www.fi rstindia.co.in OUR EDITIONS: www.fi rstindia.co.in/epaper/ JAIPUR, AHMEDABAD twitter.com/thefi rstindia & LUCKNOW facebook.com/thefi rstindia instagram.com/thefi rstindia LUCKNOW l SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2021 l Pages 12 l 3.00 RNI NO. UPENG/2020/04393 l Vol 1 l Issue No. 106 HOPE & BEYOND! These Bar Headed Goose fl ying above Chandlai Lake of Jaipur, remind us of the famous American thriller, The Birds, directed by Alfred Hitchcock! Though the movie spoke a lot about the helplessness, in the face of the inevitable, however, this mesmerising photo by First India’s Photojournalist Suman Sarkar, depicts hope for a better future for all as after almost one year of fi ghting the pandemic, the world has got vaccine to fi ght Covid 19. PM: India can ‘CM GEHLOT’S RAHUL IN TN: BUDGET IS A take world WELFARE BUDGET’ Cong has weakened in last back to eco- CHINESE KNOW friendly toys PM IS ‘SCARED’ decade: Leaders @ G-23 New Delhi: Prime Min- ister Narendra Modi on POLL READY: RaGa attacks Modi over Sino- Kapil Sibal said he & other leaders have gathered to address issues that party Saturday said that the India standoff during his 3-day Tamil Nadu tour is facing now; says party didn’t utilise Ghulam Nabi Azad’s experience ancient toy culture of the country reflects the Editor-In-Chief of Jammu: Senior Con- practice of reuse and First India, Jagdeesh gress leaders Kapil recycling, which is part Chandra, in The New Sibal and Anand Shar- of the Indian lifestyle, JC Show, speaks ma on Saturday stated and added that India about how CM Gehlot that the G-23 or the has the potential to take has emerged as a group of 23 dissenting the world back to eco- hero on national leaders are seeing the friendly toys. platform by pioneering Congress party “getting Speaking at the India in providing health weaker” and are raising Toy Fair 2021 in Delhi, security cover to their voice for the bet- the Prime Minister said people & more. terment of the party. the government has Rahul Gandhi during his election campaign for upcoming Tamil P8 “The truth is that we prepared a National Nadu Assembly polls, in Tuticorin on Saturday. —PHOTO BY PTI see Congress party get- Toy Action Plan. It in- VAX CAPPED AT ting weak. That is why we cludes 15 ministries Tuticorin (TN): Con- sembly elections, he at- `250 AT PRIVATE have gathered here. We Congress leader Kabil Sibal addresses at Shanti Sammelan in Jammu on Saturday. —PHOTO BY ANI and departments to gress leader Rahul tacked Modi, BJP and HOSPITALS: GOVT had gathered together make the industry com- Gandhi on Saturday the RSS on a number of earlier too and we have to trict of every state. We again. New generation leaders who were present petitive, Aatmanirbhar, launched a scathing at- issues, including the fall strengthen the party to- were saddened when we should connect (to par- at the event organised by and to provide it with a tack on Prime Minister of Congress-led govern- gether,” Sibal said at the realised that he is being ty). We have seen good former Rajya Sabha MP global platform. Narendra Modi over the ments in Madhya ‘Shanti Sammelan’ event freed from Parliament. days of Congress. We do Ghulam Nabi Azad. “This first Toy Fair is Sino-India border Pradesh & Arunachal here. Anand Sharma We didn’t want him to go not want to see it weak- Azad is the senior- not just a business or standoff, charging him Pradesh, alleging that who addressed the ‘Shan- from Parliament…I can’t ening as we become most member among the economic event. This with being ‘scared’ of they were ‘bought’ by the ti Sammelan’ said that understand why Con- older,” Sharma said. 23 leaders, who had ex- programme is a link to the eastern neighbour saffron party. Interact- New Delhi: Corona “Congress has weakened gress is not using his ex- Sibal and Sharma pressed dissent with the strengthen the coun- and took a swipe at him ing with advocates here, vaccines will be in the last decade.” perience.” along with former Hary- functioning of the Con- try’s age-old culture of for being only “useful to Rahul reiterated his capped at `250 Sibal said, “He (Azad) “Our voice is for the ana CM Bhupinder Sin- gress party and had writ- sports and gaiety. India two people.” “hum do hamare do” jibe per shot at private is one such leader who betterment of the party. gh Hooda, Raj Babbar ten a letter to Sonia Gan- toy culture is as old as Launching his three- at the ruling dispensa- hospitals and health knows the ground reality It should be strength- and Vivek Tankha are dhi in August last year. the Indus Valley Civili- day Tamil Nadu tour tion at the Centre. centres, the Health of Congress in every dis- ened everywhere once among other Congress Turn P6 