DAILY FROM: AHMEDABAD, CHANDIGARH, DELHI, JAIPUR, KOLKATA, LUCKNOW, MUMBAI, NAGPUR, PUNE, VADODARA JOURNALISM OF COURAGE WEDNESDAY, JULY 28, 2021, AHMEDABAD, LATE CITY, 18 PAGES SINCE 1932 `4.00 WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM BJPOATH-TAKINGplaysCEREMONYsafeAT 11inAMKarnataka:TODAY BSYloyalistand fellowLingayat,BasavarajBommai,newCM Son of former CM SRBommai, says BSY personal pick is key will followinYediyurappa’s footsteps trouble-shooter, with Assam CM Sarma visitspolicemen injured in the clash with posedatthe legislatureparty Mizoram forces, at ahospital in Silchar Tuesday. PTI JOHNSONTA meeting on Tuesdayevening by BENGALURU,JULY27 Yediyurappa and supportedby friends across parties sevenothers. BASAVARAJ BOMMAI, who was The selection is being seen as “He kept on dilly-dallying Delhi steps in, Assam the Home Ministerunder BS asignal that Yediyurappa will JOHNSONTA and in the end, did notcome Yediyurappa, will be sworn in wield sizeable clout in the state BENGALURU,JULY27 with me and did notallowothers as the 23rdChief Ministerof government —and that the BJP to come with me too. He has be- talks SC, Mizoram for Karnataka at 11 am Wednesday leadership is wary of the veteran AHEAD OF the 2013 elections to trayed me in that way. He ranks following his election as the leader who bid atearful farewell the Karnataka Assembly, when number one forbetrayals,” newleader of the BJP stateleg- Mondaywhile suggesting that BSYediyurappa quit the BJP fol- Yediyurappa had said. peaceful ‘resolution’ islatureparty. he wasbeing easedout aftertwo lowing his ousterfromthe Chief On Tuesday, eight years later, The 61-year-old, who joined years at the helm. Minister’s post, Basavaraj it wasYediyurappa who pro- DGPs, Chief Secysofboththe states the BJP onlyin2008, is aformer Bommai’s father,SR Bommai did notfollowhim to posedthe name of Bommai to JanataDal (United)leader and Bommai, wasthe eleventh Chief join the veteranleader’s break- replace him as Chief Ministerof summonedtoDelhi todaybyGovt son of former JanataParty Chief MinisterofKarnataka between away Karnataka JanataParty. Karnataka —aposition he had MinisterofKarnataka, the late 1988 and 1989, and aformer At the time, in an interview vacated in tears on Monday. ment would deploy4,000com- SRBommai. He is also aclose as- Union Minister. with The Indian Express after Bommai, who has no rootsin TORAAGARWALA mandos along the state’s 165- sociateofYediyurappa and “Wehaveunanimously campaigning forthe KJP in the the BJP’s ideology,isapolitician &DEEPTIMANTIWARY km boundarywith Mizoram, member of the dominant elected BasavarajBommai as the Shiggaon in north Karnataka, with socialistmoorings who fol- GUWAHATI,NEWDELHI, and move the Supreme Court Lingayat community likethe for- legislatureparty leader.Ipro- whichisBommai’s constituency, lowedinthe footsteps of his fa- JULY27 to ensurethat the reservefor- mer Chief Minister. posedthe name of Basavaraj Yediyurappa had hit out at his ther SRBommai, aleader of the estinthe disputed area is pro- Bommai’s name waspro- CONTINUEDONPAGE2 Yediyurappa, Bommai afterhis selection Tuesday. PTI protegefor deserting him. CONTINUEDONPAGE2 ADAY aftersix Assam Police tected and no settlement personnel and acivilian were comes up there. killedinfiring and clashes at a Sarma’s remarks followeda disputed border point between statement Mondaynight from Assam and Mizoram, the Mizoram Home Minister Didn’t get ok MinistryofHome Affairs sum- Lalchamliana who accusedthe Rahul chairs Opp monedthe Chief Secretaries Assam Police of “forcibly” cross- and Director Generals of Police ing over and overrunning apost for CBI post, of the twostatestoDelhi mannedbyMizoram Police. meeting, to push Wednesdayaspartofefforts to Calling it an “intrusion and Asthana is dial down tensions. aggression intothe territoryof As the Centresteppedin, Mizoram,” Lalchamliana, while new chief of jointly in House for Assam Chief MinisterHimanta regretting “the needless injuries CONTINUEDONPAGE2 Delhi Police Pegasus discussion BiswaSarma said his govern- Engg seats down to All to give adjournment notices today; Wastoretire in 4days, sevenOpp parties writetoPresident lowest in adecade; 63 replaces a chief named opposition parties. month ago MANOJCG Besides Gandhi, Congress instts to shut in 2021 NEWDELHI,JULY27: leader in Lok Sabha Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury, and the party’s floor MAHENDERSINGH AMID THE continuing standoff managers, the meeting wasat- RITIKACHOPRA Lackof MANRAL in Parliament, ameeting on tendedby, among others, the Photo tweetedbyPMO of Modi’s meeting with CM MamataBanerjee in Delhi on Tuesday NEWDELHI,JULY27 demand NEWDELHI,JULY27 Tuesdayoffloor leaders of oppo- DMK’s TRBaalu and Kanimozhi, E fuelsdip sition parties in the Lok Sabha, the NCP’s SupriyaSule, the