* , A6 ) B # B B VRGR '%&((!1#VCEB R BP A"'!#$#1!$"#0$"T utqBVQWBuxy( 012$0%"3)456 "#$%&' (#&) 4<,=04;,:08;> 9 $$, . (;7$:, :& :&0;0; ! " # &; 8><$>:$$86 0 6/84:086 :&:%%804 &(:&30 ""#$!#% %#%#% #&#%%# ?$ % !-$/5@ 00+" ? 0 #8 7 * )8)9:& )5; R HAPPY NEW YEAR 67 ( proved that free and fair polls were not possible under a par- angladesh Prime Minister tisan Government. T h e BSheikh Hasina’s ruling BNP’s decision to stay away alliance on Monday swept to a from the general election five landslide victory in the gener- years ago was not wrong, he al elections, securing a third said. The NUF is a coalition of have written to Rajya Sabha straight term, an outcome that opposition parties such as the Chairman M Venkaiah Naidu, would be good news for India’s BNP, Gono Forum, Jatiya demanding that the triple talaq ties with Dhaka, especially on Samajtantrik Dal-JSD, Nagorik Bill should be sent to a select the national security front. Oikya and Krishak Sramik committee of the House for The Opposition alliance, Janata League. &8968$7: consideration and the motion comprising jailed ex-premier Bangladesh’s Chief Election was initiated by Trinamool ! " Khaleda Zia’s BNP and some Commissioner KM Nurul he Opposition parties led Congress MP Derek O’Brien. #$ % small parties, rejected the poll Huda, however, ruled out any Tby the Congress put up a As per the resolution submit- & # ' outcome as “farcical” and scope of holding fresh election united front in the Rajya Sabha ted by the Opposition, the ( )# demanded fresh election. The as demanded by opposition on Monday to thwart the Chairman will have to take it L) ) Election Commission, how- alliance, saying the allegations Government move to pass the up before taking up the triple M ever, ruled out holding a fresh of ballot stuffing on the night contentious triple talaq Bill. talaq Bill for discussion. , election. before election is “completely While the Government pressed The resolution has been The Awami League-led untrue.” “We are not going to for a discussion on the Muslim signed by Congress, NCP, TDP, P Grand Alliance won 288 seats hold a new election. There is no Women Protection of Rights RJD, AAP, SP, BSP, DMK, CPI ! in the 300-member Parliament. scope to hold the national on Marriage Bill 2018 after Law and CPM and the AIADMK. ""$% The ruling alliance, which got election again,” Huda told the Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad The AIADMK has been sup- ) L M # nearly 82 per cent of the total media. tabled the Bill, the Opposition portive of the Centre on most &. # votes polled, bettered its pre- The CEC expressed com- stuck to its demand for send- issues, but last week it vehe- vious best performance of 2008 " plete satisfaction over the elec- ing the Bill to a select com- mently opposed the passage of when it bagged 263 seats. tion and said the voter turnout mittee of Parliament. the Bill in its present format in # The Opposition Jatiya in December, 1971. the elections and assured her of ly partially paralysed, faces an in the polls was 80 per cent. After the passage of the Bill the Lok Sabha. ) Oikya Front — National Unity Hasina said the victory is India’s continued support to uncertain future in a Dhaka jail Responding to the vote-rigging in the Lok Sabha last week, The Opposition meeting, Front (NUF) — secured seven nothing for her for personal Bangladesh’s developmental where she is lodged after her allegations, Awami League Opposition members con- chaired by Rajya Sabha Leader seats with over 15 per cent of gains, rather it is a great strides. conviction in corruption cases. Joint General Secretary Abdur vened a meeting on Monday of Opposition Ghulam Nabi & the votes, Election responsibility towards the India’s ties with Bangladesh Meanwhile, the Opposition Rahman said foreign and before the legislation was to be Azad, was attended among O && P Commission secretary country and its people. under Hasina’s rule grew NUF rejected the results and domestic observers have introduced in the RS others by leaders of 12 ( )/ Helaluddin Ahmed said, She said the Opposition steadily. The last few years urged the Election expressed satisfaction over the In view the tough stand Opposition parties, including %%/ # adding that others won three was in a state of wilderness that have been a “golden chapter” in Commission to immediately election process and declared taken by the Opposition, it’s Samajwadi Party’s Ram Gopal # # seats. caused their debacle in the elec- India-Bangladesh relationship scrap the “farcical election” that it was held in a fair envi- unlikely that the triple talaq Bill Yadav, TMC’s Derek O’Brien, # Voting was postponed in tions. “It was a credible and when complicated issues of and hold a fresh one