eye THE SUNDAY EXPRESS MAGAZINE SHINING AHMEDABAD,LATECITY DECEMBER20,2020 BRIGHT With the transition to 16PAGES,`5.00 OTT platforms, the actors who owned the medium DAILY FROM: AHMEDABAD, CHANDIGARH, DELHI, JAIPUR, KOLKATA, LUCKNOW, MUMBAI, NAGPUR, PUNE, VADODARA WWW.INDIANEXPRESS.COM PAGES 13, 14, 15 ‘GIVE US FIVE YEARS FOR SONAR BANGLA’ SUNDAY STORY Shahsetstone,slams PAGE 8 Mamata:Youwillbe Twenty20 in Premier alonebyelectiontime League Adhikari joins What happens when Kerala’s largest private BJP with TMC MP, sector employer joins panchayatdemocracy? nine MLAs RAVIKBHATTACHARYA My ISOLATION &ATRIMITRA MIDNAPORE,DECEMBER19 Aweeklywindowintolivesof WELCOMINGTMC deserters India’snewsmakers,impact intothe BJP fold to setthe tone ofthepandemiconthem forabitter campaign in West PAGE 9 Bengal whereassemblyelec- tions aredue next year,Union Home MinisterAmit Shah ‘Was chef of my SaturdaytargetedTMC leader house,saw Yo uTube The scoreboard(notfinal) shows the fall of India's wicketsatthe Adelaide Oval, Saturday. AP and Chief MinisterMamata Amit Shah with Suvendu Adhikari in West Midnapore recipes to cook forson’ Banerjee, saying “this is justthe district of West Bengal on Saturday. Partha Paul ADIL HUSSAIN beginning” and “you will be ACTOR alone” by the time the polls start. At apublic meeting in 36/9: World didn’t end but maybe Midnapore, the stronghold of To BJP from TMC, Cong WORLD former statetransportminister Suvendu Adhikari who quit the and CPM: Meet the ones new India needs an old lesson TMC and joinedthe BJP along with Bardhaman Purba MP Sunil Kumar Mondal, nine MLAs and who have crossed over give perspective to anation in sports has ahabit of reminding longer to reachthe fielders. severalothers, Shah sought a5- SANDEEPDWIVEDI mourning. “I haven’t lostawar, everyone that even the best can On Saturday, everything was year mandatefor the BJP and Midnapore. NEWDELHI,DECEMBER19 no one got killed, Ijustlostaten- have the worstofdays.Nothing edgedtothe ’keeper –“caught promisedtoturn the stateinto RAVIKBHATTACHARYA Among them areformer TMC nis match.” worked forIndia Saturday. There TimPaine” wasonthe clipboard Sonar Bangla. &ATRIMITRA heavyweight and MLASuvendu MODERNA VACCINE INDIA WILL continue to wear The eight-wicket loss in were no lucky breaksoreventhe of all online scorers. Having slept He also claimedthat his party MIDNAPORE,DECEMBER19 Adhikari; Bardhaman Purba MP CLEARED, MILLIONS masksand remain optimistic Adelaide on Saturdaywas rub of the green. with the whiffofarare Test win would form the next govern- Sunil Kumar Mondal; about the vaccine. Christmas will India’s 168th in Test matches The day’s firsthour in Test in Australia, India woke up to ment with 200seats–thereare JOLTINGTHE ruling another six MLAs of OF DOSES ADDED TO still be next week.And Indian and 30th in Australia. And not matches is as muchabout balls watchthe Baggy Green huddle 294seatsinthe stateassembly. party in West Bengal TMC; one MLAeachof U.S. SUPPLY cricketers will turn up at the forthe firsttime, India, acountry beating the bat by millimetres ruffling the hair of itsfast Urging the people to oustthe whereAssemblyelec- CPI, CPM and Congress; TRUMP SIGNS Melbourne Cricket Ground on with amodestawayTestrecord, and edgesfalling justshortof bowlers Josh Hazlewood (5/8) TMC, he singledout Banerjee: tions aredue before severalTMC district Boxing Dayhopingtosquarethe is trailing afterthe opening fielders as it is about the fall of and PatCummins (4/21) on loop. “Today, under the leadership of next summer,10TMC leaders and councillors. STOPGAP FUNDING series under astand-in captain. game on foreign soil. This isn’t a wickets. However, it turnedout If foronce social media can Suvendu bhai, all good people MLAs, an MP and afor- While the TMC dis- BILL TO AVOID GOVT What Boris Beckerfamouslysaid time forself-loathing but self- to be amiraculous dayin be ignored and the views of from the Trinamool, Congress mer MP joinedthe BJP Saturday missedthem as good riddance, SHUTDOWN in 1987,after the second-round examination. Adelaide –the ball movedthat modern-dayeffigy-burners — CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 at the public meeting in CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 PAGE 12 loss at Wimbledon as the two- True 36-9, the newlow for weebit moretokiss the edge meme-makers and WhatsApp time defending champ, should Indian cricket,hurts,but then and travelledjustthat much CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 LETTER-WRITERS UNDERLINE CHALLENGES JKCA ‘money laundering’ probe: ED orders SURVEY BY IIM-A, UNICEF IN AHMEDABAD Sonia meeting: Ice Gujarat HC takes suo motu attachment of Farooq residence, properties breaks but the chill cognizance of survey, dering probeintoacase involv- mentionedthe Sunjwan resi- DEEPTIMANTIWARY ing the Jammu and Kashmir dence, jointlyownedbyFarooq issues notice to state