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SSP/LW/NP-34/2019-21 Follow us on: @TheDailyPioneer facebook.com/dailypioneer instagram.com/dailypioneer/ Established 1864 OPINION 8 Published From WORLD 11 SPORT 15 DELHI LUCKNOW BHOPAL ENDGAME IN ‘US DISCUSSES POTENTIAL MISSILE SHARAPOVA BEATS BHUBANESWAR RANCHI RAIPUR AFGHANISTAN DEFENCE COOP WITH INDIA’ WOZNIACKI IN AUS OPEN CHANDIGARH DEHRADUN Late City Vol. 155 Issue 18 *Air Surcharge Extra if Applicable LUCKNOW, SATURDAY JANUARY 19, 2019; PAGES 16 `3 I AM PROUD OF ALIA BHATT: VARUN} DHAWAN} 14 VIVACITY www.dailypioneer.com Rahul hails Didi’s Opp unity bid UP govt nod to quota for RaGa writes to TMC chief; Opp leaders to take part in show of strength today poor among upper castes SAUGAR SENGUPTA n KOLKATA 2 I extend my support to PNS n LUCKNOW in these districts. s West Bengal Chief Mamata Di on this show of The government also hiked AMinister Mamata Banerjee unity and hope that we send ttar Pradesh became the the allowances of the contrac- prepared to hold a massive a powerful message of a Uthird state in India to tual and ad hoc state pilots of show of strength on Saturday, united India, Rahul wrote implement 10 per cent reser- the Aviation department. Now which will be attended by a 2 While neither Sonia Gandhi vation for economically poor a pilot will get `5,000 additional galaxy of major Opposition nor Rahul Gandhi would be among the general category in special allowance for flying leaders, Congress president joining the rally, the government jobs and state- per hour per trip and they will Rahul Gandhi on Friday wrote Congress will be represented run educational institutions. be entitled for type 4 or 5 gov- to her hailing the TMC chief’s by Mallikarjun Kharge The reservation will come into ernment accommodations for initiative to unite India against 2 Deve Gowda too praised effect from January 14. their residence. The pilots will the BJP. Mamata for taking the grand A decision in this regard also be eligible for to and fro The Congress president initiative to bring the entire was taken in the Cabinet meet- free transportation from resi- wrote, “I extend my support to Opposition together against ing chaired by Chief Minister dence to airport and the gov- Mamata Di on this show of Yogi Adityanath on Friday. ernment will pay the premium the Narendra Modi ` unity and hope that we send a Government Government spokesman state after Gujarat and of insurance of 60 lakh for avi- powerful message of a united and Energy Minister Shrikant Jharkhand to implement 10 ation personal accident or loss India together.” Saying that 2 Akhilesh said, “Mamata Didi Sharma said the Centre’s noti- percent quota for the econom- of the licence. there were “powerful forces has sent a message by fication was approved by the ically weak among the general The government has also afoot” angry with the Narendra bringing all leaders to state Cabinet in ditto. category as the Bharatiya Janata approved the decision to Modi Government for ped- Kolkata. Every segment of “The UP government has Party-ruled states are in a change the name of dling false promises, Rahul the society is unhappy with decided to implement the hurry to enforce this reserva- Mughalsarai tehsil in wrote these “forces are fanned West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee interacts with SP chief Akhilesh Yadav and other leaders at a hotel in Kolkata on the Modi Government and gazette notification of the tion to get a boost in the Lok Chandauli district to Deen by anger and disappointment Friday. Anti-BJP leaders have arrived in Kolkata to attend TMC’s mega rally on Saturday PTI time has come for a new Centre about giving maximum Sabha polls. Dayal Upadhyaya tehsil. of hundreds of millions Indians Prime Minister” 10 per cent reservation to eco- In other decisions, the gov- Earlier, the government who have seen through the BJP and Modi are intent on Government. She is a hard- support her initiative.” nomically weak among the ernment approved the pro- had changed the name of false promises and lies peddled destroying.” working leader and her endeav- Meanwhile, stage is set for “Mahagathbandhan rally general category with retro- posals to provide 7th Pay Mughalsarai railway station to by the Modi Government.” While neither Sonia our will bring success,” Gowda the expected record-breaking against the BJP’s misrule.” spective effect from January 14, Commission wages to the Deen Dayal Upadhaya station. Rahul’s letter came at a Gandhi nor Rahul would be said after landing in Kolkata. rally even as thousands of Apart from those who had 2019,” Sharma said. employees of Uttar Pradesh The government has also time when political who’s who joining the rally, the Congress Congratulating