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" # ""#$!#% %#%#% (3033$$"("3 $(-0=7"-057()-+6-> - +*-56 #&#%%# 5 + %-?..! @A B- - 4 ' **45*6 *& # $ # 2-0)(" he Gujjar community agi- Ttation demanding five per % %&' cent quota in jobs and educa- tional institutes turned violent in Dholpur district on Sunday 34$5*0 !# as shots were fired and three police vehicles torched. day before the Comptroller * Unidentified miscreants Aand Auditor General fired 8-10 rounds in the air (CAG) is expected to submit to % while the blockade on the the President a much-awaited Agra-Morena Highway was in report on its audit of big-tick- place, Dholpur Superintendent et military procurements in the of Police (SP) Ajay Singh said. last few years, including the The agitators set afire three controversial Rafale deal, the police vehicles, including two Congress on Sunday accused jeeps and a bus, he added. # CAG Rajiv Mehrishi of con- The SP said the protesters flict of interest. also pelted stones, injuring the protest. Administration neighbouring Karauli districts, violent in some areas and saw Addressing a Press four Army jawans, adding that and police will investigate the police said. rail and road traffic being conference, senior police had to lob tear gas shells reasons of the incident. Gujjar The agitation has affected disrupted — warning him Congress leader Kapil done, but how can CAG to disperse the crowd. leader Kirori Singh Bainsla has the train movement in North against violation of court direc- Sibal questioned how Mehrishi investigate himself when he Chief Minister Ashok appealed to maintain peace so Western Railway (NWR) and tives on agitation. could “investigate himself” was the Finance Secretary. Gehlot called the stone pelting people should listen to him." West Central Railway (WCR) On Saturday, a since he had been the Union There is a clear conflict of and the torching of vehicles Gujjars are holding a sit-in zones of the Indian Railways Government delegation had !"# Finance (Economic Affairs) interest.” unjustified. "Holding protest is protest on rail tracks in causing inconvenience to com- met Bainsla and his supporters Secretary when Prime Minister The CAG report on the justified but sitting on railway Malarna Dungar of Swai mon people. to hold talks, but no agreement and educational institutions ed that no public or private Narendra Modi announced the The President has to forward tracks is not. Protesters should Madhopur district from Friday The agitators have now could be reached. as promised by the State property should be damaged Rafale deal in April 2015. the CAG report to the Lok come forward for talks. The evening. The agitation started blocking highways con- Bainsla has said that the Government. and rail or railway traffic be dis- Accusing Mehrishi of being Sabha, the Rajya Sabha and the Government is open for dia- spread as Bainsla refused to call necting major cities. community will continue their In the notice pasted by the rupted during any agitation. “complicit” in the “irregulari- Government. The report could logue and has constituted a off the stir. The Rajasthan protest demanding five per Karauli district administration “If the Supreme Court and ties” in the deal, Sibal said there be tabled in Parliament before committee," he said. As a precautionary mea- Government on Sunday past- cent reservation to the Gujjars, at Bainsla’s Hindaun residence, high court directives are not was no reason or occasion for Wednesday, the last day of the Referring to the violence in sure, authorities have imposed ed a notice at the residence of Raika-Rebari, Gadia Luhar, it has been stated that Supreme followed, you will be held you to audit the 36 Rafale air- Budget Session and the last Dholpur, Gehlot said, "Anti- prohibitory orders under CrPc Gujjar leader Bainsla — who is Banjara and the Gadaria com- Court and different high courts responsible for contempt of craft deal. day of sitting of Parliament social elements have joined section 144 in Dholpur and leading the protests that turned munities in Government jobs have on several occasions direct- court,” the notice said. “Finance Ministry plays an before the Lok Sabha elections. important role in these nego- The Congress leader tiations... Now it is clear that alleged that CAG is going to the Rafale deal happened completely save the under Rajiv Mehrishi. Now he Government in its report. is CAG. We met him twice on “The whole deal was September 19 and October 4, materialised in the supervision 2018. We told him about the of Rajiv Mehrishi who was the R ', *,$"--$ $ R % &R ! ' scam. We told him that the then Finance Secretary. When deal should be probed because the negotiations started the he year-long bitter political ! Q R Q R it is corrupt deal. But how can Ministry of Finance were part Tfight between the BJP and he initiate a probe against of it,” the Congress leader !"