EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE THE HINDU DELHI FRIDAY, JANUARY 10, 2020 NEWS 13 EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE IN BRIEF Non­violence is the answer, says Pawar Violence is sponsored goondaism: Congress NCP chief says Central government has left representatives of Independent India disappointed ‘HRD and Home Ministers involved’ Alok Deshpande are not being protected.” Mumbai The NCP chief said there Special Correspondent since the attack and the Del­ Nationalist Congress Party are members of several sec­ New Delhi hi police have information Rajnath, Esper discuss West Asia situation (NCP) president Sharad Pa­ tions, including the minori­ The Congress on Thursday on who indulged in violence NEW DELHI war has called for opposing ties, who cannot tell where demanded the resignation and vandalism. There has In the backdrop of the recent the Central government’s they came from and where of Jawaharlal Nehru Univer­ been a very casual and irres­ developments in West Asia, dictatorial policies with Ma­ they would live. sity Vice­Chancellor M. Jaga­ ponsible approach. We de­ India on Thursday conveyed hatma Gandhi’s way of “They will be forced to desh Kumar and alleged that mand that those responsible its concerns to the U.S. at a non­violence. live in camps. The govern­ the perpetrators of Sunday’s for the violence be arrested telephone conversation “What happened at Jawa­ ment has left representa­ violence had not been ar­ immediately,” he added. between Defence Minister harlal Nehru University tives of the Independent In­ rested as it was “sanc­ Mr. Ramesh said, “It is Rajnath Singh and his U.S. ( JNU) is being condemned dia and shareholders of the tioned” by Home Minister clear that as long as Mr. Jaga­ counterpart Mark T. Esper. across the country. The go­ country disappointed,” he Amit Shah and Human Re­ desh Kumar continues as “We expressed firm resolve vernment’s dictatorship said. source Development Minis­ the Vice­Chancellor, nor­ to strengthen the bilateral needs to be answered with ter Ramesh Pokhariyal. malcy won’t return to the defence cooperation. He also Gandhiji’s way of non­vio­ ‘The right path’ At a press conference campus.” briefed me about the recent lence,” Mr. Pawar said on The government needs to be here, senior leader Jairam “It is essential for the go­ developments in the Gulf Thursday, adding the vio­ shown the right path of Ramesh described the vio­ vernment to take his resig­ region. I shared India’s lence at JNU has hurt senti­ Gandhi’s non­violent way, lence as “officially spon­ nation for peace to return. A concerns and interests,” Mr. ments of the students’ com­ which only can help save the sored goondaism”. “It few months ago, there was a Singh said on Twitter. munity. Constitution, Mr. Pawar didn’t not happen suddenly compromise [over a pro­ He was speaking after said. but was done at the behest posed fee hike] that was NPF suspends flagging off the ‘Gandhi NCP chief Sharad Pawar flagging off the ‘Gandhi Shanti Yatra’ undertaken by Yashwant Sinha at Mr. Sinha said, “We will of some people. We know worked out by the HRD Se­ Rajya Sabha member Shanti Yatra’ started by the Gateway of India on Thursday. Former CM Prithviraj Chavan is also seen. * EMMANUAL YOGINI protect the Constitution who these people are. I am cretary between the stu­ GUWAHATI former Union Finance Minis­ drafted by Ambedkarji. We making a direct allegation dents and the Vice­Chancel­ The Naga People’s Front ter Yashwant Sinha against teway of India. The pro­ anti­NCP stand. vernment. “Some steps ta­ will not let the country be that the HRD Minister and lor. It is strange that the (NPF) has suspended Rajya the Citizenship Amendment gramme was attended by Mr. Pawar, referring to the ken by the Centre have given partitioned again. We will the Home Minister were in­ HRD Secretary was trans­ Sabha member K.G. Kenye Act (CAA), the National Re­ Vanchit Bahujan Aghadi anti­CAA protests, said a big a jolt to the country’s unity. not let Gandhi be murdered volved. This was state­spon­ ferred, while the Vice­Chan­ from the primary gister of Citizens (NRC), and (VBA) leader Prakash Am­ section of society is feeling Members of some sections again. We are all one and will sored goondaism,” he said. cellor continued in his membership, almost a month the JNU violence, at the Ga­ bedkar, who is known for his disappointed with the go­ of society feel their interests remain one.” “It has been 72 hours post,” he said. after he voted in favour of the Citizenship (Amendment) Act (CAA). The NPF is no longer a friend of the BJP in Nagaland, M.M. Joshi but is part of the BJP­headed