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Mumbai NEARBY Rail Bhavan, North Block 61% polling recorded in spar after Budget merger 3rd phase in Uttar Pradesh The Yadav family’s traditional strongholds are at stake Shahabuddin lodged Finance Ministry demand for dividends from PSUs leaves Railways fuming Omar Rashid in Tihar jail LUCKNOW NEW DELHI Somesh Jha The voter turnout in the Controversial RJD leader NEW DELHI third phase of the 2017 Uttar Shahabuddin, brought to Less than a fortnight after Pradesh Assembly elections Delhi by train early on Sunday the historic merger of the was slightly lower than the morning, has been lodged in Rail Budget with the Union first two phases but an im- jail number 2 of Tihar prisons Budget, the Railways and provement from the figure amid foolproof security. A Finance Ministries are not for the corresponding phase Bihar Police team brought seeing eye-to-eye on some in the last election. him from Siwan jail on a critical issues, including The 12 districts that voted Supreme Court order by finances. on Sunday recorded a provi- Sampoorna Kranti Express The Finance Ministry, sional turnout of 61.16 % till which reached here around 8 which has taken charge of 5 p.m. against the 59.96 % in a.m. presenting the annual ac- 2012, when the Samajwadi NATION Ī PAGE 7 DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD counts for the Indian Rail- Party swept the State with a ways, has asked the Railways majority. In the first and second Woman raped near Hauz Ministry to hereafter remit phases of the election, cov- Khas village the annual dividends it re- NEW DELHI ceives from the 14 central ering west and north-west U.P. (Rohilkhand), the State A 24-year-old woman from public sector units (CPSUs) the Northeast was allegedly under its purview. ment made in the Railways- Railway Budget with General of the Railways’ overall recorded 64.2% and 65.5% raped by a man near Hauz Rail Bhavan mandarins related PSUs would be Budget on the premise that, traffic earning projections respectively. Getting inked: Voters leave a polling booth at Picture Gallery Khas village, police said on are not amused as saving on treated as having come from besides maintaining its dis- for 2017-18, remitting the di- The SP, which won 55 out in Lucknow, on Sunday. RAJEEV BHATT Sunday. The incident dividend payments to the the Central government’s ac- tinct entity as a depart- vidend to the Finance Min- of 69 seats in these districts happened on Saturday night MoF was one of the biggest counts. ‘Capital-at-charge’ is mental commercial under- istry “would add to shortfall in 2012, has all at stake in (62.88) and Kanpur Dehat seats in Lucknow saw signi- when the woman, who arguments made in favour of the Centre’s investment in taking as at present, in the Railway earnings.” this phase. districts (62.17). ficant increase in voting per- belongs to Manipur, was scrapping the separate Rail the Indian Railways — Railways would also retain “As Ministry of Finance, in Given that the constituen- centage. returning from a party along Budget. The Railways min- treated as loan in perpetuity. its functional and financial the larger scenario, is re- cies include the Yadav fam- Lowest average turnout If Lucknow West recor- with her friends and cousins, istry has shot back arguing “In view of this, the Min- autonomy,” the Railways sponsible for meeting any ily’s traditional strongholds Kanpur district, which has ded a jump from 49.48% to said a senior police oicer. that giving away the di- istry of Railways is requested Ministry said in its reply to gap in Railway resources, the — Etawah, Mainpuri, Et- as many as 10 seats, saw the 55.98, the polling in Luc- DELHI METRO Ī PAGE 1 vidends from the CPSUs – es- to remit the dividends re- the Finance Ministry on Feb- present arrangement of re- awah-Kannauj — it is also a lowest average turnout at know North, where SP Min- DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD timated at about ₹850 crore ceived from its CPSUs to ruary 13. “The existing finan- taining the dividend for Rail- battle of prestige for Chief 56.42%, while the State cap- ister Abhishek Mishra is fa- for 2017-18 – would hit its General Revenues,” the Fin- cial arrangements with re- way PSUs in the Railway Minister Akhilesh Yadav’s ital Lucknow did marginally cing a challenge from the earnings. ance Ministry said in its let- gard to Railway revenue and earnings may continue,” the party. If district-wise voting better at 58.68. The two dis- BJP’s Niraj Vora, increased In its