C M Y K RNI Regn. No. MPENG/2004/13703, Regd. No. L-2/BPLON/41/2006-2008 %&'(%)*+,! ! "#$%&& ''()*+&, 9 ' 35$-, 8:,$'/#,79 7%;$'3@ ,+-3+8.:#'7 -'9%+-8%#,7%/ /%#.-3/%398/ .-%# 34%/- %3$-:,,9,/ %%;<83$ %//3, +30, ,-/% 8# -; ,/%% 032%;7% % . 32!= %%4 !> ?% , % # -#.*/0 *1!*2-. !"#$%!" !"!" &" '(# #,7 ,+-3 he Government formation Tfor the BJP-led NDA (II) will be set in motion on Saturday with the newly-elect- ed MPs formally electing Narendra Modi as their leader in Parliament’s central hall. While the BJP has won 303 seats, the NDA has 352 mem- bers in the Lok Sabha. Modi is 8/%$ also expected to address the MPs following his election as massive fire engulfed a their leader. BJP Parliamentary Afour-storey commercial Party meeting will precede the complex in Surat on Friday, NDA meeting. killing at least 19 teenage stu- The Union Cabinet on dents at a coaching centre, Friday adopted a resolution many of whom jumped and fell recommending the dissolution to their deaths while some of the 16th Lok Sabha, making were suffocated, officials said. way for formal launch of the - ' . * In a video clip of the inci- + / ' ' process to form a new ' / ' ! " +, dent, some young students at ' " +, Government. President Ram the Takshashila Complex in Nath Kovind accepted the res- Many newcomers and With Finance Minister Sarthana area, where the build- Minister added. occupants of the building. ignation of the Council of young faces could be part of the Arun Jaitley having health ing is located, can be seen Coaching classes at the According to a fire official, Ministers and asked Modi to second innings of the Modi issues, there have been talks jumping off the third and centre were run in a shade built flames started from the ground continue in office till the new Government. There is possi- whether he will be part of the fourth floors amid plumes of on the top floor of the building, floor and reached the top floor, Government assumes office. bility that big winners like new dispensation or not. thick smoke. he said, adding that they “will forcing some students to take Modi’s swearing-in is BJP’s Aravind Dharmapuri Sushma Swaraj, who had Chief Minister Vijay check if the construction was shelter on the terrace which expected to take place before from Telangana, who inflicted won from Vidisha in Madhya Rupani said at least 19 students illegal”. was covered. the end of this month and con- a drubbing on sitting MP from Pradesh, had opted out from from the outgoing Cabinet, exceedingly well, winning 18 have died in the fire, but Ninteen fire tenders and “Lot of smoke accumulat- sultations are on with NDA Nizambabad K Kavitha, the the electoral battle this time on including Rajnath Singh, Nitin and 16 seats respectively. Deputy Chief Minister Nitin two hydraulic platforms were ed on the top floor where leaders for the Cabinet forma- daughter of TRS chief K health ground. Her Cabinet Gadkari, Ravi Shankar Prasad, Shah is expected to inter- Patel has put the figure at 20. pressed into service to douse there were AC compressors tion. BJP president Amit Shah, Chandrasekar Rao, may be colleague Uma Bharti too did Piyush Goyal, Narendra Singh act with NDA leaders and “As per the information the fire, said an official of and tyres which too caught fire. who came in for high praise part of the new Government. not contest polls. Defence Tomar and Prakash Javadekar share their views on the induc- received, 20 students have died Surat fire control room. There was no escape route from Modi for the party’s spec- Another fresh face is Tejasvi Minister Nirmala Sitharaman is are set to figure in the new tion of their nominees in the in the fire. Many others were Eye-witnesses claimed that available for the tacular show in the LS polls, is Surya, 28, who won from expected to continue with a key Cabinet. Cabinet. injured and shifted to a hospi- there were around 50 students students who got trapped on likely to be inducted in the Bangalore South, a seat in the role in the new Government. Senior Minister Manoj Modi is likely to visit tal,” Patel said. in the complex when the fire the top floors. The fire was Government, leaving the top past held by late Ananth With Smriti Irani upsetting Sinha, who lost his Ghazipur Varanasi, his home con- Students, mostly teenagers, started. “Around 10 students on doused in one hour. There party post for someone else. A Kumar. Congress president Rahul seat to BSP’s Afzal Ansari, stituency on May 28, to thank died “either due to suffocation fourth and third floor jumped were no safety equipment heavyweight portfolio may be Rewards may also be com- Gandhi in his home con- could be brought in the Cabinet the voters there. There