Shiv WITH Asteady stream of engi- EXPLAINED ● THE CENTRE on Tuesdayap- chaired by senior Congress Sena’s Arvind Sawant, the Kerala Mamata asks PM for more neering colleges applying forclo- pointed former CBI special direc- leader Rahul Gandhi, decided Congress (M)’s Thomas BUSINESSASUSUAL suresince 2015-16and asignifi- At their peak,in2014-15, torRakesh Asthana as the new that theywould come together Chazhikadan, the National cant reduction in capacity across AICTE-approved institu- Delhi Police Commissioner un- on the Pegasus spywarephone Conference’s Hasnain Masoodi, BY UNNY vaccines in first post-win others, the total number of seats tions had almost32lakh til July31, 2022. His appointment hacking rowand mount pres- the RSP’s NKPremachandran, in engineering institutes in India engineering seats. Since —made four days before his re- sureonthe government foradis- the Muslim League’s ETMohd meet, then ups Pegasus heat has hit the lowest in adecade. then, lackofdemand has tirement —has also come with a cussion in the presence of Home Basheer and the CPM’s S The latestdatafromthe All forced around 400engi- service extension of one year. MinisterAmit Shah. Venkatesan and AM Ariff. But, speaking to reporters India Council forTechnical neering schools shut. Still, Asthana’s appointment as On Wednesday, sources said, During the meeting, some of DIPANKARGHOSE& afterher 4pmmeeting, Education (AICTE) showthat en- theyaccount for80% of Delhi Police chief comes two all the opposition parties would the opposition floor leaders ar- MANOJCG Banerjee raisedanother issue. gineering seatsatthe undergrad- seatsinthe technical months afterhelostout on his give adjournment notices in the guedthat the messagethat NEWDELHI,JULY27 Speaking on the Pegasus snoop- uate, postgraduateand diploma space (including architec- chance to become CBI Director. LokSabhaonthePegasusscandal. needs to go out to the BJP should ing controversy,she said the PM levels have declinedto23.28 lakh ture, management, etc). Asthana’s candidacy,along that Sources in the Opposition be of Opposition unity and there TERMINGHER meeting with should call an all-party meet- —the lowest in at least10years. of then NIA chief YCModi, had campclaimedthat the govern- should be no division or misun- Prime MinisterNarendraModi ing, take all opinions on board, The reduction in seatsthis year, been rejected afterCJI NV ment side had indicated that it derstanding among them. One on Tuesdayasa“courtesy visit”, and announce aSupreme on account of instituteclosure made up of architecture, man- Ramana —partofthe PM-led wasready foradiscussion on any leader,sources said, spokeabout West Bengal Chief Minister Court-aidedprobe. and decreasedadmission capac- agement, hotelmanagement committee to appoint the CBI subject, barring the Pegasus rev- the needfor amoreaggressive MamataBanerjee said she raised On Monday, Banerjee had ity,ispegged at 1.46 lakh. and pharmacy,among others) in chief —cited an earlier Supreme elations. The government’s disruption of the House, arguing twoissues: supplyofmorevac- announcedaninquiryintothe Despitethe significant drop, the country. Courtrulingthatnoofficer with move to push through twoBills that thegovernment wasable to HOUSE HOLDUP: PM cines and the longstanding de- issue, by acommission compris- engineering still accountsfor 80 At itspeak,in2014-15, engi- less than six months to during the din in the Lok Sabha carry out business despitethe SAYS ‘EXPOSE’ OPP mand forchanging the state’s ing retired Supreme Courtjudge per cent of the total seatsinthe neering education had almost32 CONTINUEDONPAGE2 on Mondayhas also infuriated CONTINUEDONPAGE2 PAGE 14 name to ‘Bangla’. CONTINUEDONPAGE2 technical education space (also CONTINUEDONPAGE2 GUNOTSAV EVALUATION INSIDE Harappan city of Dholavira in Kutch Only 14 of Gujarat’s 30,681 govt schools show improved learning outcomes among UNESCO’s world heritage sites Fuzhou, China, comes days after Gunotsav 2.0, as the newscoring give 80 per cent weightageto GOPALKATESHIYA the KakatiyaRudreshwaratem- RITUSHARMA method is called. learning outcomes, against60 RAJKOT,JULY27 ple in Telangana, popularly AHMEDABAD,JULY27 Education secretaryVinod per givenearlier. calledthe Ramappa Temple, was Raosaid that Covid-19did not Ministers areassigneddis- LS, RS MOVE ON DHOLAVIRA,THE Harappan-era inscribed on the list. IN AN assessment by the state have anyimpact on the evalua- trictstoindependentlyevaluate STOP-START MODE archaeological sitelocated in “Dholavira: AHarappan City, education department from tion as amajority of the schools primaryschoolchildren in gov- AS ADJOURNMENTS Kutchdistrict of Gujarat, wason inIndia,justinscribedonthe@UN- May2019to2021, mainlyon were evaluated forthe academic ernment schools as partofthis DROWN OUT Tuesdayinscribed on the