brightpunjabexpress.com CHANDIGARH > FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 2021 RNI.No. PUNENG/2018/76070 | VOLUME 3, ISSUE 162 | `3.00 CAPT ENJOYS CONFIDENCE OF EVERY HEALTH DEPT ISSUES 12 CHALLANS TO PITCH FOR 2ND TEST EXPECTED PUNJABI: BRAHM MOHINDRA P03 VENDORS SELLING TOBACCO PRODUCTS P05 TO TURN FROM DAY 1 P12 Chinese, Indian troops BJP doesn’t believe in political untouchability: PM NEW DELHI, FEBRUARY 11 begin pullback process Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday asserted that the BJP does not be- lieve in political untouch- CHINA TO MOVE TROOPS TO FINGER 8 FROM FINGER 4: RAJNATH “It was also agreed to hold the next meeting of Senior ability and values consen- NEW DELHI, FEBRUARY 11 Commanders of the two armies sus in politics, as he noted within 48 hours after complete that his government has India and China have disengagement in Pangong lake bestowed state honours on reached an agreement on areas to resolve any remaining even the ruling party’s po- disengagement in the North issues. In addition, the Chinese litical rivals to acknowledge and South banks of Pan- side had mobilised a large their service to the nation. Prime Minister Narendra Modi speaks during ‘Samarpan gong lake in eastern Ladakh number of troops and arma- Addressing Bharatiya Diwas’ event, organised to pay homage to former Bharatiya that mandates both sides ments along the LAC as well as Janata Party (BJP) MPs Jana Sangh leader Pandit Deendayal Upadhyaya on his to “cease” forward deploy- in the depth areas. Our armed at an event here to mark 53rd death anniversary, in New Delhi, on Thursday. PTI ment of troops in a “phased, forces too had made adequate and effective counter the 53rd death anniversary coordinated and verifiable” of Deendayal Upadhyay, a were given to former As- ernment may run with deployments in these areas to ensure that India’s security manner, Defence Minister party ideologue who had sam chief minister Ta- majority but the country Rajnath Singh announced interests were fully protected” founded its progenitor run Gogoi and former runs with consensus. We in Parliament on Thursday, not allow even an inch of its said withdrawal of tanks Jana Sangh, Modi said Nagaland chief minister are not here merely to in a breakthrough after a territory to be taken away and other armoured ele- RAJNATH SINGH, Defence Minister the saffron party always S C Jamir, both from the run the government but nine-month border standoff. by anyone. ments from certain friction puts “rashtraneeti” above grand old party. to take the country for- Sharing details of the A video shared by the points is nearing comple- areas in the northern bank ment later in the Lok “rajneeti” and gives respect Modi noted that he ward,” he said. pact to defuse the tense Indian Army showed the tion while pulling back of of Pangong lake while the Sabha, he said the dis- to even its political rivals. had said in Parliament in He also cited his govern- military face-off in east- pulling back of three tanks troops from the North bank Indian personnel will be engagement process was In this context, he said 2014 that a government ment’s tributes to national ern Ladakh that severely of the Chinese People’s Lib- areas is being undertaken. based at their permanent “going on well”, and that the current government may run with majority icons like Subhas Chandra strained ties between the eration Army(PLA) and Making a statement in base at Dhan Singh Thapa the implementation of the has honoured former but the nation runs with Bose, B R Ambedkar and two Asian giants, Singh also one by the Indian side from the Rajya Sabha a day after Post near Finger 3 in the re- pact will “substantially re- president and Congress consensus. “We value Sardar Vallabhbhai Pa- assured the Rajya Sabha south of Pangong Tso be- China announced the dis- gion. Similar action will take store” the situation to the stalwart Pranab Mukher- consensus in politics. tel, and observed that any that India has not conceded sides brief shots of a meet- engagement process, Singh place at the southern bank one which existed prior to jee with Bharat Ratna and When I arrived here in other dispensation might anything in the sustained ing between troops of the said China will pull back its of the lake as well, he said. the standoff that erupted noted that Padma awards 2014, I had said the gov- not have done it. PTI talks with China and it will two sides. Official sources troops to east of Finger 8 In an identical state- on May 5 last. PTI CAA will be implemented Social media platforms should follow Indian law: Prasad NEW DELHI, FEBRUARY 11 have to fully comply with media platforms cannot give rity, and law and order in the the country's law. differential treatment while country. "Please don't spread after COVID vax ends: Shah Amid a row with Twitter A day after his