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NO.: DL(S)-01/3420/2018-20 millenniumPUBLISHED FROM DELHI & KOLKATA VOL.13, ISSUE 76 | Sunday, 18 March, 2018 | New Delhi | Pages 16 | Rs 3.00 post NO HALF TRUTHS CITY PAGE 3 NATION PAGE 4 FILM PAGE 16 CONG FINALLY WAKING UP TO INDIA TOP ARMS IMPORTER EVERYMAN’S EVM THREAT: SAURABH BHARDWAJ WITH 12% WORLD SHARE HERO Mauritius Prez quits ‘BJP IDEA OF SIMULTANEOUS POLLS MISPLACED, INCOMPATIBLE WITH CONSTITUTION’ Lies being spread on over credit card graft Let’s return to paper ballots, MSP for farmers: PM PORT LOUIS: Mauritius President OUR CORREPONDENT Ameenah Gurib- Fakim resigned NEW DELHI: Prime Minister on Saturday after Narendra Modi made an indi- being embroiled in Congress urges poll panel rect attack on the Opposition a scandal over her parties on Saturday, saying that use of a credit card confusion is being spread about to buy luxury per- OUR CORRESPONDENT the Budget decision to fix MSP sonal items, in an ‘WE’LL BE PRAGMATIC... for crops at least 1.5 times the abrupt change of NEW DELHI: The Congress on FORGE ANTI-BJP production cost and assured heart after vowing Saturday urged the Election Com- farmers that all major costs she would not stand Ameenah Gurib-Fakim mission (EC) to revert to the old FRONT AHEAD OF 2019’ incurred will be included while down. Gurib-Fakim, practice of paper ballots in future declaring the support price. The Africa’s only female head of state, submitted her elections instead of electronic vot- NEW DELHI: The Congress Centre is already working with resignation in the “national interest,” her lawyer ing machines (EVMs). This is nec- on Saturday resolved to state governments to ensure Yousouf Mohamed told reporters. essary as there are misgivings on adopt a “pragmatic ap- that farmers get the benefit of He said her resignation would take effect “misuse” of EVMs to “manipulate proach” for cooperation with the declared Minimum Support on March 23, a move that will bring down the the outcome contrary to popular all like-minded parties and Price (MSP), he said. curtain on a saga that has gripped the Indian verdict”, the party said here during evolve a common workable Addressing the three-day Ocean archipelago for weeks. Gurib-Fakim had its 84th plenary session. programme to defeat the Krishi Unnati Mela here, Modi vowed to fight the accusations that first appeared The Congress and other politi- BJP-RSS in the 2019 general also appealed to farmers not in local newspaper L’Express — that she used a cal parties have been alleging that election. This indication of a to burn crop residues so as bank card provided by an NGO to make per- EVMs were tampered during polls pre-poll tie-up comes in the to curb pollution. Besides, he PM Modi at the Krishi Unnati Mela sonal purchases, including jewellery and luxury and demanding reintroduction of UPA Chairperson Sonia Gandhi and Congress President Rahul Gandhi at the wake of efforts by the Con- asked farmers to grow more oil- PIC/NAVEEN SHARMA goods worth at least 25,000 euros. the ballot paper system of voting. party’s 84th Plenary Session at Indira Gandhi Stadium, New Delhi PTI gress to evolve a consensus seeds to reduce dependence on Prime Minister Pravind Jugnauth announced The party called for reverting to the among various opposition import of cooking oil as also determining the cost of produc- a week ago that Gurib-Fakim had agreed to old practice of paper ballots, citing Addressing the plenary ses- dispensation and his party was that parties to unitedly take on to cut urea consumption by at tion for fixing the support price. resign, with a date set for her departure after that it was adopted by other major sion, the Congress’s new president, while they spread anger and hatred, least half by 2022. In the Union “The cost of production will last Monday’s ceremony celebrating the Indian democracies to help restore the Rahul Gandhi, said that the coun- “we spread love and brotherhood”. the might of the BJP. Budget for fiscal 2018-19, the include elements such as hired Ocean archipelago’s 50 years of independence. credibility of the electoral process. try is in a way “fatigued” under the Former Congress president In its political resolu- government took a decision to labour, expenses on their own But on Wednesday, a statement from the presi- A resolution was also moved in Narendra Modi dispensation and is Sonia Gandhi launched an all-out tion moved at the party’s ensure right prices to farmers or rented machinery as well as dency lashed out at “weeks of attacks and false this regard in the plenary session. looking for a way out and