govt NEWDELHI,DECEMBER19 Cricket Association (JKCA), from and son Omar Abdullah, and the within remains the time the NC leader headedit. ED reiterated this. ernment in the matter.Noting AS THE District Development The attachedproperties in- Refuting the allegations, EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE that the issue is “veryserious, Council (DDC) polls in Jammu clude Farooq's residence on Omar Abdullah said the proper- AHMEDABAD,DECEMBER19 whichcalls forthe immediateat- and Kashmir drew to aclose on Gupkar Road, residential prop- ties were ancestral. “The proper- tention of the stategovernment,” Saturday, the Enforcement erties at Tehsil Katiporain ties attachedare largely ances- THE GUJARATHigh Courthas adivision benchheadedby Directorateissuedorders for Tangmargand Bhatindi in tral dating from the 1970swith took suo motu cognizance of a Justice JBPardiwala also noted provisional attachment of prop- Sunjwan, Jammu, commercial the mostrecent one built before survey conducted by the Indian that the survey observed that erties worthclose to Rs 12 crore buildings in Srinagar's posh 2003. Therecan be no justifica- InstituteofManagement, around 30 per cent of the chil- belonging to former chief min- Residency Road area, and land at tion forthe seizures because Ahmedabad (IIM-A) and the dren had notengaged in anyfor- isterand National Conference four different places in J&K. The Farooq Abdullah theyfail the very basic test of UNICEF Gujarat that found mal learning activities since leader Farooq Abdullah. The cumulative book value of the having been acquired as the pro- among households whichhad March 2020. properties include the house on properties is Rs 11.86 crore, the ceeds of the 'crime' being inves- children enrolledingovernment The Indian Express had on Srinagar's Gupkar Road where agency said. Roshni land scam in the Union tigated,” Omar said in atweet. schools, 85 per cent of parents December 18 publishedareport, Farooq lives. The Sunjwan property is also territory. Alistof“encroached He addedthat the familywas had notable to access anything ‘85% parentsgot nothing in lieu The orders were issuedin under the scanner in the inves- properties” publishedbythe ad- exploring legal options and “will in lieu of mid-daymeals since of mid-daymeals since March’ connection with amoneylaun- tigation intotothe alleged ministration as partofthe probe CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 March,when schools were on the survey findings. closeddue to the Covid-19pan- On Friday, the courtalso ex- Congress leaders Ashok Gehlot, Ambika Soni and AKAntony demic. pressedits concern over student afterthe meeting in NewDelhi on Saturday. PTI On Friday, the high courtis- dropouts. “The inability to pay As demand in BJP for law to check ‘love jihad’ suednotices to the principal sec- fees has ledsome parentsto retary of education department consider an alternateoption of firm on their demands that in- and the commissioner of mid- transfers to other schools or even MANOJCG cludedinternal elections at all lev- grows, Rupani says ‘will see when time comes’ daymeal scheme in Gujarat gov- CONTINUEDONPAGE4 NEWDELHI,DECEMBER19 els and establishment of a“col- lective leadership mechanism.” ing suchlegislation. said. He wasspeaking on the THE FIVE-HOUR-LONGmeeting Former Congress president EXPRESSNEWSSERVICE Party’s MLAfromDabhoi as- sidelines of aKisan Sammelan at that Congress president Sonia Rahul Gandhi, it is learnt, in- VADODARA,DECEMBER19 semblyconstituency Shailesh Gujarat Karamsad in Anand district or- Gandhi had Saturdaywith her dulged in some “plain speaking” Mehtaalias Sottaand Bharuch Chief ganisedasapartofthe BJP’s colleagues, including the core but gave no indication on DAYS AFTER BJP leaders advo- MP Mansukh Vasava have re- Minister campaign to createawareness team of 23 leaders who wrote whether he waswilling to return cated aseparatelaw to check centlywritten to the CM seeking VijayRupani about the three contentious to her seeking sweeping re- as Congress president. And apart ‘love jihad’ cases in Gujarat, Chief laws to check“enticement of farm laws. forms within, mayhavehelped from afew leaders –among them MinisterVijay Rupani on Hindu girls” by “a certain minor- The remarkscome days after break the ice but the chill is far were Rajasthan Chief Minister Saturdaysaid the stategovern- ity community”. so it is natural forsuchdiscus- an interfaith marriagetriggered from over. Ashok Gehlot, AKAntony, ment would “see when the time “The issue (of ‘love jihad’) is sions to occur here. When the tension in Vadodara. The couple, The Indian Express reportdated December 18. The letter-writers remained CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 comes” about the needfor fram- being discussedinvarious states, time comes, we will see,” Rupani CONTINUED ON PAGE 4 Bound for home, Tablighis talk of waiting