#R the Telugu Desam Party (TDP) “Naidu changes his friends equal measure and questioned marred by protests by several himself,” Sibal said. said. over “injustice” to Andhra before every election and falls the treatment Modi had meted parties, including ruling TDP Demanding that Mehrishi The Congress has sent a $ R $ Pradesh reached a crescendo on their feet for political gains,” out to his wife Jasoda Ben. staging protest demonstra- must recuse himself from the memorandum to CAG on Sunday with Prime Minister Modi said. “You brought triple talaq tions, waiving black flags and CAG report, Sibal alleged, Mehrishi on the Rafale deal )# Narendra Modi and Andhra Also alluding to Naidu’s (Bill) but you can’t answer releasing black balloons in the “This is the corrupt deal and and reminded him about the Chief Minister N Chandrababu repeated statements that he questions on those subjects in air across the State. fair investigation should be ‘cardinal principle of law’. !$ Naidu turning it into personal was senior to Modi in politics, your personal life,” said a bit- attacks on each other. Modi ridiculed his opponent. ter Naidu. “I am going to ,83 9 , : 6756-- Taking exception to Modi “Yes he is senior to me in back- attack you because you 89 O addressing him as “father of stabbing his father-in-law NT attacked me personally”, Naidu 3" : P he Bengal Police has named Lokesh” at a rally in Guntur on Rama Rao and changing said giving point-by-point " # TMukul Roy — BJP leader Sunday, Naidu launched a alliances,” Modi said. rebuttal to the other attacks of and former confidant of TMC counter-offensive by asking, Naidu on his part went Modi. chief Mamata Banerjee — in “You have estranged your wife. ballistic answering Modi in Modi’s visit to the State was the murder of Satyajit Biswas, Do you have any respect in the a Trinamool Congress MLA family system.” from Krishnaganj in In a reflection of the nadir Nadia district. $ ! " % &' in the relations between the two !"# $ Roy’s name figured among ( sides, neither Chief Minister ! four accused two of whom Chandrababu Naidu nor any of were arrested on Sunday and his Cabinet colleagues were ! & remanded in police custody. present at the Gannavaram air- Demanding an impartial port to receive the Prime probe into the matter, Roy, the Minister. Only the Chief erstwhile TMC MP who joined Secretary and the Director !"#$% the BJP following differences General of Police were present with Mamata, termed the FIR as to complete the formality. “politically motivated, and said, In his first visit to the State “In the entire State of Bengal since the TDP walked out of ()& * ! whenever anybody is killed by the NDA over Centre not giv- ! their (TMC’s) own people or by ing Special Category Status to + ,- other miscreants, the TMC Andhra, Modi attacked the ) Government tries to implicate &) TDP Government in AP as L M that it is by leaders and work- “Baap Bete ki Sarkar” (rule of ) ers of the BJP. I demand probe Bangladesh border. father and son) referring to +0 & & by independent agency into “Those who have been Naidu’s son Nara Lokesh, who P the matter.” arrested were seen firing at my is a Minister. ' Biswas, a popular leader husband,” the grieving wife of “Naidu promised sun rise from Krishnaganj-Ranaghat- the deceased youth leader said but gave son rise,” Modi $#()( Hanshkhali region of Nadia, claiming the assailants had quipped. + O was on Saturday gunned down earlier been the followers of the Referring to the TDP join- ( L alleged by BJP supporters victim but late last year had ing hands with the Congress, M! while he was inaugurating a switched over to the BJP. Modi said that Naidu had for- O Saraswati Puja Pandal at Attacking the Chief gotten that NT Rama Rao had !% & "+! % Majdia village near his home, Minister, a livid Roy said, founded the TDP to make , ! barely 15-20 km away from “Mamata is afraid of us. India free of the Congress. ! & & (*! !"# & & , , !"# & * ! " + 34$5*0 rence was only 19 days (95 less in north India during the while December saw 6-7 west- “Forecasting of fog still hours) of total duration in ongoing winter season. ern disturbances against nor- remains a grey area. Weather he occurrence of fog due to 2017-18 as compared to 29 “When passage of a west- mal of 4-5 every year. February models cannot predict fog Tfrequent western distur- days (174 hours), 20 days (93 ern disturbance affects the also witnessed one western directly and can only be done bances and high speed of hours), 26 days (120 hours) for plains on a large scale it caus- disturbance in the first week through objective and subjec- winds in north India, includ- 2014-15, 2015-16 & 2016-17, es y widespread rain and thun- while the second one is expect- tive methods,” said IMD offi- ing Delhi and NCR, has been respectively.