Follow us on: RNI No.2016/1957, REGD NO. SSP/LW/NP-34/2019-21 @TheDailyPioneer facebook.com/dailypioneer instagram.com/dailypioneer/ Established 1864 OPINION 8 WORLD 11 AVENUES 12 Published From PACT PRICE LESS THAN BUCKINGHAM PALACE SILENT ON HARRY, BOARDS WILL DELHI LUCKNOW BHOPAL BHUBANESWAR COST OF STRAINED TIES BE DAUNTING RANCHI RAIPUR CHANDIGARH MEGHAN’S TELL-ALL INTERVIEW DEHRADUN HYDERABAD VIJAYWADA Late City Vol. 157 Issue 67 *Air Surcharge Extra if Applicable LUCKNOW, WEDNESDAY MARCH 10, 2021; PAGES 14 `3 ‘NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE' VS PSG: KOEMAN 14} SPORT } www.dailypioneer.com Trivendra Rawat quits ED attaches Bundelkhand Expressway to assets worth as Uttarakhand CM `1,000 cr of change face of region: CM Rawat said it was a joint decision and one would ex-BSP MLC PNS n LUCKNOW PNS n LUCKNOW have to ask Delhi for a better answer eclaring that the he Enforcement DBundelkhand Expressway PNS n DEHRADUN decision and that one would they were protesting in support TDirectorate, on Tuesday, would change the face of this have to ask Delhi for a better of their pending demand for took major action in the UP region, Chief Minister Yogi fter days of political tur- answer. widening the Ghat- Cooperative Sugar Mill sale Adityanath said that work on Amoil and speculation, According to political Nandprayag road worked and mining scam by attaching the expressway was going on, Trivendra Singh Rawat observers, Rawat had under- against Rawat. He was found to assets worth more than ` 1,000 on a war footing and about 50 resigned from the post of taken various effective and be unpopular in internal sur- crore of former Bahujan Samaj per cent of the work had been Uttarakhand Chief Minister proactive measures during his veys and the failure of the Party MLC Haji Mohammad completed so far and once it on Tuesday to Governor Baby tenure. However, some of these State Government to keep the Iqbal. Iqbal was already booked was completed, this area would Rani Maurya. Accepting his very measures made him bureaucracy under control also under Prevention of Money become a major tourist centre. resignation, the Governor unpopular with the MLAs due worked against him. Laundering Act in November “This expressway is proof asked Rawat to function as the Another major reason for 2019 along with his son Wajid that the government’s policy officiating Chief Minister till the change in Rawat’s fortunes Ali in the Saharanpur mining and intentions are good. If his successor is appointed and was the inefficiency of his scam. there is a confluence of strong assumes charge. team to maintain his image and According to information, will and passion for work then Rawat’s resignation comes interaction with the media and seven properties of former development work can be after days of political turmoil public which proved severely MLC Haji Mohammad Iqbal taken forward at a very fast and uncertainty that came to detrimental in times when of Saharanpur have been pace. The construction of the fore on March 6 when the accessibility and public per- attached. In September 2019, expressway will also make Budget Session of the Assembly ception matter a lot. the CBI had booked the for- Bundelkhand a major centre of at the summer capital Gairsain However, BJP sources in mer legislator's son Wajid Ali tourism,” the chief minister was adjourned sine die earlier Delhi said before his meeting for criminal conspiracy and said after inspecting the con- than it was slated to conclude. with Rawat, party president JP under Prevention of struction work of the bridge Apart from Rawat, the Cabinet Nadda held talks with Union Corruption Act along with over the Yamuna river on the Ministers and BJP MLAs were Uttarakhand Chief Minister Trivendra Home Minister Amit Shah, two IAS officers in the mining Bundelkhand Expressway in The chief minister said Expressways Industrial packages. The access-con- rushed to Dehradun to attend Singh Rawat arrives to address the the party’s national general scam. The agency is still con- Jalaun district. once the Bundelkhand Development Authority would trolled expressway will have a the core group meeting which media after tendering his resignation in secretary (organisation) BL ducting the probe. He said that by the end of Expressway was constructed, it set a record by completing the right of way (total land area was also attended by Central Dehradun on Tuesday PTI Santosh and general secretary Sources in the ED said November, the entire con- would go a long way in ensur- construction of the bridge on acquired for the construction of observer Raman Singh and in charge of Uttarakhand they tracked down the shell struction work would be fin- ing socio-economic develop- the Yamuna river within six to the roadway) of 110 