India / World Monday, March 25, 2019 09 NEWS Mali sacks senior army officers, dissolves milita after massacre IN BRIEF AFP dissolved. The dissolution of Forces Chief of General Staff French-led military interven- BAMAKO the militia was to send a clear M’Bemba Moussa Keita, and tion that drove back jihadist Fire in AIIMS message, Maiga told journal- chiefs of the Army and the Air groups who had taken control Trauma Centre, MALi’s government on Sun- ists: “The protection of the Force. The prime minister’s of northern Mali. no casualty day announced the sacking population will remain the announcement came hours The massacre took place as of senior military officers and monopoly of the state.” after an emergency meeting a delegation from the United NEW DELHI: A fire broke out the dissolution of a militia, a Survivors of Saturday’s at- called by President Ibrahim Nations Security Council vis- on Sunday in the All India In- day after the massacre of more tack said ethnic Dogon hunt- Boubacar Keita in response to ited the Sahel region to assess stitute of Medical Sciences than 130 Muslims, including ers carried out the deadly Saturday’s massacre, in which the jihadist threat there. (AIIMS) Trauma Centre, women and children. raid in Ogossagou, a village in at least 134 men, women and “The Secretary-General is forcing evacuation of scores Prime Minister Soumeylou central Mali inhabited by the children were killed. shocked and outraged by re- of patients, the Delhi Fire Boubeye Maiga said new mili- Muslim Fulani community. The victims were shot or ports that at least 134 civilians, Service said. No casualties tary chiefs would be named, Maiga did not name the hacked to death with machet- including women and chil- were reported. and that the Dan Nan Ambas- senior officers sacked, but de- es, a security source told AFP. dren, have been killed,” Anto- The blaze also affected sagou association, composed fence ministry sources told It was the deadliest at- nio Guterres’s spokesman said The sacked officers include Armed Forces Chief of General Staff services at the Trauma Cen- of Dogon hunters, had been AFP they were the Armed tack since the end of the 2013 in a statement, late Saturday. M’Bemba Moussa Keita and chiefs of the Army and the Air Force. tre, which caters to patients from all across the National Capital Region, apart from the city. Mulayam, Akhilesh, A fire service official said the fire broke out in Jaya Bachchan star an operation theatre at SP campaigners the hospital’s ground floor Congress finallly stitches around 6 pm and 22 fire tenders were rushed to the IANS spot. (IANS) LUCKNOW Three die from alliances in some states THE Samajwadi Party on Sun- sunstroke day announced 40 top leaders, in Kerala including party patriarch Mu- The party has formed alliances in Tamil Nadu, Jharkhand, Bihar, Maharashtra and Jammu & Kashmir layam Singh Yadav, President THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Akhilesh Yadav and actor-MP With the mercury rising, three IANS Jaya Bachchan, will be the suspected sun stroke deaths NEW DELHI party’s star campaigners for the were reported in Kerala, of- 2019 Lok Sabha elections. ficials said on Sunday. AFTER much uncertainty, the According to Samajwadi Karunakaran (42), a Congress has finally succeeded Party leaders, Akhilesh Yadav’s state government employee in putting in shape alliances in wife Dimple Yadav, his uncle from Parasala in the south- some states for the Lok Sabha Ram Gopal Yadav, cousin Tej ern suburb of the state battle, with a functionary say- Pratap Yadav, senior leader capital, fainted while working ing it will be the “most alliance and former state minister Azam in his paddy field on Sunday friendly” election for the party. Khan and party’s Secretary Ra- morning. After being in power in Kar- jendra Choudhary will also be He was rushed to a nataka along with the Janata among the star campaigners. local hospital where he was Dal-Secular (JD-S), the Con- Earlier in the day, the party declared dead. The body was gress has formed major allianc- has announced that Akhilesh later shifted to the state-run es in Tamil Nadu, Jharkhand, Yadav will contest from Azam- Medical College for postmor- Bihar, Maharashtra and Jam- garh parliamentary constitu- tem. The doctors suspected mu and Kashmir. ency and Azam Khan from it to be a case of sun stroke The Congress is largely Rampur. The Samajwadi Party, as there were burn marks contesting alone in the politi- which won five seats in 2014 on the deceased’s shoul- cally crucial Uttar Pradesh after general elections, is contesting ders. (IANS) being rebuffed by the Sama- the elections this year in alliance jwadi Party and Bahujan Samaj with the Bahujan Samaj Party Party (BSP). And