c m y k c m y k THE LARGEST CIRCULATED ENGLISH DAILY IN SOUTH INDIA HYDERABAD I TUESDAY I 24 DECEMBER 2019 deccanchronicle.com, facebook.com/deccannews, twitter.com/deccanchronicle, google.com/+deccanchronicle Vol. 82 No. 354 Established 1938 | 32 PAGES | `6.00 WEATHER Max: 27.3OC Min: 17.4OC RH: 51% Rainfall: Nil Forecast: Misty morning BJP LOSES ANOTHER STATE and cloudy sky later. Max/Min temp. 28/18ºC JMM-Congress trounces BJP in Jharkhand; CM Das loses election; Hemant Soren will be new CM YOJNA GUSAI, SREEPARNA CHAKRABARTY and ASTROGUIDE NAYEAR AZAD | DC Vikari; Dakshinayana NEW DELHI/PATNA, DEC. 23 Tithi: Margasira Bahula Trayodasi till 12.20 pm In a major blow to the Cong+ BJP Others Star: Anuradha till 5.01 pm Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Varjyam: 10.33 pm to 12.08 am after it lost Maharashtra, yet another state slipped out of its Durmuhurtam: 8.58 am to 9.42 hands on Monday as 47 25 9 am and 10.57 pm to 11.49 pm Jharkhand elected a govern- Rahukalam: 3 pm to 4.30 pm ment of the JMM-Congress- HIJRI CALENDAR RJD alliance. Adding insult to SHRINKING LOTUS Rabi-ul-Aker 27,1441 AH injury, incumbent BJP Chief PRAYERS Minister Raghubar Das lost 2018 Fajar: 5.38 am from his home turf of Jamshedpur (East). Zohar: 12.26 pm The Jharkhand Mukti STATES: 21 Asar: 4.12 pm Morcha’s Hemant Soren is POPULATION: 69.2% Maghrib: 5.54 pm poised to be the next Chief Isha: 7.08 pm Minister. AREA: 76.5% SUNSET TODAY 5.48 PM Talking to reporters in SUNRISE TOMORROW 6.43 AM Ranchi, Mr Soren, who is the MOONRISE TOMORROW 3.42 AM JMM’s working president, said that he will soon call a MOONSET TODAY 3.27 PM meeting of all alliance part- ners to discuss the future course of action. He also used The BJP was at the occasion to thank his the pinnacle of Civic polls, minus father and party chief Shibu Soren whom he addressed as power when it formed GHMC, on Jan 22 Guruji, RJD chief Lalu its short-lived govern- Hyderabad: Elections to 120 Prasad Yadav, former ment in Karnataka. It urban local bodies (ULBs) Congress president Rahul was ruling 21 states, and 10 municipal corpora- Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi 69.2% of India’s tions will be held on and Congress chief Sonia population and 76.5% January 22. Counting will Gandhi for “forming a grand of its territory be held on January 25 and alliance against the BJP”. the results would be decl- Jharkhand went to polls for ared immediately. Barring 81 Assembly seats in five 2019 the GHMC, Khammam and phases from November 30 to Party workers and supporters of the Congress and the Jharkhand Mukti Morcha (JMM) celebrate their parties’ performance in the Warangal municipal corpo- December 20. The BJP, JMM, Jharkhand Assembly election results in Ranchi on Monday. — PTI STATES: 15 rations, 10 corporations Congress, RJD, AJSU and POPULATION: 42.5% including Karimnagar, JVM-P were the main politi- Ramagundam, Nizamabad cal parties in the fray. The AREA: 34.6% will go to the polls. primary fight, however, was Municipal corporations between the BJP and the BJP’s rout shocks party strategists including Badangpet, JMM-Congress-RJD alliance. Meerpet, Bandlaguda Jagir, In an election fought largely YOJNA GUSAI | DC ■ WHILE THE BJP is trying to if need be, Babulal Marandi’s Amit Shah expressed his grat- Boduppal, Peerzadiguda, over local issues, the BJP was NEW DELHI, DEC. 23 formulate an explanation for Jharkhand Vikas Morcha itude to Jharkhand’s people Jawaharnagar and Nizam- virtually decimated with the (JVM). But later ground for giving the BJP a chance to pet on the city outskirts and JMM-Congress-RJD winning The BJP’s master strategists this crushing defeat in the reports left the party’s poll govern the state for five A year later, over 50 urban local bodies 46 seats, comfortably crossing were scratching their heads state, rising unemployment, managers disturbed. Also, the years, and asserted that his the BJP’s power will take part in the voting the magic mark of 41 seats. and looked completely blank lack of economic develop- BJP top brass, sources said, party remains committed to shrunk to 15 states in the independent entities The BJP won 25 seats, which as they never expected a com- ment in the state and upset did not listen to the feedback its development. (seven in Northeast for the first time. is 12 seats less than its tally in plete rout in Jharkhand. But tribals were reportedly the from its cadre that the party Taking responsibility for and eight in the the last Assembly polls. “arrogance”, “wrong ticket major causes. should not project Mr