under a ronment. will become a law during the CPI’s D Raja, Kerala Congress’ 0 one constituency and result not transparent election... But land and coastal boundaries non-partisan interim With the overwhelming winter session of Parliament. Jose K Mani. ( ##O ) declared in another due to the (Opposition) BNP’s debacle in were resolved. Government. majority in the 11th general The Opposition parties Continued on Page 4 death of a candidate, he said. the polls was caused by their Bangladesh has also “You (the EC) must cancel elections, Hasina is set to take Commenting on the own faults and weakness,” assured India that it will not this election right away. We office of the Prime Minister for *&! results, 71-year-old Hasina said Hasina said in an interaction allow its soil to be used for any reject the so-called results and the third consecutive time and +,(- / # the Awami League-led Grand with foreign journalists at her terrorist activities against the demand a new election under fourth time overall. Hasina, the % # 2 3 Alliance’s win in the election is official Ganobhaban residence. neighbouring country. The two a neutral government,” NUF daughter of Bangladesh’s , 4 another victory for the people “The people did not know countries share a 4,096-km chief and veteran lawyer Kamal founder Bangabandhu Sheikh 0 , of the country in December - who the Opposition leader border. Hossain said. Mujibur Rahman, is termed by , # the month of victory. was...” she said, adding that the While Hasina was seeking BNP Secretary General many as the country’s iron L M O She was referring to people wanted continuity of re-election for an overall fourth Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, lady. She won the historic # Bangladesh’s (then East her Government. term as the Prime Minister, her who steered the party in the fourth term as Prime Minister, L M Pakistan) victory over West Prime Minister Narendra 73-year-old arch-rival Zia of absence of Zia, described the becoming the country’s 5 Pakistan (now Pakistan) in the Modi congratulated Hasina the Bangladesh Nationalist polls as a “cruel farce”. longest-serving leader. . country’s independence war over phone on her victory in Party (BNP), who is reported- He said the elections Continued on Page 4 + , - * ! &8968$7: " #$% iving much-needed com- Gfort to commuters, the &8968$7: awaited Pink Metro Line exten- sion from Mayur Vihar-I to rices of domestic cooking Lajpat Nagar was finally &8968$7: Pgas (LPG) were cut by a & 07:( thrown open to the public on steep 120.50 per non-sub- Monday at 4 pm by Hardeep ormer Congress leader sidised cylinder and 5.91 per he Nashik Singh Puri, Minister of State FSajjan Kumar on Monday subsidised cylinder on Tsessions (Independent Charge), surrendered before a city court Monday, the second straight court in Housing and Urban Affairs on the last day of the deadline reduction in a month’s time Maharashtra and Delhi Deputy Chief set by the Delhi High Court due to tax impact on reduced on Monday Minister Manish Sisodia in and was sent to jail to serve his market rate of the fuel. acquitted late the presence of Japan’s life sentence in a case relating A 14.2-kg subsidised LPG Abdul Karim Ambassador to India Kenji to the deadly anti-Sikh riots in cylinder will cost 494.99 in Telgi and Hiramatsu. 1984. Kumar, 73, was brought the national Capital post fall in price of LPG in inter- seven others in a 2004 multi- The Lajpat Nagar-Mayur to Mandoli jail in northeast Monday midnight as against national market and strength- crore fake stamp paper case in Vihar Pocket 1 Pink Line cor- Delhi shortly after he surren- 500.90, Indian Oil Corp ening of US dollar-rupee absence of “solid evidence” ridor has five stations — Lajpat dered before Metropolitan (IOC), the country’s largest fuel exchange rate.” It will now against them. Nagar, Vinobapuri, Ashram, Magistrate Aditi Garg, who retailer, said in a statement. On cost 689 per 14.2-kg cylinder Telgi, who was convicted Hazrat Nizamuddin, Mayur directed that he be provided a December 1, subsidised LPG in Delhi. in several cases in connection Vihar Ph-I and Mayur Vihar separate van for commuting price was cut by 6.52 a bottle. On December 1, price of with the scam and sentenced Pocket-1. due to “security threat”. That price cut had come non-subsidised LPG was cut by to imprisonment of 30 years in Mayur Vihar Ph-I and Clad in a black coat and after six consecutive monthly 133 per bottle. total, died in Bengaluru in Mayur Vihar Pocket-1 are ele- trousers, a cream coloured hikes in rates since June. The All LPG consumers have October last year while serv- vated stations and the rest are muffler and a blue cap, Kumar, two price reductions have to buy the fuel at market price.