Indian Horizon National English Daily [email protected] www.indianhorizon.org RNI No: Deleng/2013/51507 In memory of Dr Asima Kemal and Prof. Dr. Salim W Kemal [email protected] Volume Issue No: 20 No: 7 Published from New Delhi & Hyderabad New Delhi, Tuesday, January 21, 2020 Pages 12 + 4 pull out (P16) Price: 3.00 Won’t allow Had no choice but leave Aus Open: Federer Constitutional royal family: start with easy wins machinery to collapse: Prince Harry on opening day Kerala Guv P-4 P-8 P-11 Srinagar, Jan 20 (IANS) cratic Party MLA Ajaj Mir As per the preliminary re- Three terrorists of the from Jawahar Nagar, Sri- ports, the encounter took END OF SHAH ERA? NADDA IS THE NEW BJP BOSS proscribed terrorist outfit nagar on September 29, place in the Wachi area New Delhi, Jan 20 (IANS) The hour till 2.30 p.m. was provid- Hizbul Mujahideen were 2018.The other terrorist of Shopian where the ter- BJP has got a brand new Presi- ed to withdraw nominations, gunned down by secu- killed in the encounter is rorists were hiding in a dent in the form of J.P. Nadda. As if any candidate wishes to. By rity forces in an encoun- Waseem Wani, a resident house.It was a joint op- reported earlier, by 2.30 PM, the 2.30 p.m. Nadda was declared ter in Kashmir’s Shopian of Shopian while the iden- eration by the Army, the announcement came, bringing the man who stepped into the district on Monday, the tity of the third terrorist CRPF and the Jammu and an end to Amit Shah era. shoes of Amit Shah. Army said. is yet to be ascertained. Kashmir Police. Party Working President Jagat Though, many believe, Shah “Three terrorists elimi- Prakash Nadda won unopposed, will have the last say on all macro nated in Joint Operation. 3 TERRORISTS KILLED IN sparking celebrations outside decisions like pre poll alliances Affiliated to proscribed the BJP headquarters here on or top organisational appoint- terrorist outfit Hizbul Mu- encounter in Shopian, J&K Monday. The choice of the an- ments, but will be free from daily jahideen. Weapons and nouncement date on ‘ekadashi’, monitoring of the organisation. war like stores recovered. was done keeping the auspi- Shah himself wanted this, due Other details being ascer- ciousness in mind. to which Nadda was brought tained”, said the Army in a Amit Shah himself was among in as the working President as statement. the people who proposed Nad- as the new BJP President.”Soon gratulate Nadda.The nomina- key legislations like abrogation One of the terrorists da’s name along with Nitin after it, Shah was seen hugging tion process for the post of the of Article 370, Triple Talaq and killed has been identified Gadkari and Rajnath Singh. Nadda - embodiment of the BJP President began at 10 a.m. fi nally Citizenship Amendment as Adil Sheikh, responsi- Soon after his annointment, proximity the two share.By 4 and went on till 12.30 p.m. For Act meant Shah, who is the ble for looting eight weap- BJP election returning officer p.m., the prime minister Nar- the next hour, the filed nomina- home minister as well, had to ons from the residence of Radha Mohan Singh told the endra Modi himself is expected tion paper, which was just one, prioritize his works. former People’s Demo- media, “I announce J.P. Nadda in the BJP headquarters to con- was examined and another one ......Continue on Page 3 YSR Congress Party (YS- 3 capitals Bill tabled in RCP) government tabled a Rahul Gandhi raps Modi over wealth Bill to shift key capital func- Andhra Assembly tions out of Amaravati. holding of India’s richest 1% As soon as the House met for a three-day special New Jan 20 (IANS) Former spokesperson Randeep Singh session, Finance Minister Congress President Rahul Gan- Surjewala alleged last week that Bugga Rajendranath Reddy dhi took a swipe at Prime Min- the government was favouring moved the Andhra Pradesh ister Narendra Modi over the Adani JV with HSL in awarding Decentralization and Inclu- reports that India’s richest 1 per the Rs 45,000 crore contract for sive Development of All Re- cent owned more than 4 times building six diesel-powered gions Bill 2020. the wealth of 953 million people, submarines, despite the com- Urban Development Min- SC rejects plea who make up for the bottom 70 pany having no experience in ister Botsa Satyanarayana ta- per cent of the population. submarine building. bled the Capital Region De- on Nirbhaya The total wealth of all Indian of India’s super rich, now own 4 “The government is flout- velopment Authority repeal billionaires is more than the times more wealth than 1 Billion ing norms and the defence Amaravati, Jan 20 (IANS) and Kurnool as the two Bill 2020, bringing