Das as the electoral debacle, Mr Das, mainland). It now rules ■ Full report on Page 5 In 2014, the BJP had won 37 distribution”, “discouraged the CM candidate. In addi- who was accused of being an 42.5% of its population seats. Its tally, along with cadres”, “going solo” and the since 1995. Jharkhand is the tion, multi-cornered fights in “outsider” in the state by the and 34.6% of its alliance partner AJSU, was Raghubar Das-led BJP gov- fifth state that the BJP lost most seats proved disastrous Opposition, said that it was territory 43. While the Congress ernment’s “failure to high- this year. The BJP also failed for the BJP. The AJSU and his defeat and not that of the No junk food sale improved its tally from six to light what it actually did for to placate tribals, who were JVM also did not make any BJP. While the BJP is trying 16 seats, Lalu Prasad’s RJD the state” ended up with the miffed over the state govern- noticeable electoral impact. to formulate an explanation People are dying. So many died while near schools soon bagged one of the seven seats party losing the state, with its ment’s decision to amend the PM Narendra Modi congrat- for this crushing defeat, ris- standing in queues during the demoneti- New Delhi: Food regulator it contested. The AJSU won voteshare crashing down SPT Act and CNT Act. ulated JMM working presi- ing unemployment, lack of sation. For your (the BJP-led Centre) laws, FSSAI is likely to finalise two seats and former chief from 55 per cent in the Lok The BJP, till the first two dent Hemant Soren, who led economic development in the people are dying, then someone has to take within the next two months minister Babulal Marandi’s Sabha polls to just 33 per cent. phases of polling, was certain his party’s alliance with the state and upset tribals were responsibility. This is not about the Muslims. its proposed regulations to JVM-P won three seats. Worse, Mr Das, the BJP’s of a close fight and confident Congress and RJD, for the reportedly the major cause. ban sale as well as adver- CM face, lost his pocket bor- of returning to power with victory and extended his best tisements of junk foods in ■ Page 6: National issues ough Jamshedpur East, the help of the All Jharkhand wishes to the coalition. BJP ■ Page 6: Even BJP cadres — HEMANT SOREN school canteens and within failed to cut ice with voters which he had been winning Students’ Union (AJSU) and, president and home minister didn’t vote for Das JMM-Congress Chief Ministerial candidate 50 metres of school cam- puses, its CEO Pawan Kumar Agarwal said on Monday. He said the regula- tions would be finalised within two months and Protests surge, 120 held in UP would be sent to the health ministry for approval. In its DC CORRESPONDENT draft regulations, the FSSAI with agency inputs had said “foods which are NEW DELHI, DEC. 23 referred to as foods high in fat, salt and sugar cannot Protests against the be sold to school children in Citizenship (Amendment) school canteens or hostel Act (CAA) and the Natio- kitchens or within 50 metr- nal Register of Citizens es of the school campus”. (NRC) continued across the country and abroad on ■ Full report on Page 14 Monday with huge turnouts in Delhi, Chennai and Bengaluru. COUNTER POINT Even as allegations sur- faced on Monday that actress and Congress acti- vist Sadaf Jafar, arrested on December 19 and since lodged in Lucknow jail, was brutally tortured by the UP police, in Delhi, 46 students were arrested and over 120 detained even before they could DMK president M.K. Stalin along with leaders of allies, including senior Congress begin their protest leader P. Chidambaram, MDMK chief Vaiko and state unit leaders of the Left parties against police brutality in take part in a protest rally against the CAA Act in Chennai on Monday. — PTI Uttar Pradesh where crackdown on protesters and the another against it. to the Constitution. After took out a rally in support continued. Opposing the CAA and her, Dr Manmohan Singh of the CAA. It was led by Both the BJP and the NRC, the Congress held a and Rahul Gandhi also the party’s acting presi- Congress were out on the dharna at Raj Ghat where read out the Preamble at dent J.P. Nadda. streets on Monday — one party president Sonia the party’s Satyagrah for in favour of CAA, NRC Gandhi read the Preamble Unity. In Kolkata, the BJP ■ Full report on Page 7 Jagan refuses to support Owaisi flays Modi-Shah Centre on NRC in AP doubletalk on NRC NAGESWARA RAO BALLEDA | DC that Muslims are safe as the gov- ATHER MOIN | DC the National Registry of Citizens KADAPA, DEC.