Bijnor, merge them or not,” he said. stable Mohit, and three oth the ongoing stir against the image and said he was a are identified and pun told The Hindu that no sepa ers from Agency Chowk of Citizenship Amendment Act. police has asked the univer baptised Sikh and can never ished,” he said. rate FIR had been lodged. Separate FIR Nehtaur and was shot dead In a statement, a coordi sity to take action against even think of showing dis “The complaint of the broth Police sources and media re in the nearby Ghasmandi nation committee spokes those protesters who are not respect to the Gurus. ‘Voice edited’ er of Suleman has been ac ports had indicated that a area. person said that from Mon students but are still active in Mr. Randhawa, who is the “The voice has been edited cepted and made part of the separate FIR had been regis The police had main day students would hold a the ongoing protest. Jails Minister, filed the com in the video and some IN BRIEF investigation.” tered against six policemen tained that the SI’s pistol dharna near BabeSyed gate The letter said that these plaint with the Batala words are being attributed When asked if two con for killing Suleman during was snatched by a mob and everyday between 10 a.m. people, dubbed as “brains police. to me which I never spoke,” 3 killed as car runs over trasting versions could be the protest against CAA on when constable Mohit went and 4 p.m. behind the December 15 said the Minister. labourers in Haryana part of the same FIR, Mr. December 20. Mr. Solanki to recover the weapon, he The AMU was one of the protest which led to vio Cyber cell probe He asserted that he didn’t CHANDIGARH Tyagi said it was routine and was replaced by Satya Pra was fired at. When he fired sites of protests against the lence”, should not be al “We have received a com equate Guru Sahib with any Three labourers were killed the investigation would re kash Singh three days back. in selfdefence, Suleman got amended citizenship law lowed entry into the plaint from the Minister. We body as was being claimed. and as many injured in veal the truth. Mr. Ansari alleged that grievously injured. The bal and alleged police action on campus. have forwarded it for furth The Minister added it was Haryana’s Jind district on Those who have been Constable Mohit had earlier listic report had revealed students of Delhi’s Jamia Mil The AMU is scheduled to er investigations to the State an old video which was be Sunday when they were run named include the then SHO been involved in cases of that Suleman was hit by a lia Islamia. reopen after the winter vaca Cyber Crime Cell,” Batala ing circulated after tamper over by a car, police said. PTI Rajesh Solanki, SubInspec ‘encounters’ and his role police bullet. Meanwhile, the Aligarh tion on January 6. SSP Opinderjit Singh Ghu ing the voice.

Press trust of india Lok Sabha Speaker urges State govt. to act with sensitivity Karnal (Haryana) Haryana Chief Minister Ma Press trust of india support,” he said in another nohar Lal Khattar on Sun jaipur tweet. day inaugurated a canteen Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla During the visit to the hos here where farmers and la on Sunday expressed con pital, Mr. Birla termed the bourers will get food for cern over the death of infants death of newborns tragic and ₹10. at a government hospital in painful while instructing offi Mr. Khattar inaugurated Rajasthan’s Kota district and cials to make adequate medi the Atal Kisan Mazdoor urged the State government cal arrangements. canteen in Karnal’s New to act with sensitivity. Anaj Mandi. Mr. Birla, representing the Highlevel meeting “The canteen has been Kota parliamentary consti On Saturday, Rajasthan Chief constructed by the Harya tuency, visited JK Lone Ma Minister Ashok Gehlot had na State Agricultural Mar ternal and Child Hospital to Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla held a highlevel review keting Board at a cost of ₹4 take stock of the situation meeting on the infants’ lakh. It is very pocket where 77 infants have report should act with sensitivity so deaths at the hospital in Kota. friendly as people will get a edly died in the last 24 days. that such incidents do not oc The Chief Minister in wholesome diet from the He also directed the officials cur in future,” Mr. Birla structed health department canteen at a price of ₹10. to make adequate arrange tweeted in Hindi. officials to take proper care The food will include four ment to ensure such inci “The untimely death of of newborns in all hospitals rotis, pulses, vegetables dents do not occur in the any infant due to lack of med in the State and do intensive and rice,” an official state future. ical equipment and resourc monitoring. ment said. “The untimely death of 77 es is worrying. According to Also, he gave directions to The Chief Minister infants in 24 days in the lar the advice of doctors, the set up a highlevel committee hoped the scheme will be gest hospital in KotaBundi availability of necessary life of expert doctors and subject effective with nutritious parliamentary constituency saving equipment and re experts in the case of deaths food provided to labourers is a matter of serious con sources will be ensured in to submit a report at the ear Stranded passengers sleep inside Prayagraj railway station on a cold morning on Sunday as heavy fog delayed trains. * PTI and farmers at an afforda cern. The State government the next 15 days by public liest. CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC ble rate. Seven killed, five injured No respite from freezing cold 51 IAS officers get new posts in in Rajasthan accidents Hisar in Haryana, Bathinda in Punjab coldest in two States Haryana bureaucratic reshuffle Press trust of india Truck falls off bridge in Sirohi district Chandigarh Press trust of india cording to police. There was no let up in the Vijay Vardhan will be the new Additional Chief Secretary Jaipur The deceased were identi freezing cold sweeping Ha Seven personse were killed fied as Hukmaram Jat, his ryana and Punjab where Hi SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT been given additional charge as director of Urban Local and five others injured on grandson Kuldeep (21) and sar was shivering at 0.2 de CHANDIGARH of Social Justice and Empo Bodies while Ajit Balaji Joshi Sunday in two separate road driver Tejaram Jat (57), the grees Celsius and Bathinda The Haryana government werment Department as its has been given charge of Ex accidents in Rajasthan’s Siro police said. at 0.5 degrees. has administered a major Principal Secretary. cise and Taxation Commis hi and Bhilwara districts, the In another accident that Hisar in Haryana and reshuffle with immediate ef G. Anupama has been sioner. police said. occurred in Bhilwara, four Bathinda in Punjab were the fect by transferring and post posted Secretary to Haryana Sanjay Joon has been post Three occupants of a persons were killed and as coldest places as night tem ing as many as fiftyone In Governor while Neerja Sek ed as Commissioner of Fari truck, including a 62yearold many others injured when a peratures dropped seven dian Administrative Service har has been given charge of dabad division while Saket man and his grandson, were minitruck rammed into a notches below normal. officers. Principal Secretary of Animal Kumar will be Director of In killed and another was in container truck. Key among the IAS officers Husbandry and Dairying De dustries and Commerce. R.C. jured when the vehicle ca The accident occurred Chandigarh at 2.9 who were transferred in partment. Bidhan has been posted as reened off a bridge and land near Mandapia bypass on As the cold wave further Rush for winter clothes at a roadside stall in Amritsar on clude — Vijay Vardhan, who Director of Consolidation of ed on its side in Sirohi, they ChittorgarhJaipur national tightened its grip, Chandi Sunday. * AFP will be the new Haryana Ad Labour Commissioner Land Holdings and Land Re said. highway, the police said. garh, the common capital of ditional Chief Secretary Vijay Singh Dahiya has been cords Department while Su The deceased, all occu the two States, recorded the where night temperatures minimums of 3.8, 3.3 and (Home). posted as Labour Commis medha Kataria has been gi ‘Driver dozed off’ pants of the minitruck, were season’s coldest night of the settled at 1.5, 1.8 and 1.6 de 3.7 degrees Celsius. V.S. Kundu has been given sioner while Amneet P. Ku ven charge of Commissioner The truck driver apparently identified as Harilal Meena season so far at 2.9 degrees grees Celsius, respectively. Meanwhile, the MeT offi charge of Chief Executive Of mar has been given charge of of Panchkula Municipal Cor dozed off and lost control of (23), Deepak Meena (17), Ra Celsius, a Met official said Adampur in Punjab reeled cial said that fog also conti ficer, Gurugram Metropoli Director General of Secon poration. the vehicle. The truck carry kesh Meena (20) and Karan here. at a minimum temperature nued to engulf most places tan Development Authority dary Education department, S.S. Phulia has been post ing ‘mung’ beans was on way Meena (20). Of them, three Among other places in of 1 degress. in Haryana and Punjab re in addition to his current du said the order issued by State ed as Transport Commission to Palanpur when it fell off died on the spot while the the region which were un Karnal, Bhiwani and Am ducing visibility levels in the ty of Additional Chief Secre government on Saturday er while J. Ganesan has been the Chandrawati Bridge, kill driver, Harilal Meena, suc der the grip of bonechilling bala, too, were under the in morning. The cold wave tary (Printing and Station night. given additional charge of Se ing three occupants on the cumbed to injuries at a cold included Narnaul, Sirsa fluence of piercing cold re conditions are likely to con ary). As per the order Amit Ku cretary, Haryana Public Ser spot and injuring another, ac hospital. and Rohtak in Haryana, cording respective tinue for the next two days. Anand Mohan Sharan has mar Agarwal has been posed vice Commission. Red sand boa rescued in M.P., five nabbed Second FIR against Raveena, two others Rare nonpoisonous snake is used for making medicines and cosmetics ‘Hurt the religious sentiments of a community in a television show’

Press trust of india They are also believed to the duo, three minors were press trust of india feelings of any class by insult gations are being held,” Am my intention to disrespect Rajgarh bring good luck and wealth. also rounded up,” he added. Ferozepur (Punjab) ing its religion or religious be ritsar Rural SSP Vikram Jeet any. On behalf of the entire A red sand boa snake, worth “Our informer overheard As per the initial investiga A second FIR has been regis liefs) after a Kamboj Nagar re Duggal had said. team, Raveena Tandon, Bhar around ₹1.25 crore, was res three persons speaking on a tion, this snake can fetch tered within a week in Punjab sident filed a complaint ti Singh and myself.. we do cued from five persons, who mobile and striking a deal to ₹1.25 crore, Mr. Bhardwaj against actor Raveena Tan against them, Ferozepur SSP Protests in Punjab sincerely apologise,” the film were trying to sell it in Nar sell the snake at Narsingh added. don, director Farah Khan and Vivek Sheel Soni said. There have been protests at maker tweeted. singhgarh town in Rajgarh garh bus stand. He imme comedian Bharti Singh for al The complainant alleged some places in Punjab Ms. Tandon too tweeted, district of Madhya Pradesh diately alerted the police,” ‘Bought from Sehore’ legedly hurting the religious that religious sentiments of against the three by Christian “I haven’t said a word that on Sunday, an official said. Narsinghgarh police station “The accused told us that sentiments of a community the Christian community outfits. They have also been can be interpreted as an in The five accused, includ Kailash Bhardwaj said. they had bought the snake in a TV show, police said on have been hurt. booked in Beed city of Maha sult to any religion. The three ing three minors, have been Red sand boa. * FILE PHOTO “A police team rushed to from Sehore district in Mad Sunday. On Wednesday, Amritsar rashtra in connection with of us (Farah Khan, Bharti taken into custody, the offi the spot and recovered the hya Pradesh and came to The celebrities were police had booked Ms. Tan the show aired on Christmas Singh and I) never intended cial said. medicines, cosmetics and in snake from a plastic bag that Narsinghgarh to sell it,” he booked on Saturday evening don, Ms. Khan and Ms. Singh eve. to offend anyone, but in case According to police, the black magic, and are in huge two of the accused — Pawan said, adding that the accused under IPC section 295A (de on the same charge. On Friday, Ms. Khan apol we did, my most sincere apol rare nonpoisonous snakes demand in the international Nagar and Shyam Gurjar — have been charged under the liberate and malicious acts in “We have registered a case ogised. “I respect all reli ogies to those who were are used for making certain market. were carrying. Along with Wildlife (Protection) Act. tended to outrage religious against the three and investi gions, and it would never be hurt.”

