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Established 1864 RNI No.2016/1957, REGD NO. SSP/LW/NP-34/2019-21 Follow us on: @TheDailyPioneer facebook.com/dailypioneer instagram.com/dailypioneer/ Late City Vol. 155 Issue 32 Published From *Air Surcharge Extra if Applicable LANDMARK 5 WORLD 7 SPORT 10 DELHI LUCKNOW BHOPAL CASE FILED AGAINST RUSSIA SUSPENDS NUCLEAR SOUTH AFRICA BEAT BHUBANESWAR RANCHI RAIPUR CHANDIGARH KOCHHAR, OTHERS MISSILE TREATY AFTER US MOVE PAK IN 1ST T20 DEHRADUN LUCKNOW, SUNDAY FEBRUARY 3, 2019; PAGES 12+8 `3 www.dailypioneer.com Kharge records USUALSUSPECTS his dissent on Modi raps Didi SWAPAN DASGUPTA Ex-MP top cop appointment over violence in Budget bolsters Modi’s of 1983 batch IPS officer West Bengal pro-poor credentials new CBI chief Rishi Kumar PM should worry f global investment funds and correspondents of the PNS n NEW DELHI Housing Corporation. IWestern media were to judge the Interim Budget of 2019 Rishi Kumar Shukla, a 1983 Shukla served in Raipur, Shukla will take charge from about winning own presented by Piyush Goyal this Friday, they would nding a four-month cadre officer, was the chief of Damoh, Shivpuri and Mandsaur acting director M Nageswara unquestionably have honed in on a big Government: The Eimpasse, the Government the Madhya Pradesh Police. He districts in different capacities Rao, who took over the post last seat before talking failure to adhere to the fiscal deficit target set in last year’s on Saturday named 1983 batch was removed from his post He is known for ensuring quick month following the removal of Budget. It was unquestionably a failure. The fiscal deficit Indian Police Service (IPS) when the Congress Government investigations into rape cases in Alok Verma from the CBI of Bengal: Mamata rose from 3.3 per cent of the GDP to 3.4 per cent, and it was officer and former Director took charge of the State the State during his tenure as Director’s post. a significant 0.3 per cent higher than what Arun Jaitley had General of Police of Madhya Shukla was made DGP on June the police chief, leading to a Shukla will take charge of the SAUGAR SENGUPTA n committed the Government to. Pradesh Rishi Kumar Shukla as 18, 2016, by the Shivraj Singh substantial decrease in such a CBI at a time when the agency THAKURNAGAR/NORTH 24 However, it is quite unlikely that too much will be made the new Central Bureau of Chouhan Government. He heinous crime is going through a leadership cri- PARGANAS of this monetary slippage that Goyal sought to explain with Investigation (CBI) Director for was DGP for nearly Shukla is a postgraduate in sis and discontent among sub- reference to domestic political imperatives. The reason is a fixed tenure of two years. two-and-a-half years Philosophy and a native of ordinate officers, who are upset rime Minister Narendra two-fold. However, the finalisation of He is currently serving Gwalior with their “unjustified trans- PModi on Saturday kicked First, most of the analysts and much of the Khan Market Shukla’s name in a 2-1 decision as the DGP housing He underwent training in fers”. Sources said although started his election campaign in media — an expression that is fast replacing the earlier by the Prime Minister-led selec- corporation the USA for crisis Shukla has not served in the CBI, Bengal with a scathing attack Prime Minister Narendra Modi emphasis on Sir Edwin Lutyens — were convinced that the tion panel, which has Chief The officer has also management he was in the Intelligence Bureau on Mamata Banerjee and the addresses BJP’s ‘Save Democracy’ rally embarrassment of the purported unemployment figures by Justice of India Ranjan Gogoi worked in the and hostage where he handled several sensi- Congress from twin rallies at at Durgapur in West Bardhaman district the NSSO was powerful enough to knock Narendra Modi out and the leader of the Congress Intelligence Bureau negotiations, tive matters. Thakurnagar a hot seat of the of West Bengal on Saturday PTI of the electoral contest altogether. The sneer on the face of in the Lok Sabha Mallikarjun Shukla is also besides He is known for ensuring Matua community in North 24 Congress MP Kapil Sibal as he mocked “pakodanomics” Kharge as the other members, known for his another quick investigations into cases Parganas and the industrial the multi-crore Sharada and told the whole story of elite disdain for the Government that has led to a new controversy. work against stint of of rape in the State during his city of Durgapur in West Rose Calley chit fund cases had dared undertake demonetisation in defiance of the Congress leader Kharge terrorism training tenure as the police chief, lead- Burdwan district. even as he