DAILY FROM: AHMEDABAD, CHANDIGARH, DELHI, JAIPUR, KOLKATA, LUCKNOW, MUMBAI, NAGPUR, PUNE, VADODARA JOURNALISM OF COURAGE THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2020, PUNE, LATE CITY, 16 PAGES SINCE 1932 `5.00 WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM SPEAKERS’ MEET: PRESIDENT TALKS OF OPPOSITION ROLE Judicialover-reachinsomeverdicts...organs ofstatemustrespecttheirlimits,saysV-P Naidu cites ban on Amaravati land deal FIR: fireworks, executive being On Andhra plea, SC THE CITY kept out of judge lifts HC media gag order AFTER THOUSANDS appointments Bhushan, RSubhash Reddy and OF STUDENTS EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE MRShah ordered partstayofthe COMPLAIN OF EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE NEWDELHI,NOVEMBER25 September 15 HighCourtorder ERRORS, SPPU TO AHMEDABAD,NOVEMBER25 while hearing aplea by the RELEASE THE SUPREME CourtWednesday AndhraPradesh government CORRECTED CURBINGDIWALI fireworks, stayed the AndhraPradesh High whichhad challenged the order. RESULTS BY DEC 3 denying the executivearole in Courtorder restraining the me- It directed that the matter be the appointment of judgesand Vice President Naidu, Speaker Birla at the Statue of Unity dia from reporting the FIR regis- listedfor hearing again in the last CLASS XI ADMISSION monitoring investigationsare ju- museum in Kevadia, Gujarat. ANI teredbythe state police Anti- week of January2021. SCHEDULE FOR dicial pronouncementsgiving a Corruption Bureauinconnection On October 6, Chief Minister STATE RELEASED “distinct impression of over- lining that the legislature, exec- shrinedinthe Constitution in- withallegedirregularitiesinland YSJagan Mohan Reddy,inalet- PAGE 4 reach,” Vice President Venkaiah utive and the judiciary should re- stead of arrogating (to) dealings in Amaravati. tertoChief Justice of India SA Naidu said Wednesdayunder- spect “jurisdictional sanctity en- CONTINUEDONPAGE2 AbenchofJustices Ashok CONTINUEDONPAGE2 Days after he entered DDC polls, PDPyouth His hand with God Cong leaders at Vadodaraairporttoreceive AhmedPatel’s chief heldinterror case SANDIPG DIEGO MARADONA I 1960-2020 body.Hewill be buried at his village Piraman. BhupendraRana NEWDELHI,NOVEMBER25 DEEPTIMANTIWARY& Waheed THERE ARE legends, immortals BASHAARATMASOOD Parraheld in and G.O.A.Ts, the GreatestofAll Cong loses chief NEWDELHI,SRINAGAR, case naming Time. Then thereisDiego NOVEMBER25 former Maradona. The legendaryfoot- DySP,Hizb ballerdied, aged 60, aftersuffer- crisismanager, THREEDAYSafter he filedhis ingacardiacarrest onWednesday. nomination from Pulwama dis- To some, he wasthe most trict in Kashmirfor theDistrict ED giftedfootballerever, whose feet Development Council (DDC) rendered thebeautiful game all Gandhis their pillar polls, the National Investigation Questions the morebeautiful. To some, he Agency (NIA)onWednesdayar- PLAIN E wasthe mostflawedofgeniuses, ● overtiming rested PDP youth wing leader EX flirting withdrugsand keeping in thebackroom WaheedurRehman Parrain friends from theunderworld. To connection with aterrorcase WAHEED PARRA’s arrest some others, he wasanoutright againstsuspendedJ&K police of- by theNIA in the case in- cheat, who flickedagoal withhis ficer Devinder Singh. volving senior police offi- hand, the creator of the mostvil- COOMIKAPOOR “Today, NIA arrested Waheed cer Devinder Singh, ac- ifiedyet the mostromanticised NEWDELHI,NOVEMBER25 ur Rehman Parra... in connection cusedofsupporting goal in WorldCup history. with Naveed Babu/Devinder Hizb-ul-Mujahideen, is Whatever the opinions and SONIA GANDHI described Singh case forsupporting Hizbul conspicuous forits tim- perspectives, Maradona was AhmedPatel as an “irreplace- Mujahideen in conspiracy with ing.The NIA called him magical,yet real. Magical with his able companion” but, surpris- the other accused persons,” an forquestioningaday af- feet and real in his life. The most ingly,Rahul, who wasoften not NIA statement said. terhefiledhis nomina- magicallyrealistic and realisti- on the same pageashim, Devinder Singh, then aDySP tion from Pulwama for callymagicaloffootballers. One Celebratingagoal in the famous ‘Hand of Gold’ match, featuring summedupthe loss of Ahmed withthe J&K Police, had been ar- the DDC polls. who livedbothlifeand football Argentina vs England in the 1986 WorldCup in Mexico. Reuters bhai – as he waswidelyknown AHMED PATEL rested on January11while trav- on his ownterms. He wasnopre- – more pithily.Rahul acknowl- 1949-2020 elling in acar with Naveed Babu, tender,never triedtoerase his edgedhim as “one of the pillars aknown Hizb-ul-Mujahideen the behestofPakistan. shanty-townupbringing past, could thrill. Youneedn’t beafoot- soccer ball. volvedinthe frame look foolish. of the Congress” – notexactlyan terrorist. The casewas trans- “We foundthat Parrawas in neverfeigned righteousness, ball