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DELHI THE HINDU 6 EAST MONDAY, DECEMBER 30, 2019 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE AASU threatens to intensify stir Fresh war of words in Bengal over varsities If PM Modi comes to inaugurate ‘Khelo India’ games, says students’ union president Governor, Minister take to Twitter over programme cancellations, protests

Press Trust of India ber of illegal Hindu Bangla Press Trust of India results”. their duties and responsibili and hence my step. Hon’ble Guwahati deshis will benefit by the Kolkata Mr. Chatterjee, however, ties based on available rules Minister may check a critical Intensifying its agitation CAA in the State. Snubbing Governor Jagdeep chose to tweet details of pro 2019,” he said in his missive communication of CM was against the amended Citi On December 14, Mr. So Dhankhar’s proposal to hold gramme cancellations and to the Governor. on screen of all channels. No zenship Act, the All Assam nowal had said that people a discussion over the recent the December 24 incident at Referring to the December time for tit for tat. Hope we’ll Students’ Union on Sunday benefitting by the amended programme cancellations Jadavpur University, when 24 incident at JU, when Mr. move ahead as indicated by said a “massive protest” will Citizenship Act will be “very and protests at Staterun un Mr. Dhankhar was stopped Dhankhar was barred from CM and discuss issues be organised if Prime Minis negligible” in number and iversities, Bengal Minister from entering the campus by entering the campus and across,” he wrote on his Twit ter Narendra Modi comes to the exact number of people Partha Chatterjee on Sunday nonteaching employees — protests at the varsity the day ter handle. inaugurate the ‘Khelo India’ will be disclosed at an ap took to Twitter to provide the triggering a fresh war of before, the Minister said, “in games on January 10 in the propriate time. State government’s perspec words between the two cidents happened as the stu JU fiasco State capital. tive on the incidents. sides. dents were agitating against Quizzed by reporters, Mr. Addressing a press confe Different data Mr. Dhankhar had on Sa the proposed implementa Chatterjee had on Saturday rence, AASU leadership said AASU general secretary Lu turday shared on the micro ‘Amused at gesture’ tion of National Register of expressed his dismay over the organisation is keeping a Members of indigenous organisations protesting against the rinjyoti Gogoi questioned Fi blogging site a letter sent to The Governor said he was Citizens, CAA and NPR by the fact that the Governor “close watch” on the up Citizenship (Amendment) Act in Dibrugarh, Assam. * FILE PHOTO nance Minister Himanta Bis him by Chief Minister Mama “frankly amused” with the Centre”. posted on social media an of coming T20 match between wa Sarma for quoting ta Banerjee, in response to Education Minister’s gesture. “The students and people ficial letter sent by the CMO. India and Sri Lanka on Janu “Mr. Modi and the BJP are from the movement. different figures of illegal his offer for talks over mat In his tweet, Mr. Chatterjee of the State reportedly want “We (the Higher Education ary 5 in Guwahati and the planning to destroy Assam “There are two games Hindu Bangladeshis residing ters related to Stateaided wrote, “As you (Dhankhar) the withdrawal of the same department) will first give a ‘Khelo India’ games sche and we will not sit idle. The happening in Guwahati in in the State from the Nation universities. have posted a letter of Hon and are dead against imple detailed reply to some of his duled from January 10 to 22, struggle against the CAA will the coming days. The first al Register of Citizens. “The The CM, in the letter, said ’ble CM to you on a social mentation of it in West Ben questions on the State un 2020. be a long one. We are fight one is the cricket match on government is giving mis the subject “pertains to the media platform, I (am) here gal,” he said. iversities. If he still has more “After the Citizenship ing a legal battle in the Su January 5 and then ‘Khelo leading figures like four Department of Education, I by posting necessary details Mr. Chatterjee also clari queries, we will take a call (Amendment) Act was preme Court and we have India’ We are keeping a close lakh, five lakh and 10 lakh. am forwarding the letter to through the same mode for fied that he was “ready to (about any further meeting) passed, the Prime Minister is full faith in it. Democratic watch on both,” he added. They are saying that they got MinisterinCharge Educa your kind information...” work with the chancellor, later on,” he had said. likely to visit Assam for the protests will go on simulta When asked repeatedly this number from the NRC,” tion department Partha The dates of formal pro provided his approach is cor Mr. Dhankhar had said on first time. If he visits for the neously,” Mr. Nath said. what he meant by “close he said. Chatterjee to discuss all is grammes pertaining to un dial” and amicable, in the December 24, after the JU ‘Khelo India’, there will be a Demanding immediate watch”, Mr. Bhattacharya The AASU leadership an sues with you at a convenient iversities “are fixed and best interest of the Education fiasco, that the situation in massive protest,” AASU pre repeal of the contentious Ci said, “We will inform in due nounced a series of agita time”. chalked out and cancelled department. the State was indicative of a sident Dipanka Kumar Nath tizenship Act, AASU chief course of time”. tional programmes along Attaching an image of the depending upon the circum In his reply, Mr. Dhankhar “massive downslide” in the said. adviser Samujjal Kumar The student leader also with 30 other indigenous official communication from stances by the ViceChancel said it was not the time for education sector. He said details will be Bhattacharya said the organ asked Chief Minister Sarba groups across the State till the CMO, Mr. Dhankhar said lors. The universities are au “tit for tat”. He told reporters at Raj shared in the coming days isation will observe all the nanda Sonowal to disclose January 17 and appealed to that “efforts to ensure im tonomous bodies and the “Am frankly amused. Hon Bhavan that he would like to after getting confirmation of actions of the government to the source of his statement people to join them in large provement in education sce State government hardly in ’ble CM’s communication re meet the Chief Minister to Mr. Modi’s visit to Guwahati. deviate peoples’ attention that only a “negligible” num numbers. nario seem to be bearing terferes in the discharge of flected farsighted approach discuss the matter. Five arrested in RTI activist’s murder case One accused absconding, say police

Staff Reporter of accused. BERHAMPUR According to the SP, the Five persons allegedly in motive for the murder appa volved in the murder of RTI rently was an ongoing dis activist Abhimanyu Panda pute over a rented shop at at Baliguda in Odisha’s Baliguda Jagannath temple. Kandhamal district on De Prime accused Patra was cember 10 have been arrest running the shop. ed by the police. The deceased was a key Informing newsmen on member of the temple’s ma Sunday, Kandhamal Supe naging committee that rintendent of Police Prateek wanted to evict Patra which Singh said Panda was killed irked him. due to a dispute over a shop According to the police, at Baliguda Jagannath tem Patra then decided to elimi ple. The arrested persons nate the activist. He alleged included prime accused Bis ly took help of his associates wajit Patra and two hired Achari and Das to hire the contract killers from Gan two contract killers from As jam district. ka area of Ganjam district. Two others, S. Balaji They were paid ₹1 lakh Achari and Rasa Bihari Das, for the murder, said the SP. who had acted as mediators between the prime accused Killed in front of house and the killers, were also On December 10, Panda was arrested. shot dead by two bikeborne persons in front of his house Revolver, bullets seized at Baliguda. Kandhamal pol Police investigation has re ice had formed ﬁve teams to vealed that one more per track down the culprits. son was also involved in the Basing on eyewitness ac murder, who is absconding. count of the shooters, the A hunt is on to nab him. police had managed to nab One country made revol the two hired killers, who la ver, three live bullets, six ter confessed to the crime mobile phones and a bike and named the other ac were seized from possession cused.

Amaresh Naresh Samant and others arriving in Berhampur on

Sunday. * SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Man travels 700 km on bicycle to honour green activists

Protect environment, says Samant Staff Reporter members of Boxing Odisha BERHAMPUR and students attended the Amaresh Naresh Samant, function. an environmental activist Mr. Samant praised Ber from Odisha’s Paradeep, hampur Sabuja Bahini for travelled over 700 kilo saving trees from metal in metres on bicycle to Ber trusions in Odisha and An hampur to honour youth chalika Vikas Parishad that green activists of the city. has played a key role to Mr. Samant, an engineer make Ganjam first house by profession, is well sparrowfriendly district in known for his dedication to the State by use of artificial protect the environment. nests. He took nine days to reach “During my nineday Berhampur by cycle on journey by cycle, I passed Sunday morning. He was through several places welcomed with a cycle rally where I motivated people to that started from Engineer protect their surroundings ing School square in Ber through examples of youth hampur that culminated in activists from Berhampur,” a public meeting at the city he said. stadium. Mr. Nayak hoped that pe Activists of various or ople like him will continue ganisations, Berhampur Di to motivate the new genera visional Forest Officer Am tion to save nature and end lan Nayak, NCC cadets, pollution.