reminded, “even I entire punditry. The foreign media is by and large hostile to submitted a dissent note to the ing to a substantial decrease in Mamata retaliated by say- was quizzed by them for nine After passing in the Narendra Modi Government because it doesn’t PM opposing Shukla’s name on London such a heinous crime. A post- ing that Modi and Home hours when I was the Chief understand beef politics and because it doesn’t know the grounds of his “inexperi- out from the graduate in Philosophy and a Minister Rajnath Singh should Minister of Gujarat and yet did anyone in the BJP who have cosmopolitan tastes. ence” in handling anti-corrup- National native of Gwalior, Shukla worry about winning their not prohibit their entry to my Consequently, it too delighted in the fact that Modi was tion investigations. But Union Police Academy, ensured that charge sheets in own Lok Sabha seats before State.” finally imploding. They approached the Interim Budget as an Minister Jitendra Singh criminal cases were filed at the dreaming of victory in West Attacking Mamata for per- exercise inirrelevancy. charged Kharge with “wanting earliest to ensure timely start of Bengal. The TMC supremo’s petrating “violence” in order to Secondly, the ecosystem around the old and to manipulate the CBI chief panel’s deliberations to the experience in investigating anti- trial so that delay in delivery of attack on two BJP leaders came stop the BJP from working in dispossessed Establishment also believed that the first selection criteria by including media. “ corruption cases. “Seniority can- justice could be minimised, shortly after the two launched Bengal, he told an appreciably knockout punch had been delivered by Rahul Gandhi. The officers of his choice in short- In a two-page dissent note, not be only criterion in appoint- sources said. a blistering attack on her while large rally at Thakurnagar “look Congress president, or so we have been told by some list”. Singh claimed the CJI Kharge said the three-member ment to such a critical post and After passing out from the addressing separate rallies in at the huge canvas of people. emerging courtiers, had been so inspired by the works of had fully endorsed the objec- committee, chaired by Modi experience in anti-corruption National Police Academy, West Bengal during the day. Now I understand why Didi two Nobel Prize winners in tive criteria applied for the and in which he is a member cases and prior experience of Shukla served in Raipur, Launching a no-holds resorted to violence. Those The Budget hasn’t won economics that he actually selection of agency chief. along with the CJI, has violat- having served in the organisation Damoh, Shivpuri and barred attack on Mamata, the who advertise to be democra- got these people to design Singh alleged that Kharge, ed the Delhi Special Police should also be considered,” said Mandsaur districts in different PM who had to quit the venue tic, kill innocent people,” adding Modi the 2019 election. a scheme of Minimum has tried to “manipulate” the Establishment Act (DSPE) that the Congress leader. capacities, before taking over as in the midst of his speech “you cannot stop BJP from There is still a long and Basic Income that was criteria for selection of the governs the CBI and the Shukla was removed as DGP. He underwent training in apparently to save a stampede- entering in Bengal,” and warn- unveiled with the familiar CBI chief with the ulterior Supreme Court judgements. DGP of Madhya Pradesh only the USA for crisis management like situation, wondered, “Why ing, “more you try to stop us hard fight ahead of the rolling of sleeves by the motive of accommodating Kharge said the criterion in three days ago by the new and hostage negotiations, Didi is scared of CBI so that she forcibly the more we will grow Boy Wonder in some of his preferred officers. selecting the CBI Director has Congress Government in the besides another stint of train- had to ban it from entering her in this State until you are dis- BJP. It has, however, Chhattisgarh. The idea was He also hit out at Kharge for been diluted to include investi- State. He is currently posted ing in London. State,” in an apparent reference lodged after the elections.” helped the party to not so much to introduce “giving his own version” of the gation experience only and not as chairman of the MP Police Turn to Page 6 to the ongoing investigations in Turn to Page 6 the Congress Party to address the concerns of European and American two social groups that Left-liberal thinking but to Purchase of were feeling a little simply upstage Modi with Students’ issue: India issues Vadra gets bail in money the claim that the PM was estranged politically.