VRGR '%&((!1#VCEB R BP A"'!#$#1!$"#0$"T utqBVQWBuxy( , - D9 & > > > ,-",%./0 @+ , *+ :<,,!% A @( % ( *"+ %"&'() !"#$ 958"95%(9%! #(!?8!$'!,(++ '595$?% ?$2$#%(9+$!:!& !(9$'!(+%"%56%!,C '!-(!B1<%53$,%"(C#%$9 '&$%(+'&$%5$% )1 $ 123/45 /260= ! "$% !& 2((!&(689( P !%2&%+$ seat-sharing pact, the BJP "8"#($ would need to search for a he BJP’s nightmare of fac- non-Yadav and non-Jatav win- bsconding liquor baron Ting strong regional alliances ning combination by way of AVijay Mallya on Saturday M in different States in the wooing non-Jatav Dalits and became the first person to be M upcoming Lok Sabha polls is Other Backward Classes (other charged under the Fugitive !" P Q seemingly turning true with than Yadavs) to sail through in Economic Offenders Act some clarity reaching in at the electorally most important (FEOA), 2018, as a special % % & least two major States — Uttar state which also happens to Prevention of Money '% " % Pradesh (80) and Maharashtra have the home constituency of Laundering Act (PMLA) court % % (48) — accounting for 128 Prime Minister Narendra declared him as a “fugitive %" Lok Sabha seats. Modi in Varanasi. economic offender” under the Formidable regional tie- For the Congress though, new anti-fraud law. ups against the ruling BJP have it does not seem to be part of In a significant develop- ") taken some shape in the last the SP-BSP alliance with the ment that came on the heels of Special PMLA court on June 22 * +,-.+/ % two days with the Samajwadi regional powerhouses report- the Westminster Magistrates last year, the Enforcement & * Party (SP) and Bahujan Samaj edly keeping 37-37 LS seats for Court in London ordering Directorate (ED) had urged the 0* Party (BSP) almost set to seal themselves and leaving bare- Mallya’s extradition to India, the court to declare Mallya as % % " a pact in Uttar Pradesh even as poll, would be up against a fatal growing voices of dissent from ly six seats for the rest, includ- special PMLA court declared “fugitive economic offender” %% the Nationalist Congress Party NCP-Congress combine. This its own stable from the likes of ing the Congress and the him a “fugitive economic and allow it to confiscate all his % " (NCP) has gone ahead forging even as a taciturn Shiv Sena Anupriya Patel’s Apna Dal and Rashtriya Lok Dal. In such a offender” under the Fugitive properties, estimated to be 1 % a 20-20 seat sharing deal so far continues to remain belliger- Omprakash Rajbhar’s Suheldev scenario, if the Congress goes Economic Offenders Act, 2018, around 12,500-crore, mak- % 0 with the Congress in ent, demanding a clear upper Bharatiya Samaj Party. alone in the State, it may pro- a law that provides for confis- ing it the first such case of its % "-.+/ Maharashtra. hand in the Assembly polls Though the SP has sound- vide a marginal relief to the cation of all his properties. kind registered under the new 00* 0 The BJP will also be up also due this year. ed on the seat sharing alliance, BJP, albeit indirectly. Though the two proceed- FEOA law. 2-.+3 % against a massive challenge in The Congress and the NCP there is no word yet from BSP Congress Rajya Sabha ings are independent of each The ED had earlier filed 4 " the national Capital if the rul- have left eight seats for others chief Mayawati who has been member PL Punia said his party other, the authorities expect two complaints for investigation Q% % ing Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) that would be finalised later. unpredictable in the past. is preparing to contest alone in that the declaration of Mallya into alleged money laundering & Q% enters into a tie-up with the Like in UP, it would again be a The BJP, which had won a UP. “A coalition is not impor- as a “fugitive economic offend- against Mallya, Kingfisher % %* "' Congress, an announcement massive political challenge to record 71 Lok Sabha seats ( 73 tant... Our workers are ready... er” will come in handy to press Airlines Limited, and United % for which could be made in the the BJP which had posted its with NDA allies) in UP in 2104 We have not spoken to anyone for his early extradition from Breweries Holdings Limited % 0* -.