tragic forthat. Dignofurther into archival With England yettorecover understatement from adynast ferred to the NIA whichalleged touchwith some of the keyac- neverdenied thedarkness of his Butinthis moment of depar- memorythan the non-hand of from the first‘Hand of God’ goal, whoassumes thatwithout the BUSINESSASUSUAL in itschargesheetthat Singh had cusedinthe case. We have evi- soul. Ahuman footballing god, to ture, it’shis footballing legacy God goal in the quarterfinal CONTINUEDONPAGE2 firstfamilythe party is ahollow BY UNNY been providing shelter to Hizb- dence to provethat he was take aliberty.You couldmakea that needs appreciation. Short againstEngland in the 1986 shell. ul-Mujahideen terrorists fora awareofthe conspiracy and may thrilling best-seller out of his life and sturdy,the build concealing WorldCup. The dream fusion of Indeed, Patel, 71,who passed longtime and had been aiding even have been actively involved as well as his football. Both could his agilityand dexterity,hewas rawpace, power, precisionand FULL COVERAGE away early Wednesdayfighting and abetting their activities at CONTINUEDONPAGE2 existwithout overlap, and both adarting virtuoso tethered to a trickery had made everyone in- PAGE 16 multipleorgan failurepost- Covid, wasthe go-toman when- ever the Congress facedtrouble. Whichmeant quiteoften. Amid Covid surge, Centre allows The day unnatural alliance in Whether it wasthe modali- ties of tying up with the Shiv Sena foragrand alliance in states to put night curfew, curbs Maharashtraends, BJP prepared to Maharashtraortamping down Sachin Pilot’s anger againstChief form alternative govt: Fadnavis MinisterAshok Gehlotin No sealing of Rajasthan or allying with Pranab borders;suggests Fadnavis wasinPune to at- Mukherjee to ensurethat Sonia EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE tend aparty workers' rally, or- wasinstalledparty president in anorth Indian state. As Ramesh staggered office PUNE,NOVEMBER25 ganisedfor theBJP candidate 1997 despiteSitaram Kesri’s re- noted, notmanyinthe Congress contesting thePune graduates' fusal to step down gracefully, were capable of pulling offsuch timings to TERMINGTHE MahaVikas and teachers' constituency polls AhmedBhai wasonhand to sort feats, mixing powerwith per- Aghadi government of the Shiv forthe LegislativeCouncil. out the problem. suasion to good effect. contain numbers Sena, NCPand Congress in On Deputy Chief Minister Partycolleague Jairam AhmedBhai’s strength was Maharashtraan“unnatural al- and senior NCPleader Ajit Pawar Ramesh once described himas his lackofpersonal ambition or Testing of passengers arriving from Delhi-NCR, other states liance”, former chief minister criticising BJP leaders formak- a24X7politician who had more aprivate agenda, attributes DEEPTIMANTIWARY on at Bandrastation, Mumbai, Wednesday. Amit Chakravarty and opposition leader Devendra Fadnavis at an event in ing “absurd statements” about than once come to therescue of CONTINUEDONPAGE2 NEWDELHI,NOVEMBER25 Fadnavis on Wednesday said Pune. Rajesh Stephan the Pawarfamily, Fadnavis said, the Congress in the nickoftime. the BJP is capableofsetting up "I am awareofhis real pain but He recalledhow at well past IN VIEW of rising Covid cases by the MinistryofHome Affairs downs withthe Centre’s ap- an alternative stategovernment can't speak of it in public." midnight he put acall through to LINK BETWEEN CONG across the country, the Centreon (MHA) have allowedstatesto proval. whenever the existing “unnatu- tive government in the state," CONTINUEDONPAGE aChief Ministerwho wasbent PAST,PRESENT Tuesdayissuedfresh contain- enforce night curfews,put any “States and UTs, basedon ralalliance” in powercomes to Fadnavis told reporters at an on quitting the party next morn- ment guidelines, giving states number of “local restrictions”, their assessmentofthe situation, an end. event in Pune, when he was ing along withhis supporters. AVILLAGE RECALLS A some crucial elbowroom to put keep gatherings at social events mayimpose local restrictions "In history,nounnatural al- questionedabout some recent IN PUNE, FADNAVIS Afteragood 50 minutes of hu- LEADER ALWAYS restrictions on public movement to lessthan 100, punish people with aviewtocontain the spread liance has lastedinpower for statementsbysenior BJP lead- ATTACKS UDDHAV moring, cajoling, mollycoddling READY TO HELP and gatherings. fornot wearing masksand of Covid-19suchasnight curfew. long. The dayitends, ourparty ers, who have claimedthat their the veteranparty leader,he PAGE 11 The newguidelinesissued even issue orders forlocal lock- CONTINUEDONPAGE2 is preparedtoformanalterna- party will come to powersoon. GOVT PAGE 4 savedthe party’s government in PAGE 1 ANCHOR Thedoctor who‘sawdeath and returned’,toserveatCovid ICU the 26/11terrorattacks on spirit arethe corona warriors, or the team in Ludhiana of Class UddhavThackeray