' 3'! 2 2 2 !"#$% %'()% !*+, )-.-)./ ()*$+, "0.1+2 '0(O",& 4,(5,-(6 -"!1,// 0!&0< ! " # ""#$!#% %#%#% 08<08 & N68-'-//9O',-!!&-8; .,(- !.-8"- 0=,6,/-( & #&#%%# >/ $ +?%%& @A >- & - - . - !/. "0!12 !+ / / 0 Q R " & -."&'-$-' aware. That is the best sign of patriotism. Your vote is your riyanka Gandhi Vadra on weapon. You are not supposed PTuesday used her first pub- to harm someone with that lic rally after assuming charge weapon. But it will make you / (01 as Congress general secretary stronger,” she said. to launch a scathing attack on In her address, she asked mid speculation that there Prime Minister Narendra Modi people not to fall prey to Acould be a “respectable” at his home turf over “unkept “meaningless issues” and asked place for the Congress in the promises and spread of hatred” them to broach the right ques- Uttar Pradesh in the country. tions. “You are going to decide Mahagathbandhan, BSP chief Congress president Rahul your future in this election. Mayawati on Tuesday made an Gandhi too slammed the Modi Don’t fall prey to meaningless emphatic assertion that that her Government in his concluding issues. Focus on issues that will party would not have any elec- speech, but focus of the day was make you grow, like how youth toral tie-up with the Congress definitely on Priyanka. will get jobs, how women will in any State for the Lok Sabha “Our institutions are being feel safe and what should be polls beginning April 11. destroyed. Wherever you see, done for farmers,” she said. In a statement released on hatred is being spread,” Launching an attack on Tuesday, Mayawati said, “It is Priyanka said amid a round of the Modi regime in the Prime being made clear again that the applause from the massive Minister’s home State, Priyanka BSP will not have any electoral crowd. said it did not “fulfil” its alliance with the Congress in “Nothing matters more to promises of providing jobs to any State.” us that you and I protect this crores of people. Her remarks came on a day Bulandshahr, Aligarh, Agra nation, work for it and move “You need to take decisions when the highest policy-mak- and Fatehpur Sikri. Besides, it forward together,” the Congress wisely. Question those who ing body of Congress — would contest Aonla, leader said in the presence of made tall promises. Ask what Congress Working Committee Shahjahanpur, Dhaurahra, her sibling, Rahul, and moth- happened to the promise of (CWC) — met in Ahmedabad Sitapur, Misrikh, Mohanlalganj, er, UPA chairperson Sonia creating two crore jobs. What and gave a clarion call to oust Sultanpur, Pratapgarh, Gandhi, at the rally near Adalaj happened to the promise of the Modi Government. Farrukhabad, Akbarpur, Jalaun, village in Gandhinagar. depositing 15 lakhs in your Referring to her party’s Hamirpur, Fatehpur, Priyanka said the Modi bank accounts?” she said. pre-poll alliance with the Ambedkarnagar, Kaiserganj, Government did not fulfil its On the ensuing Lok Sabha Samajwadi Party in UP, Shrawasti, Domariyaganj, Basti, promises of providing jobs to polls, Priyanka said people Mayawati said it is based on Sant Kabir Nagar, Deoria, crores of people in the country should raise the right issues and ed to do something historic in “mutual respect” and “honest Bansgaon, Lalganj, Ghosi, and advised people to be vigi- take wise decisions. 2019. “If they can give all the intentions”. She went on to Salempur, Jaunpur, lant, treat their vote as a Rahul accused the Prime money to rich, we can give add the SP-BSP alliance was Machhlishahr, Ghazipur and “weapon” and ask right ques- Minister of corruption in the money to the poor. I want to perfect enough to defeat the Bhadohi. tions. With this mega rally, the deal for 36 Rafale jets with assure everyone, we will form BJP, especially in Uttar Pradesh. Addressing party leaders Congress sounded its poll bugle France and said the PM gave the Government in 2019 and The SP and the BSP from various States in New for the April-May Lok Sabha 30,000 crore to his “friend” will implement minimum stitched together an alliance in Delhi, Mayawati said while elections. Anil Ambani. income guarantee,” Rahul UP recently, keeping the several parties were eager for an “I am saddened by what is With Lok Sabha polls due Gandhi said. Congress out, though the two alliance with the BSP, her party happening in our country in a month now, the Gandhi Continued on Page 4 -."