follow us: february 19, 2017 Delhi City Edition thehindu.com 50 pages ț ₹15.00 facebook.com/thehindu twitter.com/the_hindu Vigilance Bureau opens Celebrated Hindi BJP politicising Army Shreyas Iyer shines as probe against Kerala novelist Ved Prakash chief’s remarks: Cong. India-A makes a solid ex-CM Oommen Chandy Sharma dead leader Ambika Soni reply to Australia page 8 page 9 page 10 page 17 Printed at . Chennai . Coimbatore . Bengaluru . Hyderabad . Madurai . Noida . Visakhapatnam . Thiruvananthapuram . Kochi . Vijayawada . Mangaluru . Tiruchirapalli . Kolkata . Hubballi . Mohali . Allahabad . Malappuram . Mumbai Pranab grounded UPA Palaniswami wins trust vote plan to privatise Air India after violence by DMK MLAs Divestment was suggested as part of bailout package Only 11 vote against govt. after eviction of DMK members, Congress walk-out Somesh Jha NEW DELHI B. Kolappan Chennai The United Progressive Al- The two-day-old AIADMK liance (UPA) government government, led by Chief had finalised a plan to Minister Edappadi K. Palan- privatise Air India five iswami, won the confidence years ago, but it did not vote in the Tamil Nadu Legis- take off as the then Finance lative Assembly on Saturday Minister, Pranab Mukher- after violence in the House jee, vetoed it. that ended with the eviction Today, the ruling Na- of all DMK members and a tional Democratic Alliance walkout by their allies — the (NDA) government is non- IUML and Congress. From committal on privatising the AIADMK, 122 members the debt-ridden airline. voted in favour and 11 dissid- The privatisation pro- ents voted against the SUNDAY SPECIAL motion. The House, which met at 11 a.m. had to be adjourned posal came on October 28, twice due to pandemonium 2011, when a Group of Min- AI should ly on: Minister as DMK members shouted isters in the UPA govern- slogans, demanding that vot- Chaos in House: DMK MLAs surround Speaker P. Dhanapal during the conidence motion ment sat down to decide Somesh Jha in an interview, citing the ing be deferred or that a moved by Chief Minister Edappadi K. Palaniswami on Saturday. SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT Air India’s fate and approve New Delhi airline’s huge debt as its secret ballot be conducted. a bailout package for the “I would like Air India to biggest issue, despite the Speaker P. Dhanapal later Aboobucker and rebel AI- carrier. survive and fly Indian skies ₹30,000-crore bailout put the motion to vote by di- ADMK legislator from Some Cabinet Ministers Stalin meets Governor, proudly. That’s my wish — package. “It has a big debt. vision and declared it passed Mylapore R. Natraj deman- favoured the plan, based whether in the public or You put it on the market in favour of Mr. Palaniswami. ded that the voting should on recommendations private sector,” Civil Avi- and no one will buy it.” In the 234-member not be conducted in a hurry. made by a group of arrested after protest Uncertain Twilight: ation Minister Ashok Ga- AI WILL HAVE NO BUYERS, House, one seat was vacant They said since the AIADMK bureaucrats. Between Two Worlds japathi Raju told The Hindu SAYS RAJU Ī PAGE 10 (of former Chief Minister Jay- legislators in the Sasikala Dennis S. Jesudasan that the Speaker adjourned Starting today, this series is a alalithaa), DMK president M. camp were allegedly con- Aloysius Xavier Lopez the House. But around 1.30 Beyond GoM’s mandate four-part exploration of Karunanidhi could not vote fined in a resort for 10 days, Chennai p.m., over 500 policemen Mr. Mukherjee as Finance The October 2011 recom- level of growth rate, divest- India’s burgeoning problem due to ill-health and one AI- they should be allowed to On a day of swift and sud- entered the House and Minister rejected the idea, mendations in the turn- ing the airlines to a stra- of providing for its elderly. ADMK MLA P.R.G. Arunku- meet voters in their respect- den developments, DMK evicted us. They harassed on the ground that privat- around plan and financial tegic partner could be con- The irst part examines mar, boycotted the proceed- ive constituencies before de- working president and and beat us. The Assistant ising Air India was beyond restructuring plan were sidered,” the group said, in societal and familial attitudes ings, after having escaped ciding on their vote. Leader of the Opposition Commissioner of Police the mandate of the GoM, submitted by a group of of- a recommendation to the towards them. from a private resort near Mr. Stalin said the MLAs M.K. Stalin emerged from gave instructions to bundle NATION Ī PAGE 9 according to documents ficers of the Union Finance GoM on Civil Aviation DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD Chennai. had been lodged in a resort the House with his shirt us out from the House,” Mr. obtained under the Right Ministry, after