after, he or jumping off from the com- off to the ground to save them- installed in the building,” a fire awaiting Shah, sources said ing in way of winners from dif- stituency of Amethi, it is via Rajya Sabha route. will set out for Gujarat on plex”, he said. selves from fire and smoke,” official told though the BJP president has ficult States like West Bengal expected that her victory may Among allies, the Shiv May 29 to meet his 95-year-old “We have ordered a said a fire official. the media. sidestepped queries on this and Odisha, where party has be recognised with an impor- Sena and the JD(U) are likely mother Heeraben Modi. The detailed inquiry into the inci- Locals helped in the rescue Prime Minister Narendra saying it was the prerogative of done exceedingly well to help tant portfolio in the Cabinet. to be given Cabinet berths as swearing-in may take place dent. We will not spare those operation to save the stranded Modi expressed anguished over the Prime Minister. it go past 300 tally on its own. A number of senior faces both the parties have done after these visits. found guilty,” the deputy Chief students and other the fire tragedy. ! " #,7 ,+-3 gave a strong performance in Assembly polls in major States fter a humiliating defeat in such as Gujarat, Karnataka, Athe Lok Sabha polls, top Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh Congress leaders will deliber- and Chhattisgarh during the ate on party losses at a meeting past two years, but failed to !" of the working committee slat- keep the momentum and cap- # $%&#'$%( ed on Saturday in which party italise on people’s disaffection K chief Rahul Gandhi is likely to towards the BJP for a good K offer his resignation. Murmurs showing in the general election. !"+ have already started within the In Madhya Pradesh, the party over taking responsibil- BJP won 28 out of 29 seats; in ity for the poor performance of Karnataka, it won 25 out of 28 the Congress across the coun- seats, and in Chhattisgarh, the P try, with some of its leaders Top party leaders, includ- party won 9 out of 11 seats. $, already sending in their resig- ing UPA chairperson Sonia During 2018 Assembly nations. Gandhi and former Prime elections of Karnataka, the - . Uttar Pradesh Congress Minister Manmohan Singh, Congress and the JD(S) com- chief Raj Babbar and Odisha are expected to attend the bine were able to win 78 and 37 /0 Congress president Niranjan meeting. seats, respectively, while the Patnaik announced their res- The top Congress leader- BJP got 104 seats. ignations from the post in the ship will deliberate on the rea- Babbar — who lost !" # wake of the party’s electoral sons for the loss. The party suf- Fatehpur Sikri BJP’s Rajkumar $ debacle in their respective fered a devastating defeat for Chahar by a margin of 4,95,065 1 States. The party has convened the second time in a row at the votes — sent his resignation . a meeting of the Congress hands of the Narendra Modi- from to Rahul. Working Committee, its high- led BJP. It bagged only 52 seats “The results are depressing . 2 3 / 1 est decision-making body, on in this election. in UP. I find myself guilty of not 4 5 Saturday, where, according to A senior party leader said discharging my responsibility 6!K P ! " # sources, Rahul is likely to offer the CWC will introspect the in a proper manner,” Babbar $% & ' () * +, his resignation at the meet. reasons as to how the Congress said. P 2%8 Hind, an affiliate of Al-Qaeda. Before joining the ranks of a ne of the most wanted terror outfit in 2013, he was -'9%+ Yadav was adjudged winner The second viral pic dates Oactive terrorist comman- studying engineering in a pri- on Thursday. Yadav, an back to their childhood days ders in Kashmir Valley, Zakir vate Punjab engineering col- he political circles and Ayurvedic physician by pro- when both are seen sharing a Musa, who was Burhan Wani’s lege. Tpeople in Madhya Pradesh fession hails to Ashoknagar frame years ago. Locals claim successor and chief of Ansar He hogged headlines for a are surprised over the defeat where his father Raghuveer then Scindia studied in class Ghazwat-ul-Hind, was gunned long time after he threatened to of Jyotiraditya Scindia in his Singh Yadav was a Congress XI while Yadav was in class VI down by the joint team of behead separatist leaders of den Guna-Shivpuri con- leader and district panchayat that time and the pic was security forces in South the Hurriyat Conference for stituency, which was never lost president on four occasions clicked at the inauguration of Kashmir’s Pulwama district calling Kashmir a political dis- by his family since indepen- and had close association with a stadium in Guna.