c m y k c m y k THE LARGEST CIRCULATED ENGLISH DAILY IN SOUTH INDIA CHENNAI I FRIDAY 5 I FEBRUARY 2021 WEATHER Max: 30OC CITY | 2 WORLD | 5 SPORT | 6 Min: 20OC Food minister discharged Tehran wants Trump Skipper Joe braces for Rainfall: Nil after corona recovery sanctions overturned mini-battle against Ash ASTROGUIDE Sarvari: Thai 23 deccanchronicle.com, facebook.com/deccannews, twitter.com/deccanchronicle, google.com/+deccanchronicle Vol. 16 No. 311 Established 1938 | 8 PAGES| `3.00 Tithi: Ashtami/ Navami Star: Visagam USE OF PARTY FLAG ON CAR Rahukalam: 10.30 am to 12 noon Protesting farmers are treated like Yamagandam: AIADMK petitions 3 pm to 4.30 pm PRAYERS Fajar: 5.22 am 12.28 pm prisoners, allege opposition MPs police against Sasikala Jumma: Asar: 3.42 pm DC CORRESPONDENT Maghrib: 6.10 pm DC CORRESPONDENT CHENNAI, FEB. 4 7.23 pm NEW DELHI, FEB. 4 US welcomes Isha: In a clear signal of the esca- SUNSET TODAY 6.12 PM The Opposition parties on lation of the turf war in the SUNRISE TOMORROW 6.35 AM Thursday assailed the farm laws, but AIADMK, senior leaders MOONRISE TODAY 12.23 AM government’s handling of led by party presidium MOONSET TOMORROW 12.18 PM the farmers' protests at favours talks chairman E. Delhi's borders against Madhusudhanan met the the three controversial SRIDHAR director-general of police CORONA agriculture laws, saying KUMARASWAMI|DC on Thursday and filed a ministers believed in a with agency inputs complaint against V.K. V.K.Sasikala came in a car “monologue” and that NEW DELHI, FEB. 4 Sasikala, the expelled gen- with an AIADMK flag flut- C UNT trenches were being dug, eral secretary of the party, tering on the bannet in barbed wires put up and In its first reaction to the for using the party's flag. CASES DEATHS spikes installed when ongoing farmers’ agita- Mr Madhusudhanan was Bengaluru on Sunday. bridges should have been tion, the new US adminis- accompanied by fisheries — File picture (+12,189) (+112) built to win over the farm- tration on Thursday threw minister D. Jayakumar, ers. its weight behind people's party deputy coordinator Jayalalithaa in 2016 but 1,08,03,321 1,54,854 A delegation of 15 MPs protests and dialogue, say- K.P. Munusamy, MP, and was expelled from the post from 10 Opposition par- ing peaceful protests are C.V. Shanmugam, MLA. after was sentenced to four- ties was even stopped by the hallmark of any thriv- The complaint comes in years imprisonment in a covid19india.org the police from reaching ing democracy and that the wake of Ms Sasikala, disproportionate assets the Ghazipur border to “unhindered access” to the aide of former chief case in 2017. STATE GOVERNMENT BULLETINS meet the protesting farm- Internet is “fundamental minister and party supre- There was consternation ers. Akali Dal MP and for- to the freedom of expres- mo J. Jayalalithaa, sport- in the party camp, which at (+ 494 ) mer Union minister Farmers raise slogans during their ongoing agitation against Centre’s farm reform laws, at sion”. ing the AIADMK flag on present is led by Chief 12,375 Harsimrat Kaur Badal, Singhu border in New Delhi, on Thursday. — PTI While it supported, “in her car on her release from Minister Edappadi K. TN: 8,40,360 who had coordinated the general”, measures to the Bengaluru prison last Palaniswami and Deputy visit, said she was improve the efficiency of week. The sight evoked agi- Chief Minister WORLD CONFIRMED CASES shocked to see the treat- India's markets, the Joe tated response from the Panneerselvam, whether ment being meted out to FIR filed against creators of Biden-led government said AIADMK leaders. she would stake her claim the anna daatas who had that it encouraged dia- Mr Munusamy said Mr to the party post on her 10,51,43,071 been put behind fortress- logue to resolve differ- Madhusudhanan filed the release. Much to their cha- like concrete barriers and ences. complaint. "The reason grin, Ms Sasikala rode the DEATHS concertina coil. She The US’ comment on behind this is that Ms car Jayalalithaa had been accused the government ‘toolkit’ Thunberg shared India’s three recent farm Sasikala used our party flag using which donned a party of treating farmers like laws seemed to be veiled, on her car while she has no flag when came out of the 22,84,513 prisoners, saying such New Delhi, Feb. 4: The nobody has been named in execution’ of the action but its support of peaceful moral right to do that," he jail. COUNTRIES, barricading is not seen Delhi Police on Thursday the case. plan mentioned in the protests and push for dia- said. "The senior func- The complaint indicates AREAS WITH even on the borders with filed an FIR against the The case against unnamed ‘toolkit’ which was also logue is being