ministry handling problems on Capi- enmity, violence and misin- THAKURNAGAR (WB), over blocking of accounts, rebuked Twitter for not tol Hill and the Red Fort. formation. Please follow the FEBRUARY 11 India on Thursday warned complying with its orders The government, he said, Constitution of India and the social media platforms of to take down inflamma- was committed to freedom law of the land (otherwise Branding West Bengal strict action for failure to tory content, Information of media and rights of indi- we will be very strict)," he Chief Minister Mamata Ba- crack down on inflamma- Technology Minister Ravi viduals but it was equally said replying to a question nerjee a "failed administra- tory content, saying they Shankar Prasad said social concerned about safety, secu- in Rajya Sabha. PTI tor", Union Home Minister Amit Shah Thursday said KHALISTANI FLAG HOISTING the upcoming assembly Maha Guv denied nod to board state plane elections in the state will NIA files chargesheet Mohali under relevant sec- be a contest between Nar- tions of the IPC, the UAPA MUMBAI, FEBRUARY 11 endra Modi's "development infiltration into West Ben- Addressing a rally in the and the Prevention of Insult to model" and her "destruc- gal's Coochbehar district, North Bengal town, he said against 6 SFJ operatives National Honour Act against Maharashtra Governor tion model" of governance. which shares border with the yatra is also aimed at NEW DELHI, FEBRUARY 11 Inderjit Singh, Jaspal Singh, Bhagat Singh Koshyari In West Bengal, where the Bangladesh, has caused sig- ending corruption patron- Akashdeep Singh, Jagwinder was denied permission to BJP has launched a political nificant changes to its de- ised by "Bua-Bhatija" com- The National Investigation Singh, Pannu and Harpreet use a state government blitzkrieg against the Ma- mography. The upcoming bine. The BJP has been Agency (NIA) on Thursday Singh. Inderjit Singh, Jaspal aircraft to travel to Deh- mata Banerjee government, assembly polls, he said, will accusing Banerjee and her filed a chargesheet against Singh and Akashdeep Singh radun on Thursday, trig- he raked up the issue of the be a fight between the "Vikas nephew Abhishek, the Lok six people in connection with are radicalised members of the gering a row and inviting TMC supremo's opposition (development) model of the Sabha MP from Diamond a case of hoisting the Kha- SFJ, a proscribed unlawful as- a strong criticism from to the CAA, and asserted the Narendra Modi government Harbour, of "institutionalis- listani flag by cadres of the in Moga, according to an sociation, and conspired with the opposition BJP which his home state of Uttara- contentious citizenship law and Mamata Banerjee's Vi- ing corruption". outlawed Sikhs For Justice NIA spokesperson. They also Pannu and Rana Singh of the sought an apology over khand, a statement from will be enforced once the pro- nash (destruction) model". Shah, who met Koch Raj- (SFJ) organisation on the cut the rope of the Indian SFJ, the NIA official said. the incident. Koshyari was the Raj Bhavan said. cess of COVID vaccination The home minister, who bongshi leader Ananta Roy eve of Independence Day flag hoisted near the main In furtherance of the scheduled to travel by a The Raj Bhavan secre- has ended. flagged off the fourth of the at his residence in Chirang in Punjab's Moga, an official gate and dragged it along conspiracy, Inderjit Singh, state government aircraft tariat and the state gov- Shah's whirlwind tour five 'Parivartan Yatra' of the district of Assam during a said. The US-based separat- with the rope, the official said. Jaspal Singh and Akash- to Dehradun, but the per- ernment sought to blame of West Bengal and Assam BJP in Coochbehar ahead private visit, was claimed ist group SFJ is banned by The crime was committed by deep Singh were involved mission to use the plane each other for the inci- was also marked by a social of the announcement of the to have steered clear of the the government. On August the miscreants at the behest in hoisting the Khalistani flag was not granted even as dent, which added a new outreach to the numerically assembly elections, said the controversial CAA, but 14, two miscreants hoisted of SFJ militant Gurpatwant at the DC Office Complex in the governor had boarded chapter in the uneasy ties strong and restive Koch campaign is not for chang- once in Bengal, he fulmi- a yellow-coloured flag with Singh Pannu, who had offered Moga on August 14 last year the aircraft, sources said. between the ruling coali- Ragbongshi and Matua ing a chief minister, MLA nated against Banerjee for Khalistan written on it on them cash rewards, the NIA and also tearing of the Indian The governor later took tion, comprising the Shiv communities whose con- or minister but ending in- her opposition to the new the terrace of a four-storey official said.