the Chief TMC cadres poured in from already landed in Kolkata, oth- The Centre had issued the State Bridge Corporation and approved `575 crore, excluding from all over the country will be represented by the Minister for bringing the whole districts. Kolkata prepared for ers who were expected to join notification for 10 per cent hand over about 1.0163 GST, for setting up 2,000 new including former Prime party’s Leader in Lok Sabha, India to Kolkata, Samajwadi a historic Brigade rally that the rally are Karnataka Chief reservation for upper caste hectares of irrigation land in tube wells of one cusec capac- Minister HD Deve Gowda, Mallikarjun Kharge. His pres- Party chief Akhilesh Yadav according to a rough ruling Minister Kumaraswami, his poor on January 12, 2019, after Maharajganj district to Seema ity each under Ram Manohar former UP Chief Minister ence and Rahul’s letter tends to said, “Mamata Didi has sent a party estimate break the Left Andhra Pradesh counterpart N the 103th constitutional Suraksha Bal (SSB) to set up its Lohia Scheme. Besides, `283 Akhilesh Yadav and NCP chief neutralise BJP’s argument that message by bringing all leaders Front record by assembling no Chandrababu Naidu, National amendment got the President’s unit. crore has been approved for Sharad Yadav had started land- Mamata’s much-hyped Brigade to Kolkata. less than 30 lakh people sources Conference leaders Farooq assent. The amendment bill The government also repairing and modernising ing in Kolkata. rally lacked the backing of the Every segment of the soci- said. Abdullah, Omar Abdullah, RJD was passed by both Houses of declared the Ramayan Mela in 1,101 tube wells in the state. On united Opposition second biggest party of India ety is unhappy with the Modi By Thursday late-noon a leader Tejashwi Yadav, Delhi Parliament. Chitrakoot as a government The government has also against the BJP, the Congress indicating at the schism with- Government and time has galaxy of politicians had land- Chief Minister Arvind Sharma said the govern- fair and transferred the assets amended the rule for approval president wrote, “The entire in the much touted Opposition come for a new Prime Minister ed in Kolkata led by former HD Kejriwal, DMK leader Stalin ment had also decided to adopt and employees of the district of funds for government Opposition is united in our unity. for the country.” Deve Gowda, NCP chief and BSP leader Amit Mishra, Centre's notification without and referral hospitals in schemes. Now a minister can belief that true nationalism Rahul’s support apart, Deve Former Arunachal Chief Sharada Pawar, Gegong Apang, Mamata said. any amendment. “If required, Ayodhya, Basti, Bahraich, approve funds up to one crore and development can only be Gowda too praised Mamata for Minister Gegong Apang who Akhilesh Yadav. Mamata had BJP leader Shatrughan the state government will bring Firozabad and Shahjahanpur rupees for a scheme. Earlier a defended on the tested pillars taking the “grand initiative to left BJP a couple of days ago on Thursday said that leaders Sinha and Yashwant Sinha were an ordinance on this matter districts to the Medical minister had to take approval of democracy, social justice bring the entire Opposition said, “Mamata is a great leader of about 20 Opposition parties also likely to join the rally. later,” he said. Education department as new from the state Cabinet for and secularism, ideas that the together against the Modi and we all have come here to would be coming to join the Continued on Page 7 UP has become the third medical colleges are coming up funds above `25 lakh. CAPSULE India’s another cricketing history in Oz SCRIBE SHOT AT Cong inks poll alliance with Sultanpur: The Pioneer correspondent in Sultanpur, regional players in J’khand Dinesh Pandey, was shot at on Friday evening by unidentified Congress, however, managed to persons, just as he moved out Of 14 LS seats, win the seat defeating the BJP of his shop. It is learnt that as by more than 10,000 votes. Dinesh was leaving his shop in Cong to fight 6, Congress president Rahul Badhiya Pir locality on Gandhi had earlier said we will Wednesday night, four contest the State Assembly identified men attacked him and JMM 4, RJD 1, elections under Soren’s leader- opened fire at him. One of the ship and it was reiterated in the bulltets hit his shoulder. On JVM 2, CPI 1 meeting,” Jharkhand Congress hearing the gun shots, his president Ajay Kumar said father came oput and saqw PNS n NEW DELHI test from Hazaribagh, a seat after a meeting of Opposition Dinesh in a poll of blood and by held by Union Minister Jayant parties in Ranchi on Thursday. then the miscreants had fter Bihar and Sinha. Congress will field its “You can see all of us here escaped.