metre. A the party’s State in-charge to steps like implementation of Dushyant Gautam. companies linked to the former ished, providing immense ment of the area which was eight months. service road (3.75 metre wide) Dushyant Kumar Gautam the Transfer Act and his lack of Sources said the BJP leader- MLC and his sons through potential for triggering eco- lying neglected for decades. Officials informed the chief will also be constructed on one among others. political correctness. Rawat’s ship was unhappy with Rawat which illegal money was nomic activities in the region. The total length of the minister that so far 97 per cent side of the expressway. After that, Rawat, some action against corruption also over his handling of the last ploughed into mining. They While addressing a review expressway is 296 kilometres work of clearing and grubbing The total estimated cost of Cabinet Ministers, MLAs and proved in some ways to be month’s flash flood in Chamoli as said the properties grabbed meeting, the chief minister out of which construction of in Bundelkhand Expressway the Bundelkhand Expressway party leaders reached Delhi detrimental to the usual also with the State’s High Court through illegal mining pegged said that the construction of 120 km road has been com- had been completed and over project is `14,849.09 including separately. Though BJP State politics. ordering a CBI probe in October at `3,000 crore and were Bundelkhand Expressway was pleted by the UP Expressway 80 per cent of soil work had the cost of civil construction president Banshidhar Bhagat More recently, his deci- last year into corruption charges tracked and their attachment progressing at a fast pace and Industrial Development been done. On the expressway, estimated at ` 7,766.81 crore. It continued to state that no lead- sion to declare Gairsain the leveled by a journalist in a video process was under way. This all flyovers were being fast- Authority (UPEIDA). The con- four rail over bridges, 14 long will connect the Bundelkhand ership change was about to third commissionerate of against Rawat. The Chief also includes hotels in tracked. “The farmers of struction of bridges on the bridges, six toll plazas, seven region of the state with Delhi happen, the inner workings of Uttarakhand merging districts Minister was accused of alleged- Uttarakhand and a medical Bundelkhand gave their land Yamuna, Betwa and Ken rivers ramp plazas, 268 small bridges, through the Agra-Lucknow the party machinery continued of both Garhwal and Kumaon ly accepting bribe through his rel- college. for the expressway and extend- falling in the Bundelkhand 18 flyovers, and 214 under- Expressway and Yamuna to progress in another direc- without consulting public rep- atives in 2016 to facilitate the Sources also said the ed their full support. The Expressway project is also passes will be constructed. Expressway and will play an tion. When asked about the resentatives from the regions appointment of a person in accused created assets through expressway will boost the prof- going on at a rapid pace. The four-lane expressway, important role in the develop- reason for his resignation, concerned and the lathicharge Jharkhand. The Supreme Court sale of sugar mills during BSP its of the farmers of The chief minister said which will be expandable to six ment of the Bundelkhand Rawat said that it was a joint on people at Diwalikhal when had stayed the order. supremo Mayawati’s regime. Bundelkhand,” he said. that the Uttar Pradesh lanes, has been divided into six region. India summons UK Desi Covaxin safe with no Religious card will DMDK walks fail, I too am a Hindu, out of ADMK envoy, slams House serious side effects: Lancet front in TN PNS n NEW DELHI Chennai: The ruling Didi warns Suvendu AIADMK’s ally DMDK on ovaxin, an indigenously Pilots can fly 48 hrs after SAUGAR SENGUPTA n KOLKATA dentials? Playing with religion Tuesday walked out of the debate on farm stir Cdeveloped coronavirus vac- will not do any good to them. alliance following failure of PNS n NEW DELHI made it clear that this repre- cine, has been found to be “safe engal Chief Minister and This is a ploy to divide the peo- seat sharing talks for the April sented a gross interference in with no serious side effects”, shots if they remain fit BTrinamool Congress chief ple of Bengal.” 6 Tamil Nadu Assembly elec- ndia on Tuesday summoned the politics of another democ- The Lancet has said based on Mamata Banerjee on Tuesday She said, “My opponent is tions with just days left for the Ithe British High ratic country,” it said. the interim result of its phase PNS n NEW DELHI carriers have asked the warned her rival and BJP’s telling that he has the support nominations to open. Commissioner and conveyed He advised that British 2 trial results.