SPECIAL REPORT HATHRAS SHIVRAJ SINGH CHOUHAN WHERE FEAR RULES WE FIGHT TO WIN, ONLY WIN US ELECTION & THE JOURNALISM WITH A HUMAN TOUCH www.theweek.in TheWeekMag TheWeekLive $ 60 INDIAN-AMERICAN VOTE FOREIGN WEED THREATENS WHEAT CROPS McKINSEY (INDIA) CHIEF: MOST SEVERE GDP DECLINE OCTOBER 18, 2020 OCTOBER IN FOUR DECADES HUNTING DIRTY MONEY How Enforcement Directorate used anti-money-laundering operations to become India’s top crime-ghting agency, even surpassing the CBI PLUS Government indulging in smear campaign DAVID GRIFFITHS, AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL ED has become Modi government’s puppet V. NARAYANASAMY, CHIEF MINISTER, PUDUCHERRY VOL. 38 NO. 42 THE WEEK OCTOBER 18 2020 VOL. 38 NO. 42 THE WEEK OCTOBER 18 2020 FOR THE WEEK OCTOBER 12 - OCTOBER 18 FOR THE WEEK OCTOBER 12 - OCTOBER 18 16 42 63 AP SPECIAL REPORT @LEISURE US ELECTION AHLAWAT SANJAY NAIR VISHNU V. Joe Biden and Kamala Harris are There are many offshoots of Most circus companies in India pulling out all stops to woo the the Hathras crime, but in its are reluctant to go online despite Indian-American community root lies fear taking multiple hits 30 COVER STORY 26 MADHYA PRADESH We will win all bypoll COLUMNS seats: Shivraj Singh 13 POWER POINT Chouhan, chief minister, Sachidananda Murthy Madhya Pradesh 19 SOUND BITE 28 COMMUNISM Anita Pratap IN INDIA @100 25 FORTHWRITE India’s first woman Meenakshi Lekhi comrade, Suhasini Chattopadhyay, remains 52 SCHIZO-NATION Anuja Chauhan largely uncelebrated in the country’s 59 DETOUR TARGET LOCKED political ‘his’tory. Shobhaa De ED personnel after 74 LAST WORD raiding jewellery 54 THE WEEK VIP Shashi Tharoor shops in Viviana India’s GDP could Mall, Thane, in con- contract between 9 nection with the and 12 per cent in the PTI Nirav Modi case agriculture. But how current year: Gautam good is the plan? Kumra, managing OLD HOUND, NEW TEETH partner, McKinsey & 60 CURRENT EVENTS With wider functional freedom, the Enforcement Directorate Company (India) A highly invasive weed has been transformed into a crime-fighting juggernaut of of foreign origin is 56 KARNATAKA spreading across north the Union government. In fact, the agency has surpassed B.S. Yediyurappa’s India and it could the Central Bureau of Investigation as the country’s most new land reforms are threaten the country’s prominent investigative agency. meant to modernise food security ◆ ED, CBI have become puppets of Modi government: V. Narayanasamy, chief minister, Puducherry COVER ILLUSTRATION BINESH SREEDHARAN Printed at Malayala Manorama Press, Kottayam, Print House India Pvt ◆ ED has a better conviction rate than other agencies: Karnal Ltd, Mumbai, M P Printers, Noida, and Rajhans Enterprises, Bengaluru, Singh, former director, Enforcement Directorate and published from Manorama Buildings, Panampilly Nagar, Kochi-682 ◆ Indian government is silencing all critical voices: David 036, by Jacob Mathew, on behalf of the Malayala Manorama Co.Ltd., Kottayam-686 001. Editor Philip Mathew Griffiths, director, office of the secretary general, Amnesty • Focus/Infocus features are paid marketing/PR initiatives International K OCTOBER 18, 2020 • THE WEEK 3 LETTERS EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW KAGISO RABADA AGRI REFORM BILLS TAMIL NADU RACISM DOESN’T COME BY MISTAKE WILL THEY REALLY FREE THE FARMER? LEADERSHIP CRISIS Your cover story was a mountains of eastern JOURNALISM WITH A HUMAN TOUCH www.theweek.in TheWeekMag TheWeekLive $ 50 HITS AIADMK KASHMIR waste of precious pages. Ladakh, face to face with a UNION TERRITORY’S FIRST ‘FAKE ENCOUNTER’ FAST-TRACK COURTS What were you going to belligerent Chinese army? OCTOBER 4, 2020 OCTOBER JUSTICE ON SLOW TRACK achieve with this story? e Army believes in SPECIAL ISSUE Who is your target? By the highest traditions of DECLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS revealing everything the country, and will not ACCESSED BY THE WEEK about Mookerjee, can condone any wrongdo- SHOW THAT SYAMA anything in the BJP or the ings on its part. PRASAD MOOKERJEE RSS change? K.V. Chandrasekharan, WAS