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THE HINDU DELHI MONDAY, DECEMBER 30, 2019 WEST 7 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Flare-up on Maharashtra-Karnataka border State Cabinet to be expanded today Ministers likely to represent different communities, regions Bus services halted on KolhapurBelagavi route; Shiv Sena activists burn Yediyurappa’s effigy Tanvi Deshpande and three junior ministers. wab Malik, Jitendra Awhad, Shoumojit Banerjee number of MES leaders par Mumbai The Congress will have 10 Dhananjay Munde, Rajendra Pune ticipated, is to send a strong A month after taking oath as ministers. However, on Sun Shingne, Anil Deshmukh. The longstanding Maharash message that the Sena stands the Chief Minister, Uddhav day, it could not be con Mr. Pawar reportedly called traKarnataka border dis firmly behind the Marathi Thackeray’s Cabinet will be firmed if the three parties of each of these leaders perso pute over the status of Bela speaking populace in Karna finally expanded on Monday the Maha Vikas Aghadi have nally to inform them of their gavi district witnessed a taka. In the event that outfits and is likely to represent dif stuck to the 131310 formula. role. The NCP is likely to reigniting of tensions, com like the KNS attempt to harm ferent communities and re On Sunday evening, after make Aditi Tatkare, Sanjay pelling the police on Sunday even a single hair on their gions in the State. The a meeting with senior Con Bansode and Datta Bharne to suspend bus services bet heads, the Sena will storm swearingin ceremony will gress leaders in Delhi, State junior ministers. Without ween Kolhapur (in western into Karnataka and answer be held at 12 p.m. on Mon Congress chief and State mi giving an reason, Mr. Awhad Maharashtra) and Belagavi in kind.” day at Vidhan Bhavan. nister Balasaheb Thorat told put up posters in Thane (in Karnataka) as a precau Sunday saw the NCP and media persons, “Our list is thanking the NCP chief and tionary measure. ‘Need climate of security’ the Congress camps go into almost finalised, we will give called it a ‘fruit of loyalty’. Protests by the regional Mr. Mane said the Sena has a huddle to work out a final representation to all social From the Shiv Sena, form outfit Karnataka Navnirman so far safeguarded the rights list of ministers. NCP sourc elements.” Mr. Thorat did er minister Deepak Kesar Sena (KNS) in Belagavi and of Kannadigas who have set es said former deputy CM not confirm the roles that kar, MLC Anil Parab, MLAs counterprotests by the Shiv tled in Maharashtra and it is Ajit Pawar’s name figures on would be given to former Pratap Sarnaik and Abdul Sena in Kolhapur and Sangli the duty of the Karnataka go the list. Earlier, putting an chief ministers Ashok Cha Sattar are likely to get a Cabi districts prompted the police vernment to create a climate end to speculation, Shiv Se van and Prithviraj Chavan. net berth. However, there is to stop State Transport (ST) of security for Marathi na mouthpiece Saamana NCP sources said party ambiguity about the pros bus services from Kolhapur speaking people and con had announced that the Ca chief Sharad Pawar held a pects of former ministers to Belagavi. The Karnataka demn statements by outfits binet expansion would take meeting with senior party Ramdas Kadam and Diwakar police authorities took simi like the KNS. place on December 30. leaders on Sunday and eight Raote. There is uncertainty lar measures, causing bus Stranded: An elderly man reads a notice put up at Kolhapur bus depot informing commuters Mr. Patil’s “shooting The Saamana said both names have been finalised over who will hold the reins services to come to a stand about the suspension of services between Kolhapur and Belagavi on Sunday. * DEEPAK KUMBHAR dead” remark has stirred a the Sena and the NCP would for the post of Cabinet minis of the home department. Se still along the KolhapurBela hornet’s nest with the KNS have 13 ministers each, in ter: Ajit Pawar, Dilip Walse na’s Eknath Shinde now gavi route. tion pictures. A number of <> Our protest is to drawing the ire of Karnataka and the Sena, both regional cluding 10 Cabinet ministers Patil, Hasan Mushreef, Na holds the portfolio. demonstrations by Sena acti send a strong politicians, including culture and chauvinistic parties, at Retaliatory attacks vists against the KNS were message that the minister C.T. Ravi. tempting to outdo each oth Earlier in the day, KNS acti witnessed in Sangli district Sena stands firmly er in both rhetoric and deed. vists defaced Marathi hoard as well. behind the Marathi ‘Shameful statement’ Mr. Thackeray had earlier SenaAmruta Fadnavis Twitter spat continues ings and billboards in Belaga The trigger behind the Lashing out at Mr. Patil, Sena this month appointed minis speaking populace vi and adjoining areas. Sena soaring political tempera MP from Hatkanangale Dhai ters Chhagan Bhujbal and Party deputy leader calls for conflict of interest inquiry activists, in retaliation, black tures on the border is a re in Karnataka ryasheel Mane, who led the Eknath Shinde as ‘coordina ened Kannada hoardings cent controversial statement Dhairyasheel Mane protests in Kolhapur, said at tors’ to oversee his govern Tanvi Deshpande an admission that Mr. Fadna not Maharashtra’s fault but Shiv Sena MP from Hatkanangale and hotel billboards in Kol by KNS chief Bhimashankar a time when the border dis ment’s efforts to expedite the Mumbai vis had favoured the private staying with one is. Wake up hapur city. A large crowd of Patil, who allegedly said that pute is pending before the boundary dispute, which has The war of words on Twitter bank, and called for a con Maharashtra.” Sena activists also burnt an leaders of the Belagavibased of the Marathispeaking bor Supreme Court, “certain been festering for more than between former chief minis flict of interest inquiry. Responding to the article, effigy of Karnataka Chief Mi Maharashtra Ekikaran Samiti der areas with Maharashtra persons [Mr. Patil] are mak 60 years. ter Devendra Fadnavis’s wife Ms. Fadnavis spoke to an Ms. Chaturvedi tweeted, nister B.S. Yediyurappa near (MES) “ought to be shot and staking a claim on Bela ing shameful statements and While Belgaum (as Belaga Amruta and Shiv Sena depu English daily about the deve “Surprised that she is calling the Kolhapur ST stand. dead”. Mr. Patil’s remarks gavi, which has a significant escalating tensions on lin vi was known till recently) ty leader Priyanka Chaturve lopment. She said, “The ac it vendetta because if it Meanwhile, Yuva Sena evoked strong reactions Marathispeaking populace, guistic grounds”. was formerly part of the di continued on Sunday. counts were bagged by Axis were, she agrees that the workers stormed into Apsara from the Shiv Sena, which as an integral part of Mr. Mane said, “They [the Bombay State, it was merged Ms. Fadnavis had claimed Bank much before I married former CM favoured moving Theatre in Kolhapur city and has lent political support to Maharashtra. KNS] had the audacity to with the Mysore State (later that the State government Devendra… The government accounts to Axis Bank as she halted the screening of the MES throughout its de Chief Minister Uddhav burn the effigy of our Chief Karnataka) at the time of the was shifting salary accounts should think rationally.” She was employed there. If deci Avane Srimannarayana, a cadeslong struggle. Thackeray has even referred Minister and party leader reorganisation of States in of employees out of Axis called it an attack on their sion to move accounts was popular Kannada film. They The MES, which claims to to Belagavi and its nearby Uddhav Thackeray, who has 1956. The MES, which came Bank, where she is a senior freedom of expression. business as usual with zilch also issued a warning to represent the Marathispeak areas where people chiefly shown uncommon restraint into being in 1948, has been executive, to target her and Sharing a link to the arti involvement of her and theatre owners to desist ing populace of Belagavi, has speak Marathi as ‘Karnataka in dealing with this issue. opposed to the merger and her husband. On Sunday, cle, Ms. Fadnavis tweeted, former CM then where is the from showing Kannada mo been agitating for the merger occupied Maharashtra’, Our protest today, in which a continues to do so. Ms. Chaturvedi said this was “Having a bad leader was question of targeting?” Cong. alleges drug use at Sunburn CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC ‘Hydropower Confluence of traditions plants likely in festival, Goa Police say no evidence Mahadayi basin’ Press Trust of India Sniffer dogs, three undercover ANC teams deployed at venue Panaji Press Trust of India declared dead at a hospital be tarnished further.” The Centre will explore the Panaji in Mapusa the same evening. Leader of Opposition in possibility of installing hy The Congress on Sunday The police said the possi the Assembly Digamber Ka dropower plants in Maha claimed that drug overdose bility of drug overdose can mat, in a statement, de dayi basin of Goa region if could be the reason for the not be ruled out, but are yet manded that Chief Minister feasible sites are identified, death of two tourists at Sun to get the autopsy reports. Pramod Sawant take action Union Power Minister R.K. burn Music Festival, and it A Congress delegation, in before Goa is branded as a Singh has said. indicated sale of narcotics at cluding State Youth Con “drug destination”. Goa is also looking into the venue. gress leaders Varad Mardol Mr. Kamat said, “I have se the possibility of installing The Goa Police, however, kar, Amarnath Panjikar, rious apprehensions about hydropower plants at two said no case of drug use or Janardan Bhandari and Ur the alleged nexus between of its prominent dams, ac sale has been detected at the fan Mulla, met Utkarsh Pra politicians, police and drug cording to State Power Mi festival venue at Vagatore in soon, Superintendent of Pol traders and peddlers in Goa. nister Nilesh Cabral. Mr. North Goa district so far. ice (North), on Sunday, I have raised this in the past Singh met Mr. Cabral at the The opposition party de demanding that the permis too.” He said “drugs have Power Grid Corporation’s manded that the permission sion given to the Sunburn or reached the far remote areas facility at Colvale village. for the annual electronic ganisers be revoked. of this tiny State” and Mr. Sa After the meeting, Mr. dance music festival, which Talking to reporters, Mr. want should act “before the Singh said if Goa identifies began on Friday and will Mardolkar said “similar Bhasmasur [monster] of some sites for hydroelec end on Sunday, be revoked deaths due to drug over drugs turns Goa into ashes“. tricity projects in the Ma and an inquiry be conduct dose” had been reported at However, the Anti Narcot hadayi basin, then the Na ed. Festival organisers were the festival in the past. He ics Cell (ANC) of the Goa Pol tional Hydroelectric Power not available for comment. said, “Two deaths is a clear ice said no case of drug use Corporation (NHPC) would Sai Prasad and Venkat, indication that drugped has been found at the festiv look into its feasibility. “If who had arrived from And dling takes place at the fes al venue. Drugsniffer dogs you indicate some sites to hra Pradesh, felt uneasy out tival. Goa has already got the have been deployed at the us, I will ask the NHPC to side the venue of the festival dubious distinction as a venue along with three un In sync: Tribal people from different hamlets in Aarey colony perform a traditional dance as part of Aarey Mahotsav to celebrate investigate the sites, and if on Friday while waiting for place of drugs. We can’t al dercover teams of ANC per World Biodiversity Day in Goregaon on Sunday. * VIJAY BATE feasible, we will set up hy the gates to open. They were low the image of the State to sonnel, the Goa Police said. 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Press Trust of India several of them jumping ED was a brilliant move. It followed the October 24 Press Trust of India various group, including Mumbai ship. Prominent among charged up our rank and election results, the Pune some Left outfits and Mus It’s never over until it is them was Satara MP file,” said the NCP leader. unthinkable unfolded in Hundreds of people took lim organisations, under the over. This would be the Udayanraje Bhosale, a As the campaign began, Maharashtra politics. The out a march in Pune to prot aegis of CAA and NRC Virod takeaway from the year 2019 descendant of King Shivaji, Mr. Shah and Mr. Fadnavis Sena burnt bridges with the est the Citizenship Amend hi Maharally Niyojan Samiti, for the Sharad Pawarled who joined the ruling BJP. trained their guns at Mr. BJP and joined hands with ment Act (CAA) and the Na began at Golibar Maidan in Nationalist Congress Party “At that juncture it Pawar, realising that he was the NCP and Congress, tional Register of Citizens on Cantonment area and con (NCP). If anyone thought seemed it was a difficult task the defacto leader of the ignoring niggles of Sunday (NRC). The protes cluded at the divisional that a regional party with an to retain even 41 seats won opposition camp. Then ideological incompatibility. ters shouted slogans against commissioner’s office. aging patriarch and eroding in 2014, our worstever came the defining moment During the tortuous the new law and held pla The protesters also shout base did not have much of a performance,” said an NCP of the campaign: Mr. Pawar alliance talks between the cards with messages such as ed slogans against Prime Mi future in the face of leader, requesting delivering a fiery speech in three parties, Mr. Pawar’s ‘We reject Modi Made Holo nister Narendra Modi and Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) anonymity. But an Satara, where the Lok Sabha nephew and the party’s caust’, ‘We Reject CAA and Union Home Minister Amit juggernaut, the Lok Sabha aggressive campaign by byelection was being held legislature wing leader Ajit NRC’, ‘Stop dividing India’ Shah. Heavy police bando polls proved them right, but former chief minister simultaneously, in pouring Pawar made a dramatic and ‘Boycott CAA and NRC’. bast was deployed to main the Maharashtra Assembly Devendra Fadnavis and BJP rain. Pictures of a soakedto move to join hands with the The march, organised by tain law and order. polls told a different story. chief Amit Shah had an thebone NCP chief went BJP and was sworn in as The NCP continued its unintended effect, he said. viral. “His announcement of deputy chief minister on alliance with the Congress “Fadnavis’s comment that the ED visit and the speech November 23. However, his for the Lok Sabha, but both Pawar’s brand of breakand in Satara reversed the tide in uncle managed to keep the the parties fared badly. make parties was now over our favour,” the NCP leader flock together, and the few The Mr. Pawarled party stoked the fire in the belly of said. The party won 54 seats NCP MLAs who were with only retained its 2014 tally of our workers,” he said. in the Assembly, 13 more Mr. Ajit Pawar returned one five seats, four of which than its 2014 tally, and its by one to the party. came from Maharashtra. Turning the tables candidate, Mr. Pawar’s old Realising that he had no The Congress was reduced Weeks before the polls, the friend, Sriniwas Patil, support, Mr. Ajit PAwar to a single seat in the State. Enforcement Directorate defeated Mr. Bhosale. resigned and returned to the As Assembly elections (ED) named 78yearold Mr. Still going strong: NCP chief Sharad Pawar being greeted by The BJPSena combine party fold, paving the way drew near, the NCP was Pawar in a money party workers on his 79th birthday in Mumbai. * FILE PHOTO crossed the majority mark for the SenaNCP Congress beset by desertions. The laundering case. The wily comfortably. But the combine to come to power. party, made up mainly of politician swiftly turned the cooperation in the probe. for the ruling party, the simmering tension in the The challenge for the NCP leaders who rule over tables on the BJP by He dropped the plan at the damage was already done, saffron alliance boiled over chief in the new year would individual pocketboroughs announcing that he would last minute at the request of as the NCP chief had with the Sena seeking the be to ensure that the Maha across the sugarbelt of visit the ED office in Mumbai city police who feared a law garnered sympathy. “Mr. chief minister’s post. Vikas Aghadi, the unlikeliest United stand: Residents of Pune take out a march against western Maharashtra, saw on his own and offer full and order disruption. But Pawar’s decision to visit the In the weeks that of coalitions, endures. the Citizenship Amendment Act on Sunday. * JIGNESH MISTRY

