c m y k c m y k THE LARGEST CIRCULATED ENGLISH DAILY IN SOUTH INDIA HYDERABAD I WEDNESDAY I 11 NOVEMBER 2020 WEATHER WORLD 11 TABLOID Max: 29.6OC | SPORTS|14 Min: 12.8OC RH: 34% Kamala ready to Tokyo plans test Playing your Rainfall: Nil reshape US history events for Olympics cards right Forecast: Partly cloudy sky. Mist likely. Max/Min temperature 30/14 ºC deccanchronicle.com, facebook.com/deccannews, twitter.com/deccanchronicle Vol. 83 No. 313 Established 1938 | 24 PAGES | `6.00 COVID-19 C UNT CASES DEATHS Modi magic wins Bihar (+49,010) (+587) 86,34,341 1,27,581 covid19india.org Nitish’s JD(U) slips to third position; RJD single largest party, MIM wins five seats STATE GOVERNMENT BULLETINS SREEPARNA CHAKRABARTY (+ 1,267) (+4) with agency inputs TS: 2,52,455 1,385 NEW DELHI, NOV. 10 BJP defeats TRS, wins Dubbak Modi’s appeal The BJP-JD(U)’s Nation- (+1,886) (+12) al Democratic Alliance S.A. ISHAQUI I DC inched towards hitting HYDERABAD, NOV. 10 AP: 8,46,245 6,814 the majority mark in the Bihar Assembly and The BJP’s M. Raghunan- CASES AROUND THE WORLD to rural poor forming the government dan Rao stunned the fan- after a hard-fought elec- cied TRS at Dubbaka in a 5,15,37,959 tion in which 31-year-old manner much suited for a Tejashwi Yadav’s Rasht- T20 cricket match, snatch- DEATHS riya Janata Dal emerged ing the bypoll by a narrow 12,73,806 as the single-largest margin in the last rounds helped Nitish party with 76 seats on of counting. COUNTRIES, Tuesday. The TRS, which was dis- YOJNA GUSAI | DC AREAS WITH 216 At the time of going to cussing its margin of vic- NEW DELHI, NOV. 10 CHIRAG MADE CASES press, the final results tory, lost by about 1,470 worldometers.info/ were not out, but the votes, one of the rare times Plagued by “anti-incum- coronavirus trends foretold the fate of the party has lost a byelec- bency” sentiment against NITISH BIGGEST many. The NDA was tion. To place things in incumbent chief minister leading in 123 seats, one perspective, the TRS had Nitish Kumar, the BJP ASTROGUIDE more than the magic won the seat in 2018 with a strategised its election LOSER IN BIHAR Sarvari; Dakshinayana mark in the 243-member 67,000-vote margin. campaign heavily around SANJAY BASAK | DC Tithi: Nija Ashwayuja Bahula Assembly. The BJP The BJP’s tally goes up its star campaigner Prime NEW DELHI, NOV. 10 Ekadasi till 12.37 am (Thursday) seemed to be the gainer to two in the Assembly Minister Narendra Modi’s Star: Purvaphalguni till 6.27 am in the alliance with a with this win, the other popularity. The ‘Modi If there’s a major loser in (Wednesday); Uttaraphalguni till lead in 72 seats, while the MLA being T. Raja Singh. vote-bank’ helped the BJP the keenly fought Bihar 4.23 am (Thursday) JD(U), which was lead- It was a sweet comeback to tide over the “anti- elections, it is Nitish Varjyam: 1.02 pm to 2.29 pm ing in just 43 seats, was for Raghunandan Rao, incumbency” mood again- Kumar. Bihar’s wily old Durmuhurtam: 11.37 am to down from its 71-seat once a TRS politburo Telangana BJP president Bandi Sanjay with party workers celebrate the victory of the st the Bihar government fox, who always came out 12.22 pm position in the 2015 state member, who had stood party candidate Raghunandan Rao in the Dubbak bypolls on Tuesday. — P. SURENDRA and also overshadowed on top, was ambushed by Rahukalam: 12 noon to 1.30 pm elections. third in the 2014 and 2018 ‘big brother’ JD(U) by bag- the Bharatiya Janata HIJRI CALENDAR While the Mahagathba- Assembly elections, and ging more seats. Party, which used Lok Rabbi-ul Awwal 24, 1442 AH ndhan had a total tally of capped one of the most Mr Modi, according to Janshakti Party chief PRAYERS 113, the Congress was aggressive BJP campaigns HARISH TAKES BJP poll strategists, help- Chirag Paswan as its Fajar: 5.16 am leading in just 19 seats, in recent times headed by BJP win to echo ed in changing the narra- “Shikhandi” to cut Nitish Zohar: 12.10 pm while the Left parties TS unit president Bandi tive of the Bihar polls in Kumar to size. looked set for a resur- Sanjay. Raghunandan Rao BLAME; KTR TO NDA’s favour. BJP poll Asar: 4.06 pm gence with a lead in 11 described the victory as a strategists relied heavily ■ Full report on Page 7 Maghrib: 5.47 pm seats. The RJD contested referendum on the rule of in local elections COURSE CORRECT on the ‘Modi vote-bank,’ Isha: 6.57 pm 144 seats, the Congress Chief