DAILY FROM: AHMEDABAD, CHANDIGARH, DELHI, JAIPUR, KOLKATA, LUCKNOW, MUMBAI, NAGPUR, PUNE, VADODARA JOURNALISM OF COURAGE MONDAY, JANUARY 11, 2021, JAIPUR, LATE CITY, 12 PAGES SINCE 1932 `5.00 WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM THE EDITORIAL PAGE HIGHSPENDSCHEMES LIKELY BUDGET:INDIA’S NEWDEALMOMENT Govtlooksat BY SAJJID ZCHINOY PAGE 7 ‘expenditure’ EXPERT EXPLAINS budgettoaid Siraj Hussain FromTheIndianExpresspanel ofspecialists,exclusiveinsight highergrowth ISSUESIN Healthcare,infrastructure, housing INDIAN Protesters walked through the fields to reachthe venue of the ‘kisan panchayat’ at Kaimla villageinKarnaldistrict of Haryana on Sunday. Jasbir Malhi AGRICULTURE sectors identifiedfor higher spending The protest by farmers PVAIDYANATHANIYER BUDGET ’21 has brought to focus a Protesters disruptBJP eventin Khattar hitsback:only NEWDELHI,JANUARY10 range of issues in agriculture in India. One WITH THE UPTICKinthe econ- Karnal, force CM to cancel visit amendments,Govt omybetterthan what most of the country’s leading economists estimated posteas- policy experts provides a ing of lockdown restrictions, the primer on key questions. that severalpersons suffered in- governmentisholding meetings won’t repeal farmlaws Union Finance Ministryisofthe SUKHBIRSIWACH juries duringthe confrontation. with farmer leaders while the viewthat higher spending at this EXPLAINED KAIMLAVILLAGE(KARNAL), On Monday, the Supreme BJP is holding functions to mo- stageofrecovery —ratherthan COUNTDOWN PAGE 5 JANUARY10 Courtisscheduledtohear a bilise support in favour of anti- VARINDERBHATIA earlier —will give abiggerpush clutchofpetitions related to the farmer laws”. CHANDIGARH,JANUARY10 to growth. IN&OUTOFCOVIDSHADOW AROUND 1,000farmprotesters laws,with talksbetween the OnSunday, despite the police Haryana CM According to sources, the stormedthe venue of ahigh-pro- Centreand farmer unions failing launching amild lathicharge,us- FORCED TO scrap his visit to Manohar Lal Prime Minister’s Economic file “kisan panchayat” organised to make anyheadway despite ing watercannons and tear gas, Karnal Sundayafterfarm protest- Khattar AdvisoryCouncil, Niti Aayogand ED Soonafter by the ruling BJPinHaryana protesters camping on Delhi's and setting up sevencheckpoints, ers took over the venue, Haryana the Chief Economic Advisor’s of- Spend Sunday, forcing Chief Minister outskirts foroveramonth. the protesters managed to reach Chief MinisterManohar Lal fice, have pushedfor an expan- morewhen bail, police Manohar Lal Khattar to cancelhis The panchayatinKaimla, or- the venue through wheat fields Khattar accusedOpposition par- to thevenue of aBJP “kisan pan- sionarybudget to reinforce the E ● growthlow visit to thesiteonthe outskirts of ganisedbylocal BJP MLA surrounding the area. Theytook tiesandstateBKU leaderGurnam chayat” in Karnal's Kaimla village nascent recovery.All have advo- EXPLAIN Kaimla village in Karnal district. Harvinder Kalyan, waspartof over the site, and damaged the Singh Chadhuni of incitingpeo- wascancelled, Khattar said: “The cated the Keynes mantrato pickupPara The incident also sawclashes the party's plan to hold such stageand atemporaryhelipadset ple to disruptlaw and order,and Government is notgoing to re- Finance MinisterNirmala AFISCAL stimulus in between supporters of the BJP meetings to mobilise supportfor up forKhattar's arrival. insistedthat the Centrewill not peal these laws.Itiscertain. Even Sitharamanduringpre-Budget 2021-22 will be mostef- in another event and opponentsofthe the laws.However, the protest- Haryana BKU president repeal itsnew agriculturelaws. if stategovernmentsare to be ex- consultations. fective to spur growth, Centre's newagriculturelaws, ers had warnedthat theywould Gurnam Singh Chadhuni later Addressing apress confer- empted, therewill onlybe British economistJohn particularly with many with leaders on both sides saying blockthe event as “the central CONTINUEDONPAGE2 ence in Chandigarh afterhis visit CONTINUEDONPAGE2 MaynardKeynes had argued parts of the economy terror case that free markets cannotbere- showing clearsigns of a liedupon to fuel GDP growth nascent recovery.Having when thereisarecession, of the preserved itsspending ARUNSHARMA Racism stops play in Sydney as India kindIndia and the world, has power, the government JAMMU,JANUARY10 witnessedin2020 following the plans to spend morein Covid-19pandemic. In 2020, sectors suchashealth- SOONAFTER he wasgranted bail draw hard line on abuse from stands consumer confidence hit anew care, housing and con- by theNIAcourtinacaseof terror low, and theyavoideddiscre- struction-heavy infra- funding,PDP youth wing leader tionaryspending; this ledtoa structure, which Waheed-ur-RehmanPara wasde- Indian pacers JaspritBumrah demand collapse, forcing firms positively