zation. Turn P6 ahead of the April 6 as- More on P6, Turn P6 Ministry said on Saturday. Vaccines will be free in all BJP POLL PREPS government hospitals RIDERSHIP and centres. P6 CROSSES 3CR Lucknow: It was a BALAKOT ANNIV: NADDA & YOGI IN MODI’S KASHI TODAY moment of pride —FILE PHOTO as Lucknow Metro AIR CHIEF FLIES M Tariq Khan But before that the ers and lawmakers, the Ridership crossed the MIRAGE 2000 UP CM will launch pre- CM would proceed for mark of 3 crore on Lucknow: Chief Min- vention of communica- the inauguration of re- Saturday. Managing Will inaugurate ister Yogi Adityanath ble disease campaign gional party headquar- Director, Shri Kumar BJP HQ in along with BJP nation- from Primary Health ter in Rohania, which Keshav thanked al chief JP Nadda would Centre in Cholapur. He would serve as the war- the passengers of Varanasi & be in Varanasi on Sun- will arrive at the Babat- room of the Purvanchal Lucknow Metro on address a rally day to rev up the party’s pur Airport from where for the crucial upcom- achieving this mile- structure in Kashi and he will to attend a party ing panchayat elections stone and assured New Delhi: Indian in Rohania assess cadres poll-pre- meeting at Harhua. He and also during the 2022 that Luknow Metro Air Force Chief RKS paredness. Apart from is also expected to take assembly elections in will keep providing its Bhadauria fl ew in an Will also launch attending the inaugura- stock of the ongoing de- the State. world class services upgraded Mirage-2000 tion function of the re- velopment projects in Rohania region is in future also. In view fi ghter aircraft during prevention of gional party headquar- the PM’s constituency. dominated by Patels or of COVID-19, Luc- the multi-aircraft sortie communicable ter set up in the Prime Hectic arrangements Kurmis, the influential know Metro is taking to commemorate the Minister’s constituency, have been made for the OBC sub-caste, many of every possible step second anniversary disease both the UP CM and CM’s visit by both the whom are considered to provide the safest of the Balakot BJP president are also administration and par- close to party’s ally journey. Operations. expected to address a ty workers. After inter- Apna Dal whose leader campaign —More on P2 P6 rally in Rohania. acting with party work- CM Yogi Adityanath along with BJP national chief JP Nadda. Anupriya Patel Turn to P6 UTTAR PRADESH www.fi rstindia.co.in I www.fi rstindia.co.in/epaper/ I twitter.com/thefi rstindia I facebook.com/thefi rstindia I instagram.com/thefi rstindia LUCKNOW | SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2021 02 CM Yogi pays tribute to Sant Ravidas, recalls his contribution to the society Magisterial probe ordered into Baswar Sant Ravidas personified concept of village incident Ek Bharat Shrestha Bharat: CM Yogi First India Bureau CM TAKES ACTION Lucknow: The Yogi Ad- First India Bureau ityanath government on Saturday decided to Lucknow: Paying flo- withdraw cases regis- ral tributes to Sant Rav- tered against Nishad idas on his birth anni- community in the Bas- versary, Chief Minister war Village incident Yogi Adityanath on Sat- even as it ordered a mag- urday said the seer per- isterial enquiry and sonified the concept of sent policemen involved Ek Bharat- Shrestha in the incident to lines. Yogi Speaks Bharat (One-India- With the Congress M Yogi made his Great-India). trying to politicise the Cdebut on an indig- The CM said his gov- issue after the visit and enous micro-blogging ernment has started meeting of Priyanka platform kooapp. working on the beautifi- Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath paid tribute to Sant Ravidas at an event organised in Krishna Nagar area of Luc- Gandhi with the boat- com. “For a wider and cation of the seer’s know. He also praised contributions of Sant Ravidas towards the betterment of the society. men of Nishad commu- quicker interaction with birthplace in Varanasi. nity and giving Rs 10 cases registered against you all, this Swadeshi He requested members lakh financial assis- the community mem- model is one more of the Sant Ravidas tance, Cabinet Minister bers will start straight- success story of a Seva Samiti to prepare Siddharth Nath Singh away and sent to the digital India and a step an action plan for the and BJP MP Rita Bahu- government for approv- towards ‘Aatamnirbhar beautification drive. guna Joshi met the com- al,” he said. Bharat’, he said. Recalling his contribu- munity members and He also said the list of tions and service, the assured them that their mining mafia would also M has sought an CM said the seer’s birth grievances have been be prepared to take ac- Cexplanation from in Kashi 645 years ago taken into account.