DELHI THE HINDU 8 SOUTH MONDAY, DECEMBER 30, 2019 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE IN BRIEF Pejawar seer passes away Threeday mourning declared in Karnataka; thousands of devotees pay tributes

Karnataka Bureau of two years each among the UDUPI/BENGALURU seers of the eight mutts of Vishwesha Tirtha Swami, se the Madhwa tradition. Start Let’s have a meaningful debate, says Venkaiah nior seer of Pejawar Mutt, ing from 195254, he led the HYDERABAD known for his reformist temple till as recently as Vice-President M. Venkaiah steps trying to reconcile tra 201618. Naidu on Sunday urged the dition with modernity and people to have a ‘meaningful for taking an active lead in Ordained at seven and constructive discussion the Ramjanmabhoomi Born in 1931 at Ramakunja, and not jump to conclusions movement, passed away in he was ordained as a monk with regard to the Citizens Udupi on Sunday, following in 1938, at the age of just over Capital woes: Women participating in a protest organised by Amaravati Parirakshana Amendment Act, the NRC a brief illness. He was 88. seven. Samithi members at Benz Circle in Vijayawada on Sunday. * V. RAJU and the National Population He was buried at Poorna The seers of the Ashta Register. “Dissent has to be prajna Vidyapeetha, a tradi Mutts conducted rites on the expressed in a constructive tional gurukul he started and mortal remains of the swami and peaceful manner,” he said nurtured in Bengaluru, as Devotees paying their last respects to Pejawar Mutt seer and it was airlifted to Benga

* ‘Centre will not be quiet at the birth centenary per his wishes, with full State Vishwesha Tirtha Swami in Bengaluru on Sunday. PTI luru. Thousands of devotees celebrations of the late Chief honours. gathered in Udupi and Ben Minister of united Andhra death, the Hindu religion Closely associated with galuru to pay their last res Pradesh Dr. M. Chenna Reddy ‘Powerhouse of service’ had lost a guide. several politicians, he was pects. if A.P. govt. shifts capital’ here on Sunday. Condolences poured in, with An icon of the Hindu right the spiritual guru of senior He was given full State ho Prime Minister Narendra politics, he was a strong vo BJP leaders L.K. Advani and nours and the Chief Minister Nadda to lead rally Modi calling him “a power tary of the Ramjanmabhoo Uma Bharti. collected the tricolour that BJP leader Sujana says State will plunge into financial crisis in support of CAA house of service and spiri mi movement and was pre A sombre atmosphere covered him from Bengaluru ANANTAPUR tuality” and saying that “he sent at the site when the prevailed in the temple town Police Commissioner Bhas Staff Reporter BJP national president J.P. continuously worked for a Babri Mosque was demol of Udupi, where Vishwesha kar Rao, usually given to fa Vijayawada New panel will study issue Nadda will lead a rally in more just and compassion ished in Ayodhya on Decem Tirtha Swami led a record mily members. The Joint Action Committee support of the Citizenship ate society”. ber 6, 1992. five “paryayas” of the Krish Vishwaprasanna Tirtha of the Amaravati Pariraksha Staff Reporter Sunday, said the committee Amendment Act 2019 at Chief Minister B.S. Yediyu Mr. Yediyurappa said he na Mutt/Temple, a practice Swami is the new seer. He is na Samithi on Sunday sub VIJAYAWADA should give its recommen Kadapa on January 4 to rappa, who declared a three was sad that the seer of handing over responsibili the 35th seer in the lineage, mitted a memorandum to The Andhra Pradesh go dations within three weeks. create awareness among the day mourning in Karnataka, couldn’t see the Ram temple ties of worship and adminis or guruparampara, of the BJP Rajya Sabha member Su vernment has constituted a The expert committee head people. At a press conference 16member highpower ed by former civil servant here on Sunday, party said that with the seer’s being built there. tration of the temple in turns Mutt. jana Chowdary demanding committee to examine the G.N. Rao, has already sub national secretary and Andhra that Amaravati be retained Pradesh co-in-charge Sunil as the capital of Andhra reports of the expert com mitted its report. It favoured Deodhar said the BJP was Pradesh. mittee and Boston Consult decentralisation of adminis getting overwhelming Mr. Chowdary said decen ing Group (BCG) on the issue tration. The BCG group is ex support for the rallies and He balanced tradition and reform tralisation of administration of the State Capital. The go pected to submit its report marches it was conducting all [with Visakhapatnam, Ama vernment, in a GO issued on in the first week of January. over the country to counter ravati and Kurnool as execu DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD the campaign by the The seer visited Dalit colonies, allowed Muslims to hold iftar near temple complex tive, legislative and judicial Congress-led Opposition. capitals respectively] was behind shifting the capital Members of various walk Ganesh Prabhu, tionalists and progressives, building a social base for Muchlugodu under the juris against the law and that he till date. As a result, the sit ers’ clubs in the city took to Swamy rubbishes charges K.V. Aditya Bharadwaj who saw it as “tokenism”. Hindutva politics,” said se diction of Pejawar Mutt. He would raise the issue with uation had become volatile. the streets. Slogans such as Udupi/Bengaluru against Jagan Reddy Noted writer U. R. Anantha nior advocate and activist had recently welcomed the Prime Minister Narendra The State would plunge “one State one Capital”, TIRUPATI Vishwesha Tirtha Swami, the murthy had a running con C.S. Dwarkanath. Supreme Court order allow Modi. At a press conference, into a financial crisis like Ve “Save Amaravati” and “Save BJP Member of Parliament 88yearold pontiff of the Pe versation with him through On ‘Made Snana’ — the ing women to enter Sabari he said the Centre would not nezuela and Panama if the Andhra Pradesh” were Subramanian Swamy on jawar Mutt who breathed his out his life and once practice where devotees mala Temple, as well. keep quiet on the State go Capital was shifted. The go raised by the protesters. Sunday gave a clean chit to last on Sunday, will be re welcomed Vishwesha Tirtha rolled on the plantain leaves He incurred the ire of Hin vernment’s plans to make Vi vernment would have to pay Former Krishna Zilla Par Andhra Pradesh Chief membered for his attempts going to Dalit colonies. containing leftovers after dutva groups when he al sakhapatnam the executive a heavy compensation to the ishad Chairperson Gadde Minister Y.S. Jagan Mohan to negotiate through centu Brahmins had their lunch at lowed a group of Muslims to capital. “I am saying this af farmers and contractors Anuradha said the agitation Reddy, rubbishing the spate riesold traditions and the Nuanced approach Kukke Subrahmanya — the break their fast in the dining ter discussing with the Cen who were executing works would intensify unless the of allegations over attempts demand for radical reform in His outreach to Dalits was Pejawar seer came up what hall in the outer periphery of tral government,” he said. after availing bank loans. government withdrew the to infuse Christianity into the world-famous Tirumala the modern context. While both nuanced and complex. he considered a solution in Sri Krishna Mutt/temple Chief Minister Y.S. Jagan JAC convener A. Siva Red proposal, she said. shrine. Dr. Swamy also many of them were contro “While he seemed to have the form of ‘Ede Snana’. complex followed by an If Mohan Reddy had wel dy said 50 committees had CPI(M) Polit Bureau mem termed ‘mischievous’ the versial, he did not shy away been influenced by Mahatma In the alternative practice tar, or “Souharda Upahara comed Amaravati as the cap been formed in all 13 dis ber B.V. Raghavulu said it campaign in some quarters from engaging with this Gandhi on eradication of un he proposed, devotees Koota” as he termed it, on ital while in the Opposition, tricts to demand that Amara was wrong to presume that on the faith of Mr. Jagan’s fraught question constantly. touchability and reform of rolled on plantain leaves June 24, 2017. but changed his stand soon vati be the sole capital. He making Visakhapatnam the uncle and Tirumala Tirupati He visited Dalit colonies at Hindu dharma, the outreach containing the “prasada” of However, the seer stood after coming to power. None said around 25,000 farmers executive capital would lead Devasthanams (TTD) a time when it was consi was also aimed at retaining fered to the deity. This is be his ground, stating that he of the MLAs had opposed in 29 villages had given up to the development of the trust board Chairman dered taboo. He attracted Dalits in the Hindu fold, pre ing followed at the Subrah held it to promote harmony Amaravati then. The CM had close to 33,000 acres for the backward areas of north Y.V. Subba Reddy. criticism from both tradi venting conversions and manya Temple at among communities. not explained the rationale capital. coastal Andhra Pradesh.