Minister K. which includes beneficia- SUNRISE TOMORROW 6.19 AM 70, and Left parties 29. In Chandrashekar Rao DC CORRESPONDENT DC CORRESPONDENT ries of the Modi govern- SUNSET TODAY 5.41 PM the NDA, the JD(U) con- The Congress’ Cheruku HYDERABAD, NOV. 10 HYDERABAD, NOV. 10 ment’s flagship schemes RJD’S TEJASHWI MOONSET 2.52 PM tested 115 seats and the Srinivas Reddy was a dis- — cash transfer in Jan MOONRISE 2.07 AM BJP 110. The AIMIM won tant third. The BJP won The electoral victory at Finance minister T. Dhan accounts, Garib four seats and was lead- 38.47 per cent of the votes, Dubbak will rejuvenate Harish Rao said he took Kalyan scheme, free LPG FORCED CONTEST ing in one. the TRS 37.82 and the the BJP ahead of a slew of complete responsibility under Ujjwala, DBT sche- COUNTER POINT A majority of the exit Congress INC 13.48 per urban local body polls, for the TRS’s loss in the mes — and most impor- polls had on Saturday cent. with state unit president Dubbak byelection. He tantly free ration during ON BJP, JD(U) projected that the Maha- The shock for the TRS Bandi Sanjay taking an had led the campaign for and post-Covid-19 lock- NAYEAR AZAD I DC gathbandhan will have began in the early rounds aggressive line against the ruling party. down. Women and youth PATNA, NOV. 10 an edge over the NDA. It when Raghunandan Rao the state government and TRS working president constitute a sizable chunk seemed that the pollsters established a slim lead. highlighting the Hindu Raghunandan Rao K.T. Rama Rao said the of this vote-bank. The NDA on Tuesday got the Bihar results TRS candidate Solipeta agenda. Dubbak verdict would BJP poll managers give emerged as a likely win- wrong once again. Sujatha recovered some The BJP will fancy its flag on the Golconda fort. serve as an eye-opener for credit to the Modi vote ner after the closely con- The day saw many see- lost ground and even chances in the elections to The Dubbak victory will the party. “It has alerted bank for the party’s stun- tested Bihar Assembly saws with trends flipping surged to the lead. In the the Hyderabad and also make the BJP a more us to be more cautious in ning performance in the elections — the first amid several times during the last rounds, however, Warangal municipal cor- attractive option for the the coming days,” Rama 2019 Lok Sabha polls. The the coronavirus pandem- day as the Election Raghunandan Rao clawed porations as well as at disgruntled leaders in the Rao said. Prime Minister himself ic. Political analysts said Commission began the back and never let go. Siddipet, the bailiwick of TRS and other parties. Stating that the party addressed a dozen rallies, that it was Tejashwi counting of votes which According to the T. Harish Rao. The Dubb- Though the result will accepts the verdict, Rama including those where Yadav’s “ten lakh job went past midnight Election Commission, the ak win is also being seen have no impact on TRS’ Rao said, “In the coming Nitish Kumar shared dais promise” and aggressive Tuesday because of a BJP secured 62,772 votes, as the first step towards dominance in the Assem- days, we will analyse the with him, and wrote an campaign against the staggering increase in TRS 61,302 and the the 2023 Assembly polls bly, it will give hope of reasons for the party’s open letter to the people of NDA which made the con- the number of EVMs on Congress 21,819. which the BJP believes it dethroning the party. failure and take correc- Bihar seeking votes for test for Bihar Assembly account of the Covid pan- can win: Sanjay said after tive measures.” the incumbent CM. tough. demic. ■ Page 4: Seizure of cash Tuesday’s victory that the ■ Page 2: BJP to become Initial feedback reach- spurred BJP campaign BJP will hoist the saffron prime oppn in GHMC polls ■ Full reports on Page 4 ing the BJP had indicated ■ Full report on Page 7 ■ Page 3: RJD, Left seek that there was a simmer- SHORT TAKE recount in many seats ing anger against the sushashan babu, over var- BJD EMERGES TEMPERATURE ious issues including the BIHAR TALLY Covid-19 lockdown and Scindia decimates Congress in MP recent flood, prompting INVINCIBLE IN IN CITY 6° C Party Leads+Won the BJP to focus its cam- GRAND ALLIANCE 110 DC CORRESPONDENTS ASSEMBLY BYPOLLS into a prestige fight Chhattisgarh seat went to paign around the PM and BELOW NORMAL NEW DELHI/BHOPAL, NOV. 10 between Kamal Nath and the Congress.