NEVER A When the country is Bengaluru. BLIND FOLLOWER OF HINDUTVA facing so many other PLUS Jana Sangh’s issues, your interest in It is good that the Army ideas were different from those of the BJP JUSTICE (RETD) Mookerjee is indigestible. has admitted that three CHITTATOSH MOOKERJEE, SYAMA PRASAD MOOKERJEE’S NEPHEW Hope you will bring us men from Shopian were the pulse of the coun- killed mistakenly. A hefty try through other cover compensation should be Excellent research stories. paid to their families at Without following the beaten track of black or white Jayaprakash Reddy, the earliest. e Army, the binary, your cover story did a commendable job in On email. CRPF and the Jammu and unscrambling Syama Prasad Mookerjee, the man, Kashmir Police should and the myths surrounding him (‘e man, the mel- Why blame Army? make sure that such inci- ange’, October 4). I went through your dents do not happen. at he was a champion of civil liberties and kept report on the Shopian Sukhbir Singh, himself above the narrowness of communal chau- encounter. I feel such On email. vinism clears the cobwebs around his persona. Your a report, on a case of story, hopefully, will be an impetus to look deep into mistaken identity, will More awareness Mookerjee’s life, separating the grain from the cha. only help in tarnishing needed Raveendranath A., the image of our security I am sure that the Naren- On email. forces (‘Innocent dead’, dra Modi government will October 4). What do the not alienate the farmers Your cover story on Mook- the rst Indian to sacrice so-called human rights (‘Sowing anger’, October erjee was outstanding, and his life for Jammu and activists have to say about 4). It will never take that it gave us so much of in- Kashmir. the cold-blooded killing risk. e Union govern- formation. I was surprised e BJP, today, is harping of a sarpanch, some ment needs to create an to read that Mookerjee in on Mookerjee’s legacy, months ago, in Jammu awareness campaign to was never inuenced by and why not! As part of the and Kashmir? convince the farmers that religious considerations. Union government’s re- Do you think highlight- the bills would help them. But, then, he could foresee naming spree, many social ing such incidents will ere is so much of mis- the separatist tendencies schemes carry Mookerjee’s boost the morale of the information regarding the in Jammu and Kashmir. It name. Army, huge battalions of bill. Farmers in India have is not an exaggeration if Tapesh Nagpal, which are presently de- poor bargaining power. 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Jayaschandran Senior News Editor Stanley Thomas PROSTATIC HYPERPLASIA Devender Tokas, the world. So what if the News Editor Lukose Mathew On email. number of positive cases Deputy News Editors Mathew T. George, Maijo Abraham, What is Prostate? the day, sometimes with a sense of ur- Ajish P. Joy is rising. At least we do Resident Editor, Delhi K.S. Sachidananda Murthy The prostate gland, part of the male gency, can also be trying for patients, e leaders of the Akali not hide the gures, in the Chief of Bureau, Delhi R. Prasannan reproductive system, is about the and can make travelling or attending Dal know well that the manner that some of our Chief of Bureau, Mumbai Dnyanesh V. Jathar same size and shape as a walnut. It is events, such as the theatre or cinema, farm reform bill will only neighbouring countries do Deputy Chief of Bureau, Delhi Neeru Bhatia Chief Subeditors Susamma Kurian, located below the bladder and in front rather difficult. benet farmers. To say that it. We are on the right path. Navin J. Antony of the rectum and surrounds the ure- Incomplete emptying of the bladder the state mandis will be I also appreciate Lekhi for Senior Subeditors Anirudha Karindalam, thra, the tube-like structure that carries can be progressive and eventually re- Dr Umesh Oza Anirudh Madhavan destroyed in the process having written the column Subeditors Diya Mathew, Karthik Ravindranath, urine from the bladder out through the sult in complete retention of urine. If this M.