asserted attack on PM Narendra Modi, say- 84th Plenary Session, the for their produce, he said. livestock, cost of seeds and fer- allegations” and said Gurib-Fakim planned to In its resolution, the party said the that his party alone can show the ing that his pre-poll promises of Congress on Saturday It has decided that for all tilisers, expenses on irrigation, clear her name and would not go. BJP’s move of simultaneous elec- path forward. He launched a combating corruption and ensur- launched a scathing attack notified crops, MSP will be at revenue being given to state It is not clear what prompted her about-turn, tions is “misplaced” and is “incom- scathing attack on the NDA gov- ing inclusive development were on the BJP-RSS, saying the least one and a half times the government, interest on work- but her lawyer said Saturday she was “relieved” patible with the Constitution as ernment, accusing it of spreading “only dramebazi’ and a trick to grab country’s core constitutional cost, Modi said. Many peo- ing capital, and rent of leased she had made the decision to resign after endur- also impractical”. Prime Minister hatred and anger, and failing to cre- power. Gandhi gave a clarion call to values are under attack and ple are “spreading confusion land among others,” he said. ing a “difficult” time in recent weeks. Gurib- Narendra Modi has been pressing ate jobs and address farm distress. party men to be ready for any kind freedom of all is in jeop- and creating atmosphere of It will also include labour put Fakim, whose role is mostly ceremonial, is a upon the idea of holding simulta- The Congress party alone can of sacrifice to strengthen the party ardy, with institutions under despair” regarding the govern- by farmers and their family, he scientist and biologist of international renown, neous elections to Parliament and unite the country and show it the and to make the county free from stress and their indepen- ment’s MSP decision, he said said. “This is an important deci- and in 2015 joined the London-based Planet state assemblies, contending that it path forward, he said, adding that discrimination, vendetta politics dence compromised. while sharing the detail of com- sion related to income of hard- Earth Institute (PEI) to try to develop scientific will save money and time. the difference between the ruling and arrogance. ponents to be considered while working farmers.” capacity in Africa. AFP Jagtar Tara gets CAN GET 3RD TERM IN 2023 AS CHINA HAS SCRAPPED 2-TERM CAP India achieved in ‘Oldest ally’ Shiv Sena (last) 30 years what Great will stay with us: BJP life term in Beant Xi re-elected China president for 2nd Britain did in 150 years assassination case NOBEL LAUREATE PAUL KRUGMAN OUR CORRESPONDENT OUR CORRESPONDENT term, close aide Wang Qishan is V-P NEW DELHI: Maharashtra CHANDIGARH: A spe- K J M VARMA gress (NPC) on March 11 ratified BJP chief Raosaheb Danve has cial court here on Saturday the constitutional amendment for In today’s asserted that its oldest ally, Shiv awarded life imprisonment to BEIJING: Xi Jinping was on Sat- removing the two-term limit for Sena, would remain with the Jagtar Singh Tara in connec- urday re-elected as president for a president and vice president pro- paper party saying, “We were in an alli- tion with the assassination of second five-year tenure by China’s posed by the CPC. The election ance for 25 years. Barring the last Punjab chief minister Beant parliament, days after it scrapped will ensure Xi heads the CPC, the ... election, we have always been Singh. The court of Additional the two-term rule for the presi- military and the presidency, per- CITY together.” District and Session Judge J S dency and allowed him to have haps for life. “It is proved that NDA’s both Sidhu pronounced the sen- a life-long tenure. The NPC has He is the first Chinese leader MAN SHOT DEAD IN MEHRAULI 3 governments, one under Atal tence in the high security also elected 64-year-old Xi as to have that privilege after party Bihari Vajpayee and another Burail jail here where Tara is the head of the Central Military founder Chairman Mao Zedong NATION under Narendra Modi, are capa- currently lodged, Tara’s coun- Commission (CMC), the over- who ruled China from 1949 till ble to hold on its allies. We are sel Simranjit Singh said. A fine all high command of the 2 mil- his death in 1976. Technically the YOGI TRANSFERS 37 IAS OFFICERS 4 trying to keep the allies with us,” of Rs 35,000 was also imposed lion strong Chinese military, the election marks Xi’s second-term he said further. ty’s organisational activity and it on Tara by the court, he said.