&'-$-'2(&1'&/., president Rahul Gandhi and hoods,” the resolution passed parties decided not to field any would not do anything for today. I want you all to be more scion said the party has decid- Related report on P6 attended by all senior leaders, by the CWC said. candidate in Rae Bareli and mere electoral gains as it could he Congress on Tuesday including Sonia Gandhi, The CWC sends a “stern Amethi — the stronghold of harm the BSP movement. Talleged that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Ahmed and unequivocal” message to the grand old party. The election will pit the Narendra Modi was “cynically Patel, Ghulam Nabi Azad, and India’s enemies that the coun- Of the 80 Lok Sabha seats BJP-led National Democratic % & ' $ exploiting” the issue of nation- Priyanka Gandhi Vadra. try stands united and resolute in UP, the SP would contest 37 Alliance (NDA) against a com- al security to divert attention “Congress party expresses as one to confront and defeat and the BSP 38, leaving three bination of Opposition parties, from his “colossal failures” and its strong disappointment that their nefarious agenda, it said. for Ajit Singh-led Rashtriya Lok including the Congress, the “persistent falsehoods”. The the Prime Minister is cynical- India is a resilient democracy, Dal (RLD). Left and several regional forces, ()*+, - strong attack on the Prime ly exploiting the issue of nation- proud of its brave armed forces. The BSP would be fielding with the latter still trying to Minister came in a party reso- al security, on which we are all It shall never be defeated by its candidates mostly in west- stitch up a grand alliance to lution passed at the Congress united, to divert attention from forces of violence and terror, ern UP, including Saharanpur, minimise the division of votes Working Committee (CWC) his colossal failures, bogus the resolution said. Bijnore, Nagina, Amroha, against the ruling combine. which was chaired by party claims and persistent false- Continued on Page 4 Meerut, Gautam Buddh Nagar, Continued on Page 4 R " ##$& ! ! # # "#$ (&1'&/., 0/ -- t was a day of defections. On ITuesday, over half a dozen (&1'&/., that’s what est Bengal Chief Minister politicians, including former is going on. Wand TMC chief Mamata Trinamool Congress MP hristian Michel, the alleged My next Banerjee on Tuesday released Anupam Hazra and Sujay Cmiddleman in the door the list of party candidates for Vikhe Patil, son of Leader of AgustaWestland chopper scam inmate is all the 42 Lok Sabha seats in the Opposition in Maharashtra case, claimed in a Delhi court (gangster) State. The TMC has sent out a Assembly Radhakrishna Vikhe on Tuesday that former CBI Chhota message to the women elec- Patil, Congress MLA Dulal Special Director Rakesh Rajan... I don’t understand torate earmarking 41 per cent Chand Barar and CPI(M) MLA ! " Asthana met him in Dubai and what crime I have committed seats for them. Khagen Murmu joined the BJP threatened to “make his life hell to be put along with the ter- Among other features of while Patidar leader Hardik inside jail” here if he did not toe rorists and those who have the TMC list are five faces from Patel joined the Congress. Bolpur MP for anti-party activ- Maharashtra in the presence of the line of the agency. killed several people,” he said. Bengal cine world. Hazra had won the 2014 ities on January 9. Besides Chief Minister Devendra The statements were made Michel, who was brought Besides, the party has Lok Sabha elections from these three leaders, various Fadnavis in Mumbai. by Michel before Special Judge before the court in pursuance dropped five sitting MPs from % & ' % ( Bolpur in West Bengal. Along members of a minority com- Reportedly, the development Arvind Kumar, who allowed to production warrant issued its candidates’ list. Among the & ) ( with him, Bgada legislator munity from Bengal joined comes after NCP chief Sharad the Enforcement Directorate to against him, also told the judge MPs dropped or who have & * Dulal Chandra Bar of the the BJP. Pawar, whose party is in interrogate him inside Tihar that he was put in the prison opted out are Jadavpur MP Congress and Habibpur MLA In a major embarrassment alliance with the Congress in Jail in Delhi on Wednesday and with 16-17 Kashmiri separatist Sugato Bose who is also the veteran Bangla actor Sandhya Nusrat Jehan (Basirhat) and Khagen Murmu of the CPI(M) for the Congress, Sujay Vikhe the State, rejected Sujay’s Thursday. leaders but it was denied by the grand nephew of Netaji Subhas Roy, and Uma Soren. Bangla matinee idol Mimi joined the BJP in presence of Patil, son of the Leader of request to contest the polls “Sometime back Rakesh jail authorities which said he Chandra Bose, South Kolkata Among the new faces are Chakrabarty, who is likely to party’s general secretary Opposition in Maharashtra from Ahmednagar Lok Sabha Asthana met me in Dubai and was shifted to high-risk prison MP and State TMC president veteran party leader and State take on CPI(M)’s Sujan Kailash Vijayvargiya. The TMC Assembly Radhakrishna Vikhe seat. threatened that my life would considering threat to his life.