communication in ter of January 9. expenditure has thus to con- Railways Ministry said. is to be analysed, Sitapur re- tricts are largely urban, thus from 50.26 to 56.9. January, the Finance Min- The Indian Railways will tinue even after merger.” Earlier, the Railway Board corded the highest average putting to test Mr. Yadav’s The tightly-locked Luc- istry told the Railways Min- no longer be required to pay The Railways Ministry members were surprised at turnout with 68.49%. development model as well know Central seat, too, saw istry that since the ‘capital- annual dividend of about said the dividend received by Finance Minister Arun Jait- Three constituencies in as measure the electoral im- a rise in voting, from 50.98% at-charge’ of the Railways – ₹9,000 crore to the Finance the Indian Railways from its ley’s Budget announcement the district, Mahoodabad, pact of demonetisation. In to 52.98. on which annual dividend Ministry for the capital in- CPSUs is not part of the ‘cap- listing three Railways PSUs — Biswan and Hargaon, recor- the last election, the SP won was paid by the Railways – vested in it following the ital-at-charge’. It went on to IRCTC, Indian Railway Fin- ded over 71% polling. 12 out of the 19 seats in these CONTINUED ON Ī PAGE 10 would be wiped-off post the Budget merger. “The govern- point out that since the di- ance Corporation and IRCON Sitapur was followed by two centres. NO RULE OF LAW IN UTTAR DELHI METRO Ī 6 PAGES Budget merger, the invest- ment approved merger of vidends from CPSUs is a part — on the stock markets. Barabanki (66.96), Kannauj Three hotly contested PRADESH, SAYS MODI Ī PAGE 11 EDGE Ī 4 PAGES CCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCCC Final push Rebels kill Indian working with Nagaland infrastructure irm in South Sudan CM quits after stir Farooq Basha victim of civil war; Sushma ofers help Press trust of India Kohima Kallol Bhattacherjee ture Co Ltd., which is in- brought to light the danger NEW DELHI Nagaland Chief Minister volved in drilling wells for posed by the civil war and T.R. Zeliang resigned on An Indian national, Syed water in the region. international conflicts in Sunday against the back- Farooq Basha, was shot dead “We have spoken to the South Sudan. drop of widespread by rebel fighters in South Su- family of Syed Farooq Basha India had launched “Op- protests in the State against dan on Saturday, diplomatic and promised all help,” said eration Sankat Mochan” un- the government decision to sources have confirmed. External Affairs Minister der the leadership of Minis- reserve 33 per cent of the The incident occurred Sushma Swaraj in a social ter of State for External seats in urban local bodies some 900 km from the media post. Affairs V K Singh, in July for women. South Sudan capital of Juba. 2016 to evacuate nationals Neiphiu Rio, former “Syed Farooq Basha was Disputed region caught in the escalating civil Chief Minister and the only driving through the disputed Abyei is an energy-rich re- war. However only 154 per- MP from the State, appears region of Abyei, when he gion between Sudan and sons chose to be evacuated; to be a front-runner for the was shot dead in an attack South Sudan which remains hundreds elected to remain Chief Minister’s post. that injured his driver. This disputed. The identity of Mr. as the civil war paused for a A statement from the is the first casualty of an In- Basha’s killers is not yet while. A family member told Chief Minister’s Office said dian in the civil war, which known though reports sug- The Hindu from Kurnool, Mr. Zeliang was stepping began last year,” said a gest that he was targeted by Andhra Pradesh, that he was down and a consensus senior source at the Indian one of the rebel groups. aware of the dangers in- leader would be chosen on Embassy in Juba. Family members took to volved but had handled it Monday morning at the Mr. Basha, who hails from Twitter and sought help well over the last two years. Naga People’s Front (NPF) Fresh ofensive: Iraqi forces on Sunday launched a ground ofensive to dislodge Islamic State militants from their remaining Gangavati in Koppal district from Ms. Swaraj in bringing “He had been staying there Legislature Party meeting. stronghold in Mosul, in the western part of the city. The militants were forced out of the eastern part of the city in the irst of Karnataka, was employed his mortal remains back to for more than two years and phase of an ofensive that concluded last month. REUTERS (REPORTS ON PAGE 12) with Omaski Sai Infrastruc- India.