curtains case convict’s full-year budget. of India’s poor,” Rahul Gandhi procurement procedure 2016 Sealing the fate of Amara- other state capitals.Ending on Amaravati as the only “Modi extracts wealth from tweeted.The Congress leaders in awarding contract to the vati as the Andhra Pradesh all speculations and ignor- state capital as envisaged by juvenile status poor & gives it to his crony capi- have been attacking the Prime Adani HSL JV for building sub- capital, a Bill was tabled in ing protests from the entire former Telugu Desam Party New Delhi, Jan 20 (IANS)The talist friends & the big power Minister for his proximity to the marines, and promoting crony the Assembly on Monday opposition and Amaravati (TDP) government. Supreme Court on Monday re- brokers he’s dependent on. 1% industrialists.Congress chief capitalism,” he said. to develop Visakhapatnam farmers, the state’s ruling ......Continue on Page 2 jected a petition of Nirbhaya case convict Pawan Gupta re- garding his alleged juvenile sta- Will pass Assembly resolution ED arrests Robert Vadra’s close tus, pointing out that the plea had already been rejected by against CAA : Mamata Banerjee aide in foreign assets case subordinate courts. A bench headed by Justice R. Kolkata, Jan 20 (IANS) The dus, Christians, Sikhs, Parsis, New Delhi, Jan 20 (IANS) Banumathi had earlier queried West Bengal government is Jains and Buddhists fleeing per- In more troubles for Con- Pawan’s counsel: “How many planning to pass a resolution in secution in Pakistan, Afghani- gress Chief Sonia Gandhi's times will we hear the same the state Assembly against the stan and Bangladesh before De- son-in-law Robert Vadra, things? You have already raised Citizenship (Amendment) Act in cember 31, 2014. who is being probed for it many times. the next three-four days, Chief As per the Act, such commu- laundering money in over- ”Pawan has moved the top Minister Mamata Banerjee said nities will not be treated as ille- seas' assets case by the En- court to challenge a Delhi High on Monday. gal immigrants now and will be forcement Directorate (ED), Court order that declined to en- Banerjee also appealed to given Indian citizenship. the central probe agency tertain his plea that he was a ju- other states, particularly those The legislation, which has has arrested NRI business- venile when Nirbhaya was gang in the North-East, to pass such government in Kerala and Con- come into force on January man C.C. Thampi, officials raped and brutally assaulted resolutions. gress ruled Punjab have already 10, has led to intense pro- said on Monday. on December 16 night in 2012. “We have also passed a res- passed resolutions in the re- tests across the country, with An ED offi cial told IANS: She died on December 29, 2012, olution against NRCA three spective state assemblies de- students coming out on the "Thampi was arrested from laundering case involving people linked to Vadra. at Mount Elizabeth Hospital in months ago. We will pass a res- manding scrapping of the con- streets in thousands in almost New Delhi on Friday eve- foreign assets worth 1.9 mil- Thampi was questioned Singapore.A Juvenile Board in olution against CAA also within troversial CAA. all the states. Civil society ning in connection with its lion pounds in the UK. by the agency in April January 2013 had declared that three-four days,” Banerjee told TheA CAA, passed in Parlia- members, anti-BJP political probe involving overseas' An ED official revealed 2019. Besides the for- Pawan was not a juvenile when mediapersons.The CPI(M)-led ment last month, seeks to pro- parties and commoners have assets of Vadra." that the agency has de- eign asset case, Thampi he committed the crime. Left Democratic Front (LDF) vide Indian nationality to Hin- also joined the protests. The agency said that tected some alleged un- and his three companies Thampi's arrest comes in disclosed transactions -- Holiday City Centre, the wake of the investiga- being made from other Holiday Properties and KEJRIWAL HOLDS ROADSHOW, FAILS TO FILE NOMINATION tion involving Vadra, who foreign countries for the Holiday Bekal Resorts are New Delhi, Jan 20 (IANS) leave you people alone midway is being probed in a money purchase of properties by under ED investigation. Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Ke- like this. The roadshow is end- jriwal on Monday held a road- ing now as the police permission show with his wife and his two is over. Tomorrow morning, I ISI agent held from Chandauli in UP children in tow along with Aam will go with my family to file the Lucknow, Jan 20 (IANS) recce of CRPF installations.