its talks with and the Rashtriya Lok Dal. the Left in West Bengal have It is contesting on 37 seats, Ahmed Patel crashed and there is also un- while the Mayawati-led BSP is certainty over a tie-up with the contesting on 38 seats and the attacks Modi ruling Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Congress President Rahul Gandhi with RJD leader Tejashwi Prasad Yadav during a meeting in New Delhi. (File photo) RLD on three seats. The SP-BS- in Delhi. RLD has left two seats for Con- In Assam, AIUDF appears just the already announced al- ful of a similar outcome in 2019. The nitty-gritty of alliances gress is hoping for a revival after gress in the state. for ‘flip-flop’ keen to shake hands with the liances, it will concede the most The Congress contested in Bihar and Maharashtra were having performed very poorly Congress to avoid a split in op- number of seats to alliance 529 seats in 1996, 467 in 1998, announced only in the last two in the last Assembly and Lok on Pakistan position votes. partners and contest its fewest 451 in 1999, 414 in 2004, 440 or three days and the time taken Sabha battles. The alliances, party leaders number of seats in a Lok Sabha in 2009 and 464 in 2014. The in reaching the tie-ups could Congress General Secretary IANS hope, will not only help Con- election ever,” he tweeted. party has so far declared candi- impact campaigning by the can- Priyanka Gandhi undertook TDP will not NEW DELHI gress candidates perform bet- The Congress had reached dates on 218 seats for the 2019 didates. a boat ride from Prayagraj to contest LS polls ter but will also help it to form a out to opposition parties in a Lok Sabha polls. The Congress has come up Varanasi to bolster the party’s SENIOR Congress leader post-poll coalition. major way in 2004 to oust the The party will fight nine of so far with eight lists of candi- prospects. in Telangana Ahmed Patel on Sunday hit Praveen Chakravarty, Atal Bihari Vajpayee govern- 40 seats in Bihar, 26 of 48 in dates. The party has sealed an alli- out at Prime Minister Nar- Chairperson, Data Analytics ment. The party contested 414 Maharashtra with two seats be- But its alliance talks with ance with the Krishna Patel-led IANS endra Modi for his flip-flop Department of Congress, said seats, its lowest number since ing given to smaller parties, 20 the CPI-M in West Bengal have faction of Apna Dal. It has left HYDERABAD policy on Pakistan and his the Congress will concede the 1996, and the carefully crafted of 28 in Karnataka, seven of 14 crashed as both parties are keen two Lok Sabha seats -- Pilibhit questioning the patriotism most number of seats to allies alliances helped the party get in Jharkhand, nine of 39 seats to fight Raiganj and Murshi- and Gonda -- for it. THE Telugu Desam Party of opposition leaders, saying and contest the fewest number a surprise result and form a in Tamil Nadu and at least four dabad seats. The CPI-M has In Kerala, the Congress (TDP) will not contest Lok that describing ideological in this parliamentary election. coalition government. The Con- in Jammu and Kashmir, in- announced 25 candidates in its heads the opposition United Sabha elections in Telangana, opponents as sympathisers “Amidst all the din, 2019 will gress-led alliance was re-elected cluding two where it will have first list in West Bengal, leaving Democratic Front (UDF) and party sources said on Sunday. of terrorism also amounts to be the most `alliance friendly’ in 2009. “friendly contests” with its ally, the Congress unhappy. there is no squabble in ticket With several top leaders “treason”. election for @INCIndia. With Congress leaders are hope- the National Conference. In Uttar Pradesh, the Con- distribution. defecting to the ruling Telanga- “If Modiji talks to Paki- na Rashtra Samithi (TRS) and stan, it is in national inter- remaining leaders not keen est, but if others hold peace to contest the polls, the TDP’s talks, they are dubbed pro- Telangana unit is understood terrorism and pro-Pakistan. CPI formally fields Kanhaiya Grand Alliance announces 5 more candidates in Bihar to have decided not to field From where “sahab” (Modi) from Bihar’s Begusarai seat candidates for next month’s you bring such hypocrisy? The IANS Under the seat-sharing pact Katihar. elections. country will never forgive you PATNA in Bihar the RJD will contest Congress won Kishanganj Monday is the last day for for making such kind of joke PATNA: The CPI on Sunday Tanweer Hasan, who unsuc- in the 2014 polls but its sitting filing of nominations for the in the name of patriotism,” formally announced it will cessfully contested from Be- BIHAR’s opposition Grand Al- 20 seats and the Congress 9 MP Maulana Asrarul Haque elections scheduled on April 11.