seen as a tionaries of our part have that party leadership is no CASES 219 enemy country. “pro-Khalistan” creators persons have been regis- aimed at waging “a social, clear message to New all condemned it. Still a mood to get her back into worldometers.info The Opposition delega- of a “toolkit”, which was tered on charges of crimi- cultural and economic Delhi. I P4 complaint has been filed the party despite the claims tion also included NCP's shared by teen climate nal conspiracy, sedition war against the with the police so that the of her nephew and AMMK Two years imprisonment, fine for Supriya Sule, DMK's activist Greta Thunberg and various other sections Government of India.” practice should not contin- leader T.T.V. Dhinakaran Kanimozhi and Tiruchi and others on Twitter in of the Indian Penal Code, The comments come in the UK Parliament to ue." that her return to Chennai Siva, TMC's Saugata Roy connection with the farm- he said. backdrop of support Ms Sasikala was elected will have "chemical online gambling in TNl and representatives of the ers’ protest, alleging it He said initial investiga- extended by global celebri- party's general secretary changes" in the state's poli- Chennai: Online games like National Conference, the aimed to wage a “social, tion has suggested the doc- ties such as singer consider debate on after the demise of tics. rummy and poker involving RSP and the IUML. cultural and economic ument’s link with a pro- Rihanna and Thunberg to betting shall invite imprison- Meanwhile, Congress war against the Khalistan group, named the farmers’ protests stir by farmers ment up to two years or fine general secretary Priya- Government of India”. Poetic Justice Foundation. against the three farm not exceeding `10,000 or both, nka Gandhi met the fami- Asked whether the FIR He said considering the laws. Lending her support London, Feb. 4: The UK Man thrashed for theft; brutality according to an amendment ly of Navreet Singh who has been registered unfolding of events in the to the farmers' agitation, Parliament’s Petitions Bill introduced in the Tamil was killed during the against Thunberg, special past few days, including the teen activist had Committee will consider a Nadu Assembly on Thursday farmers' tractor rally in commissioner (crime) the violence on January shared “a toolkit for those Westminster Hall debate in caught on camera goes viral seeking to replace an ordi- Delhi on Republic Day. Praveer Ranjan said 26, it has revealed ‘copycat who want to help”. I P4 the House of Commons Thanjavur, Feb 4: In a ing money from one of nance banning cyberspace After attending the ‘an- complex on the issue of horrific incident caught them, demanding that he gambling. No person shall tim ardas’ (final prayers farmers protests and press on camera, a blindfolded give it back immediately. ‘wager’ or ‘bet’ in games like for the departed) in freedom in India after an Dalit man was thrashed by One of them had shot the rummy or similar games played Rampur, she said the gov- online petition attracted a group of people recently video of the act,” the offi- online using “computers” or ernment should repeal the LS adjourned for third day over agriculture laws over 1,10,000 signatures. here, accusing him of cial said. In the video, “'any communication device'” three farm laws instead of While the name of Boris stealing money from one which has since gone or any other instrument of branding farmers “terror- New Delhi, Feb. 4: Lok tion members shouted Lok Sabha assembled at 4 Johnson appears in his of them, police said on viral, a group of youth is gaming, the Bill said. I P2 ists” and their agitation a Sabha proceedings were slogans against the agri PM, members of the capacity as a west London Thursday. Four people, seen purportedly thrash- “political conspiracy”. disrupted for the third laws. Opposition started shout- Conservative Party mem- including three from the ing the victim ruthlessly, Ms Vadhra invoked Sikh consecutive day on Rajendra Agrawal, who ing slogans against the ber of Parliament, Down- victim's community, have after blindfolding him, India sent 56 lakh Covid-19 Guru Guru Gobind Singh Thursday as protests by was in the chair, appealed government and the agri ing Street had categorically been booked for "attempt using a stick as he to say that to oppress some- Opposition members to the members to go back laws. Meanwhile, the BJP denied that the UK Prime to murder" under IPC and screams in pain and vaccines to foreign nations as gift body is a sin but to bear demanding a separate to their seats so that the on defended the three Minister had signed the SC/ST (Prevention of pleads with them to spare oppression is a bigger sin.