Amid anti­CAA protests, Was brutally thrashed by coalition government in wants V­C Manipur. police, says Deepak Kabir removed SBI to sell electoral Assam announces more sops bonds from January 13 He spent 3 weeks in police custody in Lucknow Special Correspondent NEW DELHI They will benefit children, teachers and health workers NEW DELHI The State Bank of India (SBI) SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT my hands and legs and beat BJP leader and former Hu­ has been authorised to sell Special Correspondent LUCKNOW me as much as they can.” man Resource Develop­ and encash electoral bonds, GUWAHATI Theatre actor and cultural Mr. Kabir said his ordeal ment Minister Murli Mano­ the 13th such sale since the Sops continue to rain in As­ activist Deepak Kabir on did not end there. After get­ har Joshi on Thursday scheme started in 2018, from sam amid the ongoing agita­ Thursday alleged that the ting a medical examination sought the removal of JNU January 13 to 22, a Finance tion against the Citizenship police not only brutally done at a local hospital, he Vice­Chancellor M. Jaga­ Ministry statement said on Thursday. The bonds will be (Amendment) Act. thrashed and abused him in was thrashed again on the desh Kumar for failing to sold through 29 authorised The BJP­led government custody but also labelled orders of a senior police of­ implement the Ministry’s SBI branches and the parties of Chief Minister Sarbanan­ him an “urban naxal”. ficer, he alleged. proposal to settle the fee can encash them through an da Sonowal on Thursday an­ Mr. Kabir, 44, was re­ Actor Deepak Kabir increase issue. account with the SBI. nounced a set of sops for leased from the Lucknow ‘Hit with baton’ “There are reports that children, teachers, health district jail after a court snatched his phone, threw This time, four policemen the Ministry had twice ad­ workers and the differently granted him bail in the case off his cap and dubbed him caught hold of him while a vised the Vice­Chancellor ‘We must retain strategic abled. This follows a one­ of violence in Lucknow dur­ a “mastermind” of the vio­ fifth incessantly hit him with to implement certain rea­ heights of Siachen’ time grant for artistes and ing a protest against the Citi­ lence. “He said, ‘you are a a baton, he claimed. “They sonable and working for­ NEW DELHI technicians and land settle­ zenship (Amendment) Act krantikari [revolutionary], were told to hit me till they mula for resolving the issue India needs to retain control ment deeds for landless indi­ At the forefront: Singer Zubeen Garg, centre, and other (CAA) on December 19 last. right...,” Mr. Kabir recalled. got tired,” Mr. Kabir said. of enhanced fees... He was of the strategic heights of the genous people. artistes at a protest in Guwahati on Thursday. * RITU RAJ KONWAR He was arrested on Decem­ He said his submission “He [district police chief] also advised to reach out to Siachen Glacier as they are vital to the country’s Finance and Health Minis­ ber 20 when he reportedly that he had come to the pol­ said, beat them so much the teachers and students. defences in Ladakh, and ter Himanta Biswa Sarma similar course. The Hindus­ to those pursuing gradua­ went to the Hazratganj pol­ ice station to look for his that they can’t sit for It is shocking that the Vice­ Jammu and Kashmir, Army said a one­time financial as­ tan Paper Corporation Li­ tion in colleges or diploma ice station to inquire about friends fell on deaf ears. Fol­ months and make sure there Chancellor was adamant in chief General Manoj Naravane sistance of ₹1 lakh each mited used to run these in polytechnics, ₹25,000 to the whereabouts of his acti­ lowing this, 12­15 policemen is a 1.5 ­2 inch swelling [on not implementing the pro­ said on Thursday. Gen. would be given to the wards mills. those studying in Standard vist friends who were escorted him to a hall and their buttocks],” he said. posal. This attitude is de­ Naravane made these remarks of 700 employees of two “Likewise, ₹75,000 each XI and XII and ₹10,000 to picked up following the took turns to beat him up The policemen also tried plorable and... such a Vice­ on his maiden visit to the dead paper mills, who are would be given to those pur­ those studying from nursery protests. and he was kicked for at to undress him to thrash Chancellor should not be glacier after assuming charge pursuing studies in medical suing post­graduate studies to Class 10,” he told He told The Hindu that least 10 minutes, he alleged. him but could not after he allowed to continue,” he as the Chief of the Army Staff. or engineering colleges, or a or doing Ph.D, ₹50,000 each journalists.