+5"6 coming weeks. Delhi has seven best performance in the 2014 riding on the Modi wave, has about an alliance,” he said. the UK, where the absconding and others for the loan default % % Lok Sabha seats. Lok Sabha polls. in recent times faced major However, senior Samajwadi businessman is appealing and money laundering scams. % * The BJP, which alone won The political scene in UP reverses losing in Gorakhpur, Party leader and uncle of SP against the extradition order The PMLA court had sum- "6 *"1 22 seats in Maharashtra and would get shriller for the BJP- Phulpur and Kairana Lok head Akhilesh, Ram Gopal passed by Westminster moned Mallya to appear before %% 7 % together with Shiv Sena (which led-National Democratic Sabha by-elections where BSP Yadav tried to downplay the Magistrates’ Court Chief it on August 27 last year. Q % " Q pocketed 18 seats) had swept Alliance (NDA) if the finality had backed SP candidates. reports saying talks of sidelining Magistrate Emma Arbuthnot However, Mallaya failed to % % 40 of the 48 LS seats in the of SP-BSP alliance is In the eventuality of SP- the Congress are “imaginary”. on December 10, 2018. appear before the court. $7 % "' State in the 2014 Lok Sabha announced this month amid BSP announcing an official Turn to Page 4 In its plea filed before the Turn to Page 4 :0;< % Q 8 8 :0;= % ! !" # , "9 : % * " $ ; <6 " O " % % ?(!!85> P 9$583(!(!9(85(" !" 2 $ " iolence involving BJP-RSS ! " #-O Q Vand ruling CPI(M) work- !%2&%+$>+8,?!'2 !# " ers rocked politically volatile 1 '% Kannur district in north Kerala he CBI is likely to examine $ % on Saturday with a number of Tformer UP Chief Minister 7 houses and shops of rival lead- and Samajwadi Party chief " ers and workers being attacked Akhilesh Yadav in the multi- " O : % Q % M over the Sabarimala issue. crore illegal sand mining scam. %& 9 = %M Q Bombs were hurled at sev- Besides Akhilesh, the CBI is eral places, including at the also likely to question another : %" houses of CPI(M) MLA AN SP leader and former Minister % ' () %'(* % % Shamseer in Madapeedikayil, Gayatri Prajapati, who is in jail % "& Q BJP leader and Rajya Sabha in a rape case. #$% "+( # member V Muraleedharan at The agency’s contempla- ' " ()% *"% % Vadiyil Peedikia and former tion followed its raids on 7 "1 Kannur district secretary of Saturday at 12 locations in 2017 following a complaint of tricts as part of its seven $ % CPI(M) P Sasi at Thalassery Delhi and Uttar Pradesh, rape by a woman residing in Preliminary Enquiries (PEs) %% (& " past midnight, police said. violent protests by BJP-RSS including the residence of 2008 Chitrakoot, was also Mining registered in 2017 on the order # " No one was injured in the and right wing outfits after two batch IAS officer B Minister during the SP regime. of Allahabad High Court out , - " % % % % attacks. The BJP MP’s ancestral women of menstruating age Chandrakala, SP MLC Ramesh From the residence of Adil of which three FIRs have been ./001 0% home was attacked hours after offered prayers at the Lord Mishra, BSP leader Satyadev Khan, the agency collected registered now. ( 2 33$ bombs were thrown at the Ayyappa temple on January 2. Dikshit and premises of red the documents related to min- The CBI’s FIR, registered 4 # % " > M homes of Shamseer and Sasi Besides Kannur, Perambra stone contractors in connection ing. “We found that the min- on January 2, stated, “The role M % 7 when leaders of the Marxist in neighbouring Kozhikode, with illegal sand mining during ing licence to him was pro- of then Mining Ministers con- % " %-.+/% party and BJP-RSS were attend- Malappuram and Adoor in the tenure of Akhilesh as Chief vided on the recommendations cerned during the relevant ' -.+3 8 " ing a peace meeting here. Pathanamthitta, where the Minister. of the then Mining Minister period may be looked into %% , 0;?@ The attacks, which dis- Ayyappa shrine is located, also According to the CBI, Prajapati,” a CBI spokesperson during the course of the inves- 5 6 ;?@% % 0 0 0 %" rupted normal life, marked witnessed a series of similar Akhilesh’s role is likely to be said. The agency has been tigation of the case”. Sources $ " return of political violence on attacks and vandalism Friday examined by the agency as he probing illegal mining in UP’s said Akhilesh and Prajapati ! " " % *-.+/" large-scale after a gap of over night and in the early hours of was the Mining Minister Shamli, Hamirpur, Saharanpur, held the portfolios between 7 % a year in the sensitive district.