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THE HINDU DELHI MONDAY, DECEMBER 30, 2019 NATION 9 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE IN BRIEF 3 years on, a mere 30% of Poshan Abhiyaan funds used Barring three States, none of the rent States and Union Terri “The programme was con tories. ceptualised as one to be im governments used even half of the sum Of this, ₹1,283.89 crore, or plemented in phases. It is, only 29.97% of the funds thus, expected that utilisa JAGRITI CHANDRA dren by reducing the level of granted, were utilised until tion will increase over years. Mulayam Singh SUMANT SEN stunting, underweight, anae October 31, 2019. Figures A number of activities had a discharged from hospital NEW DELHI MUMBAI mia and low birth weight by were not available for 2017 slow start but are now pick Samajwadi Party founder The State governments and 2022. It is meant to benefit 2018 as the scheme was ing up. These include the In Mulayam Singh Yadav was the Union Territories utilised more than 10 crore people launched at the fag end of tegrated Child Development discharged from a hospital in a mere 30% of the funds re and was launched after a Ca the fiscal. ServicesCommon Applica Mumbai on Sunday. The leased under the Poshan Ab binet decision on December tion Software meant to mon 80-year-old leader had hiyaan, or the National Nutri 1, 2017, with a total budget of Mizoram on top itor anganwadis ... However, complained of abdominal tion Mission, since it was ₹9,046.17 crore for three The five best performers given the stiff targets, tran pain three days back, a close launched in 2017. years, 50% of which is were Mizoram (65.12%), slating the activities into out aide of his said. PTI Barring Mizoram, Laksh through budgetary support, Lakshadweep (61.08%), Bi comes will be critical,” says adweep, Himachal Pradesh which is further divided into har (55.17%), Himachal Pra Avani Kapur, Fellow of the Students complain and Bihar, none of the go 60:40 between the Centre desh (53.29%) and Megha Centre for Policy Research against drunk teachers vernments used even half of and the States, 90:10 for the laya (48.37%). The worst five and Director at the Accoun AURANGABAD the sum granted in the past northeastern region and the performers were Punjab tability Initiative. Students of a zilla parishad three years, according to an Himalayan States and 100% (0.45%), Karnataka (0.74%), The CNNS, released by the school in Aurangabad have analysis of the data shared in for the Union Territories Kerala (8.75%), Jharkhand Ministry of Health and Wel complained that their Parliament. without legislature. (13.94%) and Assam (23.01%). fare in October, showed that teachers were drunk during a The Poshan Abhiyaan, the During 201920, funds 35% of children under the recent excursion and misbehaved with them, Centre’s flagship pro A grim picture were released for 19 States, age of 5 are stunted and in following which an inquiry gramme, is aimed at improv The remaining 50% is from share will be ₹2,849.54 crore. paints a grim picture. ment Smriti Irani in the re though 12 of them had used this age group, 17% are wast was instituted. The students ing nutritional outcomes the World Bank or other mul With the threeyear period According to the informa cent session of Parliament, a less than a third of the funds ed (low weight for height) left for a trip to the Konkan among pregnant women, tilateral development banks. drawing to a close, an analy tion given by Minister for total of ₹4,283 crore was dis released in the previous two and 33% underweight (low region on December 21 and lactating mothers and chil As a result, the Centre’s total sis of the funds utilised Women and Child Develop bursed by the Centre to diffe years. weight for age). the alleged incidents happened on Christmas, said an official. PTI CRPF jawans will get Sasikala prison ‘letter’ IED detected along More work to do: Bachchan LoC in J&K’s Rajouri JAMMU 100 days’ leave: Shah ground for I-T raids A major terror strike was Veteran actor presented with Dada Saheb Phalke Award averted on Sunday with the ‘Their families will get health cards’ It was allegedly addressed to a relative timely detection of a Press Trust of India powerful Improvised New Delhi Special Correspondent Explosive Device (IED) along pilgrims or Parliament Dada Saheb Phalke Award NEW DELHI House. Mohamed Imranullah S. the Line of Control (LoC) in CHENNAI Rajouri district of Jammu and recipient and megastar Ami Home Minister Amit Shah Kashmir, a defence tabh Bachchan on Sunday on Sunday said the govern Medical facilities The Income Tax Depart spokesman said. He said the said he was looking forward ment would take care of the He said various welfare ment has based its claim of IED was found planted in Keri to doing more work. families of the Central Re schemes for paramilitary V.K. Sasikala, a close aide of sector by an Army patrol The 77yearold actor, serve Police Force (CRPF) forces would be finalised by former Tamil Nadu Chief Mi team, which immediately who was presented the personnel while they take AugustSeptember 2020. nister Jayalalithaa, having cordoned off the area. PTI award by President Ram care of the borders, adding The Narendra Modi go purchased several proper Nath Kovind here at Rashtra that electronic health cards vernment has also decided ties using ₹1,674.50 crore in Portal for swift grievance pati Bhawan in a special ce for their kin and at least 100 to enhance housing satisfac demonetised notes, not just resolution likely remony, quipped that initial In conversation: Union Minister Prakash Javadekar, left, with days off a year for the forces tion for jawans and officials on documents and state NEW DELHI ly when he was announced Jaya and Abhishek Bachchan. * ANI would be implemented by of the central armed police ments of witnesses, but also The Labour Ministry has as the 2018 recipient, he AugustSeptember 2020. forces, and steps will be ta on a ‘letter’ purportedly V.K. Sasikala chalked out a plan to launch a wondered if it was an “indi clarification on this,” Mr. stant encouragement by the Speaking at the founda ken in the upcoming Budget written by her. portal ‘Santusht’ next month cation” for him to hang up Bachchan said on a lighter Indian audience. That’s the tion laying ceremony of the to allocate funds for this According to the IT to have told them that it was for speedy redressal of his boots. note. reason I’m standing here,” CRPF’s new headquarters in subject, said Mr. Shah. sleuths, a search at the resi inside a sealed cover, which worker as well as employer “When this award was an The Bollywood veteran he added. Delhi, Mr. Shah said the The new headquarters of dence of Vivek Jayaraman, an anonymous person had grievances and ensuring nounced, a doubt arose in thanked the government, Mr. Bachchan was sup force had played a vital role the force would be built at a son of Sasikala’s sisterin handed over to the security implementation of labour my mind: if this is an indica the I&B Ministry and the ju posed to receive the honour in rooting out terrorism cost of ₹280 crore by the law Ilavarasi, as part of a guard at his residence about laws at the grassroot level, a tion for me to sit at home ry members of the National at the National Film Awards from Punjab and Tripura Central Public Works De larger raid in November two months ago. source said. Initially, it would and relax after working for Film Awards for naming him ceremony last Monday, but and in restoring peace in the partment. 2017, led to the recovery of a monitor all services provided by retirement fund body so many years? There is the Dada Saheb Phalke was unable to attend the States. The building will have a loose sheet. Penned in Ta ‘No knowledge’ EPFO and health insurance some more work I have to Award recipient. event due to ill health. He He said the CRPF jawans control and command sys mil, the sheet supposedly Asked to name the security and services provider ESIC. finish and certain possibili “God has been kind, there was accompanied by his were always at the forefront, tem with modern training contained details of the ap guard who gave the cover to Later, the portal would cover ties are coming up where I have been blessings of my wife and veteran actorMP whether it was tackling Nax modules for the 3.5 lakh proximate amount paid to him, Mr. Jayaraman had other wings of the Ministry as may get a chance to do some parents ... but I’m most in Jaya Bachchan and son and als or riots or providing se strong CRPF force. wards the acquisition of va said: “Two security persons well. PTI work. I just wanted some debted to the love and con actor Abhishek. curity to Amarnath Yatra (With PTI inputs) rious assets using the illegal are working in my residence tender in 2016. (in Chennai). I don’t exactly The Centre had demone remember who gave it to Weather Watch tised the old ₹500 and me.”, adding that he does Rainfall, temperature & air quality in select metros yesterday Navy plans 24 submarines to strengthen fleet ₹1,000 notes on November not remember the date and 8, 2016 but had permitted day on which it was handed the holders of such curren over to him. 18 conventional and 6 nuclear attack submarines are on the cards cy notes to deposit them in The letter was suspected to their bank accounts be to have been written from Press Trust of India two nuclear submarines in vy. On its part, the Indian Na Sindhuraj, is held up since fore December 30, 2016. the Parappana Agrahara New Delhi its fleet. The Navy has two vy has been revamping its in the Russian side has not This window was reportedly central prison in Bengaluru, To strengthen its underwa nuclear submarines INS Ari frastructure, including been able to submit requisite used by many businesspeo where she had been lodged ter fleet, the Navy plans to hant and INS Chakra, with procuring new ships. bank guarantees and integri ple to sell their highvalue since February 2017 after build 24 submarines, includ the latter being leased from Due to the delay in the ty pact as a result of the sanc properties at attractive pric being convicted in a dispro ing six nuclear attack subma Russia. submarine construction pro tions imposed by the U.S. go es and deposit the money by portionate assets case. rines, a parliamentary panel jects, including the Six Pro vernment on them,” it said. faking their business In his statement to the IT was told. Over 25 years old ject 75 submarines at Maza The U.S. has imposed transactions. department, Sasikala’s legal The Navy also told the pa A majority of the conven gaon Docks, Mumbai, the sanctions on Moscow citing When the IT officials con adviser S. Senthil confirmed nel that Medium Refit Life tional submarines are over Defence Ministry has ap several reasons ranging from fronted Mr. Jayaraman with her handwriting in the Certification (MRLC) of sub 25 years old. Thirteen sub proved Medium Refit cum annexation of the Crimea re the loose sheet, he was said letter. marine Sindhuraj was held marines age between 17 and Life Certification or MRLC of gion of Ukraine to Russia up since the Russian side 32 years, it said. six older submarines, the re with the recent one being had not been able to submit “Eighteen [conventional] port stated. the Countering America’s bank guarantees and the in + six SSN [nuclear attack sub With regards to the MRLC Adversaries Through Sanc tegrity pact due to sanctions marines] are planned...,” it of the first submarine, work tions Act. “The Russian side imposed by the U.S. stated. has already commenced in indicated L&T as their pre Temperature Data: IMD, Pollution Data: CPCB, Map: INSAT/IMD (Taken at 16.30 Hrs) In its report tabled this The Indian Ocean Region, Russia on July 16 and is on ferred partner for undertak Forecast for Monday: Cold day conditions and fog likely in many month, the Navy said that the area of operations of the schedule. ing MRLC of the third Sub pockets over Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh, Delhi, Uttar Pradesh there are presently 15 con Navy, has witnessed rising “Contract conclusion for marine Sindhuratna in and Bihar, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand and west Madhya Pradesh. ventional submarines and activities of the Chinese Na MRLC of second submarine, India,” the Navy added. Dense fog likely over some pockets in Assam, Meghalaya, Hi- machal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Nagaland, Manipur, Mizoram and Tripura. city rain max min city rain max min Agartala...... —....25.0....11.0 Kozhikode...... —....34.0....25.0 Ahmedabad...... —....25.0....14.0 Kurnool ...... —....30.0....20.0 Canine bravehearts keep vigil on LoC Aizawl...... —....17.0...... 5.0 Lucknow...... —....14.0...... 6.0 Allahabad...... —....14.0...... 7.0 Madurai...... —....31.0....23.0 Bengaluru ...... —....29.0....17.0 Mangaluru ...... 26.2....34.0....23.0 Rain or shine, ‘man’s most loyal friend’ is always there, says Lt. Gen. Dhillon Bhopal ...... —....23.0...... 7.0 Mumbai ...... —....32.0....22.0 Bhubaneswar...... —....26.0....11.0 Mysuru ...... —....30.0....17.0 Chandigarh ...... —....11.0...... 3.0 New Delhi ...... —....16.0...... 3.0 Press Trust of India Chennai ...... —....31.0....22.0 Patna ...... —....16.0...... 7.0 New Delhi/Srinagar Coimbatore ...... —....30.0....20.0 Port Blair...... —....30.0....24.0 Dehradun...... —....20.0...... 4.0 Puducherry ...... —....30.0....20.0 Marching slowly along with Gangtok...... —....14.0...... 5.0 Pune...... —....29.0....15.0 Goa...... —....34.0....24.0 Raipur ...... —....24.0....10.0 his buddy on a thick sheet of Guwahati ...... —....24.0...... 8.0 Ranchi...... —....21.0...... 6.0 snow in North Kashmir, ‘Bu Hubballi...... —....29.0....20.0 Shillong...... —....15.0...... 3.0 zo’, a doublecoat German Hyderabad ...... —....27.0....15.0 Shimla...... —....14.0...... 3.0 Imphal ...... —....21.0...... 3.0 Srinagar...... —...... 9.0.... -6.0 Shepherd, gets a hero’s wel Jaipur ...... —....20.0...... 2.0 Thiruvananthapuram...... —....33.0....23.0 come after successfully Kochi ...... —....32.0....25.0 Tiruchi...... —....30.0....21.0 pushing back infiltrators Kohima ...... —....15.0...... 3.0 Vijayawada ...... —....30.0....20.0 Kolkata ...... —....22.0....11.0 Visakhapatnam ...... —....27.0....20.0 from Pakistanoccupied (Rainfall data in mm; temperature in Celsius) Kashmir (PoK) recently. Pollutants in the air you are breathing Yesterday ‘Buzo’, a silent sentinel of

CITIES SO2 NO2 CO PM2.5 PM10 CODE the Army, is among the more Ahmedabad..... 57 .53 36 ....76 ...77 ....* than 150 expert dogs with In observation made at 4.00 Bengaluru ...... — ...8 37 ....45 .....— ....* the military that maintain a Chennai ...... 16 .41 57 ..152 .....— ....* p.m., Noida, Uttar Pradesh recorded an overall air Best friends: Army personnel with their dog 'Buzo' returning to the base camp in North Delhi ...... 17 .61 94 ..476 .451 ....* quality index (AQI) score of tight vigil along the Line of Hyderabad ...... 24 .43 47 ..239 .....— ....* 456 indicating a severe level Control (LoC) as well as in Kashmir along the LoC, on December 23, 2019. * PTI Kolkata...... 20 .75 29 ..292 .194 ....* of pollution. In contrast, * Chikkaballapur, Karnataka the hinterland. Lucknow...... 41 .24 29 ..396 .....— .... recorded a moderate AQI Mumbai ...... 13 .44 47 ..190 .159 ....* score of 57. ed for the climate, while La Kanwal Jeet Singh Dhillon. way. The warning from the Pune...... 81 .32 81 ..142 .112 ....* Special skills bradors are used in the Other Army officials re specialised ‘explosive detec Visakhapatnam ..— ..— .— ..... — .....— ....— The dogs are specialised in hinterland. called the work of ‘Roma’, a tion’ dog helped defuse 25 Air Quality Code: * Poor * Moderate * Good (Readings indicate average AQI) three wings — assault (who tracker dog, who alerted her kg of IEDs planted on the SO2: Sulphur Dioxide. Short-term exposure can harm the respiratory system, making breathing difficult. It can affect visibility by reacting with other air attack the enemy), tracker Part of family companions and got a tem highway to target an Army particles to form haze and stain culturally important objects such as statues (who track movements of “Man’s most loyal friend is porary camp evacuated ear patrol, preventing a Pulwa and monuments. the enemy) and explosive always there with the sol lier this year. An avalanche malike situation. NO2: Nitrogen Dioxide. Aggravates respiratory illness, causes haze to form by reacting with other air particles, causes acid rain, pollutes coastal waters. detection (who sniff diers during rain, snow or damaged the field within a Another German Sheph CO: Carbon monoxide. High concentration in air reduces oxygen supply to explosives). any weather ... they go for all few hours. erd named “Devil”, who has critical organs like the heart and brain. At very high levels, it can cause The canines posted along operations with the troops Earlier this year, ‘Meena’, been trained as an assault dizziness, confusion, unconsciousness and even death. PM2.5 & PM10: Particulate matter pollution can cause irritation of the eyes, the LoC in the heights of like patrolling and ambush a Labrador, had alerted the dog, keeps “antinational” nose and throat, coughing, chest tightness and shortness of breath, reduced North Kashmir are generally and are especially there dur troops about a possible Im elements on their heels. “He lung function, irregular heartbeat, asthma attacks, heart attacks and premature ‘doublecoat German She ing emergencies like ava provised Explosive Device, does not spare any of his death in people with heart or lung disease pherds’ which are best suit lanche rescue,” said. Lt. Gen. planted on the national high enemies,” says his handler. CM YK EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

DELHI THE HINDU 10 EDITORIAL MONDAY, DECEMBER 30, 2019 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE A dangerous new low in statesponsored hate In Uttar Pradesh, police bias and the scale of violence against the minorities are plumbing new depths galpur (Bihar). What is unfolding ple have died in these protests in ple) — without any judicial finding, in U.P. is on a scale and with a U.P. There are reports that in some as required by law, to prove their methodological deliberateness places, protesters turned violent, responsibility for destroying the Arms and the man which I have not witnessed so far although they claim that the rage properties. outside Kashmir and the North of the rioters was spurred by pol General Rawat crossed the lines of military East — touching a highly danger ice attitude and action. Disturbing complicity propriety in making political comments Harsh Mander ous new low. But the violence by the police And as news begins filtering in of against the rioters is entirely dis the outrage of police rampaging in f a diplomat should think twice before saying noth Devastation in minutes proportionate, without following U.P., the unrepentant Chief Minis ing, an army general should not think of saying ttar Pradesh is in the throes I walk through many Muslim the prescribed protocol of warn ter issues a triumphalist message Ianything at all. The Chief of Army Staff, General Bi of what is fast becoming a homes in U.P., my eyes clouding, ing, and gradual escalation of vio of selfcongratulation from his offi pin Rawat, should have known better than to offer his Ugravely culpable crime my heart sinking in shame, wit GETTY IMAGES lence. Instead, videos show police cial Twitter account: “Every rioter views on political controversies and agitations of the against humanity. It may not be an ness to their ruin after a rampage Muzaffarnagar, and set fire to shooting above the waist, often in is shocked. Every demonstrator is day. In making thinly veiled comments on the protests exaggeration to say that the Chief of hate by men in uniform. Cars shops and businesses owned by hot pursuit through narrow lanes stunned. Everyone has been si against the Citizenship (Amendment) Act, 2019, the Minister has declared war on the and scooters are overturned and Muslim persons. where there are no protests or lenced after seeing Yogi Aditya minority communities of his State, burned, television screens and crowds. nath government’s strict actions.” General crossed the line of military propriety. The egre inciting and encouraging his pol washing machines smashed, cash Thread from the CAA Most of those who bear the What U.P. is witnessing is the ut gious remarks on student protests and leadership of ag ice forces to unleash upon them and jewellery looted, crockery, Many households reported that brunt of the attacks are very poor ter debasement of high public of itations constitute a serious error in judgment. If the an unlawful and brutal reign of even toys shattered, a lifetime of a policepersons said their houses workingclass men, whose families fice. Senior civil servants, of the task of a leader is to lead by example, and in the ‘right terror. family’s belongings devastated in were now “ours”, because the law insist had nothing to do even with police and magistracy, have most direction’, as he himself put it, then Gen. Rawat, who It is not as though police bias minutes, the family inconsolable. I will ensure that they leave for Pa peaceful protests. shamefully abdicated their consti heads nearly fifteen lakh men in uniform, sent out all and violence against the minori have borne painful witness to kistan. It was evident that the pol tutional duties in service to a war the wrong signals. The Army Chief’s remarks could ties is unusual in communal vio these scenes too many times, in icepersons commonly believed Deep scars of hate launched by the Chief Mi have been discounted as an unfortunate slip of the ton lence. On the contrary, as I have 1984, 2002, 2013. The difference in that the Citizenship (Amendment) The police registers literally thou nister. The war of hate against the often maintained, communal vio U.P. is that the marauding mob Act, 2019, or CAA, 2019, would sands of “unnamed” police com minorities in U.P. has shades of gue or a oneoff instance, if it were not for the frequen lence cannot sustain for more than which mercilessly wrecked home complete what the Rashtriya plaints in several cities with high what the Kashmiri people have en cy with which he weighed in on matters he ought to a few hours unless it is actively en after home of its Muslim residents Swayamsevak Sangh regards to be Muslim populations. They use this dured for three decades, with se have been extremely circumspect about, in public at couraged by the state and the pol was police personnel in uniform. the “unfinished tasks” of Partition to detain Muslim people at will, curity forces raiding and rampag least. Berating students from a seminar podium is bad ice. But it accomplishes this, most The accounts of the families — namely forcing Indian Muslims and as a weapon to silence anyone ing their homes and beating and enough but last year , Gen. Rawat felt compelled to of all, by culpable inaction; by de were chillingly similar. Homes of to exit to Pakistan. A senior police who may complain or testify rounding up innocents. The Chief point out, at yet another seminar, that the All India Un liberately standing by as mobs at relatively wealthy families were official in Meerut is caught on cam against the police. People are Minister handpicked to lead In ited Democratic Front (AIDUF) — led by Badrudin Ajmal tack minorities. Often the police typically selected for the police era asking Muslims to go to Pakis scared to speak to anyone holding dia’s most populous S tate, is inflict grievous hurt on a dispro carnage; probably led there by tan, and questioning their loyalty a camera, and if they do, they cov emerging as as a mascot of hate. — had grown much faster than the BJP in Assam. “Final portionately large number of mi police informers. Hordes of police to India. er their faces. There is an intense He is guilty of nothing short of ly, what will be the state of Assam, we have to take a norities, in firing while dispersing persons would descend on the Women and children showed us sense of terror among the entire crimes against humanity —acts de call,” he had said, throwing in the politically incorrect mobs. house, sometimes 40 or even 60 their baton wounds. Even the very Muslim population in urban U.P., liberately committed as part of a word “lebensraum” into the mix for good measure, But what we are witnessing in in number. Some included civi old were not spared. Teenaged the men dreading being charged widespread systematic attack di while referring to migration in the region. On matters Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath’s lians, others did not. They banged boys were among those rounded with grave crimes ; the women of rected by a government against an such as education in Kashmir too, the General’s unsoli Uttar Pradesh is the police force it and broke down doors. They beat up by the police and held illegally attacks to their homes. Large parts identifiable part of a civilian cited views have stirred controversies. self becoming the riotous lynch with their batons old people, wo for days. Government hospitals of Muslim settlements have emp population. mob. I have handled, as district of men, even children, if they tried to were unwilling to treat them if tied out. As the rest of the country is hea It is possible to argue that since the Army is so heavi ficer, the 1984 antiSikh pogrom block their way, pleading for mer they reported that the injuries Through all of this, there is call dy with protests against laws and ly and continually deployed in these areas, the north and the violence resulting from cy. They shouted the most vulgar were inflicted on them by police for revenge, from the highest polit policies which divide people east and Kashmir, where the Armed Forces (Special the movement to demolish the Ba slurs. A frequent taunt was: Here, persons. ical levels, followed by even more based on their religious identity, Powers) Act operates, the Army Chief can make com bri Masjid. Since I left the civil ser take the Azadi you ask for. As in most corners of the coun brutal police raids and assaults. the Muslim people of Uttar Pra ments on other aspects of governance and politics as vice, I worked closely with the sur It is with the same communal try, people spilled onto the streets Muslim people have received not desh are today wounded — this well. The argument that the Army has a political voice vivors of the Gujarat and war cries that armed policeper to protest the CAA. It is only in U.P. ices to pay high damages for al time almost beyond healing. in these States will not travel far, though. Among other Muzaffarnagar (U.P.) carnages, sons attacked students in Aligarh and coastal Karnataka that these leged destruction of public pro and the earlier communal mas Muslim University, vandalised protests have turned violent. At perty (which includes even police Harsh Mander is a human rights worker, things, it reflects the failure of the political class to keep sacres of Nellie (Assam) and Bha mosques, raided a madrassa in the time of writing, nearly 20 peo batons broken while beating peo writer and teacher the Army confined to duties that they are meant to car ry out. If what Gen . Rawat said was deplorable, what V.K. Singh, the M inister of S tate for Road Transport, spoke in his support was most unfortunate. Especially For a humane and autonomous police since he himself was the Army Chief not so long ago. It is likely to encourage soldiers in the making and those During strife, the focus needs to be on improving the quality of policing in the field than on ‘politician management’ in uniform to move in wrong directions. But it is also portray the police as the villain of hurt, the police would be hauled to the strength of the mob, its com notable that not many others have flocked to Gen . Ra the piece and the protesters as over the coals. position, its mood and the kind of wat’s defence. Allowing chiefs of the three services to harmless and pacifist. This binary I am reminded here of the state weapons it has at its command. make political statements undermines the civil leader picture is deceptive and mislead ment of the English jurist, Lord Use of stones has become the most ship in the long run. It is to be hoped the government ing, because it is blind to the Denning, in Regina v Commissioner favourite, because of ease of avail truism that the police do enjoy a of Police of the Metropolis (1968): ability and potency. To say that the makes the lines clear to them so that such incidents do R.K Raghavan measure of operational autonomy, “... (it) is for the Commissioner of police or any security agency not recur. free from the dictates of other Police of the Metropolis, or the should not overreact to this kind state agencies. chief constable, as the case may of barbarity is grossly unfair. Ulti hese are tumultuous times be, ...... to decide on the disposi mately, it is the decision of the pol Governance Index for the Indian p olice, espe Shadow of politics tion of his force and the concentra ice commander in the field. Marking States on different parameters Tcially the Delhi police, in Public opinion has been built PUSHPAKAR KUMAR FILE PHOTO/SHIV tion of his resources on any partic Mob control techniques are a their bid to maintain law and or around a few gross misconcep they are invited to do so by heads ular crime or area. No court can or part of the police curriculum in can incentivise performance der. After losing the debate inside tions about modern policing. It is of institutions. Nothing can be a should give him direction on such major training institutions. Their he nationwide comparative study of States on go Parliament, certain elements have too simplistic and facile to look greater incentive to violence. I am a matter... And ‘No Minister of the impact depends on the imagina vernance carried out by the Government of In regrettably chosen to take some upon the police as merely an agen happy that the ViceChancellor of Crown can tell him that he must, tive nature of the instruction. In contentious issues out to the cy that has been caught in the Aligarh Muslim University has or must not, keep observation on the wake of violence across the dia, as seen in the Good Governance Index (GGI), T streets. Consequently, the floor crossfire between the establish been honest enough to admit that this place or that;... The responsi country, the police leadership is a welcome exercise to incentivise States to competi has been unwittingly yielded to ment and protesters. Gone are the he permitted the police to enter bility for law enforcement is on would do well to concentrate on tively deliver on public services to the citizens. This is the police — and for them to act in halcyon days when life was more his campus to prevent an already him. He is answerable to the law this important aspect of policing, not the first time that benchmarking of States has been the manner they deem fit, and in orderly and civilised, and the pol ugly situation from becoming and to the law alone.” even if it means according a lower carried out. Different agencies including NITI Aayog, the interests of public peace. ice just received orders from worse. I do not think the position is dif priority to other areas of routine. the government’s policy thinktank, are evaluating the above to be executed as faithfully In Jamia Millia, Delhi, the police ferent in India. If some police lead In a democracy such as ours we States on different parameters. The findings of the Binary picture as they could/can and not necessa appeared to have taken the initia ers have surrendered their auto certainly need a civilised and hu Protests and demonstrations no rily at the speed of lightning. The tive when no such invitation was nomy to the Executive, it is their mane police. This should not, ho GGI’s inaugural edition are significant in many respects. doubt form the core of democracy vicissitudes of politics over the de forthcoming. There is no law that fault and not of the Executive. wever, dilute the need to have a Although Tamil Nadu has always had the reputation of and are unexceptionable as long cades have deprived the guardians prohibits such police entry on potent force that will not hesitate being a betterrun State, it is only now that it is ranked as they do not disrupt the life of of law the luxury of resting on the their own, and any attempt to On the measure of force to use the resources at its com first in any study of this kind. Its strength has been the the common man or cause dam statute book and responding to a frame such a law will be preposter Another bone of contention re mand in order to reemphasise the ability to ensure stable and smooth delivery of services age to public property. In an ideal developing situation. ous to the core. The police are lates to the quantum of force that dictum that democracy can flour without much ado. But it is not the only southern State world, we may expect this clear They will now have to be proac obligated under law to intervene the police can use in quelling dis ish only when violence is checked to have put up an impressive performance. Three of its cut theoretical proposition to tive and react — and react within wherever and whenever they ap order. Some astonishing state and not allowed to hold sway. work perfectly. But i n the raw, split seconds to an incendiary sit prehend danger to lives. Imagine ments have been made in this con There is a crucial need for senior neighbours are among the top 10 of the big 18 States, emotionridden and violence uation arising from contentious the notsoimaginary and improb text. There is no scientific formula police officers to devote time to one of the three groups formed for the study with the prone streets of the present times, political situations. While doing so able situation where the vice that applies to explosive scenes improving the quality of policing northeast and hill States and Union Territories being this clinical allocation of respec they are bound to overstep the chancellor is himself besieged and that have become routine in the in the field, instead of frittering the other two. Of course, traditionally, the south has tive space has, however, repeated contours of law. This reminds a threatened by a mob of students national capital. away their energies in concentrat been ahead of others in several parameters of develop ly proved to be mere pontification. reader of the classic situation and others and is unable to com “How much is too much?” is a ing on “politician management”. ment. What is more significant about the GGI is that the This is established by events of the summed up as: (You’re) damned if municate with the police. Can the question that is impossible to dubiouslylabelled “BIMARU” States are seeking to past few days in the national capi you do and damned if you don’t. police wait for a nod from those answer. The amount of force used R.K. Raghavan is a former Director, tal. Some media reporting has It is fallacy to argue that the pol facing danger? If they did and if in such situations can vary signifi Central Bureau of Investigation and a catch up with others in development. Of the nine sec tended to be onesided, tending to ice cannot enter campuses unless the VC was attacked or grievously cantly, and will be related mainly former High Commissioner of India tors, Rajasthan, a “BIMARU” State, has finished within the top 10 in five sectors, Madhya Pradesh in four and LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Letters emailed to [email protected] must carry the full postal address and the full name or the name with initials. Uttar Pradesh in three. In agriculture and allied sectors, almost all the “BIMARU” States are within the top 10 ca Midnight knock Let judiciary prevail matter, however making India prosperous in and minting coins or To read more letters tegory and in human resources development, U.P. and online, scan the QR code Bihar figure. In the composite ranking, Chhattisgarh Under the present regime A number of opinion knowledgeable we are being together. ‘Unity in erecting statues, some at the Centre, arrests are writers should be aware (Editorial page, “In CAA Diversity’ reflected the small, and some and Madhya Pradesh are ranked fourth and ninth, res being made without any that Muslims in India have narrative, finding the beauty of India but what I gargantuan, to name a few. living. Statues can also lead pectively. The key message is that these northern States rhyme or reason (Page 1, all the freedom and liberty judiciary’s lost voice”, observe today is very Carved in stone or forged in to unnecessary friction and can catch up with others in due course of time, if the “Arrest of septuagenarians as anyone or other December 28). disturbing. Most people are metal, statues are designed social tensions which we political leadership shows the will to overcome histori leaves families distraught”, communities in the country Suryanaryanan S., completely divided and are to make a generation of can live without. The cal obstacles and stays focused on development. December 29). One have. They run educational Chennai unable to listen to the people gaze upward in awe, money spent on carving Any index of this nature is bound to have some short wonders whether this is the institutions in this country. other’s point of view. Often and reflect on those who and erecting statues can be comings, at least in the first round, a feature that the great democratic country They also have their The discourse today the furious counterattack is contributed to the better utilised by building which obtained its hard representatives in local Today, over a billion made more dangerous by evolution of a country or schools, hospitals and framers of the GGI have acknowledged. Some indica fought Independence about Assemblies and in Indians are divided over using the term ‘anti culture. libraries. Political parties tors — farmers’ income, prevalence of micro irrigation 70 years ago. It is disturbing Parliament. One does not two narratives: in the first national’. Where is the Statues have attracted the on a statuespree can let the or water conservation systems and inflow of industrial to hear that just the news think that they are being to believe that the Union compassion and empathy admiration of the money come from party investment — have been left out. The indicator, “ease of that there is to going to be a treated as secondclass Government is doing the that India gave to the infatuated or the ire of the funds or the private doing business”, has been given disproportionate gathering to protest is citizens. right thing by world? Expressing dissent disenchanted. Post resources of the person to weight in the sector of commerce and industries, to the enough for the Uttar The repeated assurances by implementing the in a peaceful way is a basic Independence India has be honoured (‘Magazine’ – virtual exclusion of growth rate of major and micro, Pradesh government to the Prime Minister and the Citizenship (Amendment) part of democracy. India’s gone on a frenzy of statue ‘Open Page’, “Statues call round up and imprison Home Minister that no Act, the National Register of freedom struggle was building. Enormous sums on stony ground”, small and medium enterprises. Moreover, there will al people irrespective of Indian Muslims will be Citizens, and the National successful because of this. are spent in erecting these December 29, 2019). ways be an unending debate over which indicators — whether they participated affected by the enactment Population Register. The Ratnaraj Jain, statues for the dead, and, in H.N. Ramakrishna, processbased or outcomebased — should get more im or not in the protest. Is it of the new pieces of second is to believe that Rajahmundry, Andhra Pradesh recent times, even for the Bengaluru portance in the design of such a study. Notwithstanding not an arrogance of legislation are being these exercises are these shortcomings, what is noteworthy is that the authority to charge the conveniently glossed over. unconstitutional and have Reflections corrections & clarifications: Centre has made an attempt to address the problem of aged and those who are We must be patient to let many a malicious agenda In the context of altered The second paragraph of a report, “A divided State’s capital the absence of a credible and uniform index for an ob innocuous with rioting? the judiciary pronounce its behind them. This is perceptions in the new conundrum”, (‘Ground Zero’ page, December 28, 2019) cited the The current regime needs verdict on the legality of the painful. We Indians have India, our opinion of who is paying of “a ₹7,000crore interest”. The figure should have been jective evaluation of the States and Union Territories. It to realise that various anti recent legislation as suffered a lot throughout the hero and who is the ₹700 crore. goes without saying that the GGI requires finetuning people schemes are only numerous petitions have colonial rule and it was villain, is imprecise. Heroes It is the policy of The Hindu to correct significant errors as soon as possible. Please specify and improvement. But that does not take away the in the edition (place of publication), date and page. The Readers’ Editor’s office can be destroying India’s been filed by political only after Independence have been honoured contacted by Telephone: +91-44-28418297/28576300 (11 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday to herent strength of the work that has been accom democracy. parties. 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FROM THE READERS’ EDITOR India needs a bottom-up growth model The importance of being The country requires an employment and income strategy to guide its industry and trade policies in the world; its cities are the most the bearer of bad tidings polluted. India’s economic growth is not generating enough jobs for its burgeoning population of youth: the Newspapers need to perform this vital, democratic role employment elasticity of India’s growth (numbers of jobs created uram felt that the news industry was not Arun Maira with growth) is amongst the worst in nimble enough in the first two decades of the the world. Bold actions without an 21st century and it took time to understand understanding of the whole system the aspirations, preferences, attitudes and India’s bold decision to stay out of can cause great harm. The bold reading styles of the youth. the Regional Comprehensive Eco move to demonetise the currency In his view, publications are trying to navi nomic Partnership (RCEP) until the notes in 2016 was an egregious exam A.S. Panneerselvan gate two landscapes — the traditional print needs of the country’s small enter ple. Unemployment of persons with and the online. “No two worlds can be as dif prises, farmers, and poorest citizens vocational education has gone up ferent as these two. The nature of the medi are properly addressed dismayed between 201112 and 201718, from When I sought readers’ responses about the um dictates the format, content, and cura many economists. The Indian go 18.5% to 33%. India now has a larger impact of digitalisation, and what measures tion of news stories… The screen demands vernment’s fear was that the result number of frustrated youth. this newspaper should take to reach out to understanding visual cues. The appearance ing increase in Chinese exports millions who access news through their of the page is as important as its content. The would harm small producers and More free trade not the answer handheld devices, I had three sets of nag print is conservative; the screen is liberal, es farmers. The RCEP decision shows that India ging questions which eluded answers on my pecially in its comments section,” he wrote. China and India, the two most is now standing up to pressure from mind. First, can legacy newspapers retain He wanted to newspapers to follow the populous countries in the world, a rump of Washington Consensus their original credo of remaining a ‘new ‘Carl Sagan Standard’ to weed out fake news. both embarked on new journeys A Mohalla clinic, at the Yamuna Bazar area in New Delhi. Such clinics have been economists who continue to advo spaper of record’ in an era where news is The wellknown astronomer came up an around the same time. More than 70 set up to provide affordable health care to the poor people. * SUSHIL KUMAR VERMA cate that more free trade is the solu breaking every minute? Is it important to re aphorism, “ Extraordinary claims require ex years later, China has progressed tion to India’s economic problems, tain the idea of recording the present for the traordinary evidence” (ECREE) and Mr. Mu much faster. India, other the other Delhi’s AAP government has crease in disposable incomes has re even when there is evidence that In future or, in other words, of performing the kundarajan felt that ECREE should not be hand, is yet to reach the develop adopted a peoplecentric model of sulted in additional dia has not benefited from the agree role of being the first draft of history? restricted to science but test all claims. ment indicators that China attained government. It has established consumerbuying power, estimated ments it has entered into. Second, when digital marketing ideas like back in the early 1990s. School Management Committees at ₹24,000 crore per annum. India’s challenge now is to build targeting and distributing content, Search Baloney Detection Kit with parental involvement. Teacher This proves that growth must be an Indian ecosystem in which com Engine Optimisation and framing tweets to Let me share Carl Sagan’s “Baloney Detec People-centric policies training budgets have increased five bottomup to be equitable and sus petitive enterprises will grow to trend a story have become major determi tion Kit” which was succinctly summarised A Chinese thought leader said 15 fold. The performance of Delhi’s go tainable. India has climbed many create more opportunities for jobs nants, has the tried and tested inverted pyra by the everengaging reader from Kerala. years ago that both countries have vernment schools is not only higher rungs on the World Bank’s ‘Ease of for youth and for increasing citizens’ mid story structure that dominated the news The tools which he wants journalists to the same vision: of prosperity for than the national average, it now ex Business’ rankings. Yet, investments incomes. Growth of incomes in India industry become redundant? Do we need a use in defence of truth and to deduct fake their citizens. To reach there, they ceeds the performance of private to expand production ventures have will make India more attractive for new forms of structuring a story that reflects news are: “1) confirm the facts; 2) encourage must cross a turbulent stream by schools in Delhi. Public health ex not increased much because con investors. A stronger industrial sys the relentless nature of the 24x7 news cycle? debate; 3) remember that authorities can be feeling the stones underfoot . But penditures have more than doubled. sumer demand has slumped, even tem will give India more headroom Third, in a heavily polarised environment, wrong; 4) develop more than one idea. 5) try how do governments do that? ‘Mohalla clinics’ have been set up in for basic items like packaged bis in trade negotiations too. India’s in where does a readers’ desire to get news end not to get overly attached to a hypothesis just First, they need to make their pol poor colonies to provide accessible cuits. It seems odd that democrati dustrial and entrepreneurial ecosys and where does the wish to have a confirma because it is yours; 6) quantify; 7) If there is a icies peoplecentric rather than and affordable health care. cally elected governments in many tem’s growth must be accompanied tion bias begin? If closed encrypted plat chain of argument, every link in the chain growthcentric. The Communist Par The share of unauthorised colo countries, including India, who by an improvement in environment. forms like WhatsApp attract more readers must work (including the premise), not just ty of China demands that local offi nies provided with piped water has should be focused on citizens’ well Policies must be managed with a because of the lure of confirmation bias, one of them; 8) Occam’s razor — a rule of cials address the needs of citizens’ ef increased from 55% to 93% in just being, have become so focused on whole systems view. While ‘Ease of what is the role of journalism whose primary thumb. When faced with two hypotheses fectively, as does Singapore’s five years, reducing the need for making it easy for global capital to do doing Business’ gauges health from a objective is truth? that explain the data equally well, choose the government. The Chinese govern poor people to pay for expensive business in their countries. This has business perspective, ‘ease of living’ simpler one; 9) Always ask whether the hy ment derives its legitimacy from citi tankerdelivered water. But despite made citizens rise up against the glo should become the measure of the Giving print journalism its due pothesis can at least in principle, be zens’ satisfaction with their wellbe water subsidies for the poor, the Del balisation paradigm promoted by an health of the whole system. Vijay S. Raghavan, a reader from Navi Mum falsified.” ing, not from a vote in an election, hi Jal Board’s income has increased. ‘establishment’ of policymakers and Policy decisions invariably require bai, came up with a 2,300 word response in The biggest challenge for a newspaper in a Singapore Minister Tharman Shan Electricity supply has expanded to economists. Citizens want their go compromises between competing in which he touched upon a range of issues, in polarised environment is to create a public mugaratnam once said. include 20% more consumers. vernments to put jobs in their coun terests. Here, Mahatma Gandhi’s tal cluding the spread of multiple print editions sphere where debate, doubt, argument and In the case of India, its constitu Amongst Indian metros, Delhi pro tries first, and to implement policies isman provides a good test. The go since liberalisation of the Indian economy, dissent lead to a more informed choices tional structure enables its States to vides the cheapest electricity. Yet, its that increase incomes at the bottom vernment should think of the needs readers’ perception of bias, and why print without being subjected to savage personal adopt different models of develop distribution companies, all in the of the pyramid rather than facilitat of the poorest citizens first. Reduced must be given its due even today. attack. While discernible vitriol flows from ment. Thus, there is a ‘Kerala model’, private sector, have improved their ing only further growth at the top. duties on imports benefit citizens as He argued for more print editions that open sources, the quantitatively overwhelm a ‘Gujarat model’, and now a ‘com financial performance. India’s complex, socioeconomic consumers. However, a citizen’s have a good mix of local and national stories ing maliciousness is generated in the en mon man’s model’ implemented by environmental system is under even more fundamental need is for a good rather than national editions which, in his crypted messaging world. Is there an accep the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in Delhi. Increase in disposable incomes greater stress. The country must im job and source of income to buy the opinion, fail to offer substantial reading fare. table approach to deal with the encrypted Local, participative governance has The government has computed that prove on many fronts simultaneous imported goods. India urgently re I am not sure whether the present economic world of toxic circulation without undermin been a distinction of Kerala’s model. its programmes for improving the ly. India ranks very low in interna quires an employment and income reality will permit this newspaper to imple ing the privacy of the individual? If a new and the State has been well ahead of ‘ease of living’ of citizens by improv tional comparisons of human strategy to guide its industry and ment all his suggestions but one seems to be spaper fails to be the bearer of impending the rest of the country, matching Chi ing the quality and accessibility, and development (education and trade policies. an immediate possibility: bundling the sub bad tidings, who else will perform that de na in its Human Development Indica reducing costs, of a range of public health), even below its poorer sub scription for epaper and the Internet edi mocratic duty? tors in education, health, and wo services has increased savings per fa continental neighbours. It is the Arun Maira is a former member of Planning tion into one. men’s inclusion. mily by ₹4,000 per month. The in most waterstressed large economy Commission V.N. Mukundarajan from Thiruvananthap [email protected]

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Sanjay Kumar Tripura, while it is part of the ruling Dr. Vikram Sarabhai, Chairman, Atomic The political events in India during coalition in nine other States. The BJP Energy Commission, here [Trivandrum] to 2019 have left observers slightly con has also accepted the role of a junior day [December 29] disclosed a move to have fused. The year brought both good partner of the coalition government one of the Apollo missions carry and leave and bad news for the Bharatiya Jana in many States of NorthEast. on the moon Indianmade equipment capa ta Party (BJP) as well as for many non However, this alone does not sug ble of carrying out important experiments. BJP parties. gest that the popularity of the BJP in He hoped this proposal, communicated by In the Lok Sabha elections, the saf general is falling at the national level. the Indian scientific groups to the National fron party not only got a massive Take the case of Madhya Pradesh, Ra Aeronautics and Space Administration of mandate, it managed to improve jasthan and Chhattisgarh, where the the United States, would be accepted, so upon its electoral performance of party lost power last year. The par that India too could collaborate in the lunar 2014, winning 303 Lok Sabha seats ty’s fortunes saw a turnaround just research programme. Dr. Sarabhai said data with 37% votes. This strong perfor six months later as it won 62 seats of could be received by the ground based te mance made some believe that the the total 65 seats in these three States lemetry system if the Indianmade equip party was invincible. But, soon after in the Lok Sabha elections. ment was placed on the moon. India, he that, the BJP lost power in Maharash Coming to Maharashtra and Ha said, was specially interested in the study of tra and Jharkhand and failed to get a ryana, though the BJP failed to form a solar wind, cosmic rays and gamma ray as majority in Haryana. government, it still emerged as the tronomy. The moon surface would be the Now, these defeats once again singlelargest party. In Jharkhand, it best space platform for such studies as it was have started discussions on whether managed to win 33% of votes. CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC unimpeded by any atmosphere. Dr. Sarab hai, who also heads the Indian Space Re the party is on the decline or, at a mi DATA POINT nimum, whether this is the begin Still strong at the national level search Organisation (ISRO), was delivering ning of a decline. Questions are also These results show that the BJP, and the “Dr. Homi Bhabha Memorial Lecture” at being asked if the protests across the to a greater extent Mr. Modi, still re a symposium on “Space engineering and country against the Citi main a popular choice technology”. The meeting is attended by zenship Amendment Act for voters in the North about 300 space scientists. (CAA) would lead to a ern and Central parts of shrinking of the party’s the country. But what A HUNDRED YEARS AGO DEC. 30, 1919 Hindu support base. could be safely conclud The Reform Act. ed from the somewhat Reduced appeal contrasting pictures pre From an Editorial The truth is that the ver sented by the Lok Sabha W e Publish elsewhere extracts from the ad dicts at the State level do and Assembly elections dress of Sir P.S. Sivaswamy Iyer as President not give any indication of is that voters’ choices of the Moderates’ Conference and a fuller re the BJP’s declining popu are diverging in the two port of the portion of Pandit Motilal Nehru’s larity at the national level. A recent scenarios. The verdicts in the last one address as President of the Congress, relat LoknitiCSDS survey in Jharkhand year indicate that the BJP is no more ing to the Reform Act. It will be noticed that did indicate that there was a reduc the only choice of voters when it one fundamental difference of opinion is tion in the appeal of Prime Minister comes to choosing a State govern that relating to the Declaration of Rights. Narendra Modi, but that was limited ment. In that regard alone, Mr. Mo Pandit Motilal Nehru attaches the greatest to just one State — Jharkhand. It is al di’s ability to pull votes for the BJP importance to such a declaration, while Sir so not clear if this decline could ac has been challenged. P.S. Sivaswamy Iyer assigns a very subordi celerate further or if it could be halt The Delhi Assembly elections due nate place to it and dismisses it in a few ed as the Central government might in early 2020 would be a significant words stating that there is no no precedent engage in some course correction in test of Mr. Modi’s ability to mobilise for it in the Empire. The question of the ab coming months. However, if the anti votes for the party against a popular sence of precedent is examined clearly by CAA protests continue, they might State government. Further, the party Pandit Motilal Nehru. In the first place, it is have a negative impact , with even would face another challenge when not the fact that there is no precedent. The some favouring the CAA turning Bihar goes to poll in late 2020. Final latest prewar Irish Home Rule Act con against the party. ly, the BJP’s CAA narrative would be tained provisions which were in the nature Now, let’s put the fact in a plain tested when Assam and West Bengal of a declaration of rights and which guaran and simple manner — the BJP lost go to the polls in mid2021. However, teed that the civil liberties of the subject power in many big States during last at the moment, the saffron party is would not be unjustly interfered with. If one year, beginning November 2018. certainly stronger than its political there is any one feature of that British consti The party is in power either alone or opponents at the national level. tution which is more striking than another, it in an alliance with other parties only is the extraordinary power of adaptability in 16 States. It has a government of its that it exhibits; it is the least rigid of constitu own only in Karnataka, Uttarakhand, Sanjay Kumar is currently the Director of the tions; and wherever a necessity for change Himachal Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies. based on experience is patent, its tendency Gujarat, Arunachal Pradesh and Views are personal is to invite that change and not to resist it.

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Hemant Back As Jharkhand CM NRC: Ravi Shankar Prasad at Swearing­In Ceremony, Anti­BJP Opposition Leaders Display Bonhomie

Hemant Back As Jharkhand CM NRC: Ravi Shankar Prasad at SwearingIn Ceremony, AntiBJP Opposition Leaders Display Bonhomie