impact many tainedagain forquestioning in a MIHIRVASAVDA& and MohammedSiraj said racist to stop investing. In depressing industries. separateterror-relatedcase. SRIRAMVEERA commentsweredirected at CONTINUEDONPAGE2 The Counter Intelligence NEWDELHI,MUMBAI,JAN10 them as theyfieldedonthe wing of Jammu and Kashmir boundaryline. “Wehad decided Police detainedParaimmedi- RACISM STOPPED playatthe Saturdayevening that if some- atelyafter his release from SydneyCricketGround Sunday. thing likethis happens again, we District Jail, Ambphalla, on In line with the recent global will immediately identify them,” Saturdayevening. trend, wheresportspersonsare an Indian team management of- ‘Our cultureis “Wehad receivedamessage starting to draw the line be- ficial told The Indian Express. different.They from Counter tween banter and racistabuse On Sunday, Day4of the Test, (BJP) can’tcreate Intelligence from the stands, the Indian as Bumrah wasabout to start fear of other Kashmir(CIK) cricket team put their foot down running in during the 86th over religions here. to collect Para and ensured that the Test against of Australia’s secondinnings, Siraj It won’tworkin from jail as he AustraliainSydneywas halted walked up to stand-incaptain waswanted for10minutes Sundaytill a AjinkyaRahane, and umpires TN polls’ by themfor group of unrulyspectators were Police remove agroup of spectators afterMohammedSiraj PaulReiffeland PaulWilson. KANIMOZHI questioning in evicted. complainedtoumpires, duringthe India-Australia Test The 26-year-old debutant LOK SABHA MP, DMK connection The break in playfollowedan matchinSydneyonSunday. Reuters from Hyderabad said that a PAGE 8 WaheedPara with FIR No. incident on Saturdaywhen CONTINUEDONPAGE2 31 registered with them in Srinagar,” asenior jail official said. The official expressedigno- Lookingfor lithium Covid curve doesn’t bend in Kerala MaharashtraChief MinisterUddhavThackeray visitsthe rance about the details the FIR. BhandaraDistrict General Hospital on Sunday. PTI While the police's counter intel- ligence wing remainedsilent, toehold, India finds a but why state isn’t overly worried yet sources said the FIR pertains to a the funding of terror. that have threetofivetimes Explosioninradiant “It is an open FIR and deposit in Karnataka AMITABHSINHA P4 fewercases. CONTINUEDONPAGE2 &LIZMATHEW The stategovernmentsays of Karnataka’s Mandyadistrict. PUNE,NEWDELHI,JANUARY10 that unlike many otherplaces, warmer likely started ANILSASI Agovernment official said Kerala had managed to avoida WORLD NEWDELHI,JANUARY10 the AMD is carrying out surface IN THE lastfour months, Kerala “sudden peak”, and that hasen- and sub-surface exploration for has recordedmorethan7lakh suredfewer deaths. Bhandarahospitalfire ALONGSIDE Amove to tapinto lithium in potential geological coronavirusinfections,morethan “In other states, the cases the global lithium value chain, domains of the country. Thefind anyother stateinIndia. Forthe THEEXPRESS went up and have startedto Indiahas initiated aconcerted in Mandya is extremelysmall in last45days,ithas consistently come down, but that resulted in TABASSUM BUSINESSASUSUAL domestic exploration push for quantitative terms, but it marks been the topcontributor of new INTERVIEW higher number of deaths. Our BARNAGARWALA the alkali metal, avital ingredi- some initial success in the at- cases.The statenow hasthe high- main strategy has been to pre- MUMBAI,JANUARY10 BY UNNY ent of the lithium-ion recharge- tempttodomesticallymine the estnumber of active cases in the ‘OUR DAILYTOLL vent the spread to very large able batteries that powerelectric silver-whitemetal by wayof country, comprising almost30 NEVER WENT numbers of peopleall at once, THE FIRE that killed10babies in a DEMOCRATS SEEK vehicles (EVs), laptops, and mo- hard-rockextraction of the ore. per cent of India’s total. BEYOND 25’ and limit the number of deaths,” hospital in Bhandara, Mahara- ANSWERS FROM bile phones. India currentlyimports allits But while Kerala is the worst KKSHAILAJA Kerala Health MinisterKK shtra,early onSaturdaywaslikely Preliminarysurveys by the lithium needs. hotspotofthe epidemicinthe KERALA HEALTH MINISTER Shailaja told The IndianExpress causedbyanexplosioninone of JUSTICEDEPT ON Atomic Minerals Directoratefor The domestic exploration countrynow,whatisremarkable in an interview. theseveralradiantwarmersinthe TRUMP’S ROLE Exploration and Research push, whichalso includes ex- is that the rise in cases has notre- With 3,305 deathsason SickNew-born CareUnit (SNCU), (AMD), an arm of the ploratoryworktoextract lithium sultedin asimilarincrease in the has the fifthhighestcaseload in Saturday(including ones thatthe believe the officials who carried MASSIVEPOWER Department of Atomic Energy,is from the brine poolsofRajasthan numberofdeaths.Infact,