a spell of headed by Mr. Mukherjee The 11 members who like prisoners and hence open and claimed it had Stalin alleged, flanked by his SECTION 2 Ī 14 PAGES to Information (RTI) Act continuous losses. in October 2011. voted against the govern- they were not in a position to been torn, even as several of party MLAs, including the SUNDAY MAGAZINE Ī 8 PAGES and reviewed by The “Once Air India is able to ment belonged to the rebel vote in a free manner. his party MLAs were evicted DMK Deputy Floor Leader. LITERARY REVIEW Ī 4 PAGES Hindu. achieve an appropriate CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 10 camp led by former Chief “There should be a secret by the Speaker. “We are now proceeding Minister O. Panneerselvam. ballot or the proceedings Alighting dramatically to the Raj Bhavan,” Mr. should be adjourned for a from his car outside the As- Stalin said, before he left the CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC Call for secret ballot week so that the members sembly premises, Mr. Stalin Assembly premises. As soon as Mr. Palaniswami could breathe freely,” he made gestures to show He reached the Raj Dirty picture moved the motion of confid- said. journalists how his shirt was Bhavan around 3.30 p.m. ence, AIADMK dissident S. But the Speaker made it torn in the melee. “We may and submitted a memor- Semmalai urged the Speaker clear that he would abide by have done some mistake andum to Governor Ch. to take up a privilege notice the Assembly Rules 19(1) and knowingly or unknowingly. I Vidyasagar Rao. on MLAs “being kept in con- conduct the voting as per his apologised to the Speaker (With inputs from finement at a beach resort.” powers, though Mr. Stalin ar- and pleaded with him to T.K. Rohit) The Leader of the Opposi- gued that he could adjourn conduct secret voting. But tion M.K. Stalin, Congress the proceedings under Rule he did not budge.” CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 10 Legislature Party leader K.R. 122 of the House. “We refused to accept his SECRET VOTING IMPOSSIBLE, Ramasamy, Mr. Pan- position and staged a SAYS SPEAKER; SASIKALA’S VOW neerselvam, IUML legislator CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 10 dharna for an hour. After FULFILLED, SAYS CM Ī PAGE 10 Pak. lists Saeed under tough law Press Trust of India Islamabad Mumbai attack master- mind and Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) chief Hafiz Saeed has been listed under Pakistan’s Anti-terrorism Act (ATA) by the provincial Punjab government, a tacit acknowledgement of his links to militancy. Dawn News reported that the Punjab govern- ment had included Saeed Not pretty: A canal in Dallupura, East Delhi, is choked with polythene bags and other waste, making a mockery of concerns and one of his close aides, expressed by environmentalists over rising pollution in Delhi. - PHOTO: V. SUDERSHAN Qazi Kashif, in the fourth schedule of the ATA. Three other men were CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC added to the list — Abdul- lah Obaid from Faisalabad, and Zafar Iqbal and Abdur Valley youth vent rage through hip-hop Rehman Abid from the Markaz-i-Taiba, Muridke. Saeed and the others Bands making music videos with street violence in Kashmir as the theme were placed under house arrest on January 30 in Peerzada Ashiq with cancer, poverty and Lahore amid angry Srinagar social evils as issues. protests from his party and Come February 23, the Gradually, the conflict and political allies. The five tragedy of the 1991 Kunan the ever growing protests men were identified by the Poshpora “mass rape” will changed the course of his Interior Ministry as “active be remembered in a hip-hop music. members of the JuD and song composed by a Falah-i- Insaniyat [FIF],” Srinagar youth, Aamir Ame, Cricket fan the report said. 23, who has teamed up with Two incidents played a The Ministry directed a Nigerian rapper, Shady Joe, life-changing role for this the Counter Terrorism De- and a Mizoram resident, rare Indian cricket partment to “move and Vsumi. supporter from Srinagar’s take necessary action” The song, We are gonna Habba Kadal area. against them. The names rise, is dedicated to the 20 to Music of anguish:: Aamir Ame is an MBA student. “During the 2008 street of Saeed and 37 other JuD 30 women of Kunan- agitation, I was stopped by and FIF leaders had earlier Poshpora, two adjacent Over half-a-dozen hip-hop dedicated a hip-hop album, the Army personnel at also been placed on the villages of Kupwara, who bands have come up in Dead Eyes, to the victims of Bemina and reprimanded Exit Control List. were allegedly raped by Srinagar in the past few pellet shotguns, especially to for wearing a printed cargo The ATA empowers the Armymen on February 23, years, their music videos his friend who was hit in pants.