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NO.: DL(S)-01/3420/2015-17 PUBLISHED FROM DELHI & KOLKATA VOL. 12, ISSUE 355 | Monday, 25 December 2017 | New Delhi | Pages 16 | Rs 3.00 NO HALF TRUTHS HIGH PROFILE NATURE TAKE URGENT PARENTS SHOULD MAGENTA LINE OF CASE NOT A GROUND REMEDIAL STEPS TO NOT BE GENDER SET FOR GRAND FOR CONVICTION: CONTAIN NPAS: PAR BIASED: PRIYANKA LAUNCH PG3 COURT PG7 PANEL TO GOVT PG12 CHOPRA PG16 Quick News44 SWEARING-IN LIKELY ON DECEMBER 27 Dhinakaran stuns Modi likely to attend BJP picks soft-spoken Jai AIADMK, wins RK WEF Davos Summit Nagar Assembly bypoll Ram Thakur as Himachal CM MPOST BUREAU SIMONTINI BHATTACHARJEE CHENNAI: In a jolt to the rul- ing AIADMK, sidelined leader SHIMLA: Five-time MLA Jai Ram T T V Dhinakaran on Sunday Thakur will be the 14th chief min- won the prestigious RK Nagar ister of Himachal Pradesh and is Assembly bypoll by a thump- likely to be sworn-in on Decem- ing margin of over 40,000 NEW DELHI/GENEVA: Prime Minister Nar- ber 27 at a star-studded ceremony votes. ted the ‘two leaves’ sym- endra Modi is likely to make his debut at the attended by Prime Minister Naren- Dhinakaran, nephew of bol to the factions led by K World Economic Forum’s annual jamboree of dra Modi and BJP chief Amit Shah jailed leader V K Sasikala, Palaniswami and his deputy the global elite in the snow-laden Swiss resort among others. defeated his nearest rival O Panneerselvam. town of Davos next month, where he is also The 52-year-old Thakur leader E Madhusudhanan of the The two factions had expected to address a special plenary session. stole the thunder from stalwarts in AIADMK by 40,707 votes, offi- merged in August this year While the final list of participants would be the race to the top job and will be cials announced as the count- after deposing Dhinakaran released next month itself for the five-day Davos the first leader from the politically- ing of votes ended. Polling for and Sasikala, who is serving Annual Meeting of Geneva-based WEF begin- significant Mandi region to helm the seat was held on Decem- a four-year jail term in a Ben- ning January 22, 2018, sources familiar with the the hill state. ber 21. galuru prison in a corruption programme said Indian presence will be really Union minister Narendra Singh The bypoll in the Assembly case. As soon as he registered big this time with over 100 CEOs including Tomar, who along with Defence constituency was necessitated a healthy lead against his Mukesh Ambani, Chanda Kochhar and Uday minister Nirmala Sitharaman was Senior BJP leaders congratulating Jai Ram Thakur after he was chosen Himachal CM on Sunday PTI following the death of J Jaya- AIADMK rival E Madusud- Kotak, as also Bollywood superstar Shahrukh appointed as a central observer by lalithaa in December last. The hanan, Dhinakaran, contesting Khan and top filmmaker Karan Johar expected the BJP, announced that Thakur ernment headed by Dhumal, was from Shimla, Kangra and Sirmour. strength is that he is perceived as a late Tamil Nadu chief minister as an independent, visited the to participate. was chosen to be the next chief elected the leader of the BJP legis- Mandi has 10 Assembly seats, leader who has managed to strad- was elected from the RK Nagar memorials of party stalwarts– Modi is expected to be accompanied by some minister as thousands of party lature party on Sunday. second only to Kangra’s 15. dle the party’s warring factions in seat in north Chennai. the late M G Ramachandran union ministers and top government officials, workers began celebrating. The decision was taken at a In this election, the BJP put up the state. Dhinakaran bettered the (party founder) and Jayala- while a large India Inc delegation led by apex The Seraj MLA, a thoroughbred meeting of BJP MLAs. a stellar show in Mandi, winning 9 A lack of consensus among the record of Jayalalithaa, who lithaa–at the Marina Beach industry chamber CII will also be present at the RSS man, emerged as the frontrun- His name was proposed by of the district’s ten seats. newly elected MLAs had resulted in had won by a margin of 39,545 and paid floral tributes. meet, whose theme will be ‘Creating a Shared ner for the top post after the shock senior leaders Suresh Bhardwaj and Seen mostly as a low-profile the two central observers – Union votes in the 2016 Assembly He also prostrated at Jaya- Future in a Fractured World’. P12 defeat of the BJP’s chief ministerial Mahender Singh and seconded by man, Thakur is from a farming ministers Sitharaman and Tomar – polls. lalithaa’s mausoleum. face Prem Kumar Dhumal in the others. family of Mandi. returning to Delhi from Shimla on While Dhinakaran polled Dhinakaran said the 2017 Assembly polls, the results of “It is expected that Thakur will He did his post-graduation Saturday to hold fresh consultation 89,013 votes, Madhusudhanan Palaniswami government 37 feared dead in Philippine which were announced last week. take oath as the state’s next CM on from Panjab University in Chan- with the BJP central leadership. got 48,306 votes. DMK’s N would “end in three months”. A former chief minister, December 27 at a ceremony where digarh and decided to join politics Earlier, the two-member team Maruthu Ganesh came a dis- He later returned to Chen- mall blaze: vice mayor Dhumal was still in the race for the Prime Minister Modi, BJP chief when he was in his 20s. of central observers, which was in tant third with 24,651, in the nai and was given a rousing chief minister’s post till Saturday Amit Shah and a galaxy of top lead- Thakur contested on a BJP the state on December 21 and 22, process losing the deposit, as reception at the airport by DAVAO: Thirty-seven people were likely killed night when he opted out. Union ers would be present,” a source said. ticket in the 1993 Assembly polls. had taken feedback from members also 57 others, including the his supporters, even as scores in a fire that engulfed a shopping mall in the minister J P Nadda was another Thakur will be the first chief He lost but went on to win in 1998 of the state BJP’s core committee, BJP nominee. of well-wishers thronged his southern Philippine city of Davao, the local vice top contender. minister from Mandi, the second from the now delimited constitu- MPs and some MLAs. Dhinakaran contested as Adyar residence. mayor said on Sunday. The Bureau of Fire Pro- Thakur, a former state unit largest district of the state. Him- ency of Chachiot (Seraj) and every The BJP ousted the Congress an independent on the pres- Jubilant supporters cele- tection ground commander at the scene said the chief and rural development and achal’s chief ministers and political Assembly election after that. from power by winning 44 out of sure cooker symbol after the brated by distributing sweets chances of the 37 surviving were “zero”, Paolo Panchayati Raj minister in a gov- leaders mostly belong to or hailed A soft-spoken man, Thakur’s the 68 seats in the Assembly polls. Election Commission allot- and bursting crackers. Duterte, the vice mayor, who is also the presi- dent’s son, wrote in a Facebook post. P10 TO ENSURE THAT DUE GOVERNMENT REVENUE IS NOT USURPED TMC wrests Sabang from Cong Had to raise the I-T to get defaulters address OUR CORRESPONDENT (BJP) aspirant Antara Bhat- 18,060 votes. tacharyya was in the third spot The by-poll was necessi- KOLKATA: West Bengal’s with 37,476 votes. However, tated due to sitting Congress bar against Vettel ruling Trinamool Congress the party gained a substantial legislator Manas Bhunia’s res- LEWIS HAMILTON from banking, civic authorities on Sunday won the Sabang number of votes in this by-poll ignation after he crossed over OUR CORRESPONDENT Assembly constituency by- as against about 5,000 votes to the Trinamool. He is now poll, by a massive margin of a Rajya Sabha member of his In today’s 64,192 votes. BENGAL BY-POLL new party. NEW DELHI: The central govern- Trinamool candidate Gita Trinamool candidate Gita paper ment has amended rules and autho- Rani Bhunia got 1,06,179 secured by the saffron party in Rani is Manas Bhunia’s wife. rised the taxman to use banking, votes while her nearest rival 2016 Assembly elections. The winning margin of Gita ... insurance and municipal corpora- Rita Mondal of the Left Front- The Congress, which won Rani in this by-poll surpassed CITY tion’s database to obtain address of backed Communist Party the seat in last year’s assem- Bhunia’s victory margin of over a ‘hiding’ or an ‘untraceable’ income of India-Marxist (CPI-M) bly polls, fared poorly, with its 49,000 votes as a Left-backed PROBE BEGINS AGAINST GGN MEDANTA 4 tax defaulter for the issuance of secured 41,987 votes. nominee Chiranjib Bhowmick Congress candidate in the 2016 notices or summonses to them and Bharatiya Janata Party in the fourth position securing Assembly polls. NATION extract due taxes. PAKISTAN VIOLATES CEASEFIRE AGAIN 6 Till now, tax authorities could only issue notice to a defaulting or EDIT erring taxpayer as per the address been carried out by the CBDT (Cen- provided by them in their PAN Till now, tax tral Board of Direct Taxes), the pol- THE GAME OF SCAMS 8 (Permanent Account Number), the authorities could icy-making body for the Income Tax